In this paper I try to analyze the lexemes belonging to the semantic field of disease in the apologetic treatise "De Civitiate Dei" of Augustine of Hippo. This treaty was written in order to deal with pagan religion and to present the concept of the two states: the divine and the earthly. To accomplish this aim, Augustine first builds the opposition "we - the Christians" and "they - the pagans", and employs vocabulary from six different semantic fields: epistemic (veritas, errores, imperiti, falsi), quantative (unus, multi, turba), moral (humiles, superbi, eversio probitatis, impii, impietas), verba dicendi (adversus Deum mururare), civitas (custos, rector, idonei cives, inimici), and disease (morbus, medicus, medicina). In this article I briefly present the first five fields, and in more detail the semantic fields of disease, which, like the field civitas, was applied by the Bishop of Hippo in a metaphorical presentation of the pagan religion.
L’article se compose de qauatre parties. La premiere caracterise l’homme comme un etre social. La deuxieme analyse conception augustinienne de l’etat. La troisieme partie de l’article explique la conceptiop de l’Eglise. La derniere partie de I’article explique les rapports entre Eglise et Etat.
The aim of the present article is to outline the role of Marcus Atilius Regulus, who appears as an exemplum of heroism in St Augustine’s De civitate Dei. He is presented against a background of Carthaginian double references (i.e., both to history and to Virgil’s Aeneid) and in the light of Augustine’s reflections on time, on the specificity and function of the past, and on the memory as expressed in his Confessiones.
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Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie roli przykładu bohaterstwa Marka Atiliusza Regulusa, pojawiającego się w Państwie Bożym Augustyna, na tle kartagińskich dwojakich odwołań – do historii oraz do Eneidy Wergiliusza, w świetle rozważań Augustyna nad czasem, specyfiką i funkcją przeszłości oraz pamięci zawartych w jego Wyznaniach.
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