[147] Major-General Mitchell’s Biographies of Eminent Soldiers, 92.
[148] Livy, xxxi. 40. When Pelium was taken by storm, only the slaves were taken as spoil; the freemen were even let off without ransom.
[149] Ibid. xxviii. 3.
[150] Ibid. xxviii. 20, xxvii. 16, xxxi. 27.
[151] De Officiis, i. 12. Yet on this passage is founded the common assertion that among the Romans ‘the word which signified stranger was the same with that which in its original denoted an enemy’ (Ward, ii. 174); implying that in their eyes a stranger and an enemy were one and the same thing. Cicero says exactly the reverse.
[152] Recueil de Documents sur les exactions, vols, et cruautés des armées prussiennes en France. The book is out of print, but may be seen at the British Museum, under the title, ‘Prussia—Army of.’ It is to be regretted that, whilst every book, however dull, relating to that war has been translated into English, this record has hitherto escaped the publicity it so well deserves.
[153] Ibid. 19.
[154] Ibid. 8.
[155] Ibid. 13.
[156] Chaudordy’s Circular of November 29, 1870, in the Recueil.