The City of God, Book III

Book III

• The City of God III.1 — Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually Suffered, Even When the Gods Were Worshipped. Chapter 1.—Of the Ills Which Alone the Wicked Fear, and Which the World Continually Suffered,…vatican.va
• The City of God III.2 — Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were Justified in Permitting the Destruction of Ilium. Chapter 2.—Whether the Gods, Whom the Greeks and Romans Worshipped in Common, Were Justified…vatican.va
• The City of God III.3 — That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adultery of Paris, This Crime Being So Common Among Themselves. Chapter 3.—That the Gods Could Not Be Offended by the Adultery of Paris, This Crime Being So Common Among…vatican.va
• The City of God III.4 — Of Varro’s Opinion, that It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the Offspring of the Gods. Chapter 4.—Of Varro’s Opinion, that It is Useful for Men to Feign Themselves the Offspring of the Gods. Some one will say,…vatican.va
• The City of God III.5 — Chapter 5.—That It is Not Credible that the Gods Should Have Punished the Adultery of Paris, Seeing They Showed No Indignation at the Adultery of the Mother of Romulus. But whether Venus could bear Æneas to a human…vatican.va
• The City of God III.6 — That the Gods Exacted No Penalty for the Fratricidal Act of Romulus. I add another instance: If the sins of men so greatly incensed those divinities, that they abandoned Troy to fire and sword to punish the crime of…vatican.va
• The City of God III.7 — Of the Destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a Lieutenant of Marius. And surely we may ask what wrong poor Ilium had done, that, in the first heat of the civil wars of Rome, it should suffer at the hand of Fimbria, the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.8 — Whether Rome Ought to Have Been Entrusted to the Trojan Gods. Where, then, was the wisdom of entrusting Rome to the Trojan gods, who had demonstrated their weakness in the loss of Troy? Will some one say that, when…vatican.va
• The City of God III.9 — Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa Was Brought About by the Gods. Chapter 9.—Whether It is Credible that the Peace During the Reign of Numa Was Brought About by the Gods. It is also…vatican.va
• The City of God III.10 — Chapter 10.—Whether It Was Desirable that The Roman Empire Should Be Increased by Such a Furious Succession of Wars, When It Might Have Been Quiet and Safe by Following in the Peaceful Ways of Numa. Do they reply…vatican.va
• The City of God III.11 — Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumæ, Whose Tears are Supposed to Have Portended Disaster to the Greeks, Whom the God Was Unable to Succor. Chapter 11.—Of the Statue of Apollo at Cumæ, Whose Tears are Supposed to Have…vatican.va
• The City of God III.12 — That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa, and that Their Numbers Helped Them Not at All. Chapter 12.—That the Romans Added a Vast Number of Gods to Those Introduced by Numa, and that…vatican.va
• The City of God III.13 — By What Right or Agreement The Romans Obtained Their First Wives. How is it that neither Juno, who with her husband Jupiter even then cherished “Rome’s sons, the nation of the gown,” nor Venus herself, could assist…vatican.va
• The City of God III.14 — Of the Wickedness of the War Waged by the Romans Against the Albans, and of the Victories Won by the Lust of Power. Chapter 14.—Of the Wickedness of the War Waged by the Romans Against the Albans, and of the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.15 — What Manner of Life and Death the Roman Kings Had. And what was the end of the kings themselves? Of Romulus, a flattering legend tells us that he was assumed into heaven. But certain Roman historians relate that he…vatican.va
• The City of God III.16 — Chapter 16.—Of the First Roman Consuls, the One of Whom Drove the Other from the Country, and Shortly After Perished at Rome by the Hand of a Wounded Enemy, and So Ended a Career of Unnatural Murders. To this epoch…vatican.va
• The City of God III.17 — Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the Inauguration of the Consulship, and of the Non-Intervention of the Gods of Rome. Chapter 17.—Of the Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic After the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.18 — The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not Mitigated by the Protection of the Gods. Chapter 18.—The Disasters Suffered by the Romans in the Punic Wars, Which Were Not Mitigated by the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.19 — Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of Both Parties. Chapter 19.—Of the Calamity of the Second Punic War, Which Consumed the Strength of Both Parties. As to the second Punic war, it…vatican.va
• The City of God III.20 — Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help from the Roman Gods, Though Perishing on Account of Their Fidelity to Rome. Chapter 20.—Of the Destruction of the Saguntines, Who Received No Help from the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.21 — Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners During the Period Which Sallust Describes as the Best. Chapter 21.—Of the Ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, Its Deliverer, and of Its Manners…vatican.va
• The City of God III.22 — Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found in Asia Should Be Slain. Chapter 22.—Of the Edict of Mithridates, Commanding that All Roman Citizens Found in Asia Should Be Slain. These things,…vatican.va
• The City of God III.23 — Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed a Portentous Madness Which Seized All the Domestic Animals. Chapter 23.—Of the Internal Disasters Which Vexed the Roman Republic, and Followed a…vatican.va
• The City of God III.24 — Of the Civil Dissension Occasioned by the Sedition of the Gracchi. The civil wars originated in the seditions which the Gracchi excited regarding the agrarian laws; for they were minded to divide among the people the…vatican.va
• The City of God III.25 — Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate on the Scene of These Seditions and Massacres. Chapter 25.—Of the Temple of Concord, Which Was Erected by a Decree of the Senate on the Scene of…vatican.va
• The City of God III.26 — Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of Concord. Chapter 26.—Of the Various Kinds of Wars Which Followed the Building of the Temple of Concord. But they supposed that, in erecting…vatican.va
• The City of God III.27 — Of the Civil War Between Marius and Sylla. But when Marius, stained with the blood of his fellow-citizens, whom the rage of party had sacrificed, was in his turn vanquished and driven from the city, it had scarcely…vatican.va
• The City of God III.28 — Of the Victory of Sylla, the Avenger of the Cruelties of Marius. Then followed the victory of Sylla, the so-called avenger of the cruelties of Marius. But not only was his victory purchased with great bloodshed; but…vatican.va
• The City of God III.29 — Chapter 29.—A Comparison of the Disasters Which Rome Experienced During the Gothic and Gallic Invasions, with Those Occasioned by the Authors of the Civil Wars. What fury of foreign nations, what barbarian ferocity,…vatican.va
• The City of God III.30 — Of the Connection of the Wars Which with Great Severity and Frequency Followed One Another Before the Advent of Christ. Chapter 30.—Of the Connection of the Wars Which with Great Severity and Frequency Followed One…vatican.va
• The City of God III.31 — Chapter 31.—That It is Effrontery to Impute the Present Troubles to Christ and the Prohibition of Polytheistic Worship Since Even When the Gods Were Worshipped Such Calamities Befell the People. Let those who have no…vatican.va