The City of God, Volume I

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

[146] Hist. i.

[147] Lectisternia, from lectus, a couch, and sterno, I spread.

[148] Proletarius, from proles, offspring.

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

[150] Troy, Lavinia, Alba.

[151] 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.

[152] Cicero, in Catilin. iii. sub. fin.

[153] Lucan, Pharsal. ii. 142-146.

[154] Virgil, Æneid, i. 417.

[155] In Augustine's letter to Evodius (169), which was written towards the end of the year 415, he mentions that this fourth book and the following one were begun and finished during that same year.