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Latin pax comes off the same root as pactum. A settlement fastened down, on terms set by whoever won. English inherited the word and lost the memory, and that drift is the whole trick. https://theaxes.fyi/the-pax.html
Latin pax comes off the same root as pactum. A settlement fastened down, on terms set by whoever won. English inherited the word and lost the memory, and that drift is the whole trick. https://theaxes.fyi/the-pax.html