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sought from elsewhere. 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 neither pleasing nor permitted to seek peace by these methods, other ways must be tracked by which you can obtain it. Since, therefore, we were resolving the proposed end into victory and friendship, but we could not obtain victory in any way, or not conveniently: it is necessary to cross over to another order of resolution, namely friendship, which we shall prepare for ourselves by yielding to the enemy regarding the law, or by redeeming it. By yielding regarding the law, we reconcile friendship. It will be redeemed, however, either by money, the method of seeking which was just explained: or by exchange, or by marriage.

The second [method] is from the composition of those things which were found through resolution.

Composition is opposed to resolution,
G just as synthesis putting together is to analysis taking apart among the Greeks. Therefore, those who know how to resolve, the same ones also know how to compose: since 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 a proposed end.