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 1  5|           diligence. And thus all men must be indignant, all men
 2  5|        men must be indignant, all men must feel pain, that certain
 3  5|            they smite mischievous men, and often, too, religious
 4  5|         and often, too, religious men. Why should I speak of tempests,
 5  5|         the fates of good and bad men are jumbled together, their
 6  5|     raging, that it is the better men who generally fall? In peace
 7  8|    pretended philosophy. When the men of Athens both expelled
 8  8|        thing to be lamented, that men (for you will bear with
 9  8|          I have undertaken)--that men, I say, of a reprobate,
10  9|          for reprobate and wicked men, that they may worship what
11  9|   banqueting it is well known all men speak of it everywhere;
12 11|         your sect to believe that men will, not of their own accord,
13 11| iniquitous judge, who punishes in men, not their will, but their
14 13|         had been preferred to all men for the reason, not that
15 13|        while so many and so great men are deliberating, should
16 14|          execration and hatred of men in general. For those who
17 16|     things; let him know that all men are begotten alike, with
18 16| half-naked. Thus it is, that rich men, attached to their means,
19 18|         matter the consent of all men? I hear the common people,
20 19|        HIM THE PARENT OF GODS AND MEN, THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS,
21 19|        the One Father of gods and men;' and that such is the mind
22 19|        such is the mind of mortal men as the Parent of all has
23 19|         Thence arises the race of men and of cattle,' and every
24 19|    profound heaven, from whom are men and cattle; from whom are
25 19|        deserved to be called wise men for their sayings. Let Thales
26 20|          THAT THE MOST ANCIENT OF MEN HAVE VENERATED THEIR KINGS,
27 20|           old wives' fables, that men were changed from men into
28 20|        that men were changed from men into birds and beasts, and
29 20|        birds and beasts, and from men into trees and flowers?--
30 21|    OCTAVIUS ATTESTS THE FACT THAT MEN WERE ADOPTED AS GODS, BY
31 21|           or the writings of wise men, you will acknowledge these
32 21|         Ceres. Prodicus speaks of men who were taken up among
33 21|       were helpful to the uses of men in their wanderings, by
34 21|           of the gods having been men: to her he makes Vulcan
35 22|         WERE INVENTED BY IGNORANT MEN, WERE AFTERWARDS CELEBRATED
36 22|         the affairs and doings of men: he brought them together
37 22|         gained for the vices s of men. By these fictions, and
38 22|        those unskilled and rustic men many things,--as, being
39 23|     although they are already old men, they do not wish it. Therefore
40 23|           have more gods than all men together; so that now, neither
41 23|         manifest, that those were men whom we both read of as
42 23|       consecrated images of these men; in that the belief and
43 25|   intercourse too carelessly with men; and for the rest their
44 26|      failed just at the time when men began to be at once more
45 27|        they know. Thus they weigh men downwards from heaven, and
46 27|      disturb the life, render all men unquiet; creeping also secretly
47 27|           that they may constrain men to worship them, being gorged
48 27|         obstruct the hearts, that men may begin to hate us before
49 28|        since the common report of men, which is, always fed by
50 29|           not as great and chosen men, as is just, but as gods;
51 30|         of human gore, and taught men to heal epilepsy with the
52 30|          limbs or the entrails of men. To us it is not lawful
53 31|           the truth it might turn men away from us by the terror
54 31|  continually permitted. Miserable men, you may even, without knowing
55 31|          envy, brethren: as being men born of one God and Parent,
56 33|         overwhelmed many; unarmed men overwhelmed armed ones as
57 34|  destroyed by it. For who of wise men doubts, who is ignorant,
58 34|           illustrious of the wise men, Pythagoras first, and Plato
59 34|          truth, that the souls of men return into cattle, birds,
60 34|       that even in this your wise men do in some measure harmonize
61 35|     ARGUMENT: RIGHTEOUS AND PIOUS MEN SHALL BE REWARDED WITH NEVER-ENDING
62 35|         FELICITY, BUT UNRIGHTEOUS MEN SHALL BE VISITED WITH ETERNAL
63 35|           THE GENTILES. ~"And yet men are admonished in the books
64 35|           adulteries; we are born men only for our own wives:
65 36|         Therefore all your mighty men whom you announce as an
66 36|          is both the ruler of all men and the lover of His own
67 37|      yourselves extol unfortunate men to the skies; Mucius Scaevola,
68 37|           sent away! Do I compare men with Mucius or Aquilius,
69 37|          not perceive, O wretched men, that there is nobody who
70 37|         excel in power. Miserable men! in this respect they are
71 38|         BE ADOPTED AS TRUE BY ALL MEN. ~"But that we despise the