---
title: "Seven Books of History against the Pagans"
author: "Paulus Orosius"
translator: "S. Alexander Laurent (AI-assisted, 2026)"
title_ru: "История против язычников"
title_fr: "Histoires contre les païens"
title_de: "Sieben Bücher Geschichte gegen die Heiden"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Church Fathers"
section: 148 of 177
url: https://scriptura.si/works/orosius-historiae/148/
cite: "Paulus Orosius, tr. S. Alexander Laurent (AI-assisted, 2026), Seven Books of History against the Pagans, section 148. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/orosius-historiae/148/"
---

# Seven Books of History against the Pagans

*Paulus Orosius, tr. S. Alexander Laurent (AI-assisted, 2026)*

Russian: История против язычников · French: Histoires contre les païens · German: Sieben Bücher Geschichte gegen die Heiden

Augustine's pupil tells the whole of world history to prove that the Christian times are not the worst.

## 148. Book 7 · Chapter 14

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/orosius-historiae/148/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/orosius-historiae/148/#p-N

[¶0] In the year 888 from the founding of the City, Antoninus, surnamed Pius, was created emperor, the thirteenth from Augustus, and together with his sons Aurelius and Lucius governed the commonwealth for not quite twenty-three years, so peacefully and so righteously that he was deservedly named Pius and Father of the Fatherland.

> Latin: 1 Anno ab urbe condita DCCCLXXXVIII Antoninus cognomento Pius tertius decimus ab Augusto imperator creatus cum liberis suis Aurelio et Lucio uiginti et non plenis tribus annis rempublicam gubernauit adeo tranquille et sancte, ut merito Pius et pater patriae nominatus sit.

[¶1] In his times, however, Valentinus the heresiarch and Cerdo, the teacher of Marcion, came to Rome. But Justin the philosopher handed to Antoninus a book composed in defence of the Christian religion and made him kindly disposed towards the Christians. Antoninus was seized by disease at the twelfth milestone from the City and died.

> Latin: 2 huius tamen temporibus Valentinus haeresiarches et Cerdo magister Marcionis Romam uenerunt. uerum Iustinus philosophus librum pro Christiana religione compositum Antonino tradidit benignumque eum erga Christianos homines fecit. Antoninus ad duodecimum ab urbe lapidem morbo correptus interiit.