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La cité de dieu

CHAPITRE XX.

SUCCESSION DES ROIS DES JUIFS APRÈS LE TEMPS DES JUGES.

Ce fut vers ce temps-là que le gouvernement des Juges étant fini parmi les Juifs, ils élurent pour leur premier roi Saül, sous lequel vivait le prophète Samuel. Les rois latins commencèrent alors à s’appeler Sylviens, de Sylvius fils d’Enée, comme depuis on appela Césars tous les empereurs romains qui succédèrent à Auguste. Après la mort de Saiil, qui régna quarante ans, David fut le second roi des Juifs. Depuis la mort de Codrus, les Athéniens n’eurent plus de rois, et confièrent à des magistrats le soin de gouverner leur république. A David, dont le règne dura aussi quarante ans, succéda son fils Salomon, qui bâtit ce fameux temple de Jérusalem. De son temps, les Latins fondèrent Albe, qui donna son nom à leurs rois. Salomon laissa son royaume à son fils Roboam, sous qui la Judée fut divisée en deux royaumes.

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The City of God

Chapter 20.--Of the Succession of the Line of Kings Among the Israelites After the Times of the Judges.

While these kings reigned in the places mentioned, the period of the judges being ended, the kingdom of Israel next began with king Saul, when Samuel the prophet lived. At that date those Latin kings began who were surnamed Silvii, having that surname, in addition to their proper name, from their predecessor, that son of Aeneas who was called Silvius; just as, long afterward, the successors of Caesar Augustus were surnamed Caesars. Saul being rejected, so that none of his issue should reign, on his death David succeeded him in the kingdom, after he had reigned forty years. Then the Athenians ceased to have kings after the death of Codrus, and began to have a magistracy to rule the republic. After David, who also reigned forty years, his son Solomon was king of Israel, who built that most noble temple of God at Jerusalem. In his time Alba was built among the Latins, from which thereafter the kings began to be styled kings not of the Latins, but of the Albans, although in the same Latium. Solomon was succeeded by his son Rehoboam, under whom that people was divided into two kingdoms, and its separate parts began to have separate kings.