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    Where The Rights of War and Peace names another work or author, the harvest records the passage that does it and the chapter that passage stands in. 774 citations across 50 chapters, drawn from 487 named sources; 112 of those sources stand in the library.

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    12 of 158 sources
    1. Plutarch 12 authority 6 neutral 1 extended 1 endorsed 20 citations · 31 passages

      Plutarch's specific Life is explicitly named as the source.

      Which gave occasion to Plutarch, in his book on exile, to say that “justice is an attribute of God, avenging all transgressions of the divine law;
      chapter xx.: on punishments. · cited as authority on justice
    2. Histories Polybius 7 authority 5 neutral 2 endorsed 14 citations · 18 passages

      Polybius is explicitly named as the source of the account relied upon.

      for he thinks, that it shews greater talent in a general to avail himself of some favourable opportunity to employ a stratagem, than to gain an open battle.
      ch. 31 · cited as historical source
    3. Aristotle 9 authority 1 refuted 1 extended 1 endorsed 12 citations · 19 passages

      Aristotle is explicitly and repeatedly named as an authoritative source across the chapter.

      The best division of right, in this general meaning, is to be found in Aristotle, who, defining one kind to be natural, and the other voluntary, calls it a lawful right in the strictest sense of the word law;
      book i, chapter i. · relied upon as authority for the classification of social ties
    4. History (of the Peloponnesian War) Thucydides 7 authority 4 neutral 11 citations · 13 passages

      Explicitly named and quoted in paraphrase as historical corroboration.

      Thus Thucydides speaks of the prisoners taken at Epidamnus, and killed by the Corcyraeans, and Hannibal is reported to have massacred five thousand prisoners at once.
      ch. 34 · cited to report a massacre including noncombatants
    5. Xenophon 7 authority 1 neutral 2 endorsed 10 citations · 13 passages

      Explicitly named as source for the claim about animals' instinctual fighting knowledge.

      Xenophon in his answer to the Sinopians, in the fifth book of the expedition of Cyrus, says, “wherever we come, whether into a barbarous country or into any part of Greece, and find the people unwilling to afford us supplies, we take them, not through motives of wantonness, but from the compulsion of necessity.
      ch. 12 · invoked as authority and speaker illustrating the right of necessity
    6. Plato 8 authority 1 endorsed 9 citations · 14 passages

      The passage explicitly endorses Plato's dialogues as enduringly valuable.

      And perhaps under the head of this right, it may not be improper to assign a place to that true speaking, which Plato, following Simonides, classes with justice, in order to from a more striking contrast with that falsehood, so often prohibited in Scripture, by the name of false witness to, or against, our neighbour, and which Augustin, in defining a lie, calls an intention to deceive.
      ch. 31 · cited as philosophical authority across several points
    7. Thucydides 7 authority 2 neutral 9 citations

      Named as originating a key term used in the analysis.

      A question, as Thucydides informs us, by no means intending to covney reproach, but purely for information.
      ch. 20 · cited as authority interpreting ancient custom
    8. History of Rome Livy 9 authority 9 citations · 28 passages

      Cited across three paragraphs as a historical authority.

      Livy has given an address of the Achaeans to the senate, in which they ask, “how their availing themselves of the rights of war can ever be fairly called in question, or made a subject of discussion?
      ch. 34 · cited to report a speech on rights of war
    9. Diodorus Siculus 6 authority 1 neutral 7 citations · 8 passages

      Cited for terminology and for the Semiramis anecdote illustrating unprovoked war.

      ” In which sense Aelian styles them ἀρχαςπολεμων and Diodorus Siculus, in speaking of the war of the Lacedaemonians against the Eleans gives them the name of προφασεις and ἀρΧας
      ch. 11 · authority cited for comparative terminology
    10. Orations Dion Chrysostom 5 authority 2 neutral 7 citations · 9 passages

      Dion Chrysostom is explicitly cited twice, once by variant spelling Dio Chrysostom, on burial's moral status.

      Next to the right of ambassadors Dion Chrysostom places that of burying the dead, and calls it a moral act, sanctioned by the unwritten law of nature:
      ch. 24 · cited as authority for the natural-law status of burial
    11. Polybius 4 authority 3 neutral 7 citations · 8 passages

      Cited across two paragraphs as historical authority.

      Thus after the time of Lycurgus, and more particularly after the institutionof the Ephori, the kings of the Lacedaemonians are said by Polybius, Plutarch, and Cornelius Nepos, to have been Kings more in name than in reality.
      ch. 10 · cited as corroborating historical authority
    12. Roman History Velleius Paterculus 2 authority 5 neutral 7 citations · 8 passages

      Named author cited for a specific reported claim.

      and Velleius asserts that Maroboduus not contented with the authority of a prince over voluntary adherents and dependents, was grasping in his mind at regal power;
      ch. 10 · cited on terminological ambiguity

    index of sources

    146 entries

    A

    1. Acts of the Apostles Luke book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 3 citations
    2. Adam Smith general preface 1 citation
    3. Aelius Aristides ch. 33 1 citation
    4. Aeneid Virgil ch. 23 · ch. 24 · ch. 34 · ch. 48 3 citations
    5. Aeschines ch. 36 1 citation
    6. Against Aristocrates Demosthenes ch. 11 · ch. 32 2 citations
    7. Against Pantaenetus Demosthenes chapter xii.: on contracts. 1 citation
    8. Against Timocrates Demosthenes ch. 11 1 citation
    9. Anabasis Xenophon ch. 10 · ch. 11 2 citations
    10. Anabasis of Alexander Arrian ch. 26 · ch. 34 2 citations
    11. Annals Tacitus book i, chapter i. · ch. 10 · ch. 23 · ch. 24 · ch. 26 · ch. 33 5 citations
    12. Antigone Sophocles ch. 24 1 citation
    13. Antiquities of the Jews Josephus book i, chapter i. · ch. 24 2 citations
    14. Apuleius chapter xi.: on promises. 1 citation
    15. Attic Nights Aulus Gellius ch. 11 · ch. 21 · ch. 48 3 citations

    B

    1. Boethius ch. 39 1 citation
    2. Book of Amos Amos ch. 43 1 citation
    3. Book of Deuteronomy Moses book i, chapter i. · chapter xx.: on punishments. 3 citations
    4. Book of Ezekiel Hebrew Scripture ch. 26 1 citation
    5. Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah ch. 31 1 citation
    6. Book of Job ch. 9 1 citation
    7. Book of Jonah unknown (biblical author) ch. 40 1 citation
    8. Book of Joshua unknown (Hebrew scripture) ch. 30 1 citation
    9. Book of Leviticus Moses book i, chapter i. 1 citation
    10. Book of Numbers Moses book i, chapter i. 1 citation
    11. Book of Proverbs Solomon (traditionally attributed) ch. 9 · chapter xi.: on promises. · ch. 31 3 citations
    12. Book of Revelation unattributed scriptural author ch. 12 1 citation

    C

    1. Claudian ch. 24 1 citation
    2. Commentary on Virgil Servius ch. 12 · ch. 48 2 citations
    3. Constitutions of Clement unknown (attributed to Clement) ch. 9 · ch. 10 2 citations
    4. Controversiae Seneca the father ch. 9 · ch. 24 2 citations
    5. Cornelius Nepos ch. 10 1 citation
    6. Cratylus Plato ch. 15 1 citation
    7. Cyropaedia Xenophon ch. 33 · ch. 36 2 citations
    8. The City of God Augustine ch. 11 · ch. 34 2 citations
    9. commentary on Aristotle's Ethics Michael of Ephesus book i, chapter i. · ch. 22 2 citations
    10. commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics Andronicus of Rhodes book i, chapter i. · ch. 31 2 citations

    D

    1. Demosthenes ch. 20 · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 30 · ch. 47 5 citations
    2. Description of Greece Pausanias ch. 10 · ch. 24 · ch. 26 3 citations
    3. Digest Paulus (the Lawyer) chapter xii.: on contracts. 2 citations
    4. Digest (Roman civil law) Florentinus book i, chapter i. 2 citations
    5. Digest (Roman law writings) Paulus the Lawyer ch. 13 · ch. 14 2 citations
    6. Digest (Roman law) Paulus ch. 10 · chapter xi.: on promises. · ch. 32 · ch. 33 5 citations
    7. Digest opinion on piracy and postliminium Ulpian ch. 39 2 citations
    8. Digest opinions on postliminium Pomponius ch. 39 2 citations
    9. Dionysius of Halicarnassus ch. 10 · ch. 11 · ch. 12 · chapter xiii.: on oaths. · ch. 26 · ch. 36 6 citations
    10. Divine Institutes Lactantius ch. 11 · ch. 12 · ch. 24 · ch. 48 4 citations

    E

    1. Epictetus book i, chapter i. 1 citation
    2. Epistle of James St. James chapter xiii.: on oaths. 1 citation
    3. Epistle to the Colossians Paul the Apostle chapter xx.: on punishments. 1 citation
    4. Epistle to the Ephesians St. Paul book i, chapter i. · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations
    5. Epistle to the Galatians St. Paul book i, chapter i. 1 citation
    6. Epistle to the Hebrews Paul (traditionally attributed) ch. 9 · chapter xiii.: on oaths. · ch. 36 3 citations
    7. Epistle to the Romans St. Paul book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 5 citations
    8. Epistles Cicero ch. 9 · chapter xii.: on contracts. · chapter xiii.: on oaths. · ch. 31 4 citations
    9. Epitome of Pompeius Trogus Justin ch. 11 · ch. 23 2 citations
    10. Ethics Aristotle ch. 22 1 citation
    11. Euripides book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 · ch. 10 · ch. 11 · ch. 24 · ch. 34 6 citations

    F

    1. First Epistle of John John ch. 9 1 citation
    2. Fourth Philippic Cicero ch. 33 1 citation

    G

    1. Galen ch. 9 · ch. 10 · ch. 33 3 citations
    2. Genesis unknown (Hebrew scripture) ch. 30 · ch. 36 2 citations
    3. Geography Strabo ch. 10 · ch. 12 · chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 24 · ch. 33 5 citations
    4. Germania Tacitus ch. 10 · ch. 33 2 citations
    5. Gorgias Plato chapter xx.: on punishments. 1 citation
    6. Gospel of John John book i, chapter i. · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations
    7. Gospel of Luke Luke ch. 9 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations
    8. Gospel of Mark Mark ch. 9 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations
    9. Gospel of Matthew Matthew book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 · chapter xiii.: on oaths. · chapter xx.: on punishments. 4 citations

    H

    1. Hellenica Xenophon ch. 36 1 citation
    2. Herodotus ch. 28 1 citation
    3. Hesiod ch. 43 1 citation
    4. Historiae Alexandri Magni Quintus Curtius ch. 11 · ch. 24 2 citations
    5. History Tacitus ch. 9 · ch. 10 2 citations
    6. History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) Livy ch. 23 · ch. 38 · ch. 41 · ch. 42 · ch. 44 4 citations
    7. History of the Wars Procopius ch. 34 1 citation
    8. Homer ch. 11 · ch. 20 · ch. 31 3 citations
    9. Horace ch. 9 · ch. 10 · chapter xi.: on promises. 3 citations
    10. Hugo Grotius general preface · ch. 2 · ch. 5 · iv. the work of grotius. · ch. 7 5 citations
    11. The Histories Polybius ch. 11 1 citation
    12. his theological writings Thomas Aquinas chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations

    I

    1. Iliad Homer ch. 21 · ch. 32 · ch. 34 3 citations
    2. Immanuel Kant general preface 1 citation
    3. Imperial rescript Antoninus Pius ch. 14 · ch. 24 2 citations
    4. Institutio Oratoria Quintilian book i, chapter i. · ch. 11 · ch. 12 · ch. 31 4 citations
    5. Isocrates ch. 14 · ch. 15 · ch. 20 · ch. 21 · ch. 26 5 citations

    J

    1. Julius Caesar ch. 33 · ch. 38 · ch. 49 · chapter xxv.: conclusion. 3 citations

    L

    1. Lactantius ch. 9 2 citations
    2. Laws Plato ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 36 3 citations
    3. Laws of Solon Solon ch. 11 · ch. 20 2 citations
    4. Lucan ch. 11 · ch. 21 · ch. 34 3 citations
    5. Lucretius ch. 9 1 citation

    M

    1. Marcus Aurelius ch. 10 1 citation
    2. Metamorphoses Ovid ch. 12 · chapter xi.: on promises. 2 citations
    3. Mosaic Law Moses (traditional lawgiver) ch. 14 · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 26 2 citations
    4. Moses Maimonides chapter xii.: on contracts. 1 citation

    N

    1. Natural History Pliny ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 15 · chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 24 · ch. 33 6 citations
    2. Nicomachean Ethics Aristotle chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 31 4 citations

    O

    1. De Officiis Cicero chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 35 · chapter xxv.: conclusion. 3 citations
    2. De Officiis (Offices) Cicero book i, chapter i. · ch. 9 · ch. 10 · ch. 31 · ch. 33 5 citations
    3. Odyssey Homer ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. 2 citations
    4. Offices (De Officiis) Cicero ch. 14 · ch. 21 · ch. 27 · ch. 29 3 citations
    5. Ovid ch. 9 1 citation

    P

    1. Pliny the Younger chapter xx.: on punishments. 1 citation
    2. Politics Aristotle ch. 10 · chapter xi.: on promises. · ch. 20 3 citations
    3. Pro Marcello Cicero ch. 34 · ch. 40 2 citations
    4. Prophecy of Isaiah Isaiah ch. 9 1 citation
    5. Psalms David ch. 9 · ch. 34 2 citations
    6. Punica Silius Italicus ch. 24 1 citation

    Q

    1. Quintilian ch. 24 · ch. 28 · ch. 36 · ch. 38 5 citations

    R

    1. De Rerum Natura Lucretius ch. 24 1 citation
    2. Rhetoric Aristotle ch. 27 1 citation
    3. Rhetorica ad Herennium Writer to Herennius ch. 21 · ch. 40 2 citations
    4. Roman civil law Roman jurists ch. 12 · chapter xii.: on contracts. · ch. 21 · ch. 47 4 citations

    S

    1. Sallust ch. 11 · ch. 23 · ch. 26 · ch. 40 4 citations
    2. Satires Horace chapter xx.: on punishments. 1 citation
    3. Saturnalia Macrobius ch. 12 1 citation
    4. Second Olynthiac Demosthenes ch. 11 1 citation
    5. Second Philippic Cicero ch. 22 1 citation
    6. Seneca the Elder ch. 20 1 citation
    7. Sophocles chapter xiii.: on oaths. 1 citation
    8. Statius ch. 24 1 citation
    9. Strabo chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 28 2 citations
    10. Stromata Clement of Alexandria ch. 31 1 citation
    11. Suetonius ch. 10 1 citation
    12. Suppliants Aeschylus ch. 10 · ch. 20 · ch. 24 · ch. 26 4 citations

    T

    1. Tertullian ch. 9 · ch. 15 · ch. 38 4 citations
    2. Thebais Statius ch. 26 1 citation
    3. Theophrastus chapter xi.: on promises. · chapter xii.: on contracts. 2 citations
    4. Tusculan Disputations Cicero ch. 34 1 citation
    5. Twelve Tables Roman decemvirs (after Athenian law) ch. 10 · ch. 11 2 citations

    U

    1. unspecified historical work Livy ch. 27 · ch. 29 2 citations

    V

    1. Varia Historia Aelian ch. 11 · ch. 24 · ch. 31 · ch. 33 4 citations
    2. Virgil ch. 12 1 citation

    W

    1. Walter Bagehot general preface 1 citation
    2. Works and Days Hesiod book i, chapter i. 1 citation
    3. Writings Theophilus ch. 26 2 citations
    4. Writings of Philo Philo ch. 12 · ch. 24 · chapter xx.: on punishments. · ch. 26 · ch. 31 5 citations
    5. writings of Seneca Seneca book i, chapter i. · ch. 32 · ch. 40 3 citations

    329 sources are named once. Each stands in the run of its own chapter, below — in the order of the text.

    in the order of the text

    50 of 51 chapters cite

    Introduction, The Work and Influence of Hugo Grotius.

    1 source · 2 anchors

    Hugo Grotius 2

    II. The Predecessors of Grotius.

    3 sources · 3 anchors

    De Jure et Officiis Belli 1 · De Legationibus 1 · De Legationibus and De Jure Belli 1

    III. The Life and Personality of Grotius.

    4 sources · 5 anchors

    Hugo Grotius 2 · Hugo de Groot en Zijn Gesclacht 1 · Mare Clausum 1 · Vic de Grotius 1

    IV. The Work of Grotius.

    2 sources · 6 anchors

    Hugo Grotius 5 · Roman Law 1

    V. The Influence of Grotius’s Work.

    2 sources · 4 anchors

    Hugo Grotius 3 · Bibliotheca Grotiana 1

    Book I, Chapter I.

    35 sources · 48 anchors

    Plutarch 3 · Histories 1 · Aristotle 4 · Orations 1 · Euripides 2 · Epistle to the Romans 2 · Annals 1 · De Officiis (Offices) 2 · Gospel of Matthew 1 · Institutio Oratoria 1 · Book of Deuteronomy 2 · Acts of the Apostles 2 · writings of Seneca 2 · Epistle to the Ephesians 1 · Gospel of John 1 · Antiquities of the Jews 1 · Digest (Roman civil law) 2 · commentary on Aristotle's Ethics 1 · commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 1 · Book of Leviticus 1 · Book of Numbers 1 · Epictetus 1 · Epistle to the Galatians 1 · Works and Days 2 · Book of Kings and Second Book of Maccabees 1 · Book of Psalms (Psalm 147) 1 · Book of Psalms (Psalm 19) and various scriptural passages 1 · Dialogue with Trypho 1 · Divine Institutes, Book V 1 · Various scriptural passages (Genesis, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Micah, Romans) 1 · books of the Roman Law 1 · commentary on Deuteronomy 1 · fragments of Heraclitus 1 · histories of circumcised nations 1 · writings of Porphyry 1

    Chapter II.: Inquiry Into the Lawfulness of War.

    51 sources · 75 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Xenophon 1 · Euripides 1 · Natural History 1 · Epistle to the Romans 4 · De Officiis (Offices) 1 · Gospel of Matthew 2 · Tertullian 3 · Epistles 1 · legal writings (Digest) 2 · Book of Proverbs 1 · Epistle to the Hebrews 2 · Galen 1 · Horace 1 · Laws 1 · Acts of the Apostles 5 · unspecified legal opinion 2 · Controversiae 1 · Gospel of Luke 1 · Gospel of Mark 1 · Psalms 2 · Constitutions of Clement 1 · History 1 · Lactantius 3 · Book of Job 1 · First Epistle of John 1 · Lucretius 1 · Ovid 1 · Prophecy of Isaiah 1 · Antiquities / Letter of Dolabella 1 · Arnobius 1 · Athenagoras 1 · Bounds of Good and Evil (De Finibus) 1 · Constitutions of Clemens Romanus 1 · Epistle to Timothy 1 · Josephus 3 · Judges and Samuel 1 · Origen 1 · Salvian 1 · Sermon on tribute 1 · Seventh Discourse / First Book of Offices 1 · St. Augustine 1 · Tatian 1 · history (Ab Urbe Condita) 1 · military manual 1 · speech for Milo (Pro Milone) 1 · the Pentateuch (Books of Moses) 6 · unspecified apologetic work 2 · unspecified letter or treatise 1 · unspecified stromateis or homily 1

    Chapter III.: The Division of War Into Public and Private and the Nature of Sovereign Power.

    50 sources · 70 anchors

    Plutarch 2 · Histories 2 · Plato 1 · Thucydides 2 · History of Rome 3 · Polybius 2 · Roman History 2 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Euripides 1 · Geography 3 · Annals 2 · De Officiis (Offices) 1 · Digest (Roman law) 1 · Suppliants 1 · Description of Greece 2 · Galen 1 · Horace 1 · Politics 8 · Anabasis 1 · Germania 1 · Constitutions of Clement 1 · History 1 · Twelve Tables 1 · Cornelius Nepos 1 · Marcus Aurelius 2 · Suetonius 1 · Classification of the states general 1 · Code of Justinian 1 · Cornelian Law 1 · Defense of Octavius and Decimus Brutus 2 · Exodus (Mosaic Law) 1 · Gospel sayings of Christ 1 · Hebrew Scriptures (Samuel, Kings, Psalms) 1 · History of the Franks 1 · Library of History 1 · Life of Apollonius 1 · On the Dictatorship 1 · Opinion of Franciscus Victoria 1 · Oration 1 · Polyhistor 1 · Reply of the Carthaginians to Rome 1 · Report of Essene maxims 1 · Sayings of King Theodoric 1 · Speech of the Campanians to the Roman Senate 1 · Stratagems 1 · Traced maxim on kings and justice 1 · Unnamed dramatic writer's play 1 · Writings against heresies 1 · Writings of St. Augustine 1 · Writings on government (De Clementia or similar) 1

    Book II, Chapter I.: Defence of Person and Property.

    37 sources · 54 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · Plato 3 · Thucydides 1 · History of Rome 2 · Diodorus Siculus 2 · Roman History 2 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Euripides 1 · Institutio Oratoria 3 · Sallust 1 · Varia Historia 1 · Divine Institutes 1 · Homer 1 · Lucan 2 · Attic Nights 1 · Against Aristocrates 1 · Anabasis 1 · Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 1 · Historiae Alexandri Magni 2 · Laws of Solon 1 · The City of God 2 · Twelve Tables 3 · Against Timocrates 1 · Second Olynthiac 1 · The Histories 1 · Aethiopica 1 · Commentary on the Praetor's Edict / Digest 2 · Controversiae Illustres 1 · De Officiis (On Duties), Book I 1 · De Officiis Ministrorum, Book III 1 · Institutes (legal commentary) 1 · Law of Moses 3 · Speech for the Rhodians (Pro Rhodiensibus) 1 · Summa Theologica 1 · Unspecified oration (as transmitted by Quintilian) 1 · Unspecified work of Seneca 3 · Unspecified writings (on just cause and Crassus) 1

    Chapter II.: The General Rights of Things.

    33 sources · 48 anchors

    Plutarch 3 · Histories 2 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Xenophon 2 · History of Rome 1 · Orations 1 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Natural History 1 · Geography 4 · Writings of Philo 1 · Institutio Oratoria 1 · Divine Institutes 1 · Roman civil law 1 · Laws 1 · Metamorphoses 1 · Commentary on Virgil 1 · Book of Revelation 1 · Saturnalia 1 · Virgil 3 · Book of Wisdom 1 · De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (On the Bounds of Good and Evil), Book III 1 · De Officiis (On Duties), Book III 2 · Eleventh Philippic 1 · Epistle (biblical writings of Paul) 1 · Germania (or comparable historical writings on early peoples) 1 · Historiae Philippicae (Epitome) 1 · History of Alexander, Book VI 1 · Legal commentary on the Praetor's leave 1 · Mosaic history (Pentateuch) 1 · Sixth and Seventh Orations 2 · Writings and letters of Ambrose 3 · Writings of Augustine 1 · Writings on necessity and moral philosophy 3

    Chapter III.: On the Original Acquistion of Things, and the Right of Property in Seas and Rivers.

    5 sources · 7 anchors

    Digest (Roman law writings) 2 · Historical writings (including Germania) 1 · Seneca's writings on sovereignty and property 2 · Treatise on land division 1 · Writings on land surveying and division 1

    Chapter IV.: Title to Desert Lands by Occupancy, Possession, and Precription.

    16 sources · 18 anchors

    History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · History of Rome 1 · Isocrates 1 · Offices (De Officiis) 1 · Digest (Roman law writings) 2 · Imperial rescript 1 · Mosaic Law 1 · Historical writings 1 · Historical writings (including Germania) 1 · Holy writ (Book of Judges, Jephthah narrative) 1 · Holy writ (narrative of Saul) 1 · Legal writings on primogeniture and estates in trust 1 · Legal writings on sovereignty 1 · Livy's History of Rome (speech of Sulpitius) 2 · Recorded maxim on government 1 · Recorded opinion on possession 1

    Chapter IX.: In What Cases Jurisdiction and Property Cease.

    17 sources · 23 anchors

    Plutarch 2 · Aristotle 3 · Thucydides 1 · History of Rome 2 · Natural History 1 · Isocrates 1 · Tertullian 1 · Cratylus 2 · First Speech against Rullus, and other writings 1 · historical account of the third legion 1 · legal writings on the constitution of a people and on repurchase 1 · opinion on the persistence of a people's identity 1 · saying on the river of change 1 · term for 'the spirit' of a people 1 · term for the constitutional system of a body 1 · writings on identity and the vital breath of a people 2 · writings on the immortality of states 1

    Chapter X.: The Obligation Arising From Property.

    9 sources · 14 anchors

    Xenophon 1 · First Speech against Rullus, and other writings 2 · legal maxims on finders, spousal recovery, and equitable compensation 4 · legal opinions on deposits, confiscated goods, and pledges 2 · legal writings on the constitution of a people and on repurchase 1 · maxim defining fraud 1 · maxim on restitution under the law of nations 1 · opinion on liability for assumpsit 1 · opinion on transfer of fungible property without consent 1

    Chapter XI.: On Promises.

    21 sources · 26 anchors

    Orations 1 · Digest (Roman law) 1 · Book of Proverbs 1 · Horace 1 · Politics 2 · Metamorphoses 1 · Theophrastus 1 · Apuleius 1 · Notes on the second book of the Iliad 1 · Offices 2 · On the Character of an Orator 1 · Platonic philosophy 1 · Rhetorica ad Herennium (second book) 1 · Roman civil and praetorian law 3 · Roman law rule on owners' liability for ships' masters 1 · Scripture (divine oracles) 1 · definition of justice 1 · legal responsum 1 · opinion on the law of nature and promises 2 · twenty-fifth oration 1 · writings on human laws 1

    Chapter XII.: On Contracts.

    20 sources · 28 anchors

    Natural History 1 · Geography 1 · Nicomachean Ethics 2 · Epistles 1 · Roman civil law 5 · De Officiis 1 · Theophrastus 1 · Digest 2 · Against Pantaenetus 1 · Moses Maimonides 1 · De Beneficiis 2 · De Officiis (report of Diogenes the Babylonian) 1 · Homilies 1 · Institutes 1 · Law of the Hebrews 1 · Life of Isidorus (in the Bibliotheca) 1 · On the Duties of the Clergy 2 · oration/report on Rhodian custom 1 · teaching on silence and concealment 1 · writings against usury 1

    Chapter XIII.: On Oaths.

    12 sources · 15 anchors

    Diodorus Siculus 1 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Gospel of Matthew 1 · Epistles 2 · Epistle to the Hebrews 2 · Epistle of James 1 · Sophocles 1 · legal commentary on oaths 1 · position on oaths to robbers 1 · speech for Dejotarus 1 · unspecified treatise on oaths 2 · writings on Jewish customs 1

    Chapter XV.: On Treaties and on Engagements made by Delegates, Exceeding their Power.

    18 sources · 20 anchors

    Histories 1 · Thucydides 3 · Polybius 1 · Roman History 1 · Demosthenes 1 · Isocrates 1 · Suppliants 1 · Homer 1 · Politics 1 · Laws of Solon 1 · Seneca the Elder 1 · Histories (Philippic History epitome) 1 · History of Rome (Arco's speech) 1 · History of Rome (Hieronymus/Hannibal episode) 1 · History of Rome (alliance examples) 1 · History of Rome, Book IX 1 · legal commentary on conventions 1 · unspecified work naming the Scythian fashion 1

    Chapter XVI.: The Interpretation of Treaties.

    24 sources · 32 anchors

    Plutarch 2 · Histories 2 · Aristotle 1 · History of Rome 2 · Isocrates 1 · Roman civil law 1 · Iliad 1 · Lucan 1 · Attic Nights 1 · Offices (De Officiis) 2 · Rhetorica ad Herennium 1 · Argument on treaties and royal successors 1 · Declamations 1 · History of the Mithridatic War 1 · Legal opinion on justice and deposits 1 · Legal responsum on suretyship 1 · On Benefits (De Beneficiis) 1 · On Invention (De Inventione) 1 · Pro Caecina 1 · Proposition on promises prejudicial to a party 1 · Rule explaining royal and state engagements by Roman law principles 1 · Stoic question on shared prizes 1 · Tradition on letter and design in rhetoric 4 · Unspecified sayings on good faith and definitions 2

    Chapter XVII.: On Damages Occasioned by Injury and the Obligation to Repair Them.

    7 sources · 8 anchors

    Polybius 1 · commentary on Aristotle's Ethics 1 · Ethics 2 · Second Philippic 1 · Controversies 1 · Distinction between enemies and pirates 1 · Speech for Cneius Plancus 1

    Chapter XVIII.: On the Right of Embassies.

    14 sources · 22 anchors

    Histories 2 · Xenophon 1 · Diodorus Siculus 1 · Annals 2 · Sallust 3 · History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 4 · Aeneid 1 · Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 1 · In Verrem (Against Verres) 1 · Julian Law (Lex Julia) 1 · Letter to the Athenians 1 · Philippics 2 · Pro Lege Manilia 1 · Song of the Heralds 1

    Chapter XIX.: On the Right of Burial.

    38 sources · 47 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Histories 1 · Xenophon 1 · Orations 4 · Roman History 1 · Euripides 1 · Natural History 2 · Geography 1 · Quintilian 1 · Annals 2 · Writings of Philo 1 · Nicomachean Ethics 1 · Suppliants 2 · Varia Historia 1 · Divine Institutes 1 · Aeneid 2 · Description of Greece 1 · Digest / legal writings 1 · Controversiae 1 · Odyssey 1 · Antiquities of the Jews 3 · Historiae Alexandri Magni 1 · Imperial rescript 1 · Antigone 1 · Claudian 1 · De Rerum Natura 1 · Punica 1 · Statius 1 · Against the Donatists 1 · Commentary on the Dream of Scipio 1 · De Inventione (On Invention) 1 · De Legibus (On Laws) 1 · Divine law given to the Hebrews 1 · Ecclesiastes 1 · Enneads 1 · Fragments on nature and the soul 1 · Gospel of Luke; Genesis; Numbers 1 · Poems (Cathemerinon) 1

    Chapter XX.: On Punishments.

    60 sources · 79 anchors

    Plutarch 6 · Aristotle 2 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Xenophon 2 · Plato 2 · Thucydides 1 · Polybius 1 · Roman History 1 · Demosthenes 2 · Epistle to the Romans 2 · Writings of Philo 3 · Gospel of Matthew 1 · Nicomachean Ethics 1 · Book of Deuteronomy 1 · Epistle to the Ephesians 1 · Gospel of John 1 · Gospel of Luke 1 · Gospel of Mark 1 · Odyssey 1 · Strabo 1 · Mosaic Law 1 · his legal treatise on dispensation from law 2 · his theological writings 1 · his theological-legal writings 1 · Epistle to the Colossians 1 · Gorgias 1 · Pliny the Younger 1 · Satires 1 · Anthology, title 'Magistracy' 1 · Book on Clemency 1 · Code of Justinian, on the power of relatives to correct 1 · Epistle to his brother Quintus 1 · Fragment quoted by Gellius (fifth book, fourteenth chapter) 1 · New Testament (Parable of the Marriage Supper) 1 · New Testament scriptures (Luke, Hebrews, First Timothy, Mark) 2 · Roman Penal Law/Digest tradition 1 · Speech for Murena 1 · Third Book of Maccabees 1 · Writings on the Jews (Antiquities/Against Apion) 2 · a maxim on the suppression of crime 1 · an Epistle (on the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life) 1 · another of his letters 1 · his History of Rome 1 · his account of the Jews 1 · his canon law opinions on just war 1 · his commentary on the punishment of murder 1 · his historical writings 1 · his historical writings on the Scythians 1 · his homilies recounting Theodosius's pardon 1 · his legal writings 1 · his philosophical system 1 · his philosophical writings on religion and justice 1 · his rhetorical writings 1 · his speech in defence of the Rhodians 1 · his treatise on divine institutes 1 · his writings on clemency 2 · his writings on divine and civil law 1 · his writings on the law of war 1 · the Mosaic Law (Leviticus, Exodus, and the Decalogue) 4 · wisdom writings attributed to Solomon 1

    Chapter XXI.: On the Communication of Punishment.

    19 sources · 23 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Diodorus Siculus 1 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Isocrates 1 · Annals 1 · Writings of Philo 2 · Sallust 1 · Suppliants 1 · Legal opinions (Digest) 1 · Description of Greece 1 · Anabasis of Alexander 1 · Legal opinions 1 · Mosaic Law 1 · Writings 2 · Book of Ezekiel 1 · Thebais 1 · Commentary 1 · Theory of punishment as reformation 1 · Works of Cicero 3

    Chapter XXII.: On the Unjust Causes of War.

    13 sources · 17 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Aristotle 1 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Polybius 1 · Offices (De Officiis) 1 · unspecified legal opinion 1 · unspecified historical work 1 · Rhetoric 1 · Commentary on the Gospel of John 1 · Epistles (Pauline scripture) 2 · Offices/moral writings (robber anecdote) 1 · unspecified historical/ethnographic work 4 · unspecified writings on freedom and servitude 1

    Chapter XXIII.: On Doubtful Causes.

    7 sources · 9 anchors

    Xenophon 1 · Quintilian 1 · Strabo 2 · Herodotus 1 · Epistles (Pauline scripture) 2 · Proverbs, chapter 18 1 · Speech on the interposition of Fortune 1

    Chapter XXIV.: Precautions Against Rashly Engaging in War, Even Upon Just Grounds.

    10 sources · 12 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Offices (De Officiis) 1 · unspecified historical work 2 · Parable of the King going to war (Gospel of Luke) 1 · unspecified historical/ethnographic work 2 · unspecified letter/address to Marcellinus 1 · unspecified maxim on the timing of battle 1 · unspecified maxim on war policy 1 · unspecified moral writings 1 · unspecified philosophical writings 1

    Chapter XXV.: The Causes of Undertaking War for Others.

    9 sources · 11 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Plato 1 · Demosthenes 1 · Genesis 1 · Book of Joshua 1 · Oration to the Romans (unspecified) 1 · Pro Sestio 1 · untitled legal treatise 2 · untitled theological-legal treatise 2

    Book III, Chapter I.: What is Lawful in War.

    31 sources · 48 anchors

    Plutarch 4 · Histories 3 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Xenophon 2 · Plato 4 · De Officiis (Offices) 2 · Writings of Philo 2 · Institutio Oratoria 1 · Nicomachean Ethics 2 · Varia Historia 1 · Epistles 1 · Book of Proverbs 1 · Homer 2 · commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics 1 · Book of Jeremiah 1 · Stromata 1 · Acts of the Apostles (Paul's circumcision of Timothy) 1 · Book of Genesis (Abraham and Sarah) 1 · Book of Genesis (Joseph and his brethren) 1 · Book of Kings (the judgment of Solomon) 1 · First Book of Samuel (Jabesh Gilead) 1 · Gospel narratives (Emmaus, Lazarus, the Temple) 2 · Gospel of Matthew (parable of the tares) 1 · Old Athenian Laws 1 · On the Priesthood 2 · Pauline Epistle against lying 1 · Second Book of Kings (Elisha) 1 · juristic definitions 1 · poem praising Hypermnestra 1 · theological writings 3 · writings on rhetoric and moral duty 1

    Chapter II.: In What Manner the Law of Nations Renders the Property of Subjects Answerable for the Debts of Sovereigns.

    13 sources · 15 anchors

    History of Rome 1 · Diodorus Siculus 1 · Digest (Roman law) 2 · Iliad 1 · writings of Seneca 1 · Against Aristocrates 2 · Attic Law (Athenian statute on ἀνδροληψια) 1 · Corpus Juris Civilis 1 · Novels 1 · Onomasticon 1 · Roman law on suretyship and debt 1 · Treatise on Reprisals 1 · Variae 1

    Chapter III.: On Just or, Solemn War According to the Law of Nations on Declarations of War.

    21 sources · 25 anchors

    History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · Plato 1 · History of Rome 3 · Orations 2 · Natural History 1 · Geography 1 · Annals 1 · De Officiis (Offices) 1 · Digest (Roman law) 2 · Varia Historia 1 · Galen 1 · Julius Caesar 1 · Cyropaedia 1 · Germania 1 · Aelius Aristides 1 · Fourth Philippic 1 · Adversus Nationes 1 · Commentary on the Aeneid 1 · De Finibus (Bounds of Good and Evil) 1 · Scholia on Thucydides 1 · Writings of Varro 1

    Chapter IV.: On the Right of Killing an Enemy in Lawful War, and Committing Other Acts of Hostility.

    24 sources · 35 anchors

    History (of the Peloponnesian War) 2 · History of Rome 6 · Diodorus Siculus 1 · Euripides 1 · Legal opinions (Digest) 1 · legal writings (Digest) 1 · Aeneid 1 · Iliad 1 · Lucan 1 · Anabasis of Alexander 1 · Psalms 1 · Legal opinions 1 · Pro Marcello 1 · The City of God 1 · History of the Wars 1 · Tusculan Disputations 1 · Annals and Histories 5 · Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 2 · Epistle to the Corinthians 1 · Hebrew Scriptures (Numbers/Joshua) 1 · In Verrem (speech against Verres) 1 · Pro Milone 1 · Pro Rabirio Postumo 1 · Satires 1

    Chapter V.: On the Right to Lay Waste an Enemy’s Country, and Carry Off His Effects.

    6 sources · 10 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Histories 1 · History of Rome 3 · legal writings (Digest) 2 · De Officiis 1 · Annals and Histories 2

    Chapter VI.: On the Acquisition of Territory and Property by Right of Conquest.

    31 sources · 32 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · Xenophon 1 · Polybius 1 · Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1 · Quintilian 2 · Epistle to the Hebrews 1 · Laws 1 · Cyropaedia 1 · Genesis 1 · Aeschines 1 · Hellenica 1 · 1338 Decision of the States General of Holland 1 · De Abraham (or commentary on Abraham's expedition) 1 · De Lingua Latina (etymology of 'territorium') 1 · De Officiis (Book I) 1 · Digest (etymology from terror of judicial authority) 1 · Digest (maxim of Celsus) 1 · Digest (maxim of Modestinus) 1 · Digest (opinion of Nerva relayed by Paulus) 1 · Digest (opinion of Paulus on acquisition through others) 1 · Digest (opinion of Paulus on loss of a subject) 1 · Digest (opinion of Pomponius on conquered lands) 1 · Digest (opinion on capture and prisoners of war) 1 · Digest (passage of Tryphoninus) 1 · Historiae Alexandri Magni (History of Alexander) 1 · Institutes (Greek paraphrase) 1 · Regulation on lawful captures (24-hour rule) 1 · Roman-Latin treaty on division of spoils 1 · Speech Against Rullus (In Rullum) 1 · Writings on land-surveying (etymology from terra) 1 · Writings on land-surveying (etymology of 'territorium') 1

    Chapter VII.: On the Right Over Prisoners of War.

    4 sources · 4 anchors

    Custom of Christendom against enslaving prisoners of war 1 · Digest (Pomponius on the origin of 'servus') 1 · Institutes of Justinian 1 · Roman History (Byzantine history) 1

    Chapter VIII.: On Empire Over the Conquered.

    5 sources · 5 anchors

    Xenophon 1 · Quintilian 1 · Tertullian 1 · History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 1 · Julius Caesar 1

    Chapter IX.: Of the Right of Postliminium.

    8 sources · 13 anchors

    Digest opinion on piracy and postliminium 1 · Digest opinions on postliminium 3 · Boethius 1 · Explanation of Law Terms 1 · Laws of Spain 2 · Opinion on the etymology of postliminium 1 · Roman civil law rules on deserters, marriage, and bequests 3 · Second Treaty between Rome and Carthage 1

    Chapter XI.: The Right of Killing Enemies, in Just War, to be Tempered with Moderation and Humanity.

    14 sources · 17 anchors

    Plutarch 2 · Diodorus Siculus 1 · Roman History 1 · Sallust 1 · writings of Seneca 1 · Pro Marcello 1 · Rhetorica ad Herennium 2 · Book of Jonah 1 · De Officiis (Of Duties) 2 · Epistles (Letters) 1 · First Book of Samuel 1 · Mosaic law (Deuteronomic command on the Canaanites) 1 · Wars of the Hebrews (scriptural narrative) 1 · Writings of Tacitus 1

    Chapter XII.: On Moderation in Despoiling An Enemy’s Country.

    4 sources · 6 anchors

    Plutarch 1 · Histories 2 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 2 · History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 1

    Chapter XIII.: On Moderation in Making Captures in War.

    2 sources · 2 anchors

    History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 1 · Athenian law (cited precedent) 1

    Chapter XV.: On Moderation in Acquiring Dominion.

    9 sources · 9 anchors

    Histories 1 · Aristotle 1 · Plato 1 · Book of Amos 1 · Hesiod 1 · Epitome of Roman History 1 · Letters 1 · On the Embassy to Gaius 1 · Unspecified work on the duties and rights of war 1

    Chapter XVI.: On Moderation with Respect to Things Excluded from the Right of Postliminium by the Law of Nations.

    2 sources · 2 anchors

    History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 1 · Roman legal maxim (unspecified) 1

    Chapter XVII.: Respecting Those Who are Neutral in War.

    1 source · 1 anchor

    History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1

    Chapter XIX.: On Good Faith Between Enemies.

    6 sources · 6 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · Legal opinions (Digest) 1 · De Finibus (On the Bounds of Good and Evil), Book V 1 · On Benefits, Book VI 1 · Unspecified work of Augustine 1 · Unspecified work on the duties and rights of war 1

    Chapter XX.: On the Public Faith, by which War is Concluded; Comprising Treaties of Peace, and the Nature of Arbitration

    14 sources · 20 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · Thucydides 1 · Polybius 1 · Demosthenes 1 · Roman civil law 5 · Celsus's legal opinion 1 · Cicero's political writings 2 · Livy's history 2 · Proculus's legal opinion 1 · St. Paul's teaching on arbitration among Christians 1 · Ulpian's legal opinion 1 · Vasquez's treatise on the rights of war 1 · the canon law 1 · the precedent of Augustus Caesar's ruling against Sextus Pompey 1

    Chapter XXI.: On Faith During the Continuance of War, on Truces, Safe-Conducts, and the Redemption of Prisoners.

    11 sources · 13 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · History (of the Peloponnesian War) 1 · History of Rome 2 · Divine Institutes 1 · Aeneid 2 · Attic Nights 1 · Digest / legal writings 1 · Commentary on Virgil 1 · Eighth Philippic 1 · Historical writings (unspecified) 1 · On Invention 1

    Chapter XXII.: On the Faith on Those Invested with Subordinate Powers in War.

    2 sources · 2 anchors

    Julius Caesar 1 · Digest / legal writings 1

    Chapter XXIV.: On Tacit Faith.

    1 source · 2 anchors

    History of Rome 2

    Chapter XXV.: Conclusion.

    3 sources · 4 anchors

    Aristotle 1 · De Officiis 2 · Julius Caesar 1

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