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Hugo Grotius

noun

Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645). Synonyms: Grotius, Huig de Groot.

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... tossed with a laugh into the blazing ruins of their homes. But no such foul blot cleaves to the memory of Gustav Adolf. While he lived his men were soldiers, not demons. In his tent the work of Hugo Grotius on the rights of the nations in war and peace lay beside the Bible and he knew them both by heart. When he was gone, the fame of some of his greatest generals was smirched by as vile orgies as Tilly's worst days ...

— Hero Tales of the Far North • Jacob A. Riis

... Hugo Grotius has no reference to Demosthenes in his Annotationes in Vet. Test., Vogel & Doderein, 1776; but cites Heraclitus the Ephesian, who, according to Saxius, flourished in the year 502 B.C., and Aristides, who, on the same authority, lived in the 126th year of the Christian era. Has any other ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 79, May 3, 1851 • Various

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