Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Gods, then, so great as Apollo and Neptune, in ignorance of\r\nthe cheat that was to defraud them of their wages, built the\r\nwalls of Troy for nothing but thanks and thankless people.<a id=\"FNanchor_120_120\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_120_120\">[120]</a>\r\nThere may be some doubt whether it is not a worse crime to\r\nbelieve such persons to be gods, than to cheat such gods.\r\nEven Homer himself did not give full credence to the story;\r\nfor while he represents Neptune, indeed, as hostile to the\r\nTrojans, he introduces Apollo as their champion, though the\r\nstory implies that both were offended by that fraud. If, therefore,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_93\">[Pg 93]</a></span>\r\nthey believe their fables, let them blush to worship such\r\ngods; if they discredit the fables, let no more be said of the\r\n\"Trojan perjury;\" or let them explain how the gods hated\r\nTrojan, but loved Roman perjury. For how did the conspiracy\r\nof Catiline, even in so large and corrupt a city, find so abundant\r\na supply of men whose hands and tongues found them a\r\nliving by perjury and civic broils? What else but perjury\r\ncorrupted the judgments pronounced by so many of the senators?\r\nWhat else corrupted the people's votes and decisions\r\nof all causes tried before them? For it seems that the\r\nancient practice of taking oaths has been preserved even in\r\nthe midst of the greatest corruption, not for the sake of restraining\r\nwickedness by religious fear, but to complete the tale\r\nof crimes by adding that of perjury.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-195"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f98f1d17fbfc44e743e60890048a55d17ec601972fc87de7951a721f3774648","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_120_120","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_120_120","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_120_120\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_120_120\"><span class=\"label\">[120]</span></a> Gratis et ingratis.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_120_120","text_sha256":"6e34cf8a6336f3972db31f3d99383d3f8d8e4148e51bd53706c17ae67758707f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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