{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Even Cæsar himself gives us positive testimony regarding\r\nthis custom; for, in his deliverance in the senate about the\r\nconspirators, he says (as Sallust, a historian of distinguished\r\nveracity, writes<a id=\"FNanchor_40_40\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_40_40\">[40]</a>) \"that virgins and boys are violated, children\r\ntorn from the embrace of their parents, matrons subjected to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_8\">[Pg 8]</a></span>\r\nwhatever should be the pleasure of the conquerors, temples\r\nand houses plundered, slaughter and burning rife; in fine, all\r\nthings filled with arms, corpses, blood, and wailing.\" If he\r\nhad not mentioned temples here, we might suppose that\r\nenemies were in the habit of sparing the dwellings of the gods.\r\nAnd the Roman temples were in danger of these disasters,\r\nnot from foreign foes, but from Catiline and his associates,\r\nthe most noble senators and citizens of Rome. But these,\r\nit may be said, were abandoned men, and the parricides of\r\ntheir fatherland.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-36"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a311d961c93974e5e510b44b3603476fc67d082a313f2821ac3df7e1c593273","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_40_40","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_40_40","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_40_40\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_40_40\"><span class=\"label\">[40]</span></a> <i>De Conj. Cat.</i> c. 51.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_40_40","text_sha256":"d2a762f7b3d828fca548137b0d0dad218d319b18bde3bd1a5269094275146270","verified":false,"work_id":null}