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1001 35| things our discipline is inferior, yet we shall be found much
1002 8| LEAST TO WEAKEN IT. BUT INFINITELY LESS TO BE ENDURED IS THAT
1003 19| delivered that God was all infinity with a mind; and Antisthenes,
1004 36| fortitude is strengthened by infirmities, and calamity is very often
1005 12| unwillingly convinced of thine infirmity, and wilt not confess it?
1006 37| TORTURES MOST UNJUSTLY INFLICTED FOR THE CONFESSION OF CHRIST'
1007 26| depraved themselves, to infuse into others the error of
1008 26| moulds the affections, and infuses the ardour of lust.~
1009 28| lambunt, libidinoso ore inguinibus inhaerescunt, homines malae
1010 7| deities which are their inhabitants, who are present and constantly
1011 28| libidinoso ore inguinibus inhaerescunt, homines malae linguae etiam
1012 38| in our nostrils, not to inhale it with the back of our
1013 11| Therefore you feign an iniquitous judge, who punishes in men,
1014 9| Now the story about the initiation of young novices is as much
1015 27| one whom you fear, and to injure one whom you have feared,
1016 23| abandoned man, nor feels the injury done to him in his nativity,
1017 32| mind, consecrated in our inmost heart? Shall I offer victims
1018 10| neither show nor behold, inquires diligently into the character
1019 28| making use of a perverse inquisition against them, not to elicit
1020 9| another by secret marks and insignia, and they love one another
1021 26| manifestly. There are some insincere and vagrant spirits degraded
1022 27| the grace of the healer inspires. Thus they fly from Christians
1023 18| to go through particular instances. There is no member in man
1024 26| BIRDS, OCTAVIUS RETORTS BY INSTANCING THE CASES OF REGULUS, MANCINUS,
1025 | instead
1026 7| the entrails, or by the institution of sacred rites, or by the
1027 6| they acknowledge the sacred institutions of all nations, they have
1028 22| in our very studies and instructions, especially in the verses
1029 9| CRUCIFIED MAN, AND EVEN THE INSTRUMENT ITSELF OF HIS PUNISHMENT.
1030 25| murders of priests. This is to insult and scorn, to yield to conquered
1031 19| soul passing to and fro and intent, throughout the universal
1032 22| jests of them, still to interfere in the affairs and doings
1033 15| force of my pleading by the interpolation of a very important argument,
1034 17| scorch with its heat, to interpose the moderate temperature
1035 19| Zeno in his physiological interpretation of the poems of Hesiod,
1036 19| all things. Moreover, by interpreting Juno to be the air, Jupiter
1037 19| in public unless we are interrogated.~
1038 9| unusual debauchery may by the intervention of that sacred name become
1039 1| the entire period of our intimacy and friendship, the direction
1040 1| my heart and in my most intimate feelings. And it was not
1041 5| we should know ourselves intimately. But even if we indulge
1042 26| separate others from God by the introduction of degraded superstitions.
1043 34| parts of the world are now inundated, and are now burnt up by
1044 20| ILLUSTRIOUS GENERALS, AND INVENTORS OF ARTS, ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR
1045 17| which we cannot seek out and investigate without inquiry into the
1046 36| even to death at last; He investigates the will of man, certain
1047 5| weariness of thoroughly investigating truth, should rashly succumb
1048 5| the capacity of) divine investigation, that neither is it given
1049 28| qui scortorum licentiae invident, qui medios viros lambunt,
1050 41| in that the very great invidiousness of judging is taken away
1051 38| comes into existence as an inviolable gift of God is corrupted
1052 28| omnibus prostat, apud quos iota impudicitia vocatur urbanitas;
1053 21| priests; and the wretched Isiacs beat their breasts, and
1054 28| belongs really to himself. (Ista enim impudicitae eorum forsitan
1055 21| I am ashamed to speak of it--who could not entice her
1056 22| heaven, because among the Italians he was of unknown parents;
1057 22| raging son, had come to Italy, and, received by the hospitality
1058 5| nature combining them in itself--what God is the author here?
1059 4| IV. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS, SOMEWHAT
1060 23| silver and the whiteness of ivory? But if any one were to
1061 9| IX. ARGUMENT: THE RELIGION
1062 22| of Saturnia, and Janus, Janiculum, so that each of them left
1063 15| the reply of our friend Januarius, who is now beckoning to
1064 22| your gods, although he made jests of them, still to interfere
1065 33| CERTAINLY THE WRITERS OF THE JEWISH ANNALS ARE THE MOST SUFFICIENT
1066 33| ancient documents) of Flavius Josephus or Antoninus Julianus, and
1067 2| and with how impatient a joy I exulted, since the unexpected
1068 41| FINALLY, ALL ARE PLEASED, AND JOYFULLY DEPART: CAECILIUS, THAT
1069 23| good-will of the Mauritanians, Juba is a god; and other kings
1070 36| doing, not his dignity, is judged. For what else is fate than
1071 41| very great invidiousness of judging is taken away from me. Nor
1072 38| in rectitude moderate our judgments; let superstition be restrained;
1073 33| Flavius Josephus or Antoninus Julianus, and you shall know that
1074 5| of good and bad men are jumbled together, their deserts
1075 21| further the multitude of Jupiters, the monstrous appearances
1076 25| the little chambers of the keepers of the temple, than in the
1077 28| which if any one were to kill one of these gods, he is
1078 10| whom no free people, no kingdoms, and not even Roman superstition,
1079 2| common people, and pressed a kiss on it with his lips.~
1080 30| of Africa, caresses and kisses repressing their crying,
1081 24| your gods? Mice, swallows, kites, know that they have no
1082 7| or with the glory of his knighthood. Moreover, more frequently
1083 31| men, you may even, without knowing it, rush into what is unlawful:
1084 12| are in want, are cold, are labouring in hard work and hunger;
1085 7| calamities, alleviation to labours. Even in our repose we see,
1086 18| THE USE OF ALL TITLES IS LAID ASIDE.~ "It would be a long
1087 7| showed themselves on the lake, who, with horses breathless,
1088 28| invident, qui medios viros lambunt, libidinoso ore inguinibus
1089 21| of your gods? Vulcan is a lame god, and crippled; Apollo,
1090 21| miserable gods. Isis bewails, laments, and seeks after her lost
1091 25| their neighbours from the land, to overthrow the nearest
1092 7| Look at the temples and lanes of the gods by which the
1093 2| only half-uttered words,--a language all the sweeter for the
1094 22| however, builds walls for Laomedon, and the unfortunate builder
1095 12| and, as you declare, the larger and better portion--are
1096 | last
1097 22| had been safely hidden (latent) there, should be called
1098 | later
1099 25| rest of the kings and the latest leaders with Romulus. Thus,
1100 22| there, should be called Latium; and he gave a city, from
1101 | LATTER
1102 8| they reject the gods, they laugh at sacred things; wretched,
1103 24| gods, how many things are laughable, and how many also pitiable!
1104 4| paying no attention, nor laughing at the contest; but silent,
1105 21| GODS. AND, IN ADDITION, HE LAUGHS AT THE RIDICULOUS AND DISGUSTING
1106 25| health. Assuredly also Acca Laurentia, and Flora, infamous harlots,
1107 30| of men. To us it is not lawful either to see or to hear
1108 24| bucklers, or beat drums, or lead their gods a-begging through
1109 25| the kings and the latest leaders with Romulus. Thus, whatever
1110 27| Small ship was following the leading of the matron's girdle.
1111 10| would be disturbed, or the league of all the elements would
1112 8| profane conspiracy, which is leagued together by nightly meetings,
1113 5| of a most just judge, nor lean with a disposition to one
1114 27| bodies, and either at once leap forth, or vanish by degrees,
1115 3| both went out furthest, and leaped up most frequently.~
1116 22| fables and errors we both learn from ignorant parents, and,
1117 5| persons--and these unskilled in learning, strangers to literature,
1118 13| things, but because he had learnt that he knew nothing. And
1119 11| and the stars, which we leave just as we find them, and
1120 34| the shrubs resume their leaves, seeds do not flourish again.
1121 38| But that we despise the leavings of sacrifices, and the cups
1122 14| the more simple kind are led to execration and hatred
1123 31| Marriages with sisters are legitimate among the Egyptians and
1124 18| it; he who desires not to lessen it, knows it not. Neither
1125 22| and polished,--to print letters for instance, to coin money,
1126 21| was pleasing to her, to lewdness, because she herself, as
1127 38| both ate and secure in the liberality of our God, are animated
1128 28| qui medios viros lambunt, libidinoso ore inguinibus inhaerescunt,
1129 37| spirit to the unbridled licence that is Characteristic of
1130 28| urbanitas; qui scortorum licentiae invident, qui medios viros
1131 9| Thirstily--O horror!--they lick up its blood; eagerly they
1132 27| and assuredly they do not lie to their own discredit,
1133 38| in which you apply to a lifeless person, or to one who does
1134 36| this journey of life who lifts himself along in poverty,
1135 8| ENDURED IS THAT SKULKING AND LIGHT-SHUNNING PEOPLE OF THE CHRISTIANS,
1136 21| Ceres with her torches lighted, and surrounded s with a
1137 17| by its stars, or as it is lightened in the day by the sun, and
1138 32| present when He thunders, lightens, darts His bolts, or when
1139 36| road is the happier the lighter he walks, so happier is
1140 32| BY NO TEMPLE, AND THAT NO LIKENESS OF HIM CAN BE MADE. BUT
1141 1| similarity of will, in either liking or disliking the same things.
1142 38| the rose of spring and the lily, and whatever else is of
1143 18| alone. But our heart is too limited to understand Him, and therefore
1144 9| offal beyond the length of a line by which he is bound, to
1145 18| form, but each has certain lineaments modified, and thus we are
1146 6| despised; and through the lines of the Gauls, marvelling
1147 28| inhaerescunt, homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent, quos
1148 17| things are so coherent, so linked and associated together,
1149 28| with the faces of dogs and lions. Do you not adore and feed
1150 2| pressed a kiss on it with his lips.~
1151 5| Although fire may have lit up the stars; although (
1152 5| in learning, strangers to literature, without knowledge even
1153 11| think that they had already lived again. It is a double evil
1154 4| recognise, Caecilius, your usual liveliness? and why do I seek vainly
1155 31| glory of our modesty, by the loathing excited by an outrageous
1156 6| worship, and adores its local gods: as the Eleusinians
1157 23| a pile, or of an unlucky log, is hung up, is cut, is
1158 10| superstition, have known? The lonely and miserable nationality
1159 38| these we both use scattered loose and free, and we twine our
1160 38| USE THEM SCATTERED ABOUT LOOSELY AND NEGLIGENTLY, AS WELL
1161 34| believe, do we fear any loss from sepulture, but we adopt
1162 25| captivity, to grow up by the losses of others and by their own
1163 3| it along sloping and as low down as possible upon the
1164 37| that they may fall down lower. For these are fattened
1165 3| even when the winds are lulled, it came up on the shore,
1166 36| as our mind is relaxed by luxury, so it is strengthened by
1167 3| an oaken framework, were lying at rest supported above
1168 13| hesitation of Simonides the lyric poet to be admired and followed
1169 21| the Great, the celebrated Macedonian, wrote in a remarkable document
1170 23| instruments and with what machinery every image is formed, he
1171 24| is the multitude of the mad people.~
1172 26| appear which are. Of those magicians, the first both in eloquence
1173 37| boast of the fasces and the magisterial robes? It is a vain mistake
1174 18| thinks that he knows the magnitude of God, is diminishing it;
1175 26| taken captive? Mancinus maintained his religious duty, and
1176 28| inguinibus inhaerescunt, homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent,
1177 39| that he had repelled the malevolent objectors with the very
1178 6| unknown divinities, and to the Manes. Thus, in that they acknowledge
1179 27| have cured it. These raging maniacs also, whom you see rush
1180 26| deeply, and lay it open more manifestly. There are some insincere
1181 30| ALLOWED TO SEE NOR TO HEAR OF MANSLAUGHTER.~"And now I should wish
1182 19| appointed His day. What says the Mantuan Maro? Is it not even more
1183 31| people by some small bodily mark, as you suppose, but easily
1184 37| exercise of power might make a market of their spirit to the unbridled
1185 9| know one another by secret marks and insignia, and they love
1186 19| day. What says the Mantuan Maro? Is it not even more plain,
1187 31| and mothers is allowed. Marriages with sisters are legitimate
1188 35| manifold turns from the Stygian marsh,--things which, prepared
1189 37| THE HEATHENS AND THE HOLY MARTYRS. HE DECLARES THAT CHRISTIANS
1190 6| the lines of the Gauls, marvelling at the audacity of their
1191 6| worship Ceres; the Phrygians, Mater; the Epidaurians, Aesculapius;
1192 11| years and ages, and as if it mattered not whether wild beasts
1193 22| even to the strength of mature age; and, poor wretches,
1194 9| an impious assembly are maturing themselves throughout the
1195 23| by the good-will of the Mauritanians, Juba is a god; and other
1196 | meanwhile
1197 38| our mind we do not speak meat things, but we live them
1198 12| the sacred contests; the meats previously tasted by, and
1199 8| solemn fasts and inhuman meats--not by any sacred rite,
1200 25| Assyrians held dominion, the Medes, the Persians, the Greeks
1201 26| mortal and immortal--that is, mediate between body and spirit,
1202 30| some women who, by drinking medical preparations, extinguish
1203 7| give caution for dangers, medicine for diseases, hope for the
1204 5| without reason; since the mediocrity of human intelligence is
1205 28| licentiae invident, qui medios viros lambunt, libidinoso
1206 10| all its stars, are they meditating its destruction?--as if
1207 9| MIXED UP IN AN UNCERTAIN MEDLEY.~ "And now, as wickeder
1208 30| And now I should wish to meet him who says or believes
1209 8| leagued together by nightly meetings, and solemn fasts and inhuman
1210 8| before him Diagoras the Melian, to whom antiquity applied
1211 18| particular instances. There is no member in man which is not calculated
1212 28| sint, apud quos sexus omnis membris omnibus prostat, apud quos
1213 20| anxious to preserve their memories in statues, those things
1214 16| illustrious name by their mental skill, were esteemed plebeian,
1215 1| DISPUTATION.~WHEN I consider and mentally review my remembrance of
1216 21| not approached; and not to mention any further the multitude
1217 10| things, for those that I have mentioned are already too many; and
1218 6| Taurians, Diana; the Gauls, Mercurius; the Romans, all divinities.
1219 31| are born at home to the mercy of others, it is inevitable
1220 16| backwards and forwards by mere mistake. For he varied at
1221 41| acknowledge by my praises the merit of his words: the testimony
1222 21| with me. On account of the merits of their virtue or of some
1223 18| the Euphrates cultivates Mesopotamia; the river Indus makes up
1224 26| that are the ministers and messengers of God, even the true God.
1225 24| judge concerning your gods? Mice, swallows, kites, know that
1226 4| they sheltered me in the midst of the three. Nor was this
1227 36| labour. Therefore all your mighty men whom you announce as
1228 2| season was tending to a milder temperature. And thus, when
1229 29| expanded oars; and when the military yoke is lifted up, it is
1230 18| breasts should become full of milk as the offspring grows to
1231 18| by the abundance of the milky moisture? Neither does God
1232 14| while he was chief among the millers, was still the lowest of
1233 37| more prolonged: for now a mimic either expounds or shows
1234 40| way of life which is now mine. Yet even still some things
1235 26| and spirit, compounded by mingling of earthly weight and heavenly
1236 26| the angels that are the ministers and messengers of God, even
1237 33| of their kingdom by the ministrations of their servants: God has
1238 26| but, moreover, whatever miracle they affect to perform,
1239 22| POETS, WHO DID NO LITTLE MISCHIEF TO THE TRUTH BY THEIR AUTHORITY.
1240 36| feel and suffer the human mischiefs of the body is not punishment --
1241 22| CORRUPTED, AND THENCE THEY MISERABLY GROW OLD IN THESE BELIEFS,
1242 12| HEAVIEST CALAMITIES AND MISERIES.~ "Neither do you at least
1243 34| add also this, by way of misrepresenting the truth, that the souls
1244 1| loves, my companion in my mistakes; and when, after the gloom
1245 5| being exhaled, cause the mists always to grow, which being
1246 9| SHAMELESS DARKNESS THEY ARE ALL MIXED UP IN AN UNCERTAIN MEDLEY.~ "
1247 19| occasionally fouled by a mixture of merely civil belief.
1248 37| punishments, and tortures; when, mocking the noise of death, he treads
1249 18| each has certain lineaments modified, and thus we are each found
1250 13| questions of the highest moment, in which species of philosophy
1251 36| we declared by critical moments.~
1252 22| letters for instance, to coin money, to make instruments. Therefore
1253 28| the Christians worshipped monsters, devoured infants, mingled
1254 25| Egyptian--not deities, but monstrosities--assist them; unless perchance
1255 21| multitude of Jupiters, the monstrous appearances of Jupiter are
1256 17| the sun; and look on the month, how the moon drives it
1257 17| look on the month, how the moon drives it around in her
1258 35| ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. THE MORALS OF CHRISTIANS ARE FAR MORE
1259 2| thus, when in the early morning we were going towards the
1260 23| its first parents their mortality is proved, and must have
1261 19| that God is said to be the motion of an infinite mind; and
1262 26| and he says that it is moulded and glides into the human
1263 26| and stirs the senses, and moulds the affections, and infuses
1264 6| their superstition, they move unarmed with weapons, but
1265 32| His works, and in all the movements of the world, we behold
1266 17| Wherefore should I speak of the multiform protection provided by animated
1267 30| AN INFANT THAT THEY HAVE MURDERED, IS a BAREFACED CALUMNY'.
1268 25| spoils of the gods, from the murders of priests. This is to insult
1269 21| gods, was ugly and old, mutilated him, doubtless that she
1270 18| CANNOT EITHER BE SEEN OR NAMED BY US, YET HIS GLORY IS
1271 2| had ascertained by mutual narrative all that we were ignorant
1272 16| the opinion of my friend Natalis has swayed to and fro in
1273 16| proposition. But in my friend Natalis--I will not allow, I do not
1274 6| that each people has its national rites of worship, and adores
1275 10| The lonely and miserable nationality of the Jews worshipped one
1276 23| injury done to him in his nativity, any more than afterwards
1277 25| the land, to overthrow the nearest cities, with their temples
1278 40| resisting the truth, but as necessary to a perfect training of
1279 17| wintry olive-gathering, are needful; and this order would easily
1280 24| from women: it is a crime needing atonement for a slave even
1281 23| SHRINES OF THE GODS.~ "It is needless to go through each individual
1282 4| you, reproached you with negligence, that he might under cover
1283 38| SCATTERED ABOUT LOOSELY AND NEGLIGENTLY, AS WELL AS TO ENTWINE THEIR
1284 25| crime? Now, to drive their neighbours from the land, to overthrow
1285 18| their chieftainship from the neighing of horses; and I do not
1286 22| and multitude, was a man. Nepos knows this, and Cassius
1287 37| shows forth adulteries; now nerveless player, while he feigns
1288 24| them off, they build their nests in the very mouth of your
1289 35| MEN SHALL BE REWARDED WITH NEVER-ENDING FELICITY, BUT UNRIGHTEOUS
1290 30| CRUELLY EXPOSE THEIR CHILDREN NEWLY BORN, AND BE FORE THEY ARE
1291 28| always set afloat by those (newsmongers), and were never either
1292 17| is distinguished in the night by its stars, or as it is
1293 8| which is leagued together by nightly meetings, and solemn fasts
1294 18| flows around it. The river Nile tempers the dryness of Egypt;
1295 37| hind. Are you elevated by nobility of birth? do you praise
1296 25| Doubtless the illustrious and noble justice of the Romans had
1297 19| things. Ah! a higher and nobler account of water and spirit
1298 9| applicable to secret and nocturnal rites; and he who explains
1299 37| tortures; when, mocking the noise of death, he treads under
1300 28| they tremble. at the basest noises produced by the foulness
1301 21| Erigone was hanged from a noose, that as a virgin she might
1302 38| of a sweet flower in our nostrils, not to inhale it with the
1303 21| AEsculapius well bearded, notwithstanding that he is the son of the
1304 9| the initiation of young novices is as much to be detested
1305 35| exist: finally, from your numbers the prison boils over; but
1306 21| appearances of Jupiter are as numerous as his names. Erigone was
1307 21| sacred rites of Jupiter? His nurse is a she-goat, and as an
1308 3| little ships, drawn up on an oaken framework, were lying at
1309 29| glides forward with expanded oars; and when the military yoke
1310 24| without consideration to obey their ancestors, choosing
1311 33| religion, as long as they obeyed His wholesome precepts,
1312 33| in His bosom. But it is objected that it availed the Jews
1313 39| repelled the malevolent objectors with the very weapons of
1314 12| crosses; and that no longer as objects of adoration, but as tortures
1315 24| MOREOVER, WHAT RIDICULOUS, OBSCENE, AND CRUEL RITES WERE OBSERVED
1316 14| truth is for the most part obscure; and on the other side there
1317 13| research continued, the obscurer the truth became to him.
1318 38| flowers. Still we adorn our obsequies with the same tranquillity
1319 2| excessive pleasure; Caecilius, observing an image of Serapis, raised
1320 33| should persevere in their obstinacy. Therefore you will understand
1321 27| possession of the minds and obstruct the hearts, that men may
1322 28| formerly, while yet blind and obtuse, thought the same things
1323 22| OTHER HAND, THE TRUTH IS OBVIOUS TO THEM IF THEY WILL ONLY
1324 27| but there is a dissimilar occasion for their madness. From
1325 19| heavenly, if it were not occasionally fouled by a mixture of merely
1326 38| of agreeable colour and odour among the flowers? For these
1327 12| not grace your bodies with odours; you reserve unguents for
1328 21| burnt up by the fires of OEta.~
1329 9| throwing a small piece of offal beyond the length of a line
1330 35| be ignorant of, than to offend the Parent of all, and the
1331 7| renewal of the games of the offended Jupiter, on account of the
1332 16| with me to dilute the very offensive strain of recriminations
1333 32| cultivates justice makes offerings to God; he who abstains
1334 14| falsehood. Therefore the oftener they believe bold assertions,
1335 17| of autumn, and the wintry olive-gathering, are needful; and this order
1336 26| wait for the very solemn omen given by the greedy pecking
1337 28| quos sexus omnis membris omnibus prostat, apud quos iota
1338 28| sacra sint, apud quos sexus omnis membris omnibus prostat,
1339 28| they are of the pungency of onions, nor of Serapis more than
1340 20| and before the world was opened up by commerce, and before
1341 31| WITH INCEST, IS ENTIRELY OPPOSED TO ALL PROBABILITY, WHILE
1342 25| dominion of the Romans, in opposition to others who were worshipped
1343 7| constantly dwelling in them, than opulent by the ensigns and gifts
1344 17| should I speak of the aptly ordered peaks of the mountains,
1345 18| instead of the world? He orders everything, whatever it
1346 14| EXULT AT HIS OWN BY NO MEANS ORDINARY ELOQUENCE, AND AT THE HARMONIOUS
1347 28| viros lambunt, libidinoso ore inguinibus inhaerescunt,
1348 18| sake of necessity and of ornament; and what is more wonderful
1349 19| Hesiod, of Homer, and of Orpheus. Moreover, the teaching
1350 21| tomb of your Serapis or Osiris empty, with his limbs scattered
1351 | OTHERWISE
1352 19| the man who feigns either otiose gods or none at all, still
1353 17| the top, as it were, for outlook; and all the rest of our
1354 31| the loathing excited by an outrageous infamy, that before inquiring
1355 16| Nor will I disguise in the outset, that the opinion of my
1356 3| rippling wave was smoothing the outside sands as if it would level
1357 1| more glorious still--he outstripped him. And thus, when my thoughts
1358 20| look upon them when dead in outward forms, anxious to preserve
1359 19| he forcibly denounces and overcomes the public error. Chrysippus
1360 25| neighbours from the land, to overthrow the nearest cities, with
1361 9| the conscious light being overturned and extinguished in the
1362 28| adore and feed Apis the ox, with the Egyptians? And
1363 21| eyes bluish grey; Juno with ox-eyes; Mercury with winged feet;
1364 28| and worship the heads of oxen and of wethers, and you
1365 12| garlands to your sepulchres--pallid, trembling beings, worthy
1366 25| Cloacina; Hostilius, Fear and Pallor. Subsequently Fever was
1367 21| Mercury with winged feet; Pan with hoofed feet; Saturn
1368 25| shrines? where are more panderings debated, or more acts of
1369 35| swears religiously by the parching banks and the black abyss;
1370 28| incestuous persons, and even parricides, did not think that these (
1371 7| demand our standards from the Parthians, Crassus both deserved and
1372 21| by the same names; as the passage of the comic writer runs,
1373 19| of Pythagoras is the soul passing to and fro and intent, throughout
1374 1| as if I were returning to past times, and not merely recalling
1375 3| same way again, we trod the path with reverted footsteps.
1376 6| propagated its empire beyond the paths of the sun, and the bounds
1377 36| Birds live without any patrimony, and day by day the cattle
1378 24| affords to each of them mutual patronage? Here the defence of the
1379 4| spectacle, Caecilius was paying no attention, nor laughing
1380 5| men who generally fall? In peace also, not only is wickedness
1381 17| speak of the aptly ordered peaks of the mountains, the slopes
1382 17| moreover, they cannot be felt, peceived and understood without the
1383 26| omen given by the greedy pecking of the chickens. But what
1384 10| worshipped one God, and one peculiar to itself; but they worshipped
1385 35| are not wasted; so that penal fire is not fed by the waste
1386 28| Believe us ourselves when penitent, for we also were the same
1387 33| very few. We distinguish peoples and nations; to God this
1388 18| the whole world. Unless, perchance--since there is no doubt
1389 17| furniture of the whole world was perfected by the divine reason, and
1390 23| ignorant is deceived by the perfection of art, is blinded by the
1391 18| arranges it by His wisdom; perfects it by His power. He can
1392 37| soldier would not provoke peril with greater boldness under
1393 1| were traversing the entire period of our intimacy and friendship,
1394 37| against the king, would have perished among the enemies unless
1395 34| from our feeble eyes, it perishes to God? Every body, whether
1396 23| gods after death; as by the perjury of Proculus, Romulus became
1397 11| fate of Protesilaus, with permission to sojourn even for a few
1398 18| is true, and if God shall permit. Is this the natural discourse
1399 18| gives birth to all gives perpetuity to Himself--that He who
1400 7| announced the victory over the Persian on the same day on which
1401 5| persevere in exploring it with persistent diligence. And thus all
1402 5| feel pain, that certain persons--and these unskilled in learning,
1403 14| and even the faculty of perspicuous eloquence. This is very
1404 32| ALTARS, INASMUCH AS THEY ARE PERSUADED THAT GOD CAN BE CIRCUMSCRIBED
1405 9| by I know not what silly persuasion,--a worthy and appropriate
1406 19| his words: 'For that God pervades all the lands, and the tracts
1407 28| perish; making use of a perverse inquisition against them,
1408 26| very source of error and perverseness, whence all that obscurity
1409 5| authority of any deity, Phalaris and Dionysius would never
1410 21| Delphic Apollo, and of the Pharian Isis, and of the Eleusinian
1411 26| complained that the Pythia philippized. But sometimes, it is true,
1412 13| if you have a desire to philosophize, let any one of you who
1413 21| kinds of produce. Persaeus philosophizes also to the same result;
1414 6| Eleusinians worship Ceres; the Phrygians, Mater; the Epidaurians,
1415 19| the example of Zeno in his physiological interpretation of the poems
1416 25| Consus, and Pilumnus, and Picumnus. Tatius both discovered
1417 25| of the Romans--Romulus, Picus, Tiberinus, and Consus,
1418 9| provoked, by throwing a small piece of offal beyond the length
1419 11| beasts tore the body to pieces, or seas consumed it, or
1420 25| as by their religion and piety. Doubtless the illustrious
1421 23| a portion perhaps of a pile, or of an unlucky log, is
1422 11| they execrate our funeral piles, and condemn our burials
1423 25| Tiberinus, and Consus, and Pilumnus, and Picumnus. Tatius both
1424 35| ARGUMENT: RIGHTEOUS AND PIOUS MEN SHALL BE REWARDED WITH
1425 24| laughable, and how many also pitiable! Naked people run about
1426 5| united?--and when with the plague-taint of the sky a region is stained,
1427 20| TRADITIONS. NOR IS IT SHOWN LESS PLAINLY THAT THE WORSHIP OF THE
1428 17| hills, the expanses of the plains? Wherefore should I speak
1429 23| up, is cut, is hewn, is planed; and a god of brass or of
1430 14| this, a man of the race of Plautus, who, while he was chief
1431 3| shells into the sea. This play is: To choose a shell from
1432 3| eagerly gesticulating as they played at throwing shells into
1433 37| adulteries; now nerveless player, while he feigns lust, suggests
1434 8| freely of the force of the plea that I have undertaken)--
1435 41| inspired by whom he has pleaded, and aided by whom he has
1436 15| to weaken the force of my pleading by the interpolation of
1437 2| agreed to go to that very pleasant city Ostia, that my body
1438 29| illustrious man, and love is more pleasantly given to a very good man.
1439 21| lover, who unhappily was pleasing to her, to lewdness, because
1440 37| reasonably abstain from evil pleasures, and from your pomps and
1441 16| mental skill, were esteemed plebeian, untaught, half-naked. Thus
1442 9| By this victim they are pledged together; with this consciousness
1443 31| incestuous banqueting, the plotting of demons has falsely devised
1444 17| or bring on the season of ploughing or of reaping, each of which
1445 7| to take for granted the point in debate, and so to err
1446 20| illustrious glory it is to, have pointed out that there is one God,
1447 21| throughout various provinces points out these circumstances
1448 5| would never have merited the poison. Behold the fruit-bearing
1449 16| it is not coloured by the pomp of eloquence and grace;
1450 15| our decision, not by the pompous style of the eloquence,
1451 37| pleasures, and from your pomps and exhibitions, the origin
1452 40| CHRISTIAN RELIGION. HE POST PONES, HOWEVER, TILL THE MORROW
1453 9| worship the virilia of their pontiff and priest, and adore the
1454 25| although they had not any Pontiffs, nor Arvales, nor Salii,
1455 12| declare, the larger and better portion--are in want, are cold, are
1456 3| the shell in a horizontal position with the fingers; to whiff
1457 27| AND ARE DRIVEN FROM THE POSSESSED BODIES. HENCE THEY FLEE
1458 27| you can. Thus they take possession of the minds and obstruct
1459 36| he does not crave for the possessions of others, if he is rich
1460 17| sight itself. For what can possibly be so manifest, so confessed,
1461 40| THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION. HE POST PONES, HOWEVER, TILL THE
1462 22| their names to the memory of posterity. Therefore it was certainly
1463 12| Thou, who dreamest over a posthumous immortality, when thou art
1464 13| day to deliberate; then postponed his reply for two days;
1465 38| which libations have been poured, is not a confession of
1466 32| abstains from fraudulent practices propitiates God; he who
1467 22| illustrious Homer whom he had praised and crowned. For it was
1468 41| can I acknowledge by my praises the merit of his words:
1469 23| it is consecrated, it is prayed to--then at length it is
1470 18| common people, or is it the prayer of a confessing Christian?
1471 27| and by the fires of our prayers. Saturn himself, and Serapis,
1472 33| they obeyed His wholesome precepts, from a few became innumerable,
1473 12| fires also, which you both predict and fear. Where is that
1474 9| various, and requiring to be prefaced by an apology, unless truth
1475 16| reasoning and feeling, without preference of age, sex, or dignity.
1476 22| as much as possible have prejudiced the truths by their authority.
1477 30| who, by drinking medical preparations, extinguish the source of
1478 35| Stygian marsh,--things which, prepared for eternal torments, and
1479 13| oracle he himself had a presentiment of, that he had been preferred
1480 38| expiated; let true religion be preserved. ~
1481 18| would believe that a master presided over it, and that he himself
1482 29| from such charges. For you pretend that those things are done
1483 8| bear with my making use pretty freely of the force of the
1484 8| absolutely; yet never will they prevail in this discipline of impiety,
1485 25| for the Romans, since they prevailed not so much by their valour
1486 14| ARGUMENT: WITH SOMETHING OF THE PRIDE OF SELF-SATISFACTION, CAECILIUS
1487 13| if he can, Socrates the prince of wisdom. The answer of
1488 22| Greek, and polished,--to print letters for instance, to
1489 35| finally, from your numbers the prison boils over; but there is
1490 28| etiam si tacerent, quos prius taedescit impudicitiae suae
1491 31| ENTIRELY OPPOSED TO ALL PROBABILITY, WHILE IT IS PLAIN THAT
1492 4| ignorance. Therefore I shall proceed further: the matter is now
1493 16| RIVER OF TRUTHFUL WORDS. HE PROCEEDS TO WEAKEN THE INDIVIDUAL
1494 23| borne children. Or has that process of generation ceased, for
1495 37| THEMSELVES AT PUBLIC SHOWS AND PROCESSIONS, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEM,
1496 31| marriage; in the desire of procreating, we know either one wife,
1497 23| death; as by the perjury of Proculus, Romulus became a god; and
1498 36| prefer being good to being prodigal; and that we feel and suffer
1499 8| deliberately rather than profanely concerning the divinity,
1500 40| CONQUEROR OVER ERROR, HE PROFESSES THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.