TextA−AA+Bookmarks0← The Confessions↑ Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the ManichæansMain textThe Confessions · Saint Augustine of HippoConf 5.1.1————————————Conf 5.1.1✦Explain this passageConf 5.1.2Of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth years of his age, passed at Carthage, when, having completed his course of studies, he is caught in the snares of a licentious passion, and falls into the errors of the Manichæans.Conf 5.1.2✦Explain this passageConf 5.1.3————————————Conf 5.1.3✦Explain this passageDeluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. →