Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is also asked whether we are to believe that certain\r\nmonstrous races of men, spoken of in secular history,<a id=\"FNanchor_246_246\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_246_246\">[246]</a> have\r\nsprung from Noah's sons, or rather, I should say, from that\r\none man from whom they themselves were descended. For\r\nit is reported that some have one eye in the middle of the\r\nforehead; some, feet turned backwards from the heel; some,\r\na double sex, the right breast like a man, the left like a woman,\r\nand that they alternately beget and bring forth: others\r\nare said to have no mouth, and to breathe only through the\r\nnostrils; others are but a cubit high, and are therefore called\r\nby the Greeks \"Pigmies:\"<a id=\"FNanchor_247_247\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_247_247\">[247]</a> they say that in some places the\r\nwomen conceive in their fifth year, and do not live beyond\r\ntheir eighth. So, too, they tell of a race who have two feet\r\nbut only one leg, and are of marvellous swiftness, though they\r\ndo not bend the knee: they are called Skiopodes, because in\r\nthe hot weather they lie down on their backs and shade themselves\r\nwith their feet. Others are said to have no head, and\r\ntheir eyes in their shoulders; and other human or quasi-human\r\nraces are depicted in mosaic in the harbour esplanade\r\nof Carthage, on the faith of histories of rarities. What shall\r\nI say of the Cynocephali, whose dog-like head and barking<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_117\">[Pg 117]</a></span>\r\nproclaim them beasts rather than men? But we are not\r\nbound to believe all we hear of these monstrosities. But\r\nwhoever is anywhere born a man, that is, a rational mortal\r\nanimal, no matter what unusual appearance he presents in\r\ncolour, movement, sound, nor how peculiar he is in some\r\npower, part, or quality of his nature, no Christian can doubt\r\nthat he springs from that one protoplast. We can distinguish\r\nthe common human nature from that which is peculiar, and\r\ntherefore wonderful.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-195"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0a9e39729100fd3832bb407f020586480a06b9b669c26e90c4c781bfe296b325","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_246_246","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_246_246","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_246_246\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_246_246\"><span class=\"label\">[246]</span></a> Pliny, <i>Hist. Nat.</i> vii. 2; Aulus Gellius, <i>Noct. Att.</i> ix. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_246_246","text_sha256":"e6097fc6fe6b470de7695122d4996e8bac4a6619f279af2793d352afd1fb7309","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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