The City of God, Volume I

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

[156] Comp. Bacon's Essay on the Vicissitudes of Things.

[157] Matt. v. 45.

[158] 2 Pet. ii. 19.

[159] Nonius Marcell. borrows this anecdote from Cicero, De Repub. iii.

[160] It was extinguished by Crassus in its third year.

[161] Cloacina, supposed by Lactantius (De falsa relig. i. 20), Cyprian (De Idol. vanit.), and Augustine (infra., c. 23) to be the goddess of the "cloaca," or sewage of Rome. Others, however, suppose it to be equivalent to Cluacina, a title given to Venus, because the Romans after the end of the Sabine war purified themselves (cluere) in the vicinity of her statue.

[162] Forculum foribus, Cardeam cardini, Limentinum limini.

[163] Virgil, Eclog. iii. 60.

[164] Virgil, Æneid, i. 47.

[165] Cicero, De Nat. Deor. ii. 25.