Or do you suppose, brothers and sisters, that what counts as a city is walls, and not citizens?Related post: Men.
An putatis, fratres, civitatem in parietibus et non in civibus deputandam?
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Tuesday, June 03, 2025
What Makes a City
Augustine, Sermons 397.6 (Mary Vianney O'Reilly, ed., Sancti Aurelii Augustini De Excidio Urbis Romae Sermo [Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 1955], p. 66; tr. Edmund Hill):