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Often appears with: tiber flood and fire in the temple of vesta · sibylline books · plague, famine, and mass death · games for infernal gods renewed by pontiffs · festivals, games, and spectacle · fate, destiny, and necessity
Usually: reflection (1) · censure (1) · skepticism (1)
In the Punic Wars, Augustine says Roman prosperity was not protected by gods: he describes renewal of secular games from Sibylline books, infernal games, Roman defeats like Regulus’s capture, and disasters within the city from flood and fire.
18. _The disasters suffered by the Romans in the Punic wars, which were not mitigated by the protection of the gods._ In the Punic wars, again, when victory hung so long in the balance between the two kingdoms, when two powerful nations were straining every nerve and using all their resources against one another, how many smaller kingdoms were crushed, how many large and flourishing cities were demolished, how many …