Augustine of Hippo : What does it mean that, among those things that are ordered to say to man, who was commanded to deliver tithes and give or consecrate anything else, thus fulfilling all the commandments, is ordered to say the following, praising and recommending : I have not given any of these things to a dead person? Are the so-called "parentalia" festivals that Gentiles usually observe banned? — QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 47 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)