Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The following gods, certainly, Varro signalizes as select,\r\ndevoting one book to this subject: Janus, Jupiter, Saturn,\r\nGenius, Mercury, Apollo, Mars, Vulcan, Neptune, Sol, Orcus,\r\nfather Liber, Tellus, Ceres, Juno, Luna, Diana, Minerva, Venus,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_260\">[Pg 260]</a></span>\r\nVesta; of which twenty gods, twelve are males, and eight\r\nfemales. Whether are these deities called select, because of\r\ntheir higher spheres of administration in the world, or because\r\nthey have become better known to the people, and more worship\r\nhas been expended on them? If it be on account of the\r\ngreater works which are performed by them in the world, we\r\nought not to have found them among that, as it were, plebeian\r\ncrowd of deities, which has assigned to it the charge of minute\r\nand trifling things. For, first of all, at the conception of a\r\nfœtus, from which point all the works commence which have\r\nbeen distributed in minute detail to many deities, Janus himself\r\nopens the way for the reception of the seed; there also\r\nis Saturn, on account of the seed itself; there is Liber,<a id=\"FNanchor_246_246\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_246_246\">[246]</a> who\r\nliberates the male by the effusion of the seed; there is Libera,\r\nwhom they also would have to be Venus, who confers this\r\nsame benefit on the woman, namely, that she also be liberated\r\nby the emission of the seed;—all these are of the number\r\nof those who are called select. But there is also the goddess\r\nMena, who presides over the menses; though the daughter\r\nof Jupiter, ignoble nevertheless. And this province of the\r\nmenses the same author, in his book on the select gods, assigns\r\nto Juno herself, who is even queen among the select gods; and\r\nhere, as Juno Lucina, along with the same Mena, her stepdaughter,\r\nshe presides over the same blood. There also are\r\ntwo gods, exceedingly obscure, Vitumnus and Sentinus—the\r\none of whom imparts life to the fœtus, and the other sensation;\r\nand, of a truth, they bestow, most ignoble though they\r\nbe, far more than all those noble and select gods bestow. For,\r\nsurely, without life and sensation, what is the whole fœtus\r\nwhich a woman carries in her womb, but a most vile and\r\nworthless thing, no better than slime and dust?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-473"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a1250c8e73b5aba7ef3b0a2df3c93ff5c7a77c202ed5b4b598023ea75ac095fb","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_246_246","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_246_246","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_246_246\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_246_246\"><span class=\"label\">[246]</span></a> Cicero, <i>De Nat. Deor.</i> ii., distinguishes this Liber from Liber Bacchus, son\r\nof Jupiter and Semele.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_246_246","text_sha256":"2755275a998d4d79d553f4c43f83a06498cbf6cea0a9011ab661c8f1d8256e87","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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