{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Why, also, is Juno united to him as his wife, who is called\r\nat once \"sister and yokefellow?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_164_164\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_164_164\">[164]</a> Because, say they, we have\r\nJove in the ether, Juno in the air; and these two elements are\r\nunited, the one being superior, the other inferior. It is not\r\nhe, then, of whom it is said, \"All things are full of Jove,\" if\r\nJuno also fills some part. Does each fill either, and are both\r\nof this couple in both of these elements, and in each of them\r\nat the same time? Why, then, is the ether given to Jove, the\r\nair to Juno? Besides, these two should have been enough.\r\nWhy is it that the sea is assigned to Neptune, the earth to\r\nPluto? And that these also might not be left without mates,\r\nSalacia is joined to Neptune, Proserpine to Pluto. For they\r\nsay that, as Juno possesses the lower part of the heavens,—that\r\nis, the air,—so Salacia possesses the lower part of the sea, and\r\nProserpine the lower part of the earth. They seek how they\r\nmay patch up these fables, but they find no way. For if\r\nthese things were so, their ancient sages would have maintained\r\nthat there are three chief elements of the world, not\r\nfour, in order that each of the elements might have a pair of\r\ngods. Now, they have positively affirmed that the ether is\r\none thing, the air another. But water, whether higher or\r\nlower, is surely water. Suppose it ever so unlike, can it ever\r\nbe so much so as no longer to be water? And the lower\r\nearth, by whatever divinity it may be distinguished, what else\r\ncan it be than earth? Lo, then, since the whole physical\r\nworld is complete in these four or three elements, where shall\r\nMinerva be? What should she possess, what should she fill?\r\nFor she is placed in the Capitol along with these two, although\r\nshe is not the offspring of their marriage. Or if they say that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_147\">[Pg 147]</a></span>\r\nshe possesses the higher part of the ether,—and on that account\r\nthe poets have feigned that she sprang from the head of Jove,—why\r\nthen is she not rather reckoned queen of the gods, because\r\nshe is superior to Jove? Is it because it would be improper\r\nto set the daughter before the father? Why, then, is not\r\nthat rule of justice observed concerning Jove himself toward\r\nSaturn? Is it because he was conquered? Have they fought\r\nthen? By no means, say they; that is an old wife's fable.\r\nLo, we are not to believe fables, and must hold more worthy\r\nopinions concerning the gods! Why, then, do they not assign\r\nto the father of Jove a seat, if not of higher, at least of equal\r\nhonour? Because Saturn, say they, is length of time.<a id=\"FNanchor_165_165\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_165_165\">[165]</a> Therefore\r\nthey who worship Saturn worship Time; and it is insinuated\r\nthat Jupiter, the king of the gods, was born of Time. For\r\nis anything unworthy said when Jupiter and Juno are said to\r\nhave been sprung from Time, if he is the heaven and she is\r\nthe earth, since both heaven and earth have been made, and\r\nare therefore not eternal? For their learned and wise men\r\nhave this also in their books. Nor is that saying taken by\r\nVirgil out of poetic figments, but out of the books of philosophers,</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FOURTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-290"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5f411a91089b9491418e2cc33a659f39f05f151bdbfd0eaa5f972d217a192436","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_164_164","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. 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