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1 24| drums, or lead their gods a-begging through the streets. Some
2 8| both expelled Protagoras of Abdera, and in public assembly
3 12| the public banquets, and abhor the sacred contests; the
4 7| impiously deny, refuse, and abjure.~
5 27| of themselves; for when abjured by the only and true God,
6 28| impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.) Abomination ! they suffer on themselves
7 28| themselves guilty of incests, of abominations, of sacred rites polluted,
8 30| DESTROY THEM BY A CRUEL ABORTION. CHRISTIANS ARE NEITHER
9 37| that those who know not God abound in riches, flourish in honours,
10 3| by your side at home and abroad, in this blindness of vulgar
11 15| longer called away, but with absolute silence let us listen to
12 12| suspense and anxiety, are abstaining from respectable enjoyments.
13 32| offerings to God; he who abstains from fraudulent practices
14 25| coop, by whose feeding or abstinence the highest concerns of
15 21| RIDICULOUS AND DISGUSTING ABSURDITIES WHICH THE HEATHENS CONTINUALLY
16 37| you may be surrounded with abundant followers, yet you are alone
17 36| matter at another time more abundantly and more fully. But that
18 38| all the multitude of the Academic philosophers, deliberate;
19 13| and of very many of the Academics, in questions of the highest
20 25| of health. Assuredly also Acca Laurentia, and Flora, infamous
21 32| danger slaughters the most acceptable victim. These are our sacrifices,
22 11| men will, not of their own accord, but as elected to will.
23 5| from your own perceptions. Accordingly, if you sit in judgment
24 17| HIM UNLESS HE FIRST OF ALL ACKNOWLEDGES THE ENTIRE SCOPE OF THINGS,
25 8| PROTAGORAS IS NOT AT ALL TO BE ACQUIESCED IN, WHO WISHED EITHER ALTOGETHER
26 31| was thus your own Fronto acted in this respect: he did
27 36| AND THEREFORE SO IS HIS ACTION: HIS BIRTH IS NOT BROUGHT
28 37| lust, suggests it; the same actor disgraces your gods by attributing
29 | ACTUALLY
30 14| while ready to applaud acuteness, yet elect, approve, and
31 18| he mortal. Take away the additions of names, and you will behold
32 21| in a remarkable document addressed to his mother, that under
33 17| certain fragments casually adhering to each other, seem to me
34 27| TO CONFESS WHEN THEY ARE ADJURED IN THE NAME OF THE TRUE
35 22| Apollo is feeding cattle for Admetus. Neptune, however, builds
36 17| GOD, AND IS GOVERNED AND ADMINISTERED BY HIM.~ "Neither do I refuse
37 13| Simonides the lyric poet to be admired and followed by all? Which
38 17| Neither do I refuse to admit what Caecilius earnestly
39 35| GENTILES. ~"And yet men are admonished in the books and poems of
40 38| pleasure in, flowers. Still we adorn our obsequies with the same
41 38| know to be corrupters, and adulterers, and tyrants, and ever eloquent
42 9| now, as wickeder things advance more fruitfully, and abandoned
43 15| CONFUTE ALL THAT HE HAD ADVANCED.~ "You are withdrawing,"
44 15| brought forward for the common advantage, so that by a scrupulous
45 36| of His own people. But in adversity He looks into and searches
46 22| the anvil with the arms of AEneas, although there were heaven,
47 35| them; as the fires of Mount AEtna and of Mount Vesuvius, and
48 32| deceived; for from where is God afar off, when all things heavenly
49 26| moreover, whatever miracle they affect to perform, do it by means
50 28| Sometimes even, when we affected to pity them, we were more
51 2| satisfied the craving of affection, and when we had ascertained
52 26| the senses, and moulds the affections, and infuses the ardour
53 29| but also that of a man affixed to it. We assuredly see
54 27| lurk there, and by their afflatus attain the authority as
55 36| flourished illustriously by their afflictions. And thus God is neither
56 18| grow up by the nourishment afforded by the abundance of the
57 24| multitude of those who err affords to each of them mutual patronage?
58 28| as these were always set afloat by those (newsmongers),
59 38| God is corrupted by any agency, yet we abstain, lest any
60 32| driven on and shaken, are agitated, and yet neither wind nor
61 27| spoken of a little time ago by you, that Jupiter demanded
62 19| original philosopher absolutely agrees with ours. Afterwards Anaximenes,
63 19| water formed all things. Ah! a higher and nobler account
64 36| God is neither unable to aid us, nor does He despise
65 41| whom he has pleaded, and aided by whom he has gained the
66 27| spirits, they feign diseases, alarm the minds, wrench about
67 26| depravity and being themselves alienated from God, to separate others
68 33| and He is the same God of all--with chastity, innocency,
69 21| THE HEATHENS CONTINUALLY ALLEGE ABOUT THE FORM AND APPEARANCE
70 31| produce testimony, as one who alleged a charge, but he scattered
71 7| wretched, solace to calamities, alleviation to labours. Even in our
72 7| presence of the gods:, thus Allia is an unlucky name; thus
73 18| at any time was there an alliance in royal authority which
74 14| being distracted by the allurement of words from attention
75 18| IS, IS KNOWN TO HIMSELF ALONE--CANNOT EITHER BE SEEN OR
76 26| verses; and that cautious and ambiguous oracle of his, failed just
77 5| we transcend with daring ambition heaven itself, and the very
78 26| oracles? After his death Amphiaraus answered as to things to
79 1| that, whether in matters of amusement or of business, he agreed
80 19| But the description of Anaxagoras also is, that God is said
81 19| agrees with ours. Afterwards Anaximenes, and then Diogenes of Apollonia,
82 7| or that the threatening anger might be averted, or that
83 33| THE WRITERS OF THE JEWISH ANNALS ARE THE MOST SUFFICIENT
84 36| your mighty men whom you announce as an example have flourished
85 34| that they, from the divine announcements of the prophets, imitated
86 19| I hear the poets also announcing 'the One Father of gods
87 3| may be carved into images, anointed and crowned; since you know
88 13| the prince of wisdom. The answer of that man, whenever he
89 26| After his death Amphiaraus answered as to things to come, though
90 12| THEMSELVES AFTER DEATH, MAY BE ANTICIPATED FROM THE FACT THAT EVEN
91 20| OF ONE GOD, AN IGNORANT ANTIPATHY OUGHT NOT TO CARRY US AWAY
92 19| infinity with a mind; and Antisthenes, that there are many gods
93 33| of Flavius Josephus or Antoninus Julianus, and you shall
94 22| thunderbolt is fabricated on the anvil with the arms of AEneas,
95 23| with hammers and forged on anvils; and the god of stone is
96 20| when dead in outward forms, anxious to preserve their memories
97 14| excellent. Now therefore we are anxious--because in everything there
98 28| Do you not adore and feed Apis the ox, with the Egyptians?
99 19| Anaximenes, and then Diogenes of Apollonia, decide that the air, infinite
100 36| either take comfort from, or apologize for what happens from fate.
101 9| requiring to be prefaced by an apology, unless truth were at the
102 16| teaching to others; whence it appears that intelligence is not
103 7| swelling and raging might be appeased. Witness the Idaean mother,
104 14| that we may, while ready to applaud acuteness, yet elect, approve,
105 9| certainly suspicion is applicable to secret and nocturnal
106 8| Melian, to whom antiquity applied the surname of Atheist,--
107 38| in the way in which you apply to a lifeless person, or
108 19| as the Parent of all has appointed His day. What says the Mantuan
109 19| not even more plain, more apposite, more true? 'In the beginning,'
110 24| and of weak and degraded apprehension, are foolish in these things,
111 21| when Feretrius, he is not approached; and not to mention any
112 3| feet, and it now by turns approaching broke upon our feet, and
113 9| deadly wood of the cross, appropriates fitting altars for reprobate
114 14| applaud acuteness, yet elect, approve, and adopt those things
115 7| who at her arrival both approved the chastity of the matron,
116 16| diverse, confirming and approving the truth alone; and for
117 17| Why should I speak of the aptly ordered peaks of the mountains,
118 37| compare men with Mucius or Aquilius, or with Regulus? Yet boys
119 4| equals; but that, as an arbitrator, and being near to both,
120 13| flowed the safe doubting of Arcesilas, and long after of Carneades,
121 38| most deceitful demon; let Arcesilaus also, and Carneades, and
122 32| What! can you sustain the Architect of the sun Himself, the
123 30| the wild beasts from the arena, besmeared and stained with
124 25| Jupiter, nor Juno, now of Argos, now of Samos, now of Carthage,
125 14| shall have been more fully argued on both sides; especially
126 16| not the authority of the arguer, but the truth of the argument
127 19| is that of expounding and arguing that the birth of Jupiter,
128 24| been established; thus has arisen Roman superstition. And
129 19| not to be inquired after. Aristo the Stoic says that He cannot
130 19| places above all, Nature. Aristotle varies, but nevertheless
131 26| Flaminius, and Junius lost their armies on this account, because
132 25| the rest their impunity arose not from the better protection
133 28| IT ONLY HATRED THAT THEY AROUSE AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS,
134 17| create, to construct, and to arrange; but, moreover, they cannot
135 17| not only needed a Supreme Artist and a perfect intelligence,
136 5| knowledge even of sordid arts--should dare to determine
137 25| had not any Pontiffs, nor Arvales, nor Salii, nor Vestals,
138 2| affection, and when we had ascertained by mutual narrative all
139 11| whatever we do, as some ascribe it to fate, so you refer
140 19| Heraclides of Pontus also ascribes, although in various ways,
141 18| USE OF ALL TITLES IS LAID ASIDE.~ "It would be a long matter
142 26| means of demons; by their aspirations and communications they
143 25| profligate, incestuous, assassins, traitors, had flocked together;
144 9| it. On a solemn day they assemble at the feast, with all their
145 27| harassed by your means in their assemblies. And thus, introduced into
146 5| have rejected the one and assented to the other, yet in file
147 38| confession of fear, but an assertion of our true liberty. For
148 14| oftener they believe bold assertions, the more frequently they
149 21| of some gift, Euhemerus asserts that they were esteemed
150 8| Atheist,--both of whom, by asseverating that there were no gods,
151 19| varies, but nevertheless assigns a unity of power: for at
152 27| the faith of the sufferer assists or the grace of the healer
153 40| conquered: not unjustly do I assume to myself the victory. For
154 25| the ordering of God, the Assyrians held dominion, the Medes,
155 6| Chaldaeans; Belus; the Syrians, Astarte; the Taurians, Diana; the
156 17| the stars must be left to astronomers, whether as to how they
157 25| assembled together as to an asylum. Abandoned people, profligate,
158 38| God, since we, being both ate and secure in the liberality
159 8| antiquity applied the surname of Atheist,--both of whom, by asseverating
160 38| future. Then let Socrates the Athenian buffoon see to it, confessing
161 28| that name he had at once atoned for all his deeds by that
162 24| women: it is a crime needing atonement for a slave even to be present
163 16| Thus it is, that rich men, attached to their means, have been
164 5| and uncertain, wherein the attack upon all things is tossed
165 4| worried me, in which he, attacking you, reproached you with
166 37| when he had failed in his attempt against the king, would
167 2| their innOCent years are attempting only half-uttered words,--
168 39| CAECILIUS SATE FOR SOME TIME IN ATTENTIVE AND SILENT WONDER. AND MINUCIUS
169 17| footsteps may glide by! Look attentively at the sea; it is bound
170 34| compressed into ashes, or is attenuated into smoke, is withdrawn
171 17| stedfast variety, does it not attest its Author and Parent? As
172 21| XXI. ARGUMENT: OCTAVIUS ATTESTS THE FACT THAT MEN WERE ADOPTED
173 11| guilt and innocence are attributed by fate. For whatever we
174 37| actor disgraces your gods by attributing to them adulteries, sighs,
175 25| more irreligious, what more audacious, what could be safer than
176 25| Salii, nor Vestals, nor Augurs, nor chickens shut up in
177 18| Persians who gathered the augury for their chieftainship
178 7| and armed: they are more august by the deities which are
179 20| Hydra rising again from its auspicious wounds, and Centaurs, horses
180 39| and by examples, and by authorities derived from reading; and
181 24| of what they fear. Thus avarice has been consecrated in
182 34| ANCIENT PHILOSOPHERS ARE NOT AVERSE FROM THE OPINION OF THE
183 7| threatening anger might be averted, or that the wrath already
184 35| afraid of those who are aware of what you do; are even
185 26| His veneration, that in awe of the very nod and glance
186 19| teaching of Diogenes of Babylon is that of expounding and
187 21| that Venus freezes without Bacchus and Ceres. Alexander the
188 16| confused, or whether it wavered backwards and forwards by mere mistake.
189 21| her Cynocephalus and her bald priests; and the wretched
190 5| would never have merited banishment, Socrates would never have
191 35| religiously by the parching banks and the black abyss; for,
192 29| standards, as well as your banners; and flags of your camp,
193 17| and shod with claws, and barbed with stings, or with freedom
194 30| THEY HAVE MURDERED, IS a BAREFACED CALUMNY'. BUT THE GENTILES,
195 4| be seated on those rocky barriers that are cast there for
196 19| of nature, which is the basis of forms, and intelligence,
197 2| humours from the marine bathing, especially as the holidays
198 21| represented in a statue as beardless, now he is set up as bearded;
199 37| IMPIOUS THAN CRUEL. ~"How beautiful is the spectacle to God
200 17| furnished by wings? The very beauty of our own figure especially
201 15| friend Januarius, who is now beckoning to us."~
202 18| Look at other matters. The bees have one king; the flocks
203 | beforehand
204 31| promiscuously, since you everywhere beget children, since you frequently
205 18| what means the desire of begetting? Is it not given by God,
206 22| set forth that Saturn, the beginner of this race and multitude,
207 5| V. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS BEGINS HIS ARGUMENT FIRST OF ALL
208 4| HAD TO BEAR FROM OCTAVIUS, BEGS TO ARGUE WITH OCTAVIUS ON
209 3| the gently bending shore, beguiling the way with stories. These
210 18| BY US, YET HIS GLORY IS BEHELD MOST CLEARLY WHEN THE USE
211 32| his rays, the gaze of the beholder is dimmed; and if you look
212 30| a compact of blood, and Bellona to steep her sacred rites
213 5| they cause the thunder to bellow, the lightnings to grow
214 6| Aesculapius; the Chaldaeans; Belus; the Syrians, Astarte; the
215 3| the coast of the gently bending shore, beguiling the way
216 38| our time? Let us enjoy our benefits, and let us in rectitude
217 38| opinion. We despise the bent brows of the philosophers,
218 29| THEY PRAY TO IMAGES, AND BESEECH THEIR GENII.~"These, and
219 6| of priests; in that, when besieged and taken, all but the Capitol
220 30| wild beasts from the arena, besmeared and stained with blood,
221 16| as I shall be able to the best of my powers, and you must
222 28| time no one had appeared to betray (their doings), to obtain
223 25| foreign virgins, already betrothed, already destined for husbands,
224 22| of the gods; and that he bewailed in showers of blood his
225 21| the miserable gods. Isis bewails, laments, and seeks after
226 38| which we live; and we do not bind to us a withering garland,
227 6| was still untrained in the birth-times of the world itself, deserved
228 7| songs of the poets about the births, and the gifts, and the
229 4| friend Octavius' speech has bitterly vexed and worried me, in
230 16| SHALL BE ABLE TO DILUTE THE BITTERNESS OF REPROACH WITH THE RIVER
231 35| the parching banks and the black abyss; for, with foreknowledge
232 14| temerity. They transfer the blame of the judge to the complaint
233 36| nature of our disposition is blamed. And about fate enough is
234 32| By the wind and by the blasts of the storm all things
235 38| Thus we both rise again in blessedness, and are already living
236 23| the perfection of art, is blinded by the glitter of gold,
237 3| home and abroad, in this blindness of vulgar ignorance, as
238 18| faith or ceased without bloodshed? I pass over the Persians
239 5| rains to flow, the winds to blow, the hail to rattle down;
240 9| urged on as if to harmless blows on the surface of the meal,
241 21| eyes; Minerva with eyes bluish grey; Juno with ox-eyes;
242 28| Christian, when accused, neither blushed nor feared, and that he
243 38| he knew nothing, although boastful in the testimony of a most
244 21| Cynocephalus the discoverer boasts, and they do not cease year
245 11| bodies; and if so, with what bodies--whether with the same or
246 35| your numbers the prison boils over; but there is no Christian
247 14| the oftener they believe bold assertions, the more frequently
248 13| deliberating, should we rashly and boldly give an opinion in another
249 32| thunders, lightens, darts His bolts, or when He makes all bright
250 31| heart we gladly abide by the bond of a single marriage; in
251 24| the raw winter; some walk bonneted, and carry around old bucklers,
252 12| untaught, uncultivated, boorish, rustic people: they who
253 33| His eyes, but also in His bosom. But it is objected that
254 9| unless truth were at the bottom of it. I hear that they
255 6| paths of the sun, and the bounds of the ocean itself; in
256 26| his wife on account of a bracelet. The blind Tiresias saw
257 26| THAT CAECILIUS HAD SLIGHTLY BRANDISHED AGAINST HIM, TAKEN FROM
258 23| is planed; and a god of brass or of silver, often from
259 20| Leader, or modest Queen braver than her sex, or the discoverer
260 37| INSTITUTED BETWEEN SOME OF THE BRAVEST OF THE HEATHENS AND THE
261 37| the madness of the people brawling among themselves? or at
262 26| and glides into the human breast, and stirs the senses, and
263 36| in poverty, and does not breathe heavily under the burden
264 27| in the meantime they are breathed into the prophets, while
265 2| the Tiber), that both the breathing air might gently refresh
266 7| the lake, who, with horses breathless, foaming, and smoking, announced
267 22| Jupiter was set free by Briareus, so as not to be bound fast
268 37| travelling equipage the brief journey of life is not furnished,
269 24| XXIV. ARGUMENT: HE BRIEFLY SHOWS, MOREOVER, WHAT RIDICULOUS,
270 32| bolts, or when He makes all bright again. Nor should you wonder
271 18| can neither be seen--He is brighter than light; nor can be grasped--
272 32| mingled with all things; its brightness is never violated. How much
273 18| but also for its parts. Britain is deficient in sunshine,
274 17| Behold the heaven itself, how broadly it is expanded, how rapidly
275 10| all the elements would be broken up, and the heavenly structure
276 25| the temple, than in the brothels themselves. And still, long
277 38| opinion. We despise the bent brows of the philosophers, whom
278 34| who is so foolish or so brutish as to dare to deny that
279 24| bonneted, and carry around old bucklers, or beat drums, or lead
280 37| wild beasts, and all the bugbears of punishments, with the
281 22| Laomedon, and the unfortunate builder did not receive the wages
282 32| majesty within one little building? Were it not better that
283 22| Admetus. Neptune, however, builds walls for Laomedon, and
284 36| breathe heavily under the burden of riches. And yet even
285 37| life is not furnished, but burdened. Do you boast of the fasces
286 21| THE BIRTHDAYS, AND THE BURIAL-PLACES OF THE GODS. MOREOVER HE
287 11| funeral piles, and condemn our burials by fire, as if every body,
288 30| sacrifices. The Roman sacrificers buried living a Greek man and a
289 35| by the waste of those who burn, but is nourished by the
290 37| body, should be burned--burned up without any cries of
291 37| their whole body, should be burned--burned up without any cries
292 35| There the intelligent fire burns the limbs and restores them,
293 38| TRANQUILLITY WITH WHICH THEY BURY THEIR DEAD, WAITING WITH
294 34| ancient and better custom of burying in the earth. See, therefore,
295 10| for the whole while he is busied with particulars. What!
296 30| Pontus, and to the Egyptian Busiris, it was a sacred rite to
297 1| cast off his associate, but--what is more glorious still--
298 2| WAY TOGETHER TO THE SEA, CAECILlUS, SEEING AN IMAGE OF SERAPIS,
299 26| greater part of the republic. Caius Caesar despised the auguries
300 18| member in man which is not calculated both for the sake of necessity
301 19| same poet in another place calls that mind and spirit God.
302 30| MURDERED, IS a BAREFACED CALUMNY'. BUT THE GENTILES, BOTH
303 5| deserved to reign, Rutilius and Camillus would never have merited
304 29| banners; and flags of your camp, what else are they but
305 26| also had greedy chickens at Cannae, yet he was overthrown with
306 18| herds there is one ruler. Canst thou believe that in heaven
307 6| besieged and taken, all but the Capitol alone, they worship the
308 21| he has horns; and when Capitolinus, then he wields the thunderbolts;
309 25| altars, to drive them into captivity, to grow up by the losses
310 11| carried it away; since for the carcases every mode of sepulture
311 2| had released me from my cares. For at that time, after
312 25| Argos, now of Samos, now of Carthage, nor Diana of Tauris, nor
313 7| not a battle against the Carthaginians, but a fatal shipwreck.
314 3| stones, however they may be carved into images, anointed and
315 26| RETORTS BY INSTANCING THE CASES OF REGULUS, MANCINUS, PAULUS,
316 22| man. Nepos knows this, and Cassius in his history; and Thallus
317 17| together by certain fragments casually adhering to each other,
318 30| believe that he himself taught Catiline to conspire under a compact
319 26| to make verses; and that cautious and ambiguous oracle of
320 22| had sons. To this day the cave of Jupiter is visited, and
321 24| CRUEL RITES WERE OBSERVED IN CELEBRATING THE MYSTERIES OF CERTAIN
322 16| who have gone forth unto celebrity as discoverers of arts,
323 20| its auspicious wounds, and Centaurs, horses entwined with their
324 6| Epidaurians, Aesculapius; the Chaldaeans; Belus; the Syrians, Astarte;
325 25| whom they had previously challenged. But what avail such gods
326 25| gratified in the little chambers of the keepers of the temple,
327 5| these various and wayward chances, fortune, unrestrained by
328 9| that has been tied to the chandelier is provoked, by throwing
329 11| CHAP. XI. ARGUMENT: BESIDES ASSERTING
330 18| individuals by the special characteristics of names; to God, who is
331 21| contemptible and disgraceful characters of your gods? Vulcan is
332 29| defend ourselves from such charges. For you pretend that those
333 37| enticements. For in the chariot games who does not shudder
334 1| companion, the sweetness and charm of the man so clings to
335 20| not, however delighted and charmed with its own fables, to
336 7| opening of the profound chasm either with the mass, or
337 41| things we departed, glad and cheerful: Caecilius, to rejoice that
338 14| far Caecilius; and smiling cheerfully (for the vehemence of his
339 28| rumours are both sown and cherished. Thence arises what you
340 16| I do not believe in, any chicanery--far from his simplicity
341 18| gathered the augury for their chieftainship from the neighing of horses;
342 23| has already grown old, and child-bearing has failed in Juno, and
343 13| direction, lest either a childish superstition should be introduced,
344 20| wonders; a manifold Scylla, a Chimaera of many forms, and a Hydra
345 24| to obey their ancestors, choosing rather to become an addition
346 37| INFLICTED FOR THE CONFESSION OF CHRIST'S NAME ARE SPECTACLES WORTHY
347 32| PERSUADED THAT GOD CAN BE CIRCUMSCRIBED BY NO TEMPLE, AND THAT NO
348 21| provinces points out these circumstances of the Dictaean Jupiter,
349 9| even the speech of our Cirtensian testifies to it. On a solemn
350 17| senses as if arranged in a citadel.~
351 20| of faculty or art, as a citizen of worthy memory; and thus
352 3| repeated springs. That boy claimed to be conqueror whose shell
353 31| but is a testimony which claims praise; for, in a fair mode
354 21| should be devoured; and clanging uproar is dashed out of
355 5| down; or when the clouds clash together, they cause the
356 7| name; thus the battle of Claudius and Junius is not a battle
357 17| with teeth, and shod with claws, and barbed with stings,
358 24| his very head. You wipe, cleanse, scrape, and you protect
359 19| understanding Him. Plato has a clearer discourse about God, both
360 18| HIS GLORY IS BEHELD MOST CLEARLY WHEN THE USE OF ALL TITLES
361 3| or may spring up as it cleaves the top of the waves, and
362 1| Caecilius, who was still cleaving to superstitious vanities,
363 14| convinced by those who are more clever, and thus are continually
364 22| and with the same fables clinging to them, they grow up even
365 1| and charm of the man so clings to me, that I appear to
366 25| discovered and worshipped Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Pallor.
367 10| pains to conceal and to cloak whatever they worship, since
368 26| good fortune. Certainly Clodius, and Flaminius, and Junius
369 3| going along, we tracked the coast of the gently bending shore,
370 17| universe; since things are so coherent, so linked and associated
371 22| letters for instance, to coin money, to make instruments.
372 12| portion--are in want, are cold, are labouring in hard work
373 7| god, and mingled with him, collect futurity beforehand, give
374 16| reasoning, since it is not coloured by the pomp of eloquence
375 5| beginning condensed by a nature combining them in itself--what God
376 21| names; as the passage of the comic writer runs, that Venus
377 33| following them up by God's command, and with the elements striving
378 25| that Romulus himself, their commander and governor, might excel
379 20| the world was opened up by commerce, and before the nations
380 26| by their aspirations and communications they show their wondrous
381 17| duty unless you know that community of the world which is common
382 30| Catiline to conspire under a compact of blood, and Bellona to
383 31| one God and Parent, and companions in faith, and as fellow-heirs
384 37| power to be sent away! Do I compare men with Mucius or Aquilius,
385 35| yet if we Christians be compared with you, although in some
386 37| SPECTACLES WORTHY OF GOD. A COMPARISON INSTITUTED BETWEEN SOME
387 28| elicit the truth, but to compel a falsehood. And if any
388 26| the answers were feigned, complained that the Pythia philippized.
389 14| blame of the judge to the complaint of uncertainty; so that,
390 26| between body and spirit, compounded by mingling of earthly weight
391 19| that He cannot at all be comprehended. And both of them were sensible
392 34| dissolved into moisture, or is compressed into ashes, or is attenuated
393 4| hold an argument among his comrades, than to engage in close
394 22| certainly a man who was concealed, and the father of a man,
395 12| exhibitions; you have no concern in public displays; you
396 25| or abstinence the highest concerns of the state were to be
397 25| or more acts of violence concerted? Finally, burning lust is
398 19| COME ALMOST TO THE SAME CONCLUSION AS THE CHRISTIANS ABOUT
399 5| nourished, is as a voluntary concretion of the elements, into which
400 19| matters you will find them concur and agree in this one opinion.
401 5| whole world be by fortuitous concurrences united digested, fashioned--
402 11| yet your agreement also concurs with the opinions of many,
403 14| so that, everything being condemned, they would rather that
404 9| whole world. Assuredly this confederacy ought to be rooted out and
405 28| of the priest, tries to confer upon us what belongs really
406 17| our own figure especially confesses God to be its artificer:
407 1| two. Thus he alone was my confidant in my loves, my companion
408 16| been said, however diverse, confirming and approving the truth
409 5| deserts confounded?--in conflagrations, that the destruction of
410 4| than to engage in close conflict after the manner of the
411 16| whether your information was confused, or whether it wavered backwards
412 15| SHOULD BE LEFT TO OCTAVIUS TO CONFUTE ALL THAT HE HAD ADVANCED.~ "
413 40| Caecilius broke forth: "I congratulate as well my Octavius as myself,
414 10| never speak openly, never congregate freely, unless for the reason
415 38| CHRISTIANS ABSTAIN FROM THINGS CONNECTED WITH IDOL SACRIFICES, LEST
416 37| the origin of which in connection with sacred things we know,
417 9| shameless darkness, the connections of abominable lust involve
418 35| are even afraid of our own conscience alone, without which we
419 4| OCTAVIUS WITH HIS COMPANION CONSENTS, AND MINUCIUS SITS IN THE
420 16| ARGUMENT ITSELF, THAT SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.~ And thus Octavius began: "
421 18| opening out, to one who considers earthly empires, for which
422 34| therefore, how for our consolation all nature suggests a future
423 20| been taken up merely as consolations. Thereupon, and before the
424 8| establish a herd of a profane conspiracy, which is leagued together
425 30| himself taught Catiline to conspire under a compact of blood,
426 34| fire. The Stoics have a constant belief that, the moisture
427 7| inhabitants, who are present and constantly dwelling in them, than opulent
428 10| either the eternal order constituted by the divine laws of nature
429 27| the limbs; that they may constrain men to worship them, being
430 27| NOT FROM GOD; BUT THEY ARE CONSTRAINED TO CONFESS WHEN THEY ARE
431 17| nor only to create, to construct, and to arrange; but, moreover,
432 34| that the world itself is constructed perpetual and indissoluble,
433 29| they propitiate; him they consult about all things; to him
434 7| observance of auguries, or by consulting the entrails, or by the
435 35| upon the bodies, and do not consume them; as the fires of Mount
436 25| Romulus, Picus, Tiberinus, and Consus, and Pilumnus, and Picumnus.
437 23| neither would the heaven contain them, nor the air receive
438 37| women among us treat with contempt crosses and tortures, wild
439 21| do they not argue the contemptible and disgraceful characters
440 37| obtained that for which he contends. What soldier would not
441 11| EXTREME PUNISHMENT.~ "And, not content with this wild opinion,
442 12| banquets, and abhor the sacred contests; the meats previously tasted
443 2| frequent enjoyment of our continual association had satisfied
444 31| own offspring. Thus you continue the story of incest, even
445 31| our actual number both continues and abides undiminished,
446 16| and thither among things contrary and repugnant to one another;
447 5| fashioned--what God is the contriver? Although fire may have
448 27| fibres of the entrails, control the flights of birds, direct
449 17| towards heaven, as is our converse and reason, whereby we recognise,
450 1| very weighty arguments he converted Caecilius, who was still
451 16| longer be the case, I will convict and refute all that has
452 22| sepulchre is shown, and he is convicted of being human by those
453 25| nor chickens shut up in a coop, by whose feeding or abstinence
454 38| BUT TO CROWN THE HEAD OF A CORPSE THEY THINK SUPERFLUOUS AND
455 34| doctrine of resurrection with a corrupt and divided faith; for they
456 21| away in her wandering, and corrupter. These are the Eleusinian
457 38| philosophers, whom we know to be corrupters, and adulterers, and tyrants,
458 21| out of the cymbals of the Corybantes, lest the father should
459 18| dominion of shepherds, and of a cottage, is very well known. The
460 39| into silence, and held our countenances fixed in attention and as
461 21| enumerates their birthdays, their countries, their places of sepulture,
462 21| GREAT, WHO ENUMERATE THE COUNTRY, THE BIRTHDAYS, AND THE
463 17| always roll on in regular courses. Why should I speak of the
464 2| especially as the holidays of the courts at the vintage-time had
465 9| consciousness of wickedness they are covenanted to mutual silence. Such
466 4| negligence, that he might under cover of that charge more seriously
467 4| we sat down, so that, by covering me on either side, they
468 25| beginning from the very cradle of the growing empire. Did
469 16| far from his simplicity is crafty trickery. What then? As
470 7| standards from the Parthians, Crassus both deserved and scoffed
471 36| not want, if he does not crave for the possessions of others,
472 2| association had satisfied the craving of affection, and when we
473 20| ancestors believed carelessly, credulously, with untrained simplicity;
474 9| fruitfully, and abandoned manners creep on day by day, those abominable
475 27| render all men unquiet; creeping also secretly into human
476 3| although not with waves crested and foaming, yet with waves
477 25| the Thracian Mars, nor the Cretan Jupiter, nor Juno, now of
478 37| burned--burned up without any cries of pain, especially when
479 21| Vulcan is a lame god, and crippled; Apollo, smooth-faced after
480 3| foaming, yet with waves crisped and cuffing. Just then we
481 36| fires, so are we declared by critical moments.~
482 23| SETTING. THENCE OCTAVIUS CRITICISES THE IMAGES AND SHRINES OF
483 28| honour of serpents, and crocodiles, and other beasts, and birds,
484 9| INASMUCH AS THEY WORSHIP A CRUCIFIED MAN, AND EVEN THE INSTRUMENT
485 30| birds; at another, that you crush them when strangled with
486 30| kisses repressing their crying, that a weeping victim might
487 3| yet with waves crisped and cuffing. Just then we were excessively
488 26| began to be at once more cultivated and less credulous. And
489 38| leavings of sacrifices, and the cups out of which libations have
490 27| bound, they may seem to have cured it. These raging maniacs
491 7| the Decii. Witness also Curtius, who filled up the opening
492 34| reserved for God in the custody of the elements. Nor, as
493 20| confounded their rites and customs, each particular nation
494 21| hear the infant's wailing. Cybele of Dindymus--I am ashamed
495 22| Crete; and neither could the CyclOps imitate, nor Jupiter himself
496 21| behold the swallow and the cymbal of Isis, and the tomb of
497 21| uproar is dashed out of the cymbals of the Corybantes, lest
498 8| although he may he Theodorus of Cyrene, or one who is before him
499 16| remains in anxiety, and dares neither make choice of particular
500 5| earth, we transcend with daring ambition heaven itself,