{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>First, then, why was Troy or Ilium, the cradle of the\r\nRoman people (for I must not overlook nor disguise what I\r\ntouched upon in the first book<a id=\"FNanchor_116_116\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_116_116\">[116]</a>), conquered, taken, and destroyed\r\nby the Greeks, though it esteemed and worshipped\r\nthe same gods as they? Priam, some answer, paid the\r\npenalty of the perjury of his father Laomedon.<a id=\"FNanchor_117_117\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_117_117\">[117]</a> Then it is\r\ntrue that Laomedon hired Apollo and Neptune as his workmen.\r\nFor the story goes that he promised them wages, and\r\nthen broke his bargain. I wonder that famous diviner Apollo\r\ntoiled at so huge a work, and never suspected Laomedon was\r\ngoing to cheat him of his pay. And Neptune too, his uncle,\r\nbrother of Jupiter, king of the sea, it really was not seemly\r\nthat he should be ignorant of what was to happen. For he\r\nis introduced by Homer<a id=\"FNanchor_118_118\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_118_118\">[118]</a> (who lived and wrote before the\r\nbuilding of Rome) as predicting something great of the posterity\r\nof Æneas, who in fact founded Rome. And as Homer\r\nsays, Neptune also rescued Æneas in a cloud from the wrath of\r\nAchilles, though (according to Virgil<a id=\"FNanchor_119_119\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_119_119\">[119]</a>)</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-194"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"956fbdeefe4649bff22697ee1635cb2835a3d4c611491160107df7b81f2f49ce","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_119_119","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_119_119","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_119_119\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_119_119\"><span class=\"label\">[119]</span></a> <i>Æneid</i>, v. 810, 811.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_119_119","text_sha256":"748d4b09cff4adddd00b144e2e3065f71c5349b5de29a188c4f8d5f3b641b59f","verified":false,"work_id":null}