ABSTRACT
The older legal writers perhaps included in their works the subject of war and other topics of the same kind relating to nations. In particular, the works on the laws of the Fetiales had an exposition and orderly treatment of these laws of war; for as a matter of fact the fetial priests were in charge of treaties, peace, wars, embassies, and other matters connected with these foreign relations. Gentili attacks the ignorant, who cannot discern natural law, and the perverse, who deny its existence. He also criticizes those jurists who have made international law more uncertain by adopting different and conflicting views about its content. Gentili argues that the jurists use the phrase 'all nations' because the empires of the Romans, of Alexander and of the Parthians did in fact embrace or come into contact with all the peoples of the east.
