{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>A pretty decree of the senate it was, truly, by which the\r\ntemple of Concord was built on the spot where that disastrous<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_127\">[Pg 127]</a></span>\r\nrising had taken place, and where so many citizens of every\r\nrank had fallen.<a id=\"FNanchor_151_151\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_151_151\">[151]</a> I suppose it was that the monument of the\r\nGracchi's punishment might strike the eye and affect the\r\nmemory of the pleaders. But what was this but to deride\r\nthe gods, by building a temple to that goddess who, had she\r\nbeen in the city, would not have suffered herself to be torn\r\nby such dissensions? Or was it that Concord was chargeable\r\nwith that bloodshed because she had deserted the minds of\r\nthe citizens, and was therefore incarcerated in that temple?\r\nFor if they had any regard to consistency, why did they not\r\nrather erect on that site a temple of Discord? Or is there\r\na reason for Concord being a goddess while Discord is none?\r\nDoes the distinction of Labeo hold here, who would have\r\nmade the one a good, the other an evil deity?—a distinction\r\nwhich seems to have been suggested to him by the mere fact\r\nof his observing at Rome a temple to Fever as well as one to\r\nHealth. But, on the same ground, Discord as well as Concord\r\nought to be deified. A hazardous venture the Romans made\r\nin provoking so wicked a goddess, and in forgetting that the\r\ndestruction of Troy had been occasioned by her taking offence.\r\nFor, being indignant that she was not invited with the other\r\ngods [to the nuptials of Peleus and Thetis], she created dissension\r\namong the three goddesses by sending in the golden\r\napple, which occasioned strife in heaven, victory to Venus,\r\nthe rape of Helen, and the destruction of Troy. Wherefore,\r\nif she was perhaps offended that the Romans had not thought\r\nher worthy of a temple among the other gods in their city,\r\nand therefore disturbed the state with such tumults, to how\r\nmuch fiercer passion would she be roused when she saw the\r\ntemple of her adversary erected on the scene of that massacre,\r\nor, in other words, on the scene of her own handiwork! Those\r\nwise and learned men are enraged at our laughing at these\r\nfollies; and yet, being worshippers of good and bad divinities\r\nalike, they cannot escape this dilemma about Concord and\r\nDiscord: either they have neglected the worship of these\r\ngoddesses, and preferred Fever and War, to whom there are\r\nshrines erected of great antiquity, or they have worshipped<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_128\">[Pg 128]</a></span>\r\nthem, and after all Concord has abandoned them, and Discord\r\nhas tempestuously hurled them into civil wars.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-257"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"22402f9c2ea1ee3fec203612fda15e539b760421ff818cbd1f4d599a1a62ad21","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_151_151","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_151_151","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_151_151\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_151_151\"><span class=\"label\">[151]</span></a> Under the inscription on the temple some person wrote the line, \"Vecordiæ\r\nopus ædem facit Concordiæ\"—The work of discord makes the temple of Concord.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_151_151","text_sha256":"96a4eadd50fbd74436f3d8a737d3221b474403319c8f6efbe3e454023ba2015d","verified":false,"work_id":null}