{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And it is still this weakness of the gods which is confessed\r\nin the story of the Cuman Apollo, who is said to have wept\r\nfor four days during the war with the Achæans and King\r\nAristonicus. And when the augurs were alarmed at the\r\nportent, and had determined to cast the statue into the sea,\r\nthe old men of Cumæ interposed, and related that a similar\r\nprodigy had occurred to the same image during the wars\r\nagainst Antiochus and against Perseus, and that by a decree\r\nof the senate gifts had been presented to Apollo, because the\r\nevent had proved favourable to the Romans. Then soothsayers\r\nwere summoned who were supposed to have greater\r\nprofessional skill, and they pronounced that the weeping of\r\nApollo's image was propitious to the Romans, because Cumæ\r\nwas a Greek colony, and that Apollo was bewailing (and\r\nthereby presaging) the grief and calamity that was about to\r\nlight upon his own land of Greece, from which he had been\r\nbrought. Shortly afterwards it was reported that King Aristonicus\r\nwas defeated and made prisoner,—a defeat certainly\r\nopposed to the will of Apollo; and this he indicated by even\r\nshedding tears from his marble image. And this shows us\r\nthat, though the verses of the poets are mythical, they are not\r\naltogether devoid of truth, but describe the manners of the\r\ndemons in a sufficiently fit style. For in Virgil Diana\r\nmourned for Camilla,<a id=\"FNanchor_131_131\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_131_131\">[131]</a> and Hercules wept for Pallas doomed\r\nto die.<a id=\"FNanchor_132_132\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_132_132\">[132]</a> This is perhaps the reason why Numa Pompilius,\r\ntoo, when, enjoying prolonged peace, but without knowing or\r\ninquiring from whom he received it, he began in his leisure\r\nto consider to what gods he should entrust the safe keeping\r\nand conduct of Rome, and not dreaming that the true,\r\nalmighty, and most high God cares for earthly affairs, but\r\nrecollecting only that the Trojan gods which Æneas had<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_102\">[Pg 102]</a></span>\r\nbrought to Italy had been able to preserve neither the Trojan\r\nnor Lavinian kingdom founded by Æneas himself, concluded\r\nthat he must provide other gods as guardians of fugitives\r\nand helpers of the weak, and add them to those earlier\r\ndivinities who had either come over to Rome with Romulus,\r\nor when Alba was destroyed.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-215"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8922da57e24af1393b3eb4abd805b48a9a626ac4d4ee8bfa512b0b60a29839b2","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_132_132","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_132_132","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_132_132\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_132_132\"><span class=\"label\">[132]</span></a> <i>Ibid.</i> x. 464.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_132_132","text_sha256":"a1e4e1d1ccae0a811d7d0db4e71bcf75dbe86cb221fcfb64bb94bfc96bbe99c8","verified":false,"work_id":null}