{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2b839c2c387194ebaf7c65e6cda9b5d899ad56af1d54f93173464e2b060d0a04","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":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-74","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":[],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>This, then, is our position, and it seems sufficiently lucid.\r\nWe maintain that when a woman is violated while her soul\r\nadmits no consent to the iniquity, but remains inviolably\r\nchaste, the sin is not hers, but his who violates her. But do\r\nthey against whom we have to defend not only the souls, but\r\nthe sacred bodies too of these outraged Christian captives,—do\r\nthey, perhaps, dare to dispute our position? But all know how\r\nloudly they extol the purity of Lucretia, that noble matron\r\nof ancient Rome. When King Tarquin's son had violated\r\nher body, she made known the wickedness of this young\r\nprofligate to her husband Collatinus, and to Brutus her kinsman,\r\nmen of high rank and full of courage, and bound them\r\nby an oath to avenge it. Then, heart-sick, and unable to bear\r\nthe shame, she put an end to her life. What shall we call\r\nher? An adulteress, or chaste? There is no question which\r\nshe was. Not more happily than truly did a declaimer say of\r\nthis sad occurrence: \"Here was a marvel: there were two,\r\nand only one committed adultery.\" Most forcibly and truly\r\nspoken. For this declaimer, seeing in the union of the two\r\nbodies the foul lust of the one, and the chaste will of the\r\nother, and giving heed not to the contact of the bodily members,\r\nbut to the wide diversity of their souls, says: \"There\r\nwere two, but the adultery was committed only by one.\"</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"58f91a2f372d5568df7ec9bd16c822ee19ecdd746c75b68e8d1f7a273dc25ce4","verified":false,"work_id":null}