{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"add8e7b9ab2f9a0af6f62a583a881be6f58bd434ff838f2a3f994244994628c2","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-75","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>But how is it, that she who was no partner to the crime\r\nbears the heavier punishment of the two? For the adulterer\r\nwas only banished along with his father; she suffered the\r\nextreme penalty. If that was not impurity by which she\r\nwas unwillingly ravished, then this is not justice by which\r\nshe, being chaste, is punished. To you I appeal, ye laws\r\nand judges of Rome. Even after the perpetration of great\r\nenormities, you do not suffer the criminal to be slain untried.\r\nIf, then, one were to bring to your bar this case, and were to\r\nprove to you that a woman not only untried, but chaste and\r\ninnocent, had been killed, would you not visit the murderer\r\nwith punishment proportionably severe? This crime was\r\ncommitted by Lucretia; that Lucretia so celebrated and\r\nlauded slew the innocent, chaste, outraged Lucretia. Pronounce\r\nsentence. But if you cannot, because there does not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_29\">[Pg 29]</a></span>\r\ncompear any one whom you can punish, why do you extol\r\nwith such unmeasured laudation her who slew an innocent\r\nand chaste woman? Assuredly you will find it impossible\r\nto defend her before the judges of the realms below, if they be\r\nsuch as your poets are fond of representing them; for she is\r\namong those</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"658bcbe285225598f5f39b5461050811a6138129b5ead40b30a9877361ce7855","verified":false,"work_id":null}