Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In vain, therefore, have Apuleius, and they who think with\r\nhim, conferred on the demons the honour of placing them in\r\nthe air, between the ethereal heavens and the earth, that they\r\nmay carry to the gods the prayers of men, to men the answers of\r\nthe gods; for Plato held, they say, that no god has intercourse\r\nwith man. They who believe these things have thought it unbecoming\r\nthat men should have intercourse with the gods, and\r\nthe gods with men, but a befitting thing that the demons\r\nshould have intercourse with both gods and men, presenting to\r\nthe gods the petitions of men, and conveying to men what the\r\ngods have granted; so that a chaste man, and one who is a\r\nstranger to the crimes of the magic arts, must use as patrons,\r\nthrough whom the gods may be induced to hear him, demons\r\nwho love these crimes, although the very fact of his not loving\r\nthem ought to have recommended him to them as one who\r\ndeserved to be listened to with greater readiness and willingness\r\non their part. They love the abominations of the stage,\r\nwhich chastity does not love. They love, in the sorceries of\r\nthe magicians, \"<i>a thousand arts of inflicting harm</i>,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_309_309\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_309_309\">[309]</a> which innocence\r\ndoes not love. Yet both chastity and innocence, if\r\nthey wish to obtain anything from the gods, will not be able\r\nto do so by their own merits, except their enemies act as\r\nmediators on their behalf. Apuleius need not attempt to\r\njustify the fictions of the poets, and the mockeries of the stage.\r\nIf human modesty can act so faithlessly towards itself as not\r\nonly to love shameful things, but even to think that they are<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_333\">[Pg 333]</a></span>\r\npleasing to the divinity, we can cite on the other side their\r\nown highest authority and teacher, Plato.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK EIGHTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-598"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c0465a9a41a8f41c119477272cc8e7a2a847b1e459c65fa8a9e46c67771724f5","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_309_309","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_309_309","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_309_309\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_309_309\"><span class=\"label\">[309]</span></a> Virgil, <i>Æn.</i> 7. 338.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_309_309","text_sha256":"072e61b17af572967bbb505064c3b086b26f8c9e96f45ad0ba4b0a8ac7d02086","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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