The City of God, Volume I. Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

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Æneid, ii. 351-2.

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2 Cor. xi. 14.

111

Cicero, C. Verrem, vi. 8.

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Cicero, C. Catilinam, iii. 8.

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Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days.

114

Virgil, Æneid, i. 278.

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Compare Aug. Epist. ad Deogratias, 102, 13; and De Præd. Sanct. 19.

116

Ch. iv.

117

Virg. Georg. i. 502, 'Laomedonteæ luimus perjuria Trojæ.'

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Iliad, xx. 293 et seqq.

119

Æneid, v. 810, 811.

120

Gratis et ingratis.

121

De Conj. Cat. vi.

122

Helen's husband.

123

Venus' husband.

124

Suetonius, in his Life of Julius Cæsar (c. 6), relates that, in pronouncing a funeral oration in praise of his aunt Julia, Cæsar claimed for the Julian gens to which his family belonged a descent from Venus, through Iulus, son of Eneas.

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Livy, 83, one of the lost books; and Appian, in Mithridat.

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The gates of Janus were not the gates of a temple, but the gates of a passage called Janus, which was used only for military purposes; shut therefore in peace, open in war.

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The year of the Consuls T. Manlius and C. Atilius, a. u. c. 519.

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Sall. Conj. Cat. ii.

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Æneid, viii. 326-7.

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Sall. Cat. Conj. vi.

131

Æneid, xi. 532.

132

Ibid. x. 464.

133

Livy, x. 47.

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Being son of Apollo.

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Virgil, Æn. i. 286.

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Pharsal. v. 1.

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Æneid, x. 821, of Lausus:

"But when Anchises' son surveyed

The fair, fair face so ghastly made,

He groaned, by tenderness unmanned,

And stretched the sympathizing hand," etc.

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Virgil, Æneid, vi. 813.

139

Sallust, Cat. Conj. ii.

140

Ps. x. 3.

141

Æneid, ii. 351-2.

142

Cicero, De Rep. ii. 10.

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Contra Cat. iii. 2.

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Æneid, vi. 820, etc.

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His nephew.

146

Hist. i.

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Lectisternia, from lectus, a couch, and sterno, I spread.

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Proletarius, from proles, offspring.

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The oracle ran: "Dico te, Pyrrhe, vincere posse Romanos."

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Troy, Lavinia, Alba.

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Under the inscription on the temple some person wrote the line, "Vecordiæ opus ædem facit Concordiæ" – The work of discord makes the temple of Concord.

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Cicero, in Catilin. iii. sub. fin.

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Lucan, Pharsal. ii. 142-146.

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Virgil, Æneid, i. 417.