Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but\r\ngreat robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little\r\nkingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled\r\nby the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact\r\nof the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on.\r\nIf, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_140\">[Pg 140]</a></span>\r\nto such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession\r\nof cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more\r\nplainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now\r\nmanifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness,\r\nbut by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt\r\nand true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a\r\npirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked\r\nthe man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the\r\nsea, he answered with bold pride, \"What thou meanest by\r\nseizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty\r\nship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a\r\ngreat fleet art styled emperor.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_159_159\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_159_159\">[159]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FOURTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-278"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"76149c55f057c31bb74068ae85bb06e6cdee3fdfda79a46708d658489431e485","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_159_159","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_159_159","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_159_159\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_159_159\"><span class=\"label\">[159]</span></a> Nonius Marcell. borrows this anecdote from Cicero, <i>De Repub.</i> iii.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_159_159","text_sha256":"8b3f36a8a7644835057558f9d55de95fe672eff4ab5efc7590bed999ae8681da","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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