In
ancient Roman
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman people, Roman civilisation from the founding of Rome, founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, collapse of the Western Roman Em ...
international law
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, a clarigation was a loud, clear call or summons made to an enemy to demand satisfaction for some injury received, without which there would be a
declaration of war
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. Clarigation equates to what the
Ancient Greeks
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called ' (
androlepsy).
Roman law
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