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| ID |
5740 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
quae cum ita sint, illud tamen clementia Dei eadem pietate, qua dudum praedixerat, procurauit, ut secundum euangelium suum, quo incessabiliter commonebat: cum uos persecuti fuerint in una ciuitate, fugite in aliam, quisque egredi atque abire uellet, ipsis barbaris mercennariis ministris ac defensoribus uteretur. 5 hoc tunc ipsi ultro offerebant; et qui auferre omnia interfectis omnibus poterant, particulam stipendii ob mercedem seruitii sui et transuecti oneris flagitabant. et hoc quidem a plurimis factum est. 6 qui autem non crediderunt euangelio Dei quasi contumaces, uel si etiam non audierunt dupliciter contumaces, non dederunt locum irae, iuste a superueniente ira conprehensi et oppressi sunt. 7 quamquam et post hoc quoque continuo barbari exsecrati gladios suos ad aratra conuersi sunt residuosque Romanos ut socios modo et amicos fouent, ut inueniantur iam inter eos quidam Romani, qui malint inter barbaros pauperem libertatem, quam inter Romanos tributariam sollicitudinem sustinere. |
| Translation |
4 Since this is so, God’s clemency through the same piety, which He had long foretold, brought it about, in accordance with His Gospel where He continually gives the advice: When they persecute you in one city, flee to another, that anyone who wished to go out and leave could use the barbarians themselves as paid helpers and defenders. 5. The barbarians themselves willingly offered to do this and, although they could have killed everyone and carried off all their belongings, they demanded a paltry fee to pay for their services and the task of carrying over the goods. Very many took advantage of this, 6. but those who insolently disbelieved the Gospel of God or, with twice as much insolence, did not even listen to It, and did not give way to God’s wrath, were rightly seized and destroyed by that wrath when it fell upon them. 7. However, immediately after these events, the barbarians foreswore their swords and turned to the plough, and cherished the remaining Romans as allies of a kind and friends, with the result that some Romans who prefer freedom in poverty to trouble and taxation under Rome can be found among them. |
| Quotation source |
Orosius, Histories VII, cap. 41, par. 4-7, p. 63, trans. Fear |
| Temporal Coverage |
409 - 411 |
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