Identifier: archaeologiagra02pott (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia Graeca; or, The antiquities of Greece. A New ed., to which is added an appendix containing a concise history of the Grecian states and a short account of the lives and writings of the most celebrated Greek authors
Year: 1818 (1810s)
Authors: Potter, John, 1673 or 4-1747
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Publisher: Edinburgh Stirling & Slade
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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, from rdrrav, who ex-ercised the youth in thls art, and rendered them expert m all th©forms of battle, before they adventured into the field. CHAP. VII. Oftheir Manner ofmaking Peace and declaring War, their AmbassaclorSy S\c. Before the Grecians engaged themselves in war, it was usual topublish a declaration of the mjuries they had received, and to de-mand satisfaction by ambassadors; for, however prepared or ex-cellently skiUed they were in the afifairs of war, yet peace, if tobe procured upon honourable terms, was thought more eligible;>vhich custom was observed even in ihe most early ages, as ap-pears from the story of Tydeus, when Polynices sent to composematters with his brother Eteocles, king of Thebes, before he pro-ceeded to iiwest that city, as we are informed by Statius^ andse-veral others; «■Thcbaid. lib. ii.v. 368.
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