St. Augustine's Distinction between Societies and Communities

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Poet W. H. Auden wrote in The Dyer’s Hand that St. Augustine drew a distinction between a society which exists only for the preservation of itself (such as, say, a Rotary Club) and a community which exists for love of something outside itself (such as, say, a community of music lovers). But Auden’s text is not footnoted and I personally have not been able to find any reference to such a distinction in Augustine.

Can anyone verify for me (or deny) that Augustine did indeed make such a distinction? And if so, in which work?
 
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