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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In other words, the place consecrated to so great a goddess<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_7\">[Pg 7]</a></span>\r\nwas chosen, not that from it none might be led out a captive,\r\nbut that in it all the captives might be immured. Compare\r\nnow this \"asylum\"—the asylum not of an ordinary god, not\r\nof one of the rank and file of gods, but of Jove's own sister\r\nand wife, the queen of all the gods—with the churches built\r\nin memory of the apostles. Into it were collected the spoils\r\nrescued from the blazing temples and snatched from the gods,\r\nnot that they might be restored to the vanquished, but divided\r\namong the victors; while into these was carried back, with the\r\nmost religious observance and respect, everything which belonged\r\nto them, even though found elsewhere. There liberty\r\nwas lost; here preserved. There bondage was strict; here\r\nstrictly excluded. Into that temple men were driven to become\r\nthe chattels of their enemies, now lording it over them;\r\ninto these churches men were led by their relenting foes, that\r\nthey might be at liberty. In fine, the gentle<a id=\"FNanchor_39_39\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_39_39\">[39]</a> Greeks appropriated\r\nthat temple of Juno to the purposes of their own\r\navarice and pride; while these churches of Christ were chosen\r\neven by the savage barbarians as the fit scenes for humility\r\nand mercy. But perhaps, after all, the Greeks did in that\r\nvictory of theirs spare the temples of those gods whom they\r\nworshipped in common with the Trojans, and did not dare to\r\nput to the sword or make captive the wretched and vanquished\r\nTrojans who fled thither; and perhaps Virgil, in the manner\r\nof poets, has depicted what never really happened? But there\r\nis no question that he depicted the usual custom of an enemy\r\nwhen sacking a city.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-34"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e7929024445ce73a973d4f6237b9e1fc48d625b43a419cb93f585f5036c7636c","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_39_39","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_39_39","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_39_39\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_39_39\"><span class=\"label\">[39]</span></a> Though \"levis\" was the word usually employed to signify the inconstancy\r\nof the Greeks, it is evidently here used, in opposition to \"immanis\" of the following\r\nclause, to indicate that the Greeks were more civilised than the barbarians,\r\nand not relentless, but, as we say, easily moved.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_39_39","text_sha256":"d843caf2d26a02b892defc668662e10b1912563f1a81b0be07294acfcbdecc18","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_39_39