Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Sylae

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Sylae

（σῦλαι). The Greek equivalent of the modern “letters of marque and reprisal.” When a Greek State had been insulted or injured by citizens of some other State, yet was unable or unwilling formally to declare war, it often gave a sort of license or commission to individuals to make reprisals upon the property and citizens of the offending nation. This was called σύλας or σῦλα διδόναι.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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