Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But what happened after Numa's reign, and under the other\r\nkings, when the Albans were provoked into war, with sad results\r\nnot to themselves alone, but also to the Romans? The\r\nlong peace of Numa had become tedious; and with what\r\nendless slaughter and detriment of both states did the Roman\r\nand Alban armies bring it to an end! For Alba, which had\r\nbeen founded by Ascanius, son of Æneas, and which was more\r\nproperly the mother of Rome than Troy herself, was provoked\r\nto battle by Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome, and in the conflict\r\nboth inflicted and received such damage, that at length both\r\nparties wearied of the struggle. It was then devised that the\r\nwar should be decided by the combat of three twin-brothers\r\nfrom each army: from the Romans the three Horatii stood\r\nforward, from the Albans the three Curiatii. Two of the\r\nHoratii were overcome and disposed of by the Curiatii; but\r\nby the remaining Horatius the three Curiatii were slain. Thus\r\nRome remained victorious, but with such a sacrifice that only\r\none survivor returned to his home. Whose was the loss on\r\nboth sides? Whose the grief, but of the offspring of Æneas, the\r\ndescendants of Ascanius, the progeny of Venus, the grandsons of\r\nJupiter? For this, too, was a \"worse than civil\" war, in which\r\nthe belligerent states were mother and daughter. And to this\r\ncombat of the three twin-brothers there was added another\r\natrocious and horrible catastrophe. For as the two nations\r\nhad formerly been friendly (being related and neighbours), the\r\nsister of the Horatii had been betrothed to one of the Curiatii;\r\nand she, when she saw her brother wearing the spoils of her\r\nbetrothed, burst into tears, and was slain by her own brother in\r\nhis anger. To me, this one girl seems to have been more humane\r\nthan the whole Roman people. I cannot think her to blame for<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_106\">[Pg 106]</a></span>\r\nlamenting the man to whom already she had plighted her troth,\r\nor, as perhaps she was doing, for grieving that her brother should\r\nhave slain him to whom he had promised his sister. For why\r\ndo we praise the grief of Æneas (in Virgil<a id=\"FNanchor_137_137\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_137_137\">[137]</a>) over the enemy cut\r\ndown even by his own hand? Why did Marcellus shed tears\r\nover the city of Syracuse, when he recollected, just before he\r\ndestroyed, its magnificence and meridian glory, and thought\r\nupon the common lot of all things? I demand, in the name\r\nof humanity, that if men are praised for tears shed over enemies\r\nconquered by themselves, a weak girl should not be\r\ncounted criminal for bewailing her lover slaughtered by the\r\nhand of her brother. While, then, that maiden was weeping\r\nfor the death of her betrothed inflicted by her brother's hand,\r\nRome was rejoicing that such devastation had been wrought\r\non her mother state, and that she had purchased a victory with\r\nsuch an expenditure of the common blood of herself and the\r\nAlbans.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-223"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7f3ea8cca06609e861009c7c3ab1b4e835cbdce5c1ec8857d3c96fbf28ecd3a7","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_137_137","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_137_137","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_137_137\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_137_137\"><span class=\"label\">[137]</span></a> <i>Æneid</i>, x. 821, of Lausus:\r\n</p>\n<div class=\"poetry-container\">\n<div class=\"poem\"><div class=\"stanza\">\n<span class=\"i0\">\"But when Anchises' son surveyed<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i1\">The fair, fair face so ghastly made,<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i1\">He groaned, by tenderness unmanned,<br/></span>\n<span class=\"i1\">And stretched the sympathizing hand,\" etc.<br/></span>\n</div></div></div>\n</div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_137_137","text_sha256":"689736497e4801a3c22eff1df774934f7577daafa73aff628a0685f8a8bf9716","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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