Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Thus also the durations of wars are determined by Him\r\nas He may see meet, according to His righteous will, and\r\npleasure, and mercy, to afflict or to console the human race,\r\nso that they are sometimes of longer, sometimes of shorter\r\nduration. The war of the Pirates and the third Punic war\r\nwere terminated with incredible celerity. Also the war of\r\nthe fugitive gladiators, though in it many Roman generals\r\nand the consuls were defeated, and Italy was terribly wasted\r\nand ravaged, was nevertheless ended in the third year, having\r\nitself been, during its continuance, the end of much. The\r\nPicentes, the Marsi, and the Peligni, not distant but Italian\r\nnations, after a long and most loyal servitude under the\r\nRoman yoke, attempted to raise their heads into liberty,\r\nthough many nations had now been subjected to the Roman\r\npower, and Carthage had been overthrown. In this Italian\r\nwar the Romans were very often defeated, and two consuls\r\nperished, besides other noble senators; nevertheless this calamity\r\nwas not protracted over a long space of time, for the\r\nfifth year put an end to it. But the second Punic war, lasting\r\nfor the space of eighteen years, and occasioning the greatest\r\ndisasters and calamities to the republic, wore out and well-nigh\r\nconsumed the strength of the Romans; for in two battles\r\nabout seventy thousand Romans fell.<a id=\"FNanchor_221_221\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_221_221\">[221]</a> The first Punic war\r\nwas terminated after having been waged for three-and-twenty\r\nyears. The Mithridatic war was waged for forty years. And\r\nthat no one may think that in the early and much belauded\r\ntimes of the Romans they were far braver and more able\r\nto bring wars to a speedy termination, the Samnite war was\r\nprotracted for nearly fifty years; and in this war the Romans\r\nwere so beaten that they were even put under the yoke. But\r\nbecause they did not love glory for the sake of justice, but\r\nseemed rather to have loved justice for the sake of glory,\r\nthey broke the peace and the treaty which had been concluded.\r\nThese things I mention, because many, ignorant of past things,\r\nand some also dissimulating what they know, if in Christian\r\ntimes they see any war protracted a little longer than they\r\nexpected, straightway make a fierce and insolent attack on<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_221\">[Pg 221]</a></span>\r\nour religion, exclaiming that, but for it, the deities would have\r\nbeen supplicated still, according to ancient rites; and then, by\r\nthat bravery of the Romans, which, with the help of Mars and\r\nBellona, speedily brought to an end such great wars, this war\r\nalso would be speedily terminated. Let them, therefore, who\r\nhave read history recollect what long-continued wars, having\r\nvarious issues and entailing woful slaughter, were waged by\r\nthe ancient Romans, in accordance with the general truth\r\nthat the earth, like the tempestuous deep, is subject to agitations\r\nfrom tempests—tempests of such evils, in various\r\ndegrees,—and let them sometimes confess what they do not\r\nlike to own, and not, by madly speaking against God, destroy\r\nthemselves and deceive the ignorant.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-409"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d022d4be6185a5cde37092d09e1ec3fe48f5671ec0bad0abf04cf3f62865c073","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. 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