Truce
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truce · truces
in the texts
The Rights of War and Peace
A convention suspending hostilities during the continuance of war, short of peace.
Truces of an intermediate denomination between peace and war—Origin of the word—New declaration of war not necessary after a truce—Time from whence a truce and all its correspondent obligations and privileges commence—A retreat may be made, or fortifications repaired during a truce—Distinction respecting the occupying of places—The case of a person prevented from making his retreat, and taken in t …
The very definition of a truce implies what actions are lawful, and what are unlawful during the continuance of it.
It is to be observed that truces, and engagements of that kind immediately bind the contracting parties themselves from the very moment they are concluded.
Anabasis
The agreement allegedly violated by Clearchus and used to justify his death.
Well, then, if Clearchus was really transgressing the truce in violation of his oaths, he has his deserts, for it is right that perjurers should perish;
Clearchus, men of Greece, inasmuch as he was shown to be perjuring himself and violating the truce, has received his deserts and is dead, but Proxenus and Menon, because they gave information about his plotting, are held in high honour.