{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In divine things, the same order he preserved throughout,\r\nas far as concerns those things which are performed to the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_235\">[Pg 235]</a></span>\r\ngods. For sacred things are performed by men in places and\r\ntimes. These four things I have mentioned he embraced in\r\ntwelve books, allotting three to each. For he wrote the first\r\nthree concerning men, the following three concerning places,\r\nthe third three concerning times, and the fourth three concerning\r\nsacred rites,—showing who should perform, where they\r\nshould perform, when they should perform, what they should\r\nperform, with most subtle distinction. But because it was\r\nnecessary to say—and that especially was expected—to whom\r\nthey should perform sacred rites, he wrote concerning the gods\r\nthemselves the last three books; and these five times three\r\nmade fifteen. But they are in all, as we have said, sixteen.\r\nFor he put also at the beginning of these one distinct book,\r\nspeaking by way of introduction of all which follows; which\r\nbeing finished, he proceeded to subdivide the first three in\r\nthat fivefold distribution which pertain to men, making the\r\nfirst concerning high priests, the second concerning augurs,\r\nthe third concerning the fifteen men presiding over the sacred\r\nceremonies.<a id=\"FNanchor_233_233\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_233_233\">[233]</a> The second three he made concerning places,\r\nspeaking in one of them concerning their chapels, in the\r\nsecond concerning their temples, and in the third concerning\r\nreligious places. The next three which follow these, and pertain\r\nto times,—that is, to festival days,—he distributed so as\r\nto make one concerning holidays, the other concerning the\r\ncircus games, and the third concerning scenic plays. Of the\r\nfourth three, pertaining to sacred things, he devoted one to\r\nconsecrations, another to private, the last to public, sacred\r\nrites. In the three which remain, the gods themselves follow\r\nthis pompous train, as it were, for whom all this culture has\r\nbeen expended. In the first book are the certain gods, in the\r\nsecond the uncertain, in the third, and last of all, the chief\r\nand select gods.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SIXTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-432"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"adfb93f48ab30893b73d9c9547ed3d8ee89c880c4a71091c542751211a42b5f8","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_233_233","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_233_233","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_233_233\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_233_233\"><span class=\"label\">[233]</span></a> Tarquin the Proud, having bought the books of the sibyl, appointed two\r\nmen to preserve and interpret them (Dionys. Halic. <i>Antiq.</i> iv. 62). These were\r\nafterwards increased to ten, while the plebeians were contending for larger privileges;\r\nand subsequently five more were added.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_233_233","text_sha256":"1384aa299b56b5d2428f1f74491a98e4cee18eb48e20dd2959fdf8ed30b9535b","verified":false,"work_id":null}