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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This is the reason why those divinities quite neglected the\r\nlives and morals of the cities and nations who worshipped\r\nthem, and threw no dreadful prohibition in their way to\r\nhinder them from becoming utterly corrupt, and to preserve\r\nthem from those terrible and detestable evils which visit not\r\nharvests and vintages, not house and possessions, not the body\r\nwhich is subject to the soul, but the soul itself, the spirit that\r\nrules the whole man. If there was any such prohibition, let\r\nit be produced, let it be proved. They will tell us that purity\r\nand probity were inculcated upon those who were initiated in\r\nthe mysteries of religion, and that secret incitements to virtue\r\nwere whispered in the ear of the <i>élite</i>; but this is an idle\r\nboast. Let them show or name to us the places which were\r\nat any time consecrated to assemblages in which, instead of\r\nthe obscene songs and licentious acting of players, instead of\r\nthe celebration of those most filthy and shameless Fugalia<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_55\">[Pg 55]</a></span><a id=\"FNanchor_90_90\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_90_90\">[90]</a>\r\n(well called Fugalia, since they banish modesty and right\r\nfeeling), the people were commanded in the name of the gods\r\nto restrain avarice, bridle impurity, and conquer ambition;\r\nwhere, in short, they might learn in that school which Persius\r\nvehemently lashes them to, when he says: \"Be taught, ye\r\nabandoned creatures, and ascertain the causes of things; what\r\nwe are, and for what end we are born; what is the law of\r\nour success in life, and by what art we may turn the goal\r\nwithout making shipwreck; what limit we should put to our\r\nwealth, what we may lawfully desire, and what uses filthy\r\nlucre serves; how much we should bestow upon our country\r\nand our family; learn, in short, what God meant thee to be,\r\nand what place He has ordered you to fill.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_91_91\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_91_91\">[91]</a> Let them name\r\nto us the places where such instructions were wont to be\r\ncommunicated from the gods, and where the people who worshipped\r\nthem were accustomed to resort to hear them, as we\r\ncan point to our churches built for this purpose in every land\r\nwhere the Christian religion is received.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-128"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"29de3ad2cc758755d0541f488c40d6217e9f1910a9ae10e6b0073ffa8ccc20ae","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_90_90","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_90_90","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_90_90\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_90_90\"><span class=\"label\">[90]</span></a> Fugalia. Vives is uncertain to what feast Augustine refers. Censorinus\r\nunderstands him to refer to a feast celebrating the expulsion of the kings from\r\nRome. This feast, however (celebrated on the 24th February), was commonly\r\ncalled \"Regifugium.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_90_90","text_sha256":"4b89cc0917265eea77a02fe4d05b7ff144bbb0930fd47d06df1e7230c49d1992","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_90_90