Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Ninus, then, who succeeded his father Belus, the first king\r\nof Assyria, was already the second king of that kingdom when\r\nAbraham was born in the land of the Chaldees. There was<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_219\">[Pg 219]</a></span>\r\nalso at that time a very small kingdom of Sicyon, with which,\r\nas from an ancient date, that most universally learned man\r\nMarcus Varro begins, in writing of the Roman race. For\r\nfrom these kings of Sicyon he passes to the Athenians, from\r\nthem to the Latins, and from these to the Romans. Yet very\r\nlittle is related about these kingdoms, before the foundation of\r\nRome, in comparison with that of Assyria. For although\r\neven Sallust, the Roman historian, admits that the Athenians\r\nwere very famous in Greece, yet he thinks they were greater\r\nin fame than in fact. For in speaking of them he says,\r\n\"The deeds of the Athenians, as I think, were very great and\r\nmagnificent, but yet somewhat less than reported by fame.\r\nBut because writers of great genius arose among them, the\r\ndeeds of the Athenians were celebrated throughout the world\r\nas very great. Thus the virtue of those who did them was\r\nheld to be as great as men of transcendent genius could represent\r\nit to be by the power of laudatory words.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_497_497\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_497_497\">[497]</a> This city\r\nalso derived no small glory from literature and philosophy, the\r\nstudy of which chiefly flourished there. But as regards empire,\r\nnone in the earliest times was greater than the Assyrian,\r\nor so widely extended. For when Ninus the son of Belus was\r\nking, he is reported to have subdued the whole of Asia, even\r\nto the boundaries of Libya, which as to number is called the\r\nthird part, but as to size is found to be the half of the whole\r\nworld. The Indians in the eastern regions were the only\r\npeople over whom he did not reign; but after his death Semiramis\r\nhis wife made war on them. Thus it came to pass\r\nthat all the people and kings in those countries were subject\r\nto the kingdom and authority of the Assyrians, and did whatever\r\nthey were commanded. Now Abraham was born in that\r\nkingdom among the Chaldees, in the time of Ninus. But\r\nsince Grecian affairs are much better known to us than\r\nAssyrian, and those who have diligently investigated the antiquity\r\nof the Roman nation's origin have followed the order of\r\ntime through the Greeks to the Latins, and from them to the\r\nRomans, who themselves are Latins, we ought on this account,\r\nwhere it is needful, to mention the Assyrian kings, that it may\r\nappear how Babylon, like a first Rome, ran its course along<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_220\">[Pg 220]</a></span>\r\nwith the city of God, which is a stranger in this world. But\r\nthe things proper for insertion in this work in comparing the\r\ntwo cities, that is, the earthly and heavenly, ought to be taken\r\nmostly from the Greek and Latin kingdoms, where Rome\r\nherself is like a second Babylon.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-356"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b687766a4f18e8c85ef7c6e3dddd806ba417c3a73f1593ad74666799e274755f","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_497_497","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_497_497","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_497_497\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_497_497\"><span class=\"label\">[497]</span></a> Sallust, <i>Bell. Cat.</i> c. 8.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_497_497","text_sha256":"14ecfe7f2921264fd4d978a2632d923d4bfaca38b98cf90956665795f544b001","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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