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28.13.

tertiam partem: i.e. upper Alsace, a part of the German conquest of 1870. This was the same proportion of conquered land taken by the German invaders (Burgundians) in this very territory in the fifth century of the Christian era. Such 'annexation' seems to have been the ancient common law of conquest (Liv. II. 41).


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