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.
After a truce a new declaration of war is not necessary.
The very definition of a truce implies what actions are lawful, and what are unlawful during the continuance of it.
Yet we read in Livy, that it was the opinion of the heralds’ college, that after the expiration of a truce war ought to be declared.
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.