Something indirect, mixed, reconciling, tensional might well be the stratagem, the devious technique by which a poet indulged in all kinds of talk about love and anger and even in something like `` expressions '' of these emotions, without aiming at their incitement or even uttering anything that essentially involves their incitement ''.

He had noticed, says Polybius, a “ place between the two camps, flat indeed and treeless, but well adapted for an ambuscade, as it was traversed by a water-course with steep banks, densely overgrown with brambles and other thorny plants, and here he proposed to lay a stratagem to surprise the enemy ”.

Discovering their location from some peace envoys they had sent to him, he lured them into battle near the Tsibritsa by a stratagem.

Unable to take the city by force of arms, Tarquin had recourse to a clever stratagem.

Scott was much the better wordsmith of the two, and the story that spread throughout the world was largely that told by him, with Amundsen's victory reduced in the eyes of many to an unsporting stratagem.

He afterwards by a stratagem causes her to stand for a whole day in July, naked upon a tower, exposed to the flies, the gadflies, and the sun.

Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve ... let there be no compulsion in religion "-that all monotheistic religions or people of the book have a chance of salvation, to the most exclusive teaching common amongst Salafis and Wahhabis, and supported by several works of medieval Islamic theology and by traditions ( hadith ) which are considered correct ( sahih ) by Sunni Muslims, for the most part are summed up in Surah 9: 5, 29: " Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them, and besiege them, and lay in wait in every stratagem of war.

The town was nevertheless finally conquered by Frederik Hendrik of Orange in 1629 in a typically Dutch stratagem: he diverted the rivers Dommel and Aa, created a polder by constructing a forty-kilometre dyke and then pumped out the water by mills.

God after god was ordered to pursue him and recover them, but it would seem that it was only by a stratagem that they were finally regained.

This stratagem invented by Odysseus made it possible to take the city.

It was a serious blow for the resistance, and in 1214 the situation became worse: Raymond was forced to flee to England, and his lands were given by the Pope to the victorious Philippe II, a stratagem which finally succeeded in interesting the king in the conflict.

Military stratagem in the Maneuver against the Romans by Cimbri and Teutons circa 100 B. C.

Constantine held out, hoping for the return of his general Edobichus who was raising troops in northern Gaul amongst the Franks, but on his return Edobichus was defeated by a simple stratagem.

Mathieu Maurice, pressed by the orders of Marshal, seeing that for four hours with frontal assaults fails to dislodge the top of Santa Barbara, has conceived a daring stratagem.

The author of the Lettre de Pierre Charpentier ( 1572 ) was not only " a Protestant of sorts, and thus, apparently, writing with inside knowledge ", but also " an extreme apologist for the massacre ... in his view ... a well-merited punishment for years of civil disobedience secret sedition ..." A strand of Catholic writing, especially by Italian authors, broke from the official French line to applaud the massacre as precisely a brilliant stratagem, deliberately planned from various points beforehand.

Finding himself considerably outnumbered, Totila ostensibly entered into negotiations while planning a surprise attack, but Narses was not fooled by this stratagem.

Their death by stratagem had already been planned, and on 10 March they had to go into hiding.

Skarbek showed her penchant for stratagem when she and Kowerski were arrested by the Gestapo in January 1941 ; she won their release, feigning symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis by biting her tongue until it bled.

On 30 April 1790 the fort was invaded by anti-clerical revolutionaries who, under pretext of attending a mass in the chapel, cross the drawbridge, using a stratagem similar to that adopted by the ' liguers ' in 1594.

On May 16, 1763, a group of Wyandots gained entry under the pretense of holding a council, the same stratagem that had failed in Detroit nine days earlier.

As they began to raid neighboring territories under Byzantine rule, the Byzantine government resorted to a stratagem intended to compromise the leadership of this " revolt ".

James and his friends come up with the stratagem that the Courant should hereafter be published under the name of Benjamin Franklin, although James will still actually be in control.

This was an understandable stratagem, as official positions ( and even many trades ) were only open to those speaking Swedish, and a Finnish name would have been an impediment to success.

Metaphorically a " Trojan Horse " has come to mean any trick or stratagem that causes a target to invite a foe into a securely protected bastion or space.

Any doubt about Azaewunky's stratagem to sow discord between King Taksin and Chao Phraya Chakri should be dismissed, since they collaborated closely in subsequent military expeditions.

The campaign is but another stratagem ( developing like a good mystery story ) while in fact, Belisarius is carefully marking time and giving other events set in motion by himself and the conspiracy members time to bear fruit and astonish both friends, and readers in the events and results.

One method of using this stratagem is to create an illusion of something's existence, while it does not exist.

This stratagem succeeded and Helen and Menelaus were married.

In 1976, Miodrag Popovic suggested that the narrative elements of secrecy and stratagem in the Serbian tradition were all introduced from Turkish sources.

The stratagem was successful and the contracts were terminated soon thereafter.

The stratagem worked and the Molossians fell upon the Illyrians who were encumbered with booty and defeated them.

In another ' stratagem ', Polyaenus suggests that Philip deliberately prolonged the battle, to take advantage of the rawness of the Athenian troops ( his own veterans being more used to fatigue ), and delayed his main attack until the Athenians were exhausted.

While the plan as outlined by Hong had many of the components of an annihilation ambush, and the tactic of drawing the enemy out his base areas was a standard communist stratagem, a number of weaknesses were evident including the lack of a means of neutralising the Australian artillery, as well as the absence of indirect fire support weapons for the ambush, and the comparatively small size of the ambushing force.

At an earlier period, in South America, when he and General Beresford were prisoners in the hands of the Spanish, and when all the officers were about to be searched for papers, he contrived by a clever stratagem to secrete in an orchard an important document, viz.

This stratagem in persona were the new batch whose contribution to this growth was crucial ; at the helm still is Mayor Pesigan, Vice-Mayor Narciso Calingasan, councillors, Severiano Estole, Eugenio Din, Eleuterio Silva, Jose Katigbak, Juan Tabora and Florencio Araño.

The stratagem worked, and the Molossians fell upon the Illyrians, who were encumbered with booty, and defeated them.

Smelling a stratagem ( rightly ), he stayed put.

Finally, Odysseus asks Demodocus to return to the Trojan War theme and tell of the Trojan Horse, a stratagem in which Odysseus had played a leading role.

As a result, the government resorted to a stratagem.

Kambei's stratagem is to allow one bandit to enter through a gap in the fortifications, block the rest with a " wall " of spears, and kill the lone enemy.

However, it has been reasonably suggested that the Peloponnesians must have been party to Themistocles's stratagem, so serenely did they accept that they would now have to fight at Salamis.

Fortitude was one of the major elements of Operation Bodyguard, the overall Allied deception stratagem for the Normandy landings.

That story especially includes Daleks conquering the earth and then occupying it along with other stolen worlds to initiate their stratagem for universal destruction.

Odysseus used this sentiment to his advantage when he invented the Trojan Horse stratagem.

A perfect example of this stratagem is the role of Thersites in the Iliad.

Gregory of Tours ( Historia Francorum 2. 7 ) claims Aëtius used the same stratagem to dismiss his Frankish allies, and collected the booty of the battlefield for himself.