The City of God, Volume I

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

[117] Virg. Georg. i. 502, 'Laomedonteæ luimus perjuria Trojæ.'

[118] 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.

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

[126] 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.