Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But when Marius, stained with the blood of his fellow-citizens,\r\nwhom the rage of party had sacrificed, was in his turn\r\nvanquished and driven from the city, it had scarcely time to\r\nbreathe freely, when, to use the words of Cicero, \"Cinna and\r\nMarius together returned and took possession of it. Then,\r\nindeed, the foremost men in the state were put to death, its\r\nlights quenched. Sylla afterwards avenged this cruel victory;<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_129\">[Pg 129]</a></span>\r\nbut we need not say with what loss of life, and with what ruin\r\nto the republic.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_152_152\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_152_152\">[152]</a> For of this vengeance, which was more\r\ndestructive than if the crimes which it punished had been\r\ncommitted with impunity, Lucan says: \"The cure was excessive,\r\nand too closely resembled the disease. The guilty\r\nperished, but when none but the guilty survived: and then\r\nprivate hatred and anger, unbridled by law, were allowed free\r\nindulgence.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_153_153\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_153_153\">[153]</a> In that war between Marius and Sylla, besides\r\nthose who fell in the field of battle, the city, too, was filled\r\nwith corpses in its streets, squares, markets, theatres, and\r\ntemples; so that it is not easy to reckon whether the victors\r\nslew more before or after victory, that they might be, or because\r\nthey were, victors. As soon as Marius triumphed, and\r\nreturned from exile, besides the butcheries everywhere perpetrated,\r\nthe head of the consul Octavius was exposed on the\r\nrostrum; Cæsar and Fimbria were assassinated in their own\r\nhouses; the two Crassi, father and son, were murdered in one\r\nanother's sight; Bebius and Numitorius were disembowelled by\r\nbeing dragged with hooks; Catulus escaped the hands of his\r\nenemies by drinking poison; Merula, the flamen of Jupiter,\r\ncut his veins and made a libation of his own blood to his god.\r\nMoreover, every one whose salutation Marius did not answer\r\nby giving his hand, was at once cut down before his face.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-261"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"73868905d9106e6f27dce8973c10fba95e6455a2d4ea9c9005460470f83ac6f8","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_153_153","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_153_153","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_153_153\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_153_153\"><span class=\"label\">[153]</span></a> Lucan, <i>Pharsal.</i> ii. 142-146.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_153_153","text_sha256":"4315044722e18030a80b9fe2fcd4ba1f7f69fb5053f445feffa7feb83dda1ebc","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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