paxes

Tribal violence commonly subsides when a state or empire imposes control over a territory, leading to the various "paxes" Romana, Islamica, Brittanica and so on that are familiar to readers of history.

Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011

The other half get, as a group, a free ride (though there are individuals in this group that pay paxes, net, as a group, they do not).

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Beyond Red and Blue 2005

The other half get, as a group, a free ride (though there are individuals in this group that pay paxes, net, as a group, they do not).

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » On Class Warfare and Income Taxes, Part 1 2004

Middle Ages ivory was extensively used for paxes (instrumenta pacis), tabernacles, portable altars, caskets, holy-water buckets, statuettes, rosary-beads, seals, and the decoration of ecclesiastical furniture.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

I have seen of his some paxes in half relief, and some Christs a palm in length wrought of the thinnest golden plates, so exquisitely done that I esteemed him the greatest master in that kind I had ever seen, and envied him more than all the rest together.

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

I have seen of his some paxes in half relief, and some Christs a palm in length wrought of the thinnest golden plates, so exquisitely done that I esteemed him the greatest master in that kind I had ever seen, and envied him more than all the rest together.

XXVI 1909

For the same Pope Valerio made some most beautiful paxes, and a divine cross of crystal, and likewise dies for striking medals, containing the portrait of Pope Clement, with very beautiful reverses; and through him that art produced in his day many masters, both from Milan and from other parts, who had grown to such a number before the sack of Rome, that it was a marvel.

Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi Giorgio Vasari 1542

Among these are some very beautiful paxes in S. Giovanni, coloured by the action of fire, which are such that they could be scarcely improved with the brush; and some of his marvellous enamels may be seen in other churches in Florence, Rome, and other parts of Italy.

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542

I have seen of his some paxes in half relief, and some Christs a palm in length wrought of the thinnest golden plates, so exquisitely done that I esteemed him the greatest master in that kind I had ever seen, and envied him more than all the rest together.

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535

a number of figures as he could, whether in a small or in a large space; as is still proved by certain paxes in the Church of S. Giovanni in

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna Giorgio Vasari 1542