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Historiarum adversum paganos libri VII (417 - 418) Orosius |
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Praeterea intercessisse dixeram inter Babylonium regnum, quod ab oriente fuerat, et Romanum, quod ab occidente consurgens hereditati orientis enutriebatur, Macedonicum Africanumque regnum, hoc est quasi a meridie ac septentrione breuibus uicibus partes tutoris curatorisque tenuisse. 5 orientis et occidentis regnum Babylonium et Romanum iure uocitari, neminem umquam dubitasse scio; Macedonicum regnum sub septentrione cum ipsa caeli plaga tum Alexandri Magni arae positae usque ad nunc sub Riphaeis montibus docent; 6 Carthaginem uero uniuersae praecelluisse Africae et non solum in Siciliam Sardiniam ceterasque adiacentes insulas sed etiam in Hispaniam regni terminos tetendisse, historiarum simul monumenta urbiumque declarant. 7 dictum est etiam, uastatae per Medos Babyloniae et inruptae per Gothos Romae pares admodum annorum numeros cucurrisse. |
| Translation |
4. Moreover, I have noted how in between the kingdom of Babylon in
the east and that of Rome which was rising in the west and nourished by her
eastern inheritance, came the Macedonian and African kingdoms and that
that these, one to the south and the other to the north, briefly held the role
of guardian8 and attorney. 5. Now I know that no one has ever doubted that the kingdoms of Babylon and Rome are rightly called the kingdoms of the
east and west. Its position under the heavens and the altars, which endure
to this day, set up by Alexander the Great by the Riphaean mountains,
teach us that the Macedonian kingdom was in the north. 6. And what can
be seen both in history books and in cities themselves tells us that Carthage
surpassed all of Africa and extended the boundaries of her realm not only
to Sicily, Sardinia, and the rest of the islands adjacent to her, but even to
Spain. 7. It has also been stated how both kingdoms endured for an equal
number of years before Babylon was laid waste by the Medes and Rome
invaded by the Goths. |
| Quotation source |
Lib 7, Cap. 2, 4-7 (Vol. III, pp. 17-18, trans. Fear, pp. 320-1) |
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