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501 9| surface of the meal, with dark and secret wounds. Thirstily--
502 32| when He thunders, lightens, darts His bolts, or when He makes
503 21| and clanging uproar is dashed out of the cymbals of the
504 31| intercourse with mothers, with daughters, with sisters. With reason,
505 7| acknowledge the gods, whom in the day-time we impiously deny, refuse,
506 3| suffer him in such broad daylight as this to give himself
507 8| They despise the temples as dead-houses, they reject the gods, they
508 9| his wickedness, and to the deadly wood of the cross, appropriates
509 2| presence of a man so very dear to me greatly enhanced my
510 7| for granted the point in debate, and so to err on the safe
511 25| where are more panderings debated, or more acts of violence
512 20| reward Was given to the deceased, and an example to those
513 29| own consciousness, if he deceives that of others. "Moreover,
514 11| sources of comfort, with which deceiving poets have trifled in the
515 34| hide their verdure with a deceptive dryness. Why are you in
516 7| witness is the devotion of the Decii. Witness also Curtius, who
517 12| portion of you--and, as you declare, the larger and better portion--
518 17| around in her increase, her decline, and decay. What shall I
519 26| was at his side, either declined or undertook affairs. The
520 18| INDiVIDUAL PARTS. THAT BY THE DECREE OF THE ONE GOD ALL THINGS
521 28| and of wethers, and you dedicate gods mingled also of a goat
522 7| sacred rites, or by the dedication of temples. Consider what
523 24| mutual patronage? Here the defence of the general madness is
524 18| for its parts. Britain is deficient in sunshine, but it is refreshed
525 27| leap forth, or vanish by degrees, as the faith of the sufferer
526 13| the causes of such a long delay, he replied that, the longer
527 8| writings, because he disputed deliberately rather than profanely concerning
528 5| and philosophy itself deliberates still. Nor without reason;
529 13| many and so great men are deliberating, should we rashly and boldly
530 1| ARGUMENT: MINUCIUS RELATES HOW DELIGHTFUL TO HIM IS THE RECOLLECTION
531 21| Dictaean Jupiter, and of the Delphic Apollo, and of the Pharian
532 27| ago by you, that Jupiter demanded the restoration of his games
533 19| are governed. What says Democritus? Although the first discoverer
534 27| spirits, therefore--the demons--as is shown by the Magi,
535 26| and less credulous. And Demosthenes, because he knew that the
536 28| his deeds by that simple denial. Do not you acknowledge
537 12| civil matters, are much more denied the ability to discuss divine.~
538 11| and a twofold madness to denounce destruction to the heaven
539 19| be elements, he forcibly denounces and overcomes the public
540 41| ARE PLEASED, AND JOYFULLY DEPART: CAECILIUS, THAT HE HAD
541 29| man whose whole hope is dependent on mortal man, for all his
542 26| to ruin others; and being depraved themselves, to infuse into
543 39| examples, and by authorities derived from reading; and that he
544 26| deed, Sosthenes, not only describes the true God with fitting
545 19| Divinity is like ours. But the description of Anaxagoras also is, that
546 3| my brother Marcus, so to desert a man who abides by your
547 35| account of his religion, or a deserter. ~
548 33| were given up by God as deserters from His discipline.~ ~
549 35| they who know not God are deservedly tormented as impious, as
550 5| or their felicity to be desired. But if the world were governed
551 2| MINUCIUS. BOTH OF THEM WERE DESIROUS OF GOING TO THE MARINE BATHS
552 10| is the one God, solitary, desolate, whom no free people, no
553 19| majesty of God, while they despaired of understanding Him. Plato
554 8| reprobate, unlawful, and desperate faction, should rage against
555 12| regions of the sky, and the destinies and secrets of the world:
556 11| not their will, but their destiny. Yet I should be glad to
557 12| FACT THAT EVEN NOW THEY ARE DESTITUTE OF ALL MEANS, AND ARE AFFLICTED
558 30| AND BE FORE THEY ARE BORN DESTROY THEM BY A CRUEL ABORTION.
559 36| foresee our constitution, determines also the fates for us, according
560 23| individual case, and to develope the entire series of that
561 31| plotting of demons has falsely devised an enormous fable against
562 7| acknowledged witness is the devotion of the Decii. Witness also
563 30| are not unlike to him who devour the wild beasts from the
564 28| your Epona, and religiously devours those same asses with Isis.
565 21| these circumstances of the Dictaean Jupiter, and of the Delphic
566 23| everything which is born dies. But that is divine which
567 17| since in this respect we differ from the wild beasts, that
568 5| either side, there is no difficulty in making plain that all
569 32| in the heaven, yet it is diffused over all lands equally;
570 26| obscurity has flowed, and both dig into it more deeply, and
571 5| fortuitous concurrences united digested, fashioned--what God is
572 5| exploring it with persistent diligence. And thus all men must be
573 18| the magnitude of God, is diminishing it; he who desires not to
574 21| infant's wailing. Cybele of Dindymus--I am ashamed to speak of
575 22| history; and Thallus and Diodorus speak the same thing. This
576 5| any deity, Phalaris and Dionysius would never have deserved
577 20| governed by providence, and directed by the will of one God,
578 6| conquered deities; while in all directions they seek for the gods of
579 28| have been pressed not to disavow themselves Christians, but
580 31| fastidious, if we all have a discernment of one good, but are assembled
581 7| might be both swollen and discoloured with the blood of the Romans,
582 19| providence. For Cleanthes discoursed of God as of a mind, now
583 14| the hatred at once of all discourses, even as very many of the
584 3| related by Octavius, who was discoursing on navigation. But when
585 5| about without any order or discrimination?--in shipwrecks, that the
586 12| more denied the ability to discuss divine.~
587 30| man, that is, with a worse disease. They also are not unlike
588 37| suggests it; the same actor disgraces your gods by attributing
589 16| veracious words. Nor will I disguise in the outset, that the
590 21| LAUGHS AT THE RIDICULOUS AND DISGUSTING ABSURDITIES WHICH THE HEATHENS
591 1| will, in either liking or disliking the same things. You would
592 1| after the gloom had been dispersed, I emerged from the abyss
593 12| have no concern in public displays; you reject the public banquets,
594 3| III. ARGUMENT: OCTAVIUS, DISPLEASED AT THE ACT OF THIS SUPERSTITIOUS
595 1| AND ESPECIALLY OF THIS DISPUTATION.~WHEN I consider and mentally
596 14| concerning the entire kind of disputation--that for the most part the
597 27| the demon, but there is a dissimilar occasion for their madness.
598 5| is divided, resolved, and dissipated. So all things flow back
599 34| only artificer, it is both dissoluble and mortal. Thus it is no
600 14| the hearers, who, being distracted by the allurement of words
601 27| to material things: they disturb the life, render all men
602 31| with body even more chaste (divers of us unviolated) enjoy
603 16| that has been said, however diverse, confirming and approving
604 9| its blood; eagerly they divide its limbs. By this victim
605 18| that in heaven there is a division of the supreme power, and
606 34| chiefly, have delivered the doctrine of resurrection with a corrupt
607 21| Macedonian, wrote in a remarkable document addressed to his mother,
608 33| to say nothing of ancient documents) of Flavius Josephus or
609 9| hot with drunkenness, a dog that has been tied to the
610 28| and gods with the faces of dogs and lions. Do you not adore
611 36| free; and therefore man's doing, not his dignity, is judged.
612 37| lifted up to empires and dominations, that the unrestrained exercise
613 30| these things assuredly come don from the teaching of your
614 11| already lived again. It is a double evil and a twofold madness
615 27| know. Thus they weigh men downwards from heaven, and call them
616 30| to shed, pour forth, and drain that new blood of a youngling,
617 30| her sacred rites with a draught of human gore, and taught
618 12| or inequitable. Thou, who dreamest over a posthumous immortality,
619 8| together from the lowest dregs the more unskilled, and
620 38| who bear wisdom not in our dress, but in our mind we do not
621 12| previously tasted by, and the drinks made a libation of upon,
622 17| the month, how the moon drives it around in her increase,
623 5| white, the vintage, already dropping, is destroyed by the rain,
624 22| he bound, wounded, and drove away Mars. He relates that
625 24| around old bucklers, or beat drums, or lead their gods a-begging
626 9| lust has grown hot with drunkenness, a dog that has been tied
627 2| and appropriate remedy for drying its humours from the marine
628 25| WHOLE WORLD BY MEANS OF THE DUE OBSERVANCE OF SUPERSTITIONS
629 24| How much more truly do dumb animals naturally judge
630 22| Elsewhere Hercules threw out dung, and Apollo is feeding cattle
631 | DURING
632 7| are present and constantly dwelling in them, than opulent by
633 38| sought for with the utmost eagerness, and have not been able
634 2| temperature. And thus, when in the early morning we were going towards
635 17| to admit what Caecilius earnestly endeavoured to maintain
636 28| same demons fill up the ears of the ignorant against
637 18| to sow and to water the East. Now if, on entering any
638 30| not use the blood even of eatable animals in our food.~
639 35| nourished by the unexhausted eating away of their bodies. But
640 17| Consider the ocean; it ebbs and flows with alternate
641 28| evil deeds, as no age is so effeminate as to be able to bear, and
642 18| Nile tempers the dryness of Egypt; the Euphrates cultivates
643 25| Idaean Mother, nor those Egyptian--not deities, but monstrosities--
644 22| is more serious still, we elaborate them in our very studies
645 14| to applaud acuteness, yet elect, approve, and adopt those
646 11| their own accord, but as elected to will. Therefore you feign
647 6| adores its local gods: as the Eleusinians worship Ceres; the Phrygians,
648 37| sordid in hind. Are you elevated by nobility of birth? do
649 28| inquisition against them, not to elicit the truth, but to compel
650 38| adulterers, and tyrants, and ever eloquent against their own vices.
651 | Elsewhere
652 21| the punishment of their emasculated body. Now certainly these
653 1| gloom had been dispersed, I emerged from the abyss of darkness
654 18| has neither beginning nor end--that He who gives birth
655 17| what Caecilius earnestly endeavoured to maintain among the chief
656 21| SETS FORTH THE MOURNFUL ENDINGS, MISFORTUNES, AND DEATHS
657 17| WORLD ITSELF, EVERY ONE ENDOWED WITH REASON HOLDS THAT IT
658 28| cruel as to be compelled to endure.~
659 8| BUT INFINITELY LESS TO BE ENDURED IS THAT SKULKING AND LIGHT-SHUNNING
660 37| have perished among the enemies unless he had sacrificed
661 4| among his comrades, than to engage in close conflict after
662 28| really to himself. (Ista enim impudicitae eorum forsitan
663 12| abstaining from respectable enjoyments. You do not visit exhibitions;
664 25| Such as these doubtless enlarged the dominion of the Romans,
665 32| itself, by which you are enlivened and speak? But, moreover,
666 26| did not see the present. Ennius invented the replies of
667 31| demons has falsely devised an enormous fable against us, to stain
668 7| them, than opulent by the ensigns and gifts of worship. Thence
669 10| force or power, that he is enslaved, with his own special nation,
670 5| stars, let us at least not entangle this error with vain and
671 18| water the East. Now if, on entering any house, you should behold
672 21| speak of it--who could not entice her adulterous lover, who
673 22| him from death; and that, enticed by the girdle of Venus,
674 37| condemn their mischievous enticements. For in the chariot games
675 36| rather innocency, we rather entreat for patience, we prefer
676 38| NEGLIGENTLY, AS WELL AS TO ENTWINE THEIR NECKS WITH GARLANDS;
677 20| wounds, and Centaurs, horses entwined with their riders; and whatever
678 21| ALEXANDER THE GREAT, WHO ENUMERATE THE COUNTRY, THE BIRTHDAYS,
679 21| were esteemed gods; and he enumerates their birthdays, their countries,
680 31| call one another, to your envy, brethren: as being men
681 28| Ista enim impudicitae eorum forsitan sacra sint, apud
682 21| girded up high; and as the Ephesian she has many and fruitful
683 34| will take fire; and the Epicureans have the very same opinion
684 19| God is nature. Moreover, Epicurus, the man who feigns either
685 6| the Phrygians, Mater; the Epidaurians, Aesculapius; the Chaldaeans;
686 30| and taught men to heal epilepsy with the blood of a man,
687 28| stables, together with your Epona, and religiously devours
688 32| diffused over all lands equally; present everywhere, it
689 4| either receives or makes equals; but that, as an arbitrator,
690 7| Witness the statues of the equestrian brothers, consecrated even
691 37| with a large travelling equipage the brief journey of life
692 17| we, whose countenance is erect, whose look is turned towards
693 21| as numerous as his names. Erigone was hanged from a noose,
694 16| swayed to and fro in such an erratic, vague, and slippery manner,
695 32| nor know individuals. Thou errest, O man, and art deceived;
696 22| AFTER IT.~ "These fables and errors we both learn from ignorant
697 8| of their sex, yielding, establish a herd of a profane conspiracy,
698 5| is also regarded in such esteem, that, in the case of many
699 18| therefore we are then worthily estimating Him when we say that He
700 18| we say that He is beyond estimation. I will speak out in what
701 28| inhaerescunt, homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent, quos prius
702 21| might make a god of the eunuch. On account of this story,
703 24| since, if God wished for eunuchs, He could bring them as
704 18| the dryness of Egypt; the Euphrates cultivates Mesopotamia;
705 33| you are recalling later events while you are forgetful
706 36| THAT THEY SUFFER BODILY EVILS IS NOT AS A PENALTY, BUT
707 21| fruitful breasts; and when exaggerated as Trivia, she is horrible
708 15| so that by a scrupulous examination we might weigh our decision,
709 17| that unless you diligently examine into the nature of divinity,
710 31| modesty, by the loathing excited by an outrageous infamy,
711 40| ARGUMENT: THEN CAECILIUS EXCLAIMS THAT HE IS VANQUISHED BY
712 11| doubtless, also that they execrate our funeral piles, and condemn
713 9| ought to be rooted out and execrated. They know one another by
714 37| under foot the horror of the executioner; when he raises up his liberty
715 23| honour of the power that they exercised. Moreover, this name is
716 23| THE POWER THAT THEY HAVE EXERTED. YET A TRUE GOD HAS NEITHER
717 5| vapours of the earth, being exhaled, cause the mists always
718 17| slopes of the hills, the expanses of the plains? Wherefore
719 12| present, how the fruitless expectations of vain promise deceive
720 12| Neither do you at least take experience from things present, how
721 38| restrained; let impiety be expiated; let true religion be preserved. ~
722 8| but by that which requires expiation--a people skulking and shunning
723 26| does not he endeavour to explain the nature of demons? For
724 9| nocturnal rites; and he who explains their ceremonies by reference
725 5| rather than persevere in exploring it with persistent diligence.
726 19| Diogenes of Babylon is that of expounding and arguing that the birth
727 37| for now a mimic either expounds or shows forth adulteries;
728 2| this his arrival I cannot express in words with how great
729 19| in the names by which he expresses them; and his discourse
730 28| moreover, that it was to this extent not evil, that a Christian,
731 11| ourselves, who are dead and extinct--who, as we are born, so
732 29| is put an end to with the extinction of the man. The Egyptians
733 30| drinking medical preparations, extinguish the source of the future
734 37| to be so. You yourselves extol unfortunate men to the skies;
735 2| with how impatient a joy I exulted, since the unexpected presence
736 32| creatures: the pupil of the eye is with drawn from his rays,
737 32| tempest comes under our eyesight. Thus we cannot look upon
738 10| structure dissolved, and that fabric in which it is contained
739 22| Jupiter's thunderbolt is fabricated on the anvil with the arms
740 19| artificer of the soul, the fabricator of heavenly and earthly
741 7| appear to you excessively fabulous. Look at the temples and
742 24| weave their webs over his face, and suspend their threads
743 8| unlawful, and desperate faction, should rage against the
744 21| you will acknowledge these facts with me. On account of the
745 31| claims praise; for, in a fair mode of life, our actual
746 1| Octavius, my excellent and most faithful companion, the sweetness
747 2| very imperfection of the faltering tongue. And at this his
748 6| rather than to know with familiarity; not to assert an opinion
749 33| this whole world is one family. Kings only know all the
750 37| burdened. Do you boast of the fasces and the magisterial robes?
751 5| concurrences united digested, fashioned--what God is the contriver?
752 29| IT MORE TRUE THAT A MAN FASTENED TO A CROSS ON ACCOUNT OF
753 31| purple robes; and we are not fastidious, if we all have a discernment
754 8| nightly meetings, and solemn fasts and inhuman meats--not by
755 18| of the son-in-law and the father-in-law were scattered over the
756 25| parents, that is, with their fathers-in-law, and shed the blood of their
757 5| this error with vain and fearful opinions. Let the seeds
758 9| day they assemble at the feast, with all their children,
759 9| every age. There, after much feasting, when the fellowship has
760 31| entertainments nor prolong our feasts with wine; but we temper
761 34| anything is withdrawn from our feeble eyes, it perishes to God?
762 28| lions. Do you not adore and feed Apis the ox, with the Egyptians?
763 35| limbs and restores them, feeds on them and nourishes them.
764 1| and in my most intimate feelings. And it was not without
765 26| knew that the answers were feigned, complained that the Pythia
766 31| companions in faith, and as fellow-heirs in hope. You, however, do
767 9| much feasting, when the fellowship has grown warm, and the
768 21| sprinkled with gore; and when Feretrius, he is not approached; and
769 25| BY THE TERRORS OF THEIR FEROCITY. AND THEREFORE THE ROMANS
770 9| has grown warm, and the fervour of incestuous lust has grown
771 21| feet; Saturn with feet in fetters; Janus, indeed, wears two
772 37| while you weep at it in fiction. ~
773 25| the terror of their own fierceness? For the first people were
774 35| most learned poets of that fiery river, and of the heat flowing
775 11| for an example? All such figments of an unhealthy belief,
776 17| The very beauty of our own figure especially confesses God
777 5| assented to the other, yet in file present case your mind must
778 28| stories, did those same demons fill up the ears of the ignorant
779 10| the acts of all, and, in fine, into their words and secret
780 3| horizontal position with the fingers; to whiff it along sloping
781 39| ARGUMENT: WHEN OCTAVIUS HAD FINISHED THIS ADDRESS, MINUCIUS AND
782 28| other beasts, and birds, and fishes, of which if any one were
783 32| ungrateful when the victim fit for sacrifice is a good
784 29| well as your banners; and flags of your camp, what else
785 33| BY HIM. ~ "Neither let us flatter ourselves concerning our
786 29| others. "Moreover, a false flattery disgracefully caresses princes
787 33| of ancient documents) of Flavius Josephus or Antoninus Julianus,
788 27| POSSESSED BODIES. HENCE THEY FLEE HASTILY FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
789 25| assassins, traitors, had flocked together; and in order that
790 18| bees have one king; the flocks one leader; among the herds
791 25| also Acca Laurentia, and Flora, infamous harlots, must
792 36| announce as an example have flourished illustriously by their afflictions.
793 38| receive the scent of a sweet flower in our nostrils, not to
794 27| healer inspires. Thus they fly from Christians when near
795 20| example to those who were to follow.~
796 13| lyric poet to be admired and followed by all? Which Simonides,
797 37| surrounded with abundant followers, yet you are alone in the
798 19| necessity, is God; and he follows the example of Zeno in his
799 8| purple robes. Oh, wondrous folly and incredible audacity!
800 28| divine thing. Who is such a fool as to worship this? Who
801 35| better than you. For you forbid, and yet commit, adulteries;
802 24| once a year, some it is forbidden to visit at all. There is
803 19| people to be elements, he forcibly denounces and overcomes
804 30| CHILDREN NEWLY BORN, AND BE FORE THEY ARE BORN DESTROY THEM
805 6| deities, but to believe your forefathers, who, while the age was
806 15| OF BEING HURT, THAT HE IS FOREGOING THE OFFICE OF A RELIGIOUS
807 25| off, violated, and ruined foreign virgins, already betrothed,
808 35| the black abyss; for, with foreknowledge of the punishment destined
809 36| of us? who, since He can foresee our constitution, determines
810 26| appear as if it imitated forethought; yet I will approach the
811 23| beaten with hammers and forged on anvils; and the god of
812 33| later events while you are forgetful or unconscious of former
813 16| is begotten with the very formation of the mind. Therefore it
814 28| Ista enim impudicitae eorum forsitan sacra sint, apud quos sexus
815 38| in garlands. Pardon us, forsooth, that we do not crown our
816 28| favour to him, as if by forswearing that name he had at once
817 25| when gathered together and fortified by crime, grow by the terror
818 6| religious valour; in that they fortify their city with the religions
819 36| punishment --it is warfare. For fortitude is strengthened by infirmities,
820 5| of the whole world be by fortuitous concurrences united digested,
821 16| it wavered backwards and forwards by mere mistake. For he
822 9| rites as these are more foul than any sacrileges. And
823 19| it were not occasionally fouled by a mixture of merely civil
824 28| basest noises produced by the foulness of their bodies. He also
825 22| from the state which he had founded in his discourse, the illustrious
826 20| particular nation venerated its Founder, or illustrious Leader,
827 17| alternate tides. Look at the fountains, how they gush in perpetual
828 17| heaped together by certain fragments casually adhering to each
829 12| not then acknowledge thy frailty? Poor wretch, art thou unwillingly
830 3| ships, drawn up on an oaken framework, were lying at rest supported
831 32| God; he who abstains from fraudulent practices propitiates God;
832 17| barbed with stings, or with freedom obtained by swiftness of
833 21| writer runs, that Venus freezes without Bacchus and Ceres.
834 2| one or two days, when the frequent enjoyment of our continual
835 31| charge. It was thus your own Fronto acted in this respect: he
836 17| winter to blast with its frost, or nothing but summer to
837 36| so it is strengthened by frugality. And yet who can be poor
838 5| merited the poison. Behold the fruit-bearing trees, behold the harvest
839 21| Ephesian she has many and fruitful breasts; and when exaggerated
840 9| wickeder things advance more fruitfully, and abandoned manners creep
841 12| things present, how the fruitless expectations of vain promise
842 40| MORROW HIS TRAINING IN THE FULLER BELIEF OF ITS MYSTERIES.~
843 27| them, being gorged with the fumes of altars or the sacrifices
844 21| deaths, misfortunes, and funerals, and the griefs and wailings
845 3| whose shell both went out furthest, and leaped up most frequently.~
846 6| taken while still in the fury of victory, they venerate
847 23| by the Egyptian king, is fused, is beaten with hammers
848 7| mingled with him, collect futurity beforehand, give caution
849 22| violence of Jupiter against Ganymede,--a deed consecrated, (as
850 38| spring flowers, when we gather both the rose of spring
851 5| it is the better men who generally fall? In peace also, not
852 20| KINGS, THEIR ILLUSTRIOUS GENERALS, AND INVENTORS OF ARTS,
853 23| Or has that process of generation ceased, for the reason that
854 29| IMAGES, AND BESEECH THEIR GENII.~"These, and such as these
855 3| we saw some boys eagerly gesticulating as they played at throwing
856 37| pretended sufferings, with vain gestures and expressions. Thus you
857 8| WISHED EITHER ALTOGETHER TO GET RID OF THE RELIGION OF THE
858 21| huntress, with her robe girded up high; and as the Ephesian
859 37| teaching of murder in the gladiatorial games? In the scenic games
860 31| appearance, but in our heart we gladly abide by the bond of a single
861 2| to me greatly enhanced my gladness. Therefore, after one or
862 26| awe of the very nod and glance of their Lord they should
863 4| characteristic of your · glances even in serious matters?"
864 5| red, the thunderbolts to gleam forth. Therefore they fall
865 17| returning on its footsteps may glide by! Look attentively at
866 29| else are they but crosses glided and adorned? Your victorious
867 1| mistakes; and when, after the gloom had been dispersed, I emerged
868 9| and senseless superstition glories in crimes. Nor, concerning
869 13| and the learned can do gloriously. What! is not the hesitation
870 35| Vesuvius, and of burning where, glow, but are not wasted; so
871 1| especially since he himself also glowed with such a love for me
872 21| as a virgin she might be glowing among the stars. The Castors
873 24| they have no feeling: they gnaw them, they trample on them,
874 28| dedicate gods mingled also of a goat and a man, and gods with
875 33| long as they worshipped our God--and He is the same God of
876 23| became a god; and by the good-will of the Mauritanians, Juba
877 16| given to wealth, nor is gotten by study, but is begotten
878 32| neither able to behold nor to grasp your own soul itself, by
879 37| slips away before it is grasped. Are you a king? Yet you
880 18| brighter than light; nor can be grasped--He is purer than touch;
881 17| with its harvests, and the grateful maturity of autumn, and
882 25| lust is more frequently gratified in the little chambers of
883 31| temper our joyousness with gravity, with chaste discourse,
884 39| for me, I was lost in the greatness of my admiration, that he
885 25| Medes, the Persians, the Greeks also, and the Egyptians,
886 25| COLLECTED BY CRIME, AND GREW BY THE TERRORS OF THEIR
887 21| breasts, and imitate the grief of the most unhappy mother.
888 21| misfortunes, and funerals, and the griefs and wailings of the miserable
889 4| countenance that he was grieving for I knew not what. To
890 17| For it is as bad as the grossest sacrilege even, to seek
891 3| supported above the (risk of) ground-rot, we saw some boys eagerly
892 25| from the very cradle of the growing empire. Did they not in
893 38| we ungrateful? why do we grudge if the truth of divinity
894 30| sacred rite to immolate their guests, and for the Galli to slaughter
895 17| the fountains, how they gush in perpetual streams! Gaze
896 38| of our head or with our hair. Nor do we crown the dead.
897 8| are allowed, the priests; half naked themselves, they despise
898 16| esteemed plebeian, untaught, half-naked. Thus it is, that rich men,
899 2| years are attempting only half-uttered words,--a language all the
900 23| is fused, is beaten with hammers and forged on anvils; and
901 21| bearded; and when he is called Hammon, he has horns; and when
902 6| cultivate the religions handed down to you, to adore the
903 29| God with a pure mind, with handsoutstretched. Thus the sign of the cross
904 21| as his names. Erigone was hanged from a noose, that as a
905 5| rightly seem sufficiently happy and sufficiently prudent,
906 27| whom at a distance they harassed by your means in their assemblies.
907 25| Laurentia, and Flora, infamous harlots, must be reckoned among
908 14| ORDINARY ELOQUENCE, AND AT THE HARMONIOUS VARIETY OF HIS ADDRESS.~
909 17| together from the elements, or harmoniously formed of atoms, or rather
910 34| wise men do in some measure harmonize with us. But who is so foolish
911 14| worthy of you to exult at the harmony of your discourse, before
912 5| fruit-bearing trees, behold the harvest already white, the vintage,
913 34| dryness. Why are you in haste for it to revive and return,
914 2| visiting me, Octavius had hastened to Rome, having left his
915 27| BODIES. HENCE THEY FLEE HASTILY FROM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF
916 27| STATUES AND IMAGES, THEY HAUNT THE FANES, THEY ANIMATE
917 30| gore, and taught men to heal epilepsy with the blood
918 27| assists or the grace of the healer inspires. Thus they fly
919 25| diseases and ill states of health. Assuredly also Acca Laurentia,
920 17| and assert that it was heaped together by certain fragments
921 14| reason of the facility of the hearers, who, being distracted by
922 12| AND ARE AFFLICTED WITH THE HEAVIEST CALAMITIES AND MISERIES.~ "
923 36| poverty, and does not breathe heavily under the burden of riches.
924 17| some armed with horns, some hedged with teeth, and shod with
925 13| confession of ignorance is the height of wisdom. From this source
926 21| gods, because they were helpful to the uses of men in their
927 19| sets God above the world. Heraclides of Pontus also ascribes,
928 8| sex, yielding, establish a herd of a profane conspiracy,
929 18| flocks one leader; among the herds there is one ruler. Canst
930 | herself
931 19| interpretation of the poems of Hesiod, of Homer, and of Orpheus.
932 35| one except a profane man hesitates to believe, since it is
933 23| is hung up, is cut, is hewn, is planed; and a god of
934 22| Therefore he preferred that his hiding-place, because he had been safely
935 13| Simonides, when he was asked by Hiero the tyrant what, and what
936 17| mountains, the slopes of the hills, the expanses of the plains?
937 18| all gives perpetuity to Himself--that He who was before the
938 37| purple and to be sordid in hind. Are you elevated by nobility
939 22| this, and Cassius in his history; and Thallus and Diodorus
940 16| by the tide, and tossed hither and thither among things
941 17| ONE ENDOWED WITH REASON HOLDS THAT IT WAS ESTABLISHED
942 30| either to see or to hear of homicide; and so much do we shrink
943 28| inguinibus inhaerescunt, homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent,
944 10| whatever they worship, since honourable things always rejoice in
945 21| with winged feet; Pan with hoofed feet; Saturn with feet in
946 3| take hold of the shell in a horizontal position with the fingers;
947 21| exaggerated as Trivia, she is horrible with three heads and with
948 28| THEY CHARGE AGAINST THEM HORRID CRIMES, WHICH UP TO THIS
949 22| Italy, and, received by the hospitality of Janus, taught those unskilled
950 3| ON HIMSELF, AS CAECILIUS' HOST, THAN ON CAECILIUS.~ Then
951 26| were earthly, wandering, hostile to humanity. What said Plato,
952 25| and worshipped Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Pallor. Subsequently
953 9| incestuous lust has grown hot with drunkenness, a dog
954 11| to sojourn even for a few hours, or that we might believe
955 5| the limits proper to our humility, and though, inclined towards
956 2| appropriate remedy for drying its humours from the marine bathing,
957 23| or of an unlucky log, is hung up, is cut, is hewn, is
958 12| labouring in hard work and hunger; and God suffers it, He
959 21| back; Diana sometimes is a huntress, with her robe girded up
960 15| LITTLE APPEARANCE OF BEING HURT, THAT HE IS FOREGOING THE
961 24| crowned by a woman having one husband, some by a woman with many;
962 25| betrothed, already destined for husbands, and even some young women
963 20| Chimaera of many forms, and a Hydra rising again from its auspicious
964 31| that with some even the (idea of a) modest intercourse
965 38| FROM THINGS CONNECTED WITH IDOL SACRIFICES, LEST ANY ONE
966 22| from heaven, those who are ignoble and unknown, sons of the
967 2| II. ARGUMENT: THE ARRIVAL OF
968 3| III. ARGUMENT: OCTAVIUS, DISPLEASED
969 18| GOVERNED, IS PROVED BY THE ILLUSTRATION OF EARTHLY EMPIRES. BUT
970 36| example have flourished illustriously by their afflictions. And
971 14| by its abundance of words imitates the confidence of acknowledged
972 18| all perceptions; infinite, immense, and how great is known
973 18| ALTHOUGH HE, BEING INFINITE AND IMMENSE--AND HOW GREAT HE IS, IS
974 26| by being weighed down and immersed in vices, for a solace of
975 25| better fortune of their immodesty. And where are adulteries
976 30| it was a sacred rite to immolate their guests, and for the
977 28| rites polluted, of infants immolated. For with these and such
978 8| concerning the existence of the immortal gods remains established,
979 26| substance between mortal and immortal--that is, mediate between
980 12| dreamest over a posthumous immortality, when thou art shaken by
981 2| with how great and with how impatient a joy I exulted, since the
982 2| the sweeter for the very imperfection of the faltering tongue.
983 16| by fortune, but have it implanted by nature; moreover, the
984 29| supplicate their images, they implore their Genius, that is, their
985 15| interpolation of a very important argument, since Octavius
986 19| you have discovered Him, impossible to speak of in public. The
987 7| deserved and scoffed at the imprecations of the terrible sisters.
988 28| really to himself. (Ista enim impudicitae eorum forsitan sacra sint,
989 28| prostat, apud quos iota impudicitia vocatur urbanitas; qui scortorum
990 28| tacerent, quos prius taedescit impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.) Abomination !
991 3| glides along with a smooth impulse, or may spring up as it
992 7| discover that they have inaugurated the rites of all kinds of
993 5| our humility, and though, inclined towards the earth, we transcend
994 25| Roman arms? For we know the indigenous gods of the Romans--Romulus,
995 14| relaxed the ardour of his indignation), be added "And what does
996 34| constructed perpetual and indissoluble, yet he adds that to God
997 7| either that the divine indulgence might be rewarded, or that
998 18| cultivates Mesopotamia; the river Indus makes up for the want of
999 12| thus He is either weak or inequitable. Thou, who dreamest over
1000 31| the mercy of others, it is inevitable that you must come back