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1078 |
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De civitate Dei (413 - 427) Augustine of Hippo |
| Quotation |
itaque eas seorsum scriptas se cum quodam modo mori fecit, quando ita subtrahendas hominum
notitiae sepeliendasque curauit.
aut ergo daemonum illic tam sordidae et noxiae cupiditates erant conscriptae, ut ex his tota illa
theologia ciuilis etiam apud tales homines execrabilis appareret, qui tam multa in ipsis sacris
erubescenda susceperant; aut illi omnes nihil aliud quam homines mortui prodebantur, quos tam
prolixa temporis uetustate fere omnes populi gentium deos inmortales esse crediderant, cum et talibus sacris idem illi daemones oblectarentur, qui se colendos pro ipsis mortuis, quos deos putari
fecerant, quibusdam fallacium miraculorum adtestationibus supponebant. |
| Translation |
These writings, then, either described the sordid and noxious lusts of the demons in a way that would make the whole of civil theology appear execrable even to men who had adopted so many shameful things into their sacred rites; or else all the gods, whom almost all the nations of the Gentiles had for so long believed to be immortal, were there revealed as nothing more than dead men. But those same demons took delight in such rites, through which they themselves were worshipped in place of those dead men whom, by means of the testimony of false miracles, they had caused to be regarded as gods. (Trans. Dyson, p. 311) |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 7, Cap. 35 (lin. 31) |
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