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was said of Edgar, surnamed “the Peaceful,” king of England, that he preserved peace in those turbulent times “by being always prepared for war” (reigned 959-975).

Peace at any Price. Mèzeray says of Louis XII., that he had such detestation of war, that he rather chose to lose his duchy of Milan than burden his subjects with a war-tax.—Histoire de France (1643).

Peace of Antalcidas, the peace concluded by Antalcidas the Spartan and Artaxerxes (B.C. 387).