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Sorry, Brenda. The text roughly means:
"Hence Augustine says that a prostitute performs the same function in
the world that a bilge does in a ship and a cesspool in a
palace. "Remove the cesspool and you'll fill a palace with stench,
and the same is true of bilge. Remove whores from the world and
you'll fill it with sodomy." For this reason Augustine in book 14 of
the City of God says that 'the earthly city makes the use of
prostituies a licit crime."
Augustine's De ordine 2, 4: "Unde Augustinus dicit, quod hoc
facit meretrix in mundo, quod sentina in mari, vel cloaca in
palatio: 'Tolle cloacam, et replebis foetore palatium, et similiter
de sentina; tolle meretrices de mundo, et replebis ipsum sodomia.'
Propter quam causam idem Augustinus ait in quartodecimo De Civitate
Dei, quod 'terrena civitas usum scortorum licitam turpitudinem
fecit.'"
For details, see my previous mailing to Steven Fanning or his to me.
John Mundy
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