St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
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London :: Printed by George Eld,
1610.
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Christianity and other religions -- Early works to 1800.
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"St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A22641.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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L. VIVES.
IN (a) his flesh] For hee was afflicted with a sore kinde of vlcere. (b) Most poore] Liuy in his eighteene booke, and Valerius in his examples of pouerty write this: When Attilius knew that his generallship was prolonged another yeare more, hee wrote to the Senate to hauethem send one to supply his place: His chiefe reason why hee would resigne his charge was, be∣cause his seauen acres of ground (beeing all the land hee had) was spoyled by the hired souldiers: which if it continued so, his wife and children could not haue whereon to liue. So the Senate (gi∣uing the charge of this vnto the Aediles) looked better euer after vnto Attilius his patrimony. (c) Especialy being that they] He makes fighting as far from Christian piety, as religious hu∣manity is from barbarous inhumanity.