The City of God

from superstes. Against this etymology of Cicero, see Lactantius Institutiones Divinae IV. 28. ↩

Balbus, from balbutiens, stammering, babbling. ↩

See Cicero, De Natura Deorum I. 2. ↩

Plutarch’s Numa, ch. 8. ↩

Written in the year 415. ↩

On the application of astrology to national prosperity, and the success of certain religions, see Lecky’s Rationalism, I. 303. ↩

This fact is not recorded in any of the extant works of Hippocrates or Cicero. Vives supposes it may have found place in Cicero’s book, De Fato. ↩

I.e. the potter. ↩

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 107. ↩

Odyssey, XVIII. 136, 137. ↩

De Divinatione II. ↩

Psalm 14:1. ↩

Book III. ↩

Psalm 62:11, 12. ↩

Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae VII. ↩

Augustine notes that the name consul is derived from consulere, and thus signifies a more benign rule than that of a rex (from regere), or dominus (from dominari). ↩

Aeneid, VIII. 646. ↩

Aeneid, I. 279. ↩

Aeneid VI. 847. ↩

Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae ch. XI. ↩

Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae ch. 54. ↩

2 Corinthians 1:12. ↩

Galatians 6:4. ↩

Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae ch. 52. ↩

Horace, Epistles I. 1. 36, 37. ↩

Horace Odes II. 2. ↩

Tusculanae Disputationes I. 2. ↩

John 5:44. ↩

John 12:43. ↩

Matthew 10:33. ↩

Matthew 6:1. ↩

Matthew 5:16. ↩

Matthew 6:2. ↩

Jactantia. ↩

Aeneid, VI. 820. ↩

Matthew 10:28. ↩

Matthew 8:22. ↩

Acts 2:45. ↩

Romans 8:18. ↩

Proverbs 8:15. ↩

Aeneid, VII. 266. ↩

Job 34:30. ↩

Of the Thrasymene Lake and Cannae. ↩

Constantinople. ↩

Constantius, Constantine, and Constans. ↩

Panegyricus de tertio Honorii consulatu. ↩

Tusculanae Disputationes V. 19. ↩

Psalm 40:4. ↩

Plato, in the Timaeus. ↩

Ch. XI and XXI. ↩

See Virgil, Eclogue III. 9. ↩

Of the four books De Acadademica, dedicated to Varro, only a part of the first is extant. ↩

Cicero, De Quaestiones Academicae I. 3. ↩

In his book De Metris, chapter on phalaecian verses. ↩

Tarquin the Proud, having bought the books of the sibyl, appointed two men to preserve and interpret them (Dionysius of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae IV. 62). These were afterwards increased to ten, while the plebeians were contending for larger privileges; and subsequently five more were added. ↩

Ch. XXXI. ↩

Fabulare. ↩

Fabulosum. ↩

Civile. ↩

Timeri. ↩

Vereri. ↩

Intercido, I cut or cleave. ↩

Paranymphi. ↩

Compare Tertullian, ad Nationes II. 11; Arnobius, Contra Gentes IV.; Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae I. 20. ↩

Mentioned also by Tertullian, Apologeticus 12, but not extant. ↩

Numina. Another reading is nomina; and with either reading another translation is admissible: “One is announcing to a god the names (or gods) who salute him.” ↩

Tertullian Apologeticus 13, “Nec electio sine reprobatione;” and Ad Nationes, II. 9, “Si dei ut bulbi seliguntur, qui non seliguntur, reprobi pronuntiantur.” ↩

Cicero, De Natura Deorum II., distinguishes this Liber from Liber Bacchus, son of Jupiter and Semele. ↩

Januam. ↩

Vivificator. ↩

Sensificator. ↩

As we say, “right-minded.” ↩

Ch. XXI, XXIII. ↩

The father Saturn, and the mother Ops, e.g., being more obscure than their son Jupiter and daughter Juno. ↩

Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae ch. 8. ↩

Vicus argentarius. ↩

Virgil, Aeneid, VIII. 357, 358. ↩

Quadrifrons. ↩

Frons. ↩

“Quanto iste innocentior esset, tanto frontosior appareret;” being used for the shamelessness of innocence, as we use “face” for the shamelessness of impudence. ↩

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes V. 13. ↩

An interesting account of the changes made in the Roman year by Numa is given in Plutarch’s life of that king. Ovid also