ATIONAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ANCIENT ROME.
literally inaccurate, as Ompteda remarks, in citing direct assertion that the science of International ence was, in the abstract, an excellent thing. But ionably, in the passage upon which Grotius relies for this Lion, International Jurisprudence is recognized as a science, acquaintance with it as the accomplishment of a statesman. cero (a), speaking of Pompey, says that he possessed " præstabilem "scientiam in fæderibus, pactionibus, conditionibus populorum, regum, exterarum nationum in universo denique belli jure et "pacis," and it would not be easy to give a juster, better, more complete recognition, or a fuller description of the science of which we are treating. In Sallust, the expression jus gentium is
(a) Orat. pro Lage Manil.