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Quotation from Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
“To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves”
Confessions, Book III.1, trans. E. B. Pusey (1838)
Augustine's arrival as a student in Carthage; T. S. Eliot echoed the line in The Waste Land.
Citation: "To Carthage I came, where there sang all around me in my ears a cauldron of unholy loves" — Augustine of Hippo, Confessions, Book III.1, trans. E. B. Pusey (1838). (id confessions-q2)
Portrait: Saint Augustine Alternative title: Saint Augustin, Philippe de Champaigne, Public domain.
