Meanings of subject nation in English

And his horn's there to file the subject nation's grievances for the Lion to peruse at his leisure.

The subject nation has, perhaps, adopted higher methods and conceptions of life, and the difference in civilization has consequently lessened.

Yet it was not as a subject nation, but as an independent and equal kingdom that Norway entered this union.

As the left-leaning Guardian newspaper wrote in its editorial: The wedding was not a looking-glass event, reflecting the infantilisation of a subject nation.

Babylonia took the lead; the other subject nations followed in its train.

Let those who have been prætors hold some office among the subject nations.

Or the subject nations?-howno one of them was treated with insolence or abuse.

The Germans were gradually merged in the subject nations.

Nor was this cruel temper shown only towards the subject nations and captives taken in war.

Not infrequently in dealing with individuals and with subject nations it is senseless cruelty to be over-kind.

Take possession of the arms and the subject nations, and conduct the government as has been your wont.

Treat the allies and subject nations with neither insolence nor rapacity, and neither wrong nor fear the enemy.

The services of the subject nations as soldiers were, as a general rule, declined, unless upon rare and exceptional cases.

This was quite necessary owing to the great number of subject nations which had to be governed and kept in obedience.

It was a long-cherished ambition of Agesilaus to alienate some one of the subject nations from the Persian monarch, and he pushed forward eagerly.

The case of Athens, a single independent state, was no doubt different from that of Rome with so many subject nations under her sway.