leges

[ lee-jeez; Latin le-ges ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

leges

/ ˈliːdʒiːz /

Nolumus leges Angliæ—— He just stopped himself from the quotation.

War is lawless, as Cicero observed: "Silent leges inter arma."

The maxim, inter arma silent leges, is suspended by the edicts of diplomacy!

Anno trecentesimo ab urbe condita pro duobus consulibus decemviri creati sunt, qui adlatas e Graecia leges populo proponerent.

An element of which we hear little in later days, is prominent in the Leges, the element of rank or personal status.

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