{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And surely we may ask what wrong poor Ilium had done,\r\nthat, in the first heat of the civil wars of Rome, it should\r\nsuffer at the hand of Fimbria, the veriest villain among\r\nMarius' partisans, a more fierce and cruel destruction than\r\nthe Grecian sack.<a id=\"FNanchor_125_125\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_125_125\">[125]</a> For when the Greeks took it many\r\nescaped, and many who did not escape were suffered to\r\nlive, though in captivity. But Fimbria from the first gave\r\norders that not a life should be spared, and burnt up together\r\nthe city and all its inhabitants. Thus was Ilium requited,\r\nnot by the Greeks, whom she had provoked by wrong-doing;\r\nbut by the Romans, who had been built out of her ruins;\r\nwhile the gods, adored alike of both sides, did simply nothing,\r\nor, to speak more correctly, could do nothing. Is it then true,\r\nthat at this time also, after Troy had repaired the damage\r\ndone by the Grecian fire, all the gods by whose help the kingdom\r\nstood, \"forsook each fane, each sacred shrine?\"</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-205"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"01313a64e48d03d0d79bee01ca069079731da6c86e0235fdbb18b51956d176a4","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_125_125","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_125_125","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_125_125\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_125_125\"><span class=\"label\">[125]</span></a> Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian, <i>in Mithridat</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_125_125","text_sha256":"4634e5086d4b5f21f988774e6e003865ea7bd45bb26ab6c0861c9bfc8bcbe19f","verified":false,"work_id":null}