city

rome

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Properties

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0
activity
Speaker taught rhetoric
attraction_for_narrator
higher gains and dignities
description
A major city to which Alypius traveled before Augustine, specifically to study law. It was a place where he was drawn into the shows of gladiators.
hidden_activity
secretly harbouring many Manichaeans
historic_importance
center of rhetoric and politics
historical_context
ancient city
offences_observed
youths avoiding paying stipends
purpose_for_Alypius
study law
religious_context
site of Victorinus's conversion
role_for_narrator
potential place of teaching
role_in_narrator's_journey
destination after leaving home
significant_event
gladiatorial shows
student_conduct
peaceful, regular discipline

Relationships

  • referenced_byThe Narrator
    context
    departed for
    source
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  • referenced_byNarrator's Bodily Sickness
    context
    occurred in
    source
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    source_text
    even then, at Rome, I joined myself to those deceiving and deceived "holy ones"; not with their disciples only (of which number was he, in whose house I had fallen sick
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:15.894Z
    source
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  • referenced_byVictorinus
    context
    was_professor_in
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    Victorinus, sometime Rhetoric Professor of Rome
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:17.483Z
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
  • haspeaceful students
    description
    The narrator heard that young men studied more peacefully in Rome, with better discipline.
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    I heard that young men studied there more peacefully, and were kept quiet under a restraint of more regular discipline
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:18.545Z
    source
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  • referenced_bySpeaker
    context
    came to
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    I began then diligently to practise that for which I came to Rome, to teach rhetoric
  • referenced_byMilan
    context
    sent request to
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    they of Milan had sent to Rome to the prefect of the city, to furnish them with a rhetoric reader for their city, and sent him at the public expense
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:40.804Z
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    Sourcetext_chunk
  • referenced_byAlypius
    context
    traveled to
    source
    Sourcetext_chunk
    source_text
    had gone before me to Rome, to study law
  • extracted_fromSource
    extracted_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:45.897Z
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    Sourcetext_chunk
  • same_as01KJR8RAPB0WWXA289YX71C14C
    confidence
    0.95
    detected_at
    2026-03-02T21:55:59.300Z
    detected_by
    kg-dedupe-resolver
    reasoning
    Both entities are labeled 'rome' and describe the same historical city. The properties align, mentioning it as an ancient capital, a place where Alypius was involved in legal activities (studying law in source, working as Assessor in candidate), and a site of significant events for individuals like Verecundus (conversion and death) and Victorinus (professor in source). The types 'city' and 'place' are compatible for the same real-world entity.