{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>nor Venus herself, could assist the children of the loved\r\nÆneas to find wives by some right and equitable means?\r\nFor the lack of this entailed upon the Romans the lamentable\r\nnecessity of stealing their wives, and then waging war with\r\ntheir fathers-in-law; so that the wretched women, before they\r\nhad recovered from the wrong done them by their husbands,\r\nwere dowried with the blood of their fathers. \"But the\r\nRomans conquered their neighbours.\" Yes; but with what\r\nwounds on both sides, and with what sad slaughter of relatives\r\nand neighbours! The war of Cæsar and Pompey was the\r\ncontest of only one father-in-law with one son-in-law; and\r\nbefore it began, the daughter of Cæsar, Pompey's wife, was\r\nalready dead. But with how keen and just an accent of grief\r\ndoes Lucan<a id=\"FNanchor_136_136\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_136_136\">[136]</a> exclaim: \"I sing that worse than civil war\r\nwaged in the plains of Emathia, and in which the crime was\r\njustified by the victory!\"</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-220"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5f660917f9ab0157394b15879dace974e575eb93c1d79f68759db4078314a62c","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_136_136","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_136_136","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_136_136\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_136_136\"><span class=\"label\">[136]</span></a> <i>Pharsal.</i> v. 1.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_136_136","text_sha256":"51d86b4e40982a695ea39a902d7d6d1e22e7ba64f7433c0d831954fbbe09189d","verified":false,"work_id":null}