Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Who has investigated those things more carefully than\r\nMarcus Varro? Who has discovered them more learnedly?\r\nWho has considered them more attentively? Who has distinguished\r\nthem more acutely? Who has written about them\r\nmore diligently and more fully?—who, though he is less\r\npleasing in his eloquence, is nevertheless so full of instruction\r\nand wisdom, that in all the erudition which we call<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_233\">[Pg 233]</a></span>\r\nsecular, but they liberal, he will teach the student of things\r\nas much as Cicero delights the student of words. And even\r\nTully himself renders him such testimony, as to say in his\r\nAcademic books that he had held that disputation which is\r\nthere carried on with Marcus Varro, \"a man,\" he adds, \"unquestionably\r\nthe acutest of all men, and, without any doubt,\r\nthe most learned.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_230_230\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_230_230\">[230]</a> He does not say the most eloquent or\r\nthe most fluent, for in reality he was very deficient in this\r\nfaculty, but he says, \"of all men the most acute.\" And\r\nin those books,—that is, the Academic,—where he contends\r\nthat all things are to be doubted, he adds of him,\r\n\"without any doubt the most learned.\" In truth, he was so\r\ncertain concerning this thing, that he laid aside that doubt\r\nwhich he is wont to have recourse to in all things, as if,\r\nwhen about to dispute in favour of the doubt of the Academics,\r\nhe had, with respect to this one thing, forgotten\r\nthat he was an Academic. But in the first book, when he\r\nextols the literary works of the same Varro, he says, \"Us\r\nstraying and wandering in our own city like strangers, thy\r\nbooks, as it were, brought home, that at length we might\r\ncome to know of who we were and where we were. Thou\r\nhast opened up to us the age of the country, the distribution\r\nof seasons, the laws of sacred things, and of the priests; thou\r\nhast opened up to us domestic and public discipline; thou\r\nhast pointed out to us the proper places for religious ceremonies,\r\nand hast informed us concerning sacred places. Thou\r\nhast shown us the names, kinds, offices, causes of all divine\r\nand human things.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_231_231\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_231_231\">[231]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SIXTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-427"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7bac85192845f2b47b0d5bb76151387101f9f4002ef06c3f57719a6e3f193d70","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_230_230","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_230_230","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_230_230\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_230_230\"><span class=\"label\">[230]</span></a> Of the four books <i>De Acad.</i>, dedicated to Varro, only a part of the first is\r\nextant.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_230_230","text_sha256":"854d0194cfe2af11ab727029f9efd70372778b95c9c47cccab2a83aadb7a4a34","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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