{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Therefore omitting, or passing by for a little, that crowd of\r\npetty gods, we ought to inquire into the part performed by\r\nthe great gods, whereby Rome has been made so great as to\r\nreign so long over so many nations. Doubtless, therefore, this\r\nis the work of Jove. For they will have it that he is\r\nthe king of all the gods and goddesses, as is shown by his\r\nsceptre and by the Capitol on the lofty hill. Concerning that\r\ngod they publish a saying which, although that of a poet, is\r\nmost apt, \"All things are full of Jove.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_163_163\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_163_163\">[163]</a> Varro believes that\r\nthis god is worshipped, although called by another name, even\r\nby those who worship one God alone without any image. But<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_146\">[Pg 146]</a></span>\r\nif this is so, why has he been so badly used at Rome (and\r\nindeed by other nations too), that an image of him should be\r\nmade?—a thing which was so displeasing to Varro himself,\r\nthat although he was overborne by the perverse custom of so\r\ngreat a city, he had not the least hesitation in both saying\r\nand writing, that those who have appointed images for the\r\npeople have both taken away fear and added error.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FOURTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-288"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ee7f530101a78e7b4eee2f78ef2e101302ba93dbabde9948cf4ee9811a8650db","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_163_163","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_163_163","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_163_163\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_163_163\"><span class=\"label\">[163]</span></a> Virgil, <i>Eclog.</i> iii. 60.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_163_163","text_sha256":"0c5ea1c79ccda3736706a691ddd75350a7c30daa0cd111cb900817dfd1909cb3","verified":false,"work_id":null}