Secure, in every event, of personal liberty, the resistance of the vanquished became less obstinate, and the triumph of the victor less cruel.

Thus humanity was introduced into the exercise of war, with which it appears to be almost incompatible; and it is to the merciful maxims of Christianity, much more than to any other cause, that we must ascribe the little ferocity and bloodshed which accompany modern victories."-- G.] [Footnote 46: In the camp of Lucullus, an ox sold for a drachma, and a slave for four drachmae, or about three shillings.Plutarch.in Lucull.
p.580.

* Note: Above 100,000 prisoners were taken in the Jewish war .-- G.

Hist.

of Jews, iii.71.According to a tradition preserved by S.
Jerom, after the insurrection in the time of Hadrian, they were sold as cheap as horse.Ibid.124.Compare Blair on Roman Slavery, p.