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3421 |
| Text |
De civitate Dei (413 - 427) Augustine of Hippo |
| Quotation |
tot bella gesta conscripta sunt uel ante conditam romam uel ab eius exortu et imperio: legant et
proferant sic aut ab alienigenis aliquam captam esse ciuitatem, ut hostes, qui ceperant, parcerent eis,
quos ad deorum suorum templa confugisse compererant, aut aliquem ducem barbarorum praecepisse,
ut inrupto oppido nullus feriretur, qui in illo uel illo templo fuisset inuentus. |
| Translation |
Many histories have been composed of the wars waged both before Rome was founded and after her rise and accession to imperial power. Let our adversaries read these histories and produce any instance of a city captured by invaders where the enemies who seized it spared those whom they found taking refuge in the temples of their gods. Or let them produce an instance of any barbarian lord who commanded that, when a town was entered, no one should be smitten who was found in this temple or that. (Trans. Dyson) |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 1, Cap. 2 (lin. 1) |
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