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International Law in Archaic Rome: War and Religion. By Alan Watson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. xviii, 100. Index. $25.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Alfred P. Rubin*
Affiliation:
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1994

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References

1 For a lively English translation of his account of this conflict, see Livy, The Early History of Rome 381-96 (de Aubrey de Sélincourt trans., Penguin 1971).

2 Cicero, De officiis (On Duties) iii.29.

3 2 Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis 373 (Carnegie ed. 1925) (1646).

4 A brief summary of the political turmoil of the time as it appears to have affected Cicero’s views is attempted in Alfred P. Rubin, The Law of Piracy, 15 Denv. J. Int’l L. & Pol’y 173, 184–85 (1987), and repeated in Alfred P. Rubin, The Law of Piracy 10–11 (U.S. Naval War College International Law Studies vol. 63, 1988).