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“That he ought to know he makes this expedition against him by the will of God, who hath granted this favor to him, that he shall overthrow the kingdom of Israel” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · insight
With both armies fearing famine and winter, Phraates’ men spread false conciliatory talk; Antony debates it, then begins organizing an orderly retreat with Domitius Aenobarbus speaking for him.
and, out of every ten, putting one to death, as it happens by lot. The rest he gave orders should have, instead of wheat, their rations of corn in barley. The war was now become grievous to both parties, and the prospect of its continuance yet more fearful to Antony, in respect that he was threatened with famine; for he could no longer forage without wounds and slaughter. And Phraates, on the other side, was full o…
In discussing siege policy, Montaigne weighs whether a governor should go out to parley, recounting Roman cases where deception and truce timing caused disasters, and concluding that modern rules treat parleys as especially dangerous.
WHETHER THE GOVERNOR OF A PLACE BESIEGED OUGHT HIMSELF TO GO OUT TO PARLEY Quintus Marcius, the Roman legate in the war against Perseus, King of Macedon, to gain time wherein to reinforce his army, set on foot some overtures of accommodation, with which the king being lulled asleep, concluded a truce for some days, by this means giving his enemy opportunity and leisure to recruit his forces, which was afterwards the…
Rabshakeh demands Hezekiah’s surrender, mocking reliance on Egypt and claiming God backs Assyria, while Hezekiah’s envoys respond with a warning about delivering themselves voluntarily under superior force.
Ethiopians, he left his general Rabshakeh, and two other of his principal commanders, with great forces, to destroy Jerusalem. The names of the two other commanders were Tartan and Rabsaris. 2. Now as soon as they were come before the walls, they pitched their camp, and sent messengers to Hezekiah, and desired that they might speak with him; but he did not himself come out to them for fear, but he sent three of his …