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Augustine, De Civitate Dei 18.22: Not to linger over details, the city of Rome was founded as the second Babylon and as the daughter of the former Babylon, through whose agency it pleased God to conquer the whole world and impose peace over its whole length and breadth, uniting in it the single society of the Roman commonwealth and its laws.
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Augustine, De Civitate Dei 18.22
Bibliography
Sanford and Green 1965, V 438-439 | Sanford, E. M. and W. M. Green. Saint Augustine, The City of God, Against the Pagans. 7 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1965. |
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