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5879 |
| Text |
De gubernatione dei (439 - 451) Salvian of Marseilles |
| Quotation |
Et putamus quod poena divinae severitatis indigni sumus, cum sic nos semper pauperes puniamus? aut credimus, cum iniqui nos jugiter simus, quod Deus justus in nos omnino esse non debeat? Ubi enim aut in quibus sunt, nisi in Romanis tantum, haec mala? Quorum injustitia tanta, nisi nostra? Franci enim hoc scelus nesciunt. Chuni ab his sceleribus immunes sunt. Nihil horum est apud Vandalos, nihil horum apud Gothos. Tam longe enim est ut haec inter Gothos barbari tolerent, ut ne Romani quidem qui inter eos vivunt ista patiantur. Itaque unum illic Romanorum omnium votum est, ne umquam eos necesse sit in jus transire Romanorum. Una et consentiens illic Romanae plebis oratio, ut liceat eis vitam quam agunt agere cum barbaris. Et miramur si non vincuntur a nostris partibus Gothi, cum malint apud eos esse quam
apud nos Romani? Itaque non solum transfugere ab eis ad nos fratres nostri omnino nolunt, sed ut ad eos confugiant, nos relinquunt. |
| Translation |
Do we think we are unworthy of the punishment of divine severity when we thus constantly punish the poor? Do
we think, when we are constantly wicked, that God should
not exercise His justice against all of us? Where or in whom
are evils so great, except among the Romans? Whose injustice so great except our own? The Franks are ignorant of
this crime of injustice. The Huns are immune to these crimes.
There are no wrongs among the Vandals and none among
the Goths. So far are the barbarians from tolerating these
injustices among the Goths, that not even the Romans who
live among them suffer them.
Therefore, in the districts taken over by the barbarians,
there is one desire among all the Romans, that they should
never again find it necessary to pass under Roman jurisdiction. In those regions, it is the one and general prayer of
the Roman people that they be allowed to carry on the life
they lead with the barbarians. And we wonder why the
Goths are not conquered by our portion of the population,
when the Romans prefer to live among them rather than
with us. Our brothers, therefore, are not only altogether unwilling to flee to us from them, but they even cast us aside
in order to flee to them. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 5, Cap. 8 (p. 62, trans. O'Sullivan, p. 141) |
| Temporal Coverage |
439 - 451 |
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