Of the clemencie of God in moderating this calamitie of Rome. CHAP. 33.
IT is said that Romulus and Remus built (a) a Sanctuarie, where-vnto who so * 1.1 could escape, should be free from all assault or hurt: their endeuour in this
St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.
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being to increase the number of their cittizens. An example making way for a wonderfull honor vnto Christ: The same thing, that the founders of the citty did decree, the same doe the destroyers of it: And what if the one did it to increase the multitude of their cittizens, when the other did it to preserue the multitude of their foes? Let this then, (and what soeuer besides fitly may bee so vsed) be vsed as an answer of our Lord Iesus Christ his flock, and that pil∣grim-citty of God, vnto all their wicked enemies.
L. VIVES.
A (a) Sanctuarie,] It is a sacred place, from whence it is not lawfull to draw any man: for thence is the name deriued, comming of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, rapio, to draw or pull, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the primi•…•… letter. And so by a figure called Lambdacismus, is made asylum for asyrum. Ser∣ui•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 8. Aenead. Though indeed 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is tollere, to take away, as Homer vseth it: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 &c. He tooke away the goodly armes. After that Hercules was dead, his nephews and post•…•…itie, fearing the oppression of such as their grand-father had iniured, built the first sanctuary at Athens, naming it the temple of Mercy, out of which no man could bee taken, And this Statius testifieth also. Now Romulus and Remus built one betweene the tower and the Capitoll, calling the place where it stood Inter-montium; intending hereby that the multitude of offendors flocking hether for hope of pardon, would bee a meane to •…•…ent the number of inhabitants in this new Citie. To what God or Goddesse it was 〈◊〉〈◊〉, it is vnknowne: Dionisius saith hee cannot tell. Some say, vnto Veiouis: But the gr•…•…e of the Sa•…•…tie is honoured vpon the fourth of the Nones of February, as Ouid wri∣t•…•… Pastorum 2. In Greece and Asia haue beene many sanctuaries. Tiberius Caesar being out of liking with their too much licence, tooke from them almost all their liberties and pri∣uiledges, as Tacitus and Suetonius do report.
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Of sanctu aries or A∣syla.