{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But though Pompilius introduced so ample a ritual, yet did\r\nnot Rome see fit to be content with it. For as yet Jupiter\r\nhimself had not his chief temple,—it being King Tarquin\r\nwho built the Capitol. And Æsculapius left Epidaurus for\r\nRome, that in this foremost city he might have a finer field\r\nfor the exercise of his great medical skill.<a id=\"FNanchor_133_133\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_133_133\">[133]</a> The mother of\r\nthe gods, too, came I know not whence from Pessinuns; it\r\nbeing unseemly that, while her son presided on the Capitoline\r\nhill, she herself should lie hid in obscurity. But if she is the\r\nmother of all the gods, she not only followed some of her\r\nchildren to Rome, but left others to follow her. I wonder,\r\nindeed, if she were the mother of Cynocephalus, who a long\r\nwhile afterwards came from Egypt. Whether also the goddess\r\nFever was her offspring, is a matter for her grandson Æsculapius<a id=\"FNanchor_134_134\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_134_134\">[134]</a>\r\nto decide. But of whatever breed she be, the foreign\r\ngods will not presume, I trust, to call a goddess base-born who\r\nis a Roman citizen. Who can number the deities to whom\r\nthe guardianship of Rome was entrusted? Indigenous and\r\nimported, both of heaven, earth, hell, seas, fountains, rivers;\r\nand, as Varro says, gods certain and uncertain, male and\r\nfemale: for, as among animals, so among all kinds of gods\r\nare there these distinctions. Rome, then, enjoying the protection\r\nof such a cloud of deities, might surely have been preserved\r\nfrom some of those great and horrible calamities, of\r\nwhich I can mention but a few. For by the great smoke of\r\nher altars she summoned to her protection, as by a beacon-fire,\r\na host of gods, for whom she appointed and maintained\r\ntemples, altars, sacrifices, priests, and thus offended the true\r\nand most high God, to whom alone all this ceremonial is lawfully\r\ndue. And, indeed, she was more prosperous when she<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_103\">[Pg 103]</a></span>\r\nhad fewer gods; but the greater she became, the more gods\r\nshe thought she should have, as the larger ship needs to be\r\nmanned by a larger crew. I suppose she despaired of the\r\nsmaller number, under whose protection she had spent comparatively\r\nhappy days, being able to defend her greatness.\r\nFor even under the kings (with the exception of Numa Pompilius,\r\nof whom I have already spoken), how wicked a contentiousness\r\nmust have existed to occasion the death of\r\nRomulus' brother!</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-217"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c11c3c272053b8c4294f87d61fba7d10fc488f6139fbf1bfbe468079a057046a","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_133_133","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_133_133","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_133_133\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_133_133\"><span class=\"label\">[133]</span></a> Livy, x. 47.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_133_133","text_sha256":"893cbafe4dc8da993b1c3f127b3840c9f05a58db3e580d9369deafd9808003ef","verified":false,"work_id":null}