ABSTRACT
IN the above chapter fighting was waged with fire, here it is done with water, which has frequently been used against godless or malevolent persons, who think themselves so far unaccountable to the laws that they treat animals more mercifully than human beings. For this reason sometimes the sole means of relief, and the most rigorous, among the northern peoples was that, when the lie of the land was appropriate for flooding, unconquerable tyrants and all their impious servants should be carried off by drown ing.1
