{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Apis, then, who died in Egypt, was not the king of Egypt,\r\nbut of Argos. He was succeeded by his son Argus, from\r\nwhose name the land was called Argos and the people Argives,\r\nfor under the earlier kings neither the place nor the nation\r\nas yet had this name. While he then reigned over Argos,\r\nand Eratus over Sicyon, and Balæus still remained king of\r\nAssyria, Jacob died in Egypt a hundred and forty-seven years\r\nold, after he had, when dying, blessed his sons and his grandsons\r\nby Joseph, and prophesied most plainly of Christ, saying\r\nin the blessing of Judah, \"A prince shall not fail out of\r\nJudah, nor a leader from his thighs, until those things come\r\nwhich are laid up for him; and He is the expectation of the\r\nnations.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_499_499\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_499_499\">[499]</a> In the reign of Argus Greece began to use fruits,\r\nand to have crops of corn in cultivated fields, the seed having<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_224\">[Pg 224]</a></span>\r\nbeen brought from other countries. Argus also began to be\r\naccounted a god after his death, and was honoured with a\r\ntemple and sacrifices. This honour was conferred in his reign,\r\nbefore being given to him, on a private individual for being\r\nthe first to yoke oxen in the plough. This was one Homogyrus,\r\nwho was struck by lightning.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-365"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a57e2474e0a6505a93ab711521fc709202f4eeb97cf3a9853b35f19767877511","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":49,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlix. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_499_499","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_499_499","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_499_499\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_499_499\"><span class=\"label\">[499]</span></a> Gen. xlix. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_499_499","text_sha256":"82891fd2fb5794faa0f6fb61b3c18a6a5ab15ae6b9cf78c7e144d8d8738a701c","verified":false,"work_id":null}