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 1  6|        down to you, to adore the gods whom you were first trained
 2  6|         itself, deserved to have gods either propitious to them,
 3  6|    worship, and adores its local gods: as the Eleusinians worship
 4  6|          alone, they worship the gods which when angry any other
 5  6|     directions they seek for the gods of the strangers, and make
 6  7|   witness to the presence of the gods:, thus Allia is an unlucky
 7  7|           and the rewards of the gods. Moreover, I hasten over
 8  7|         temples and lanes of the gods by which the Roman city
 9  7|         hear, we acknowledge the gods, whom in the day-time we
10  8|       RID OF THE RELIGION OF THE GODS, OR AT LEAST TO WEAKEN IT.
11  8|       CHRISTIANS, WHO REJECT THE GODS, AND WHO, FEARING TO DIE
12  8|        existence of the immortal gods remains established, although
13  8|  asseverating that there were no gods, took away all the fear
14  8|          should rage against the gods? who, having gathered together
15  8|     dead-houses, they reject the gods, they laugh at sacred things;
16 12|        you stand in dread of the gods whom you deny. You do not
17 12|          of the pity even of our gods! Thus, wretched as you are,
18 13|         what like he thought the gods to be, asked first of all
19 16|          time from believing the gods, at another time to being
20 19|         CALLED HIM THE PARENT OF GODS AND MEN, THE CREATOR OF
21 19|    announcing 'the One Father of gods and men;' and that such
22 19| Antisthenes, that there are many gods of the people, but that
23 19|         who feigns either otiose gods or none at all, still places
24 19|      manner by showing the other gods of the common people to
25 19|        for other things, not for gods. For Xenophon the Socratic
26 20|          THAT THE WORSHIP OF THE GODS HAS ALWAYS BEEN SILLY AND
27 20|      DEEDS, NO OTHERWISE THAN AS GODS.~ "I have set forth the
28 20|       manner with respect to the gods too, our ancestors believed
29 21|         THAT MEN WERE ADOPTED AS GODS, BY THE TESTIMONY OF EUHEMERUS,
30 21|         THE BURIAL-PLACES OF THE GODS. MOREOVER HE SETS FORTH
31 21|   MISFORTUNES, AND DEATHS OF THE GODS. AND, IN ADDITION, HE LAUGHS
32 21|          AND APPEARANCE OF THEIR GODS.~ "Read the writings of
33 21|          that they were esteemed gods; and he enumerates their
34 21|          were taken up among the gods, because they were helpful
35 21|         priest the secret of the gods having been men: to her
36 21|        wailings of the miserable gods. Isis bewails, laments,
37 21|         being the mother of many gods, was ugly and old, mutilated
38 21|          and appearances (of the gods)? do they not argue the
39 21|   disgraceful characters of your gods? Vulcan is a lame god, and
40 22|          Trojan was allowed your gods, although he made jests
41 22|          fast by the rest of the gods; and that he bewailed in
42 23|         THEY FEIGN THAT THEY ARE GODS EVEN AGAINST THEIR OWN WILL,
43 23|        IMAGES AND SHRINES OF THE GODS.~ "It is needless to go
44 23|         you fancy that they were gods after death; as by the perjury
45 23|       fear that they may be made gods; although they are already
46 23|        it. Therefore neither are gods made from dead people, since
47 23|       this kind? Besides, if the gods could create, they could
48 23|      perish: we should have more gods than all men together; so
49 24|         THE MYSTERIES OF CERTAIN GODS.~ "How much more truly do
50 24|  naturally judge concerning your gods? Mice, swallows, kites,
51 24|    reconsider the rites of these gods, how many things are laughable,
52 24|        beat drums, or lead their gods a-begging through the streets.
53 25|           from the spoils of the gods, from the murders of priests.
54 25|    spoils did they take from the gods. Therefore the Romans were
55 25|          to have the help of the gods against whom they took up
56 25|  challenged. But what avail such gods as those on behalf of the
57 25|       For we know the indigenous gods of the Romans--Romulus,
58 25|       among the diseases and the gods of the Romans. Such as these
59 28|        wethers, and you dedicate gods mingled also of a goat and
60 28|         of a goat and a man, and gods with the faces of dogs and
61 28|        were to kill one of these gods, he is even punished with
62 29|      POWERS OF KINGS RAISED INTO GODS BY THEMSELVES; THEY PRAY
63 29|          men, as is just, but as gods; whereas honour is more
64 29|           indeed, who consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses
65 29|         perhaps as parts of your gods. For your very standards,
66 30|        from the teaching of your gods. For Saturn did not expose
67 31|      also you worship incestuous gods, who have intercourse with
68 37|        same actor disgraces your gods by attributing to them adulteries,