Joseph Strutt (1749–1802) British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer
pg. xxviii
The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England (1801), Chivalry
“Their exercises are unbloody battles, and their battles bloody exercises.”
Book 3.5.1, trans. William Whiston
The Jewish War (c. 75 CE)
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