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 5.1.1Conf 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 5.1.2Conf 5.1.3————————————Conf 5.1.3Deluded by an Insane Love, He, Though Foul and Dishonourable, Desires to Be Thought Elegant and Urbane. →