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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Greek and Roman writers on war and peace
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Lactantius: The arms of the nations shall be burnt; and now there shall be no war, but peace and everlasting rest
Lactantius: Duties relating to warfare are accommodated neither to justice nor to true virtue
Lactantius: Justice had no other reason for leaving the earth than the shedding of human blood
Lactantius: No one can befittingly describe the cruelty of this beast, which rages with iron teeth throughout the world
Lactantius: The pernicious and impious madness of deifying warlike generals who have inundated plains with blood
Lactantius: Sacrificing to the gods of war
Lactantius: War, object of execration, and its domestic analogue
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