The City of God, Volume I

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

[176] Rom. i. 25.

[177] De Divin. ii. 37.

[178] Cic. De Nat. Deorum, lib. ii. c. 28.

[179] Superstition, from superstes. Against this etymology of Cicero, see Lact. Inst. Div. iv. 28.

[180] Balbus, from balbutiens, stammering, babbling.

[181] See Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 2.

[182] Plutarch's Numa, c. 8.

[183] Written in the year 415.

[184] On the application of astrology to national prosperity, and the success of certain religions, see Lecky's Rationalism, i. 303.

[185] 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.