The City of GodAeterna Press, 1950 - Всего страниц: 117 The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which you, my dearest son Marcellinus, suggested, and which is due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence against those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of this city,—a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it still lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns as a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell in the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with patience waits for, expecting until “righteousness shall return unto judgment,” and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence, final victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an arduous; but God is my helper. Aeterna Press |
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... Cicero's De Republica; andIhave made the quotation wordforword, with the exceptionof somewords omitted, and some slightly transposed, forthe sake ofgiving the sense more readily. Andcertainly the extract is pertinent to the matter I am ...
... Cicero makes some further remarks, and concludes the passage by showing that the ancient Romans did not permit any living man tobe either praised or blamed on the stage. But the Greeks,as Isaid, though not so moral, were more logical in ...
... Cicero: “They [the Romans] considered comedy and all theatrical performances as disgraceful, and therefore notonly debarred players fromofficesand honorsopento ordinary citizens, butalso decreedthat their names should bebranded by the ...
... flame of humanlust with the breath ofaseemingly divine approbation. Invain does Cicero, speaking of poets, exclaim againstthis stateof thingsin these words: “Whenthe plaudits and acclamation of the people, who sit as.
... , while selfindulgent, should layno severe restraint on them, they would more enthusiastically consecrateto him atemple and aflamen than the ancient Romans didto Romulus. Chapter 21 Cicero's Opinion of the Roman Republic But ifour.