Rasārṇavakalpa

ARS PARVA.

catchword: Tert

from elsewhere must be sought. It is sought, however, either by exacting tributes and taxes from subjects, or by borrowing, or by pledging or selling lordships and possessions. But if it is either not pleasing or not permitted to seek peace by these means, other paths must be tracked by which you might be able to obtain it. Since, therefore, we were resolving the proposed end into victory and friendship, and we could not attain victory in any way or not conveniently, it is necessary to pass to another order of resolution, namely friendship, which we shall prepare for ourselves by yielding rights to the enemy, or by redeeming that which is owed. By yielding the right, we reconcile friendship. It will be redeemed, however, either by money, the method of seeking which was just exposed, or by exchange, or by marriage.

The second part is from the composition of those things which were found through resolution.

Composition is opposed to resolution, which is called synthesis putting together in Greek, as opposed to analysis resolution. Therefore, those who know how to resolve also know how to compose; when composition returns to the end in the opposite order: just as those who construct logic in the order of composition, first treat simple terms, afterwards propositions, then the syllogism, and finally the demonstration, from which they attain the truth; toward which they tend as to the proposed end.