St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.

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Title: St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
Author: Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Publication: London :: Printed by George Eld,; 1610.
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Whether if Ioue being the chiefe godde of all, Victory be to be accounted as one of the number. CHAP. 17.

VVIll they say (thinke you) that Iupiter sendeth this goddesse Victory, whether shee pleaseth, and shee obeying him, setteth vp her rest on that side that he commandeth? It is trueindeed: but not of that Ioue which their fondnes dreameth is King of the goddes; but of him that is the true King of all times and all thinges, that can send (not victory, which is no substance, but) his Angels, and make them conquer whome hee pleaseth; whose counsels may bee vnknowne, but neuer vniust. For if Victory be a goddesse, why is not Tryumph a God and husband vnto hir, or hir brother, or sonne, or som-what? For they beleeue such absurdities of the goddes, as if the Poets should but faine, or we but cast (a) them in the teeth with, they would presently answer, it were a ridiculousfigment, not to bee attri∣buted to the true goddes: and yet they laugh not at them-selues, who didde more then read those dotages in the Poets, when they adored them in their Temples. Wherefore they should worshippe and adore onely Iupiter indeed and lette all this multitude passe. For if (b) Victory be a goddesse and subiect vnto that King, shee dares not resist him, but must bee ready to fulfill his pleasure whither-soeuer hee send her.

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L. VIVES.

CAst (a) them in the] Some read Epaggerarentur, but not so well. (b) Victory be] Porphy∣ry saith that Ioue was pictured holding a scepter in his left hand, and in his right, some∣times an Eagle, sometimes Victory. The Eagle to shew that he was King of all, as she was of the birds: Victory to shew all thinges to bee subiect vnto him. Or as Phurnutus saith, be∣cause none could conquer him. Porph. Rat. natur. deor.