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| ID |
5881 |
| Text |
De gubernatione dei (439 - 451) Salvian of Marseilles |
| Quotation |
Sed videlicet responderi hoc potest, non in omnibus haec Romanorum urbibus agi. Verum est.
Etiam plus ego addo, ne illic quidem nunc agi, ubi semper acta sunt antea. Non enim hoc agitur jam in
Moguntiacensium civitate; sed quia excisa atque
deleta est. Non agitur Agrippinae; sed quia hostibus plena. Non agitur in Treverorum urbe excellentissima; sed quia quadruplici est eversione prostrata. Non agitur denique in plurimis Galliarum urbibus et Hispaniarum. Et ideo vae nobis atque impuritatibus nostris, vae nobis atque iniquitatibus nostris. Quae spes Christianis plebibus ante Deum est, quandoquidem ex illo tempore in urbibus Romanis haec mala non sunt, ex quo in Barbarorum jure esse coeperunt? Ac per hoc vitiositas et
impuritas quasi germanitas quaedam est Romanorum hominum et quasi mens atque natura, quia ibi praecipue vitia ubicunque Romani. |
| Translation |
But it can be answered that these performances are
not enacted in all Roman cities. That is true. I also add
that they are not now done in those places where they were
done formerly. They are not now done in the city of Mainz,
but that is because it is ruined and destroyed. They are not
performed at Cologne, but that is because it is filled with
the enemy. They are not done in the most excellent city of
Trier, but that is because it is laid low by invasion, four
times repeated. They are not done in most of the cities of
Gaul and Spain.
Therefore, woe to us and our iniquities; woe to us and
our impurities! What hope is there for the commonalty of
Christians in the sight of God, when these evils cease to
exist in Roman cities only from that time w.hen they began
to be under the law of the barbarians? Vice and impurity
are, as it were, native characteristics of the Romans, and are,
as it were, their mind and nature. Wherever there are Romans,
there is much vice. |
| Quotation source |
Lib. 6, Cap. 8 (p. 74, trans. O'Sullivan, p. 164) |
| Temporal Coverage |
439 - 451 |
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