{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0916a62657be2dca5235bf2792e4e2203c9225743b9b26fb065c376504774814","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":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-77","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":[],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>Or perhaps she is not there, because she slew herself conscious\r\nof guilt, not of innocence? She herself alone knows\r\nher reason; but what if she was betrayed by the pleasure\r\nof the act, and gave some consent to Sextus, though so violently\r\nabusing her, and then was so affected with remorse,\r\nthat she thought death alone could expiate her sin? Even\r\nthough this were the case, she ought still to have held her\r\nhand from suicide, if she could with her false gods have\r\naccomplished a fruitful repentance. However, if such were\r\nthe state of the case, and if it were false that there were two,\r\nbut one only committed adultery; if the truth were that both\r\nwere involved in it, one by open assault, the other by secret\r\nconsent, then she did not kill an innocent woman; and therefore\r\nher erudite defenders may maintain that she is not\r\namong that class of the dwellers below \"who guiltless sent\r\nthemselves to doom.\" But this case of Lucretia is in such a\r\ndilemma, that if you extenuate the homicide, you confirm the\r\nadultery: if you acquit her of adultery, you make the charge\r\nof homicide heavier; and there is no way out of the dilemma,\r\nwhen one asks, If she was adulterous, why praise her? if\r\nchaste, why slay her?</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"34209d2d5ab0c03487a3419e86954b0732269d81930c309e515b1652a378f57d","verified":false,"work_id":null}