If this were the case, one would expect that Austria-Hungary, in declaring war subsequently to the alleged shooting by Serbians at frontier guards, would make mention of the acts as a casus belli.

Giunse ad un rivo, che parea cristallo, Ne le cui sponde un bel pratel fioria, Di nativo color vago e dipinto, E di molti e belli arbori distinto.

For six months the petition had lain there awaiting a decision and had become converted into a kind of casus belli in certain circles.

It is uncertain how the first definite breach arose, but it is easy to see that whatever the actual casus belli, such a development was inevitable.

In the attack upon the Khozaa, allies of the Prophet, the Beni Bekr, who gave their allegiance to the Kureisch, supplied Mahomet with the necessary casus belli.

By which means, Madet orbis mutuo sanguine, the earth wallows in her own blood, Savit amor ferri et scelerati insania belli; and for that, which if it be done in private, a man shall be rigorously executed, "and which is no less than murder itself; if the same fact be done in public in wars, it is called manhood, and the party is honoured for it.

Trojani tempore belli, Panthoides Euphorbus eram," a horse, a man, a sponge.

And for bodily stature which some so much admire, and goodly presence, 'tis true, to say the best of them, great men are proper, and tall, I grant,caput inter nubila condunt, (hide their heads in the clouds); but belli pusilli little men are pretty:

Nota est fabula Pigmalionis apud [4706]Ovidium; Mundi et Paulini apud Aegesippum belli Jud.

Quod Paterculus de populo Romano durante bello Punico per annos 115, aut bellum inter eos, aut belli praeparatio, aut infida pax, idem ego de mundi accolis. 1783.

Evangelii tubam belli tubam faciunt; in pulpitis pacem, in colloquiis bellum suadent.

Digna quidem facies pro qua vel obiret Achilles, vel Priamus, belli causa probanda fuit.

belli, lib. 5 nulli prorsus homini fidebat, omnes insidiari sibi putabat.

I said that was a much more important matter; we were considering what statement we should make in Parliament to-morrowin effect, whether we should declare violation of Belgian neutrality to be a casus belli.

Quis gurges aut quae flumina lugubris Ignara belli?

That is merely if the Latin compact is signed anywhere, the English-speaking countries of the world might construe it as a casus belli and strike soon enough, and hard enough, to put an end to it once for all.

Exsul ego indemnatus egens mea rura reliqui, Miles ut accipiat funesti praemia belli.

Here he composed his epoch-making work, De Jure Belli et

Alea est ludus tabulae inventa a Graecis, in otio Trojani belli, a quodam milite, nomine ALEA, a quo et ars nomen accepit.

The true "casus belli" is set forth by anticipation in this passage without disguise, and by one who knew well, and has clearly described the causes that were operating to produce a rupture.

Suffice it to say that the Cretans ultimately went so far as to elect members to sit in the Greek Parliament at Athens, and that Turkey had given notice that their admission to the chamber would be regarded as a casus belli.

De jure belli ac pacis.

Inscriptions of Fructus Belli were seen on the ceiling and all about the walls of the room, among paintings of the trophies of war; probably done by the order of Louis XIV., who confessed in his dying hour, as his successor and exemplar Napoleon will probably do, that he had been too fond of war.

Bernstorff took the opportunity of Bismarck's presence in Berlin to ask his advice; the answer was: "The circumstance that the Elector has thrown a royal letter on the table is not a clever casus belli; if you want war, make me your Under Secretary; I will engage to provide you a German civil war of the best quality in a few weeks."

The supreme Government had beforehand declared that it would look upon such an act as a casus belli, and as a consequence of this declaration negotiation was by its very nature at an end, and war was the only recourse of the Mexican Government.