Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In fine, when they ordered these plays to be inaugurated,\r\nthey not only demanded base things, but also did cruel things,\r\ntaking from Titus Latinius his son, and sending a disease\r\nupon him because he had refused to obey them, which they\r\nremoved when he had fulfilled their commands. Plato, however,\r\nbad though they were, did not think they were to be\r\nfeared; but, holding to his opinion with the utmost firmness\r\nand constancy, does not hesitate to remove from a well-ordered\r\nstate all the sacrilegious follies of the poets, with\r\nwhich these gods are delighted because they themselves are\r\nimpure. But Labeo places this same Plato (as I have mentioned\r\nalready in the second book<a id=\"FNanchor_307_307\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_307_307\">[307]</a>) among the demi-gods.\r\nNow Labeo thinks that the bad deities are to be propitiated\r\nwith bloody victims, and by fasts accompanied with the same,\r\nbut the good deities with plays, and all other things which\r\nare associated with joyfulness. How comes it, then, that the\r\ndemi-god Plato so persistently dares to take away those pleasures,\r\nbecause he deems them base, not from the demi-gods\r\nbut from the gods, and these the good gods? And, moreover,\r\nthose very gods themselves do certainly refute the opinion of\r\nLabeo, for they showed themselves in the case of Latinius to\r\nbe not only wanton and sportive, but also cruel and terrible.\r\nLet the Platonists, therefore, explain these things to us, since,\r\nfollowing the opinion of their master, they think that all the\r\ngods are good and honourable, and friendly to the virtues of\r\nthe wise, holding it unlawful to think otherwise concerning\r\nany of the gods. We will explain it, say they. Let us then\r\nattentively listen to them.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK EIGHTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-586"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7c1fbb2f6ce40145611096464fbe27ae5568ce6377e824e050292d478e95fa57","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_307_307","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_307_307","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_307_307\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_307_307\"><span class=\"label\">[307]</span></a> Ch. <a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#chap14\">14</a>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_307_307","text_sha256":"bf3cfe067f3191f2972e0f357fe59b52b88d374c9155324281c6c0b7d3c64332","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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