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1831 |
| Text |
De civitate Dei (413 - 427) Augustine of Hippo |
| Quotation |
sic enim, inquiunt, significatum est, martiam gentem, id est romanam, nemini locum
quem teneret daturam, romanos quoque terminos propter deum terminum neminem
commoturum, iuuentutem etiam romanam propter deam iuuentatem nemini esse cessuram.
uideant ergo quo modo habeant istum regem deorum suorum et datorem regni sui, ut eum auspicia
ista pro aduersario ponerent, cui non cedere pulchrum esset.
quamquam haec si uera sunt, non habent omnino quid timeant. |
| Translation |
For in this way, they say, it was indicated that the race of Mars – that is, the Roman race – would surrender the place which they held to no one; that, thanks to the god Terminus, no one would disrupt the Roman frontiers; and that, thanks to the goddess Juventas, Roman youth would yield to no one. But let them now consider how they can also believe that Jupiter is the king of their gods and the giver of their empire, when this augury set him down as an adversary to whom it would be a splendid thing for other gods not to yield. If the augury were true, then the gods who would not yield to Jupiter surely would not yield to Christ either; and there would be no need for our adversaries to fear having to admit that they had. (Trans. Dyson) |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 4, Cap. 29 (lin. 4) |
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