{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Do they reply that the Roman empire could never have\r\nbeen so widely extended, nor so glorious, save by constant\r\nand unintermitting wars? A fit argument, truly! Why\r\nmust a kingdom be distracted in order to be great? In this\r\nlittle world of man's body, is it not better to have a moderate\r\nstature, and health with it, than to attain the huge dimensions\r\nof a giant by unnatural torments, and when you attain it to\r\nfind no rest, but to be pained the more in proportion to the\r\nsize of your members? What evil would have resulted, or\r\nrather what good would not have resulted, had those times\r\ncontinued which Sallust sketched, when he says, \"At first the\r\nkings (for that was the first title of empire in the world) were\r\ndivided in their sentiments: part cultivated the mind, others\r\nthe body: at that time the life of men was led without\r\ncovetousness; every one was sufficiently satisfied with his\r\nown!\"<a id=\"FNanchor_128_128\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_128_128\">[128]</a> Was it requisite, then, for Rome's prosperity, that the\r\nstate of things which Virgil reprobates should succeed:</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-212"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4ac61d425128132826b4d16492498c606af4849c7ccb8d4d800ed33355d95c67","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_128_128","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_128_128","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_128_128\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_128_128\"><span class=\"label\">[128]</span></a> Sall. <i>Conj. Cat.</i> ii.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_128_128","text_sha256":"babdba96ae4e8de928332a6388c501bb28ecfd019c9a06368f122e0f72ad5fbe","verified":false,"work_id":null}