{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The men against whom I have undertaken to defend the\r\ncity of God laugh at all this. But even their own philosophers<a id=\"FNanchor_61_61\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_61_61\">[61]</a>\r\nhave despised a careful burial; and often whole\r\narmies have fought and fallen for their earthly country without\r\ncaring to inquire whether they would be left exposed on\r\nthe field of battle, or become the food of wild beasts. Of this\r\nnoble disregard of sepulture poetry has well said: \"He who\r\nhas no tomb has the sky for his vault.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_62_62\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_62_62\">[62]</a> How much less\r\nought they to insult over the unburied bodies of Christians,\r\nto whom it has been promised that the flesh itself shall be\r\nrestored, and the body formed anew, all the members of it\r\nbeing gathered not only from the earth, but from the most\r\nsecret recesses of any other of the elements in which the dead\r\nbodies of men have lain hid!</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-58"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2bc268168402a2ef9525dc78efd61c5de33f686e38f614f8bd991a392b98aaa4","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_61_61","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_61_61","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_61_61\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_61_61\"><span class=\"label\">[61]</span></a> Diogenes especially, and his followers. See also Seneca, <i>De Tranq.</i> c. 14,\r\nand <i>Epist.</i> 92; and in Cicero's <i>Tusc. Disp.</i> i. 43, the answer of Theodorus, the\r\nCyrenian philosopher, to Lysimachus, who threatened him with the cross:\r\n\"Threaten that to your courtiers; it is of no consequence to Theodorus whether\r\nhe rot in the earth or in the air.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_61_61","text_sha256":"57581092d53d21d2d8d08631d5acaf5294b6eb072b8f2e06fd9bd854e4ed6eb3","verified":false,"work_id":null}