Skip to content- Bello pacta cedunt reipublicae. In war contracts give way to the state.
- Hostes sunt qui nobis vel quibus nos bellum decernimus; caeteri proditores vel praedones sunt. Enemies are those on whom we declare war, or who declare it against us; all others are traitors or pirates.
- Incorporalia bello non adquiruntur. Incorporeal things are not acquired by war.
- Iniquissima pax est anteponenda justissimo bello. The most unjust peace is to be preferred to the justest war.
- Inquissima pax est anteponenda iustissimo bello. The most unfair peace is preferable to the most just war.
- In republica maxime conservanda sunt jura belli. The laws of war must be especially preserved in the state.
- Inter arma silent leges. Amid the arms of war the laws are silent.
- Inter pacem et bellum nihil medium. There is no middle course between peace and war.
- Silent leges inter arma. Laws are silent amid arms.
- Si vis pacem, para bellum. If you want peace, prepare for war.
