they are
engaged in
war, which
is the
only
occasion
in which
their
treasure
can be
usefully
employed,
they make
use of it
themselves;
in great
extremities
or sudden
accidents
they 9. OF
THEIR
TREASURE
employ it
in hiring
foreign
troops,
whom they
more
willingly
expose to
danger
than their
own
people;
they give
them great
pay,
knowing
well that
this will
work even
on their
enemies;
that it
will
engage
them
either to
betray
their own
