{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The power delegated to the demons at certain appointed\r\nand well-adjusted seasons, that they may give expression\r\nto their hostility to the city of God by stirring up against\r\nit the men who are under their influence, and may not\r\nonly receive sacrifice from those who willingly offer it,\r\nbut may also extort it from the unwilling by violent persecution;—this\r\npower is found to be not merely harmless, but\r\neven useful to the Church, completing as it does the number\r\nof martyrs, whom the city of God esteems as all the more\r\nillustrious and honoured citizens, because they have striven\r\neven to blood against the sin of impiety. If the ordinary\r\nlanguage of the Church allowed it, we might more elegantly\r\ncall these men our heroes. For this name is said to be\r\nderived from Juno, who in Greek is called Hêrê, and hence,\r\naccording to the Greek myths, one of her sons was called\r\nHeros. And these fables mystically signified that Juno was\r\nmistress of the air, which they suppose to be inhabited by\r\nthe demons and the heroes, understanding by heroes the souls\r\nof the well-deserving dead. But for a quite opposite reason\r\nwould we call our martyrs heroes,—supposing, as I said, that\r\nthe usage of ecclesiastical language would admit of it,—not\r\nbecause they lived along with the demons in the air, but\r\nbecause they conquered these demons or powers of the air,\r\nand among them Juno herself, be she what she may, not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_412\">[Pg 412]</a></span>\r\nunsuitably represented, as she commonly is by the poets, as\r\nhostile to virtue, and jealous of men of mark aspiring to the\r\nheavens. Virgil, however, unhappily gives way, and yields to\r\nher; for, though he represents her as saying, \"I am conquered\r\nby Æneas,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_409_409\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_409_409\">[409]</a> Helenus gives Æneas himself this religious\r\nadvice:</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-724"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d991dcdb85c5fa6c7d887dca224269bf22f205a2d2afc7a2b971d364fd25e2b","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_409_409","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_409_409","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_409_409\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_409_409\"><span class=\"label\">[409]</span></a> <i>Æneid</i>, vii. 310.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_409_409","text_sha256":"a22eb6caa53df8107af64a2d63343296012be749646bdc029f206acf133cc06e","verified":false,"work_id":null}