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1  Upon this motion the senate resolved, in accordance with the advice given by the consul, to take the case of each city separately, and either destroy utterly or else treat with tenderness all the more important of the Latin towns.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXIII.
2  To escape which dangers, whether of their own motion or at the instance of some of greater authority among them, they restrict themselves to dwell together in certain places, which they think will be more convenient to live in and easier to defend.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I.
3  For Hannibal the Carthaginian general attacked the Saguntans, who were the friends of Rome in Spain, not from any desire to injure them, but in order to set the arms of Rome in motion, and so gain an opportunity of engaging the Romans in a war, and passing on into Italy.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX.
4  For a prince or commonwealth, when attacking another State, will be content to rid themselves of those only who are at the head of affairs; but an entire people, set in motion in the manner described, must destroy all who oppose them, since their object is to subsist on that whereon those whom they invade have hitherto subsisted.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII.