[287] Said to have been invented about 400 B.C. by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse.
[288] Mitchell’s Biographies of Eminent Soldiers, 208, 287.
[289] Compare article 14 of the German Strafgesetzbuch of January 20, 1872.
[290] Nineteenth Century, November 1882: ‘The Present State of the Army.’
[291] De Re Militari, vi. 5.
[292] Bruce’s Military Law (1717), 254.
[293] See Fleming’s Teutsche Soldat, ch. 29.
[294] See the War Articles for 1673, 1749, 1794.
[295] 82.
[296] Quintus Curtius, viii. 2.