748.)] [Footnote 106: The Goths suspected Mathasuintha as an accomplice in the mischief, which perhaps was occasioned by accidental lightning.] [Footnote 107: In strict philosophy, a limitation of the rights of war seems to imply nonsense and contradiction.

Grotius himself is lost in an idle distinction between the jus naturae and the jus gentium, between poison and infection.

He balances in one scale the passages of Homer (Odyss.

A 259, &c.) and Florus, (l.ii.c.20, No.

7, ult.;) and in the other, the examples of Solon (Pausanias, l.x.c.