...The first step in this direction seems to havebeen towards the mitigation of the horrors of war, which of old meantthe slavery or slaughter of the prisoners...
Nathaniel Southgate Shaler 「Domesticated Animals」
... is it not rather an aggravation than a mitigation of the loss?...
Honoré Bourguignon 「On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment」
...Probably these humane precautions were a mitigation of an earliercustom of flinging the scapegoat into the sea to drown...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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