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As the religion of Grotius was a problem to many, Menage wrote the
following Epigram upon it: the sense of it is, that--
"As many sects claimed the religion of Grotius, as the towns, which
contended for the birth of Homer."
_Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,
Siderei certant vatis de patria Homeri:
Grotiadae certant de religione, Socinus,
Arrius, Arminius, Calvinus, Roma, Lutherus_.
XII. 3.
_Grotius's Project of Religious Pacification._
A wish for religious peace among Christians grew with the growth and
strengthened with the strength of Grotius. It was known, before his
imprisonment at Louvestein, that he entertained these sentiments: he
avows them in the dedication to Lewis XIII. of his treatise _de Jure
Belli et Pacis_.
"I shall never cease," he says in a letter to his brother,[061] "to
use my utmost endeavours for establishing peace among Christians;
And, if I should not succeed, it will be honourable to die in such
an enterprise.
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