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5854 |
| Text |
Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
| Quotation |
6 Verumtamen pace et gratia omnipotentis Dei dixerim, de cuius misericordia et in cuius fiducia haec loquor: quamuis et temporibus nostris exoriantur aliquando et hoc diuersis partibus lucustae et plerumque etiam sed tolerabiliter laedant, numquam tamen temporibus Christianis tanta uis inextricabilis mali accidit, ut pernicies lucustarum, quae nullo modo ferri uiua potuisset, mortua plus noceret et qua diu uiuente peritura erant omnia, ea perdita pereuntibus magis omnibus optandum fuerit, ne perisset. |
| Translation |
6. Notwithstanding this, I want to state that through the grace and peace
of Omnipotent God – about Whose mercy and in Whose faith I am writing
these things – although in our times too swarms of locusts have appeared
from time to time in divers places, usually causing harm, though normally at
a tolerable level, there has never occurred in Christian times such a violent
attack of inescapable ills as this ruin brought by the locusts, which was
unbearable while they were alive and caused even more harm when they
were dead. For during the long period when the locusts were alive, every-
thing was on the point of death, but after the locusts had died, and every-
thing began to die all the more, they were forced to wish that the locusts
had not died. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 5, Cap. 11, 6 (Vol. II, p. 108, trans. Fear, p. 227) |
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