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1501 25| asylum. Abandoned people, profligate, incestuous, assassins,
1502 18| maturity, and that the tender progeny should grow up by the nourishment
1503 17| labour and rest? Truly a more prolix discourse concerning the
1504 31| indulge in entertainments nor prolong our feasts with wine; but
1505 3| it would level them for a promenade; and as the sea is always
1506 31| nations. Among the Persians, a promiscuous association between sons
1507 17| beasts, that while they are prone and tending to the earth,
1508 13| THAT WE MUST NOT RASHLY PRONOUNCE UPON DOUBTFUL MATTERS.~ "
1509 37| upon the very man who has pronounced sentence against him! For
1510 14| confidence of acknowledged proof--as carefully as possible
1511 5| wander away beyond the limits proper to our humility, and though,
1512 32| from fraudulent practices propitiates God; he who snatches man
1513 6| deserved to have gods either propitious to them, or as their kings.
1514 16| of the uncertainty of his proposition. But in my friend Natalis--
1515 21| tracks the footsteps of Proserpine, stolen away in her wandering,
1516 28| sexus omnis membris omnibus prostat, apud quos iota impudicitia
1517 7| which the Roman city is both protected and armed: they are more
1518 11| dead either by the fate of Protesilaus, with permission to sojourn
1519 11| and take no more pains to prove, that they themselves are
1520 18| doubt as to the existence of providence--you think that it is a subject
1521 32| and which are beyond this province of the universe, are known
1522 37| What soldier would not provoke peril with greater boldness
1523 9| tied to the chandelier is provoked, by throwing a small piece
1524 37| sighs, hatreds; the same provokes your tears with pretended
1525 5| sufficiently happy and sufficiently prudent, if, according to that ancient
1526 12| wisdom or modesty, cease from prying into the regions of the
1527 10| things always rejoice in publicity, while crimes are kept secret?
1528 23| common people pray to and publicly worship the consecrated
1529 28| taedescit impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.) Abomination ! they suffer
1530 28| Isis than they are of the pungency of onions, nor of Serapis
1531 35| only for our own wives: you punish crimes when committed; with
1532 11| an iniquitous judge, who punishes in men, not their will,
1533 18| nor can be grasped--He is purer than touch; nor estimated;
1534 10| UNSEASONABLY INQUISITIVE.~ "I purposely pass over many things, for
1535 38| also, and Carneades, and Pyrrho, and all the multitude of
1536 26| Pythian Apollo concerning Pyrrhus, although Apollo had already
1537 26| feigned, complained that the Pythia philippized. But sometimes,
1538 26| invented the replies of the Pythian Apollo concerning Pyrrhus,
1539 36| according to the deserts and the qualities of individuals. Thus in
1540 28| taedescit impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.) Abomination !
1541 20| illustrious Leader, or modest Queen braver than her sex, or
1542 40| to the substance of the question, I both confess concerning
1543 13| many of the Academics, in questions of the highest moment, in
1544 11| feel it not, in the very quickness of their destruction there
1545 3| itself. And thus, slowly and quietly going along, we tracked
1546 31| assembled together with the same quietness with which we live as individuals;
1547 18| of horses; and I do not quote that absolutely dead fable
1548 34| MADE MAN FROM NOTHING, CAN RAISE HIM UP FROM DEATH INTO LIFE.
1549 4| matter of observance, or of rank, or of honour, because friendship
1550 17| broadly it is expanded, how rapidly it is whirled around, either
1551 19| believes that a divine force, a rational nature, and sometimes the
1552 5| winds to blow, the hail to rattle down; or when the clouds
1553 27| thus they rage, thus they rave, thus they are whirled around.
1554 5| nor is it religious to ravish, the things that are supported
1555 32| eye is with drawn from his rays, the gaze of the beholder
1556 34| by God, so can again be re-formed; that he is nothing after
1557 39| authorities derived from reading; and that he had repelled
1558 17| season of ploughing or of reaping, each of which things not
1559 34| destroyed by Him by whom it was reared. You observe that philosophers
1560 3| occupied a sufficiently reasonable time of our walk with discourse,
1561 37| character and our modesty, reasonably abstain from evil pleasures,
1562 4| GRIEVED AT THIS KIND OF REBUKE WHICH FOR HIS SAKE MINUCIUS
1563 20| mutual agreement, when it is rebutted by the opinions of its own
1564 27| XXVII. ARGUMENT: RECAPITULATION. DOUBTLESS HERE IS A SOURCE
1565 24| with many; and she who can reckon up most adulteries is sought
1566 25| infamous harlots, must be reckoned among the diseases and the
1567 24| superstition. And if you reconsider the rites of these gods,
1568 7| temples. Consider what is the record of books. You will at once
1569 31| Egyptians and in Athens. Your records and your tragedies, which
1570 16| very offensive strain of recriminations in the river of veracious
1571 38| benefits, and let us in rectitude moderate our judgments;
1572 17| What shall I say of the recurring changes of darkness and
1573 5| the lightnings to grow red, the thunderbolts to gleam
1574 3| disgrace of this his error redounds in no less degree to your
1575 23| his existence? Lo, it is reeked, it is wrought, it is sculptured--
1576 9| explains their ceremonies by reference to a man punished by extreme
1577 18| should behold everything refined, well arranged, and adorned,
1578 3| DISGRACE OF THIS WICKED DEED IS REFLECTED NOT LESS ON HIMSELF, AS
1579 2| breathing air might gently refresh our limbs, and that the
1580 18| deficient in sunshine, but it is refreshed by the warmth of the sea
1581 5| plague-taint of the sky a region is stained, that all perish
1582 12| cease from prying into the regions of the sky, and the destinies
1583 16| he was indignant, that he regretted that illiterate, poor, unskilled
1584 17| they always roll on in regular courses. Why should I speak
1585 22| the earth. His son Jupiter reigned at Crete after his father
1586 5| kinds of life, you have rejected the one and assented to
1587 38| THEREFORE THEIR RELIGION, REJECTING ALL THE SUPERSTITIONS OF
1588 21| little boy is found, Isis rejoices, and the priests exult,
1589 3| stories. These stories were related by Octavius, who was discoursing
1590 2| at the vintage-time had released me from my cares. For at
1591 11| their destruction there is relief. Deceived by this error,
1592 40| Yet even still some things remain in my mind, not as resisting
1593 2| soothing and appropriate remedy for drying its humours from
1594 1| consider and mentally review my remembrance of Octavius, my excellent
1595 5| ARGUMENT FIRST OF ALL BY REMINDING THEM THAT IN HUMAN AFFAIRS
1596 27| sacrifices of cattle, that, by remitting what they had bound, they
1597 11| have been disgracefully remoulded by you, believing undoubtingly
1598 18| about the twins (Romulus and Remus), in respect of the dominion
1599 27| they disturb the life, render all men unquiet; creeping
1600 29| whereas honour is more truly rendered to an illustrious man, and
1601 7| had gained it. Witness the renewal of the games of the offended
1602 11| whether with the same or with renewed bodies? Without a body?
1603 34| that which is not, than to repeat that which has been. Do
1604 3| rise as if lifted up with repeated springs. That boy claimed
1605 39| reading; and that he had repelled the malevolent objectors
1606 28| feared, and that he only repented that he had not been one
1607 13| of such a long delay, he replied that, the longer his research
1608 26| present. Ennius invented the replies of the Pythian Apollo concerning
1609 7| to labours. Even in our repose we see, we hear, we acknowledge
1610 21| Jupiter himself? Now he is represented in a statue as beardless,
1611 30| Africa, caresses and kisses repressing their crying, that a weeping
1612 16| DILUTE THE BITTERNESS OF REPROACH WITH THE RIVER OF TRUTHFUL
1613 15| refute it." "What you are reproving," said I, "unless I am mistaken,
1614 26| the greater part of the republic. Caius Caesar despised the
1615 13| THE NEW RELIGION IS TO BE REPUDIATED; AND THAT WE MUST NOT RASHLY
1616 16| among things contrary and repugnant to one another; but that
1617 8| rite, but by that which requires expiation--a people skulking
1618 9| so great and various, and requiring to be prefaced by an apology,
1619 13| replied that, the longer his research continued, the obscurer
1620 12| bodies with odours; you reserve unguents for funeral rites;
1621 34| withdrawn from us, but it is reserved for God in the custody of
1622 26| auguries and auspices that resisted his making his voyage into
1623 40| remain in my mind, not as resisting the truth, but as necessary
1624 12| anxiety, are abstaining from respectable enjoyments. You do not visit
1625 27| ORACLES INVOLVED IN FALSE RESPONSES. THESE THINGS NOT FROM GOD;
1626 35| fire burns the limbs and restores them, feeds on them and
1627 14| lowest of philosophers?" "Restrain," said I, "your self-approval
1628 38| judgments; let superstition be restrained; let impiety be expiated;
1629 21| philosophizes also to the same result; and he adds thereto, that
1630 34| win-try decay the shrubs resume their leaves, seeds do not
1631 3| our feet, and now the wave retiring and retracing its course,
1632 11| what single individual has returned from the dead either by
1633 6| uncertain, how much more reverential and better it is, as the
1634 3| again, we trod the path with reverted footsteps. And when we came
1635 8| fear with the solace of a revival.~
1636 39| ADMIRATION OF OCTAVIUS, SILENTLY REVOLVING WHAT HE HAD HEARD. ~When
1637 7| and the gifts, and the rewards of the gods. Moreover, I
1638 22| XXII. RGUMENT: MOREOVER, THESE FABLES,
1639 31| scattered reproaches as a rhetorician. For these things have rather
1640 34| philosopher's inquiry, but of the ribaldry of a buffoon. But for our
1641 8| EITHER ALTOGETHER TO GET RID OF THE RELIGION OF THE GODS,
1642 20| horses entwined with their riders; and whatever Report was
1643 38| the truth of divinity has ripened in the age of our time?
1644 3| shore· There the gently rippling wave was smoothing the outside
1645 3| rest supported above the (risk of) ground-rot, we saw some
1646 17| perpetual streams! Gaze on the rivers; they always roll on in
1647 16| make choice of particular roads, nor try them all; so, if
1648 21| is a huntress, with her robe girded up high; and as the
1649 4| Let us be seated on those rocky barriers that are cast there
1650 17| the rivers; they always roll on in regular courses. Why
1651 25| the indigenous gods of the Romans--Romulus, Picus, Tiberinus,
1652 9| confederacy ought to be rooted out and execrated. They
1653 38| when we gather both the rose of spring and the lily,
1654 34| flourish again. unless they are rotted: thus the body in the sepulchre
1655 18| was there an alliance in royal authority which either began
1656 3| a shell from the shore, rubbed and made smooth by the tossing
1657 25| violence, that is, from the ruins of cities, from the spoils
1658 18| empire could not receive two rulers. Look at other matters.
1659 5| unrestrained by laws, is ruling over us.~
1660 28| demons, for by them false rumours are both sown and cherished.
1661 5| have deserved to reign, Rutilius and Camillus would never
1662 28| impudicitae eorum forsitan sacra sint, apud quos sexus omnis
1663 32| when the victim fit for sacrifice is a good disposition, and
1664 30| inhuman, sacrifices. The Roman sacrificers buried living a Greek man
1665 9| these are more foul than any sacrileges. And of their banqueting
1666 22| hiding-place, because he had been safely hidden (latent) there, should
1667 5| that ancient oracle of the sage, we should know ourselves
1668 26| the more easily he both sailed and conquered. But what
1669 29| carried along with swelling sails, when it glides forward
1670 25| Pontiffs, nor Arvales, nor Salii, nor Vestals, nor Augurs,
1671 25| Juno, now of Argos, now of Samos, now of Carthage, nor Diana
1672 6| ceremonies and temples so much of sanctity as it has ascribed of age.~
1673 2| limbs, and that the yielding sand might sink down under our
1674 3| was smoothing the outside sands as if it would level them
1675 22| showers of blood his son Sarpedon, because he could not snatch
1676 4| attention," And at his word we sat down, so that, by covering
1677 39| MINUCIUS AND CAECILIUS SATE FOR SOME TIME IN ATTENTIVE
1678 2| continual association had satisfied the craving of affection,
1679 22| his own name, the name of Saturnia, and Janus, Janiculum, so
1680 19| called wise men for their sayings. Let Thales the Milesian
1681 37| men to the skies; Mucius Scaevola, for instance, who, when
1682 30| youngling, and of a man scarcley come into existence? No
1683 31| what is unlawful: since you scatter your lusts promiscuously,
1684 28| which is, always fed by the scattering of falsehoods, is wasted
1685 37| gladiatorial games? In the scenic games also the madness is
1686 7| Crassus both deserved and scoffed at the imprecations of the
1687 17| ACKNOWLEDGES THE ENTIRE SCOPE OF THINGS, AND GOD HIMSELF.
1688 17| or nothing but summer to scorch with its heat, to interpose
1689 25| priests. This is to insult and scorn, to yield to conquered religions,
1690 28| impudicitia vocatur urbanitas; qui scortorum licentiae invident, qui
1691 24| head. You wipe, cleanse, scrape, and you protect and fear
1692 33| Carefully read over their Scriptures, or if you are better pleased
1693 15| advantage, so that by a scrupulous examination we might weigh
1694 23| god of stone is cut, is sculptured, and is polished by some
1695 23| reeked, it is wrought, it is sculptured--it is not yet a god; lo,
1696 20| marvellous wonders; a manifold Scylla, a Chimaera of many forms,
1697 21| youthful Apollo; Neptune with sea-green eyes; Minerva with eyes
1698 5| nor is it permitted to search, nor is it religious to
1699 36| adversity He looks into and searches out each one; He weighs
1700 17| What! when the order of the seasons and of the harvests is distinguished
1701 4| philosophers. Let us be seated on those rocky barriers
1702 12| sky, and the destinies and secrets of the world: it is sufficient
1703 11| it is according to your sect to believe that men will,
1704 5| many of the multitude of sects in all ages (still doubt),
1705 38| since we, being both ate and secure in the liberality of our
1706 24| greatly does he wrong God in seeking to propitiate Him in this
1707 21| Isis bewails, laments, and seeks after her lost son, with
1708 18| power. He can neither be seen--He is brighter than light;
1709 32| HE IS EVERYWHERE PRESENT, SEES ALL THINGS, EVEN THE MOST
1710 14| Restrain," said I, "your self-approval against him; for it is not
1711 14| SOMETHING OF THE PRIDE OF SELF-SATISFACTION, CAECILIUS URGES OCTAVIUS
1712 17| not to have either mind or sense, or, in fact, even sight
1713 19| comprehended. And both of them were sensible of the majesty of God, while
1714 37| very man who has pronounced sentence against him! For he has
1715 2| another by reason of our separation, we agreed to go to that
1716 12| refuse garlands to your sepulchres--pallid, trembling beings,
1717 23| and to develope the entire series of that race, since in its
1718 4| cover of that charge more seriously condemn me for ignorance.
1719 21| and surrounded s with a serpent, with anxiety and solicitude
1720 28| instituted in honour of serpents, and crocodiles, and other
1721 28| forsitan sacra sint, apud quos sexus omnis membris omnibus prostat,
1722 34| the prophets, imitated the shadow of the corrupted truth.
1723 24| way is this? And he whose shameful parts are cut off, how greatly
1724 10| troublesome, restless, even shamelessly inquisitive, since he is
1725 1| think that one mind had been shared between us two. Thus he
1726 31| none at all. We practise sharing in banquets, which are not
1727 3| THIS SUPERSTITIOUS MAN, SHARPLY REPROACHES MINUCIUS, ON
1728 21| Jupiter? His nurse is a she-goat, and as an infant he is
1729 3| they played at throwing shells into the sea. This play
1730 4| me on either side, they sheltered me in the midst of the three.
1731 18| respect of the dominion of shepherds, and of a cottage, is very
1732 5| again others, always to shine forth. Thus the vapours
1733 23| gold, is dimmed with the shining of silver and the whiteness
1734 3| that place where the little ships, drawn up on an oaken framework,
1735 7| Carthaginians, but a fatal shipwreck. Thus, that Thrasymenus
1736 5| order or discrimination?--in shipwrecks, that the fates of good
1737 17| some hedged with teeth, and shod with claws, and barbed with
1738 31| strangers increase it. Thus, in short, we do not distinguish our
1739 22| and that he bewailed in showers of blood his son Sarpedon,
1740 19| fire, and in like manner by showing the other gods of the common
1741 30| homicide; and so much do we shrink from human blood, that we
1742 34| their win-try decay the shrubs resume their leaves, seeds
1743 35| with his worshippers, he shudders. Nor is there either measure
1744 8| expiation--a people skulking and shunning the light, silent in public,
1745 28| homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent, quos prius taedescit
1746 37| attributing to them adulteries, sighs, hatreds; the same provokes
1747 1| business, he agreed with me in similarity of will, in either liking
1748 35| to think of crimes is to sin: you are afraid of those
1749 32| and a pure mind, and a sincere judgment. Therefore he who
1750 40| and I agree concerning the sincerity of the way of life which
1751 13| oracle the testimony of singular wisdom, which oracle he
1752 2| the yielding sand might sink down under our easy footsteps
1753 34| future resurrection. The sun sinks down and arises, the stars
1754 28| impudicitae eorum forsitan sacra sint, apud quos sexus omnis membris
1755 4| COMPANION CONSENTS, AND MINUCIUS SITS IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN CAECILIUS
1756 37| extol unfortunate men to the skies; Mucius Scaevola, for instance,
1757 16| illustrious name by their mental skill, were esteemed plebeian,
1758 3| when thrown it may either skim the back of the wave, or
1759 9| their rites: this infant is slain by the young pupil, who
1760 32| snatches man from danger slaughters the most acceptable victim.
1761 24| needing atonement for a slave even to be present at some
1762 28| be able to bear, and no slavery so cruel as to be compelled
1763 26| WEAPON THAT CAECILIUS HAD SLIGHTLY BRANDISHED AGAINST HIM,
1764 16| such an erratic, vague, and slippery manner, that we are compelled
1765 37| Like a dream, happiness slips away before it is grasped.
1766 17| peaks of the mountains, the slopes of the hills, the expanses
1767 3| back into itself. And thus, slowly and quietly going along,
1768 38| garland to one who does not smell it, when either as blessed
1769 14| Thus far Caecilius; and smiling cheerfully (for the vehemence
1770 5| sacred and profane; they smite mischievous men, and often,
1771 34| ashes, or is attenuated into smoke, is withdrawn from us, but
1772 7| breathless, foaming, and smoking, announced the victory over
1773 21| god, and crippled; Apollo, smooth-faced after so many ages; AEsculapius
1774 3| gently rippling wave was smoothing the outside sands as if
1775 22| Sarpedon, because he could not snatch him from death; and that,
1776 32| propitiates God; he who snatches man from danger slaughters
1777 17| feet, or by the capacity of soaring furnished by wings? The
1778 31| not only modest, but also sober: for we do not indulge in
1779 17| can you well perform your social duty unless you know that
1780 19| for gods. For Xenophon the Socratic says that the form of the
1781 11| Protesilaus, with permission to sojourn even for a few hours, or
1782 23| not yet a god; lo, it is soldered, it is built together--it
1783 37| which he contends. What soldier would not provoke peril
1784 3| water we were wetting the soles of our feet, and it now
1785 21| serpent, with anxiety and solicitude tracks the footsteps of
1786 37| warfare glorious. But God's solidier is neither forsaken in suffering,
1787 10| or where is the one God, solitary, desolate, whom no free
1788 4| IV. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS, SOMEWHAT GRIEVED AT THIS KIND OF
1789 18| well known. The wars of the son-in-law and the father-in-law were
1790 7| many, and I pass by the songs of the poets about the births,
1791 8| so does a deceitful hope soothe their fear with the solace
1792 2| that my body might have a soothing and appropriate remedy for
1793 26| in eloquence and in deed, Sosthenes, not only describes the
1794 15| thing that I have said, sound and unimpaired, if he can
1795 11| unhealthy belief, and vain sources of comfort, with which deceiving
1796 28| them false rumours are both sown and cherished. Thence arises
1797 13| highest moment, in which species of philosophy the unlearned
1798 37| CONFESSION OF CHRIST'S NAME ARE SPECTACLES WORTHY OF GOD. A COMPARISON
1799 24| very mouth of your god. Spiders, indeed, weave their webs
1800 25| cultivate, possess, is the spoil of their audacity. All their
1801 34| We must wait also for the spring-time of the body. And I am not
1802 21| and when Latiaris, he is sprinkled with gore; and when Feretrius,
1803 22| the father of a man, and sprung from a man. He was declared,
1804 28| consecrate whole asses in your stables, together with your Epona,
1805 31| enormous fable against us, to stain the glory of our modesty,
1806 26| heavenly vigour by earthly stains and lusts. Now these spirits,
1807 36| in our case it is not the star under which we are born
1808 25| city,--diseases and ill states of health. Assuredly also
1809 21| Now he is represented in a statue as beardless, now he is
1810 17| its artificer: our upright stature, our uplooking countenance,
1811 30| of blood, and Bellona to steep her sacred rites with a
1812 1| but--what is more glorious still--he outstripped him. And
1813 17| with claws, and barbed with stings, or with freedom obtained
1814 27| NEIGHBOURHOOD OF CHRISTIANS, AND STIR UP A HATRED AGAINST THEM
1815 19| inquired after. Aristo the Stoic says that He cannot at all
1816 21| footsteps of Proserpine, stolen away in her wandering, and
1817 3| this to give himself up to stones, however they may be carved
1818 32| and by the blasts of the storm all things are driven on
1819 16| dilute the very offensive strain of recriminations in the
1820 30| that you crush them when strangled with a miserable kind of
1821 19| and intelligence, as God? Strato also himself says that God
1822 31| to your own children, and stray to your own offspring. Thus
1823 17| how they gush in perpetual streams! Gaze on the rivers; they
1824 24| gods a-begging through the streets. Some fanes it is permitted
1825 10| broken up, and the heavenly structure dissolved, and that fabric
1826 22| elaborate them in our very studies and instructions, especially
1827 16| wealth, nor is gotten by study, but is begotten with the
1828 35| manifold turns from the Stygian marsh,--things which, prepared
1829 15| decision, not by the pompous style of the eloquence, but by
1830 28| prius taedescit impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.) Abomination !
1831 5| things which are deeply submerged below the earth; and we
1832 38| think either that we are submitting to demons, to whom libation
1833 25| Hostilius, Fear and Pallor. Subsequently Fever was dedicated by I
1834 14| has delighted me by its subtile variety, yet I am very deeply
1835 23| by the very law of their succession, unless perhaps you fancy
1836 5| investigating truth, should rashly succumb to any sort of opinion rather
1837 3| and retracing its course, sucked itself back into itself.
1838 27| degrees, as the faith of the sufferer assists or the grace of
1839 37| your tears with pretended sufferings, with vain gestures and
1840 12| work and hunger; and God suffers it, He feigns; He either
1841 18| true and divine empire is sundered, when it is manifest that
1842 5| gathered together, cause other suns, and again others, always
1843 18| Britain is deficient in sunshine, but it is refreshed by
1844 38| HEAD OF A CORPSE THEY THINK SUPERFLUOUS AND USELESS. MOREOVER, WITH
1845 29| invoke their deity, they supplicate their images, they implore
1846 31| small bodily mark, as you suppose, but easily enough by the
1847 9| to harmless blows on the surface of the meal, with dark and
1848 8| whom antiquity applied the surname of Atheist,--both of whom,
1849 32| in heaven, He can neither survey all nor know individuals.
1850 24| webs over his face, and suspend their threads from his very
1851 5| its own material may have suspended the heaven; although its
1852 32| extinguished. What! can you sustain the Architect of the sun
1853 21| Jupiter. And you behold the swallow and the cymbal of Isis,
1854 24| concerning your gods? Mice, swallows, kites, know that they have
1855 16| of my friend Natalis has swayed to and fro in such an erratic,
1856 29| demon; and it is safer to swear falsely by the genius of
1857 35| even king Jupiter himself swears religiously by the parching
1858 2| words,--a language all the sweeter for the very imperfection
1859 17| with freedom obtained by swiftness of feet, or by the capacity
1860 3| back of the wave, or may swim as it glides along with
1861 7| Thrasymenus might be both swollen and discoloured with the
1862 26| angels and demons? And in his Symposium also, does not he endeavour
1863 6| the Chaldaeans; Belus; the Syrians, Astarte; the Taurians,
1864 28| homines malae linguae etiam si tacerent, quos prius taedescit impudicitiae
1865 28| si tacerent, quos prius taedescit impudicitiae suae quam pudescit.)
1866 18| MOREOVER, GOD NOT ONLY TAKES CARE OF THE UNIVERSAL WORLD,
1867 34| whose judgment, the more tardy it is, is so much the more
1868 12| contests; the meats previously tasted by, and the drinks made
1869 25| Pilumnus, and Picumnus. Tatius both discovered and worshipped
1870 30| sacrificed. Moreover, among the Tauri of Pontus, and to the Egyptian
1871 6| the Syrians, Astarte; the Taurians, Diana; the Gauls, Mercurius;
1872 25| of Carthage, nor Diana of Tauris, nor the Idaean Mother,
1873 37| the same provokes your tears with pretended sufferings,
1874 17| horns, some hedged with teeth, and shod with claws, and
1875 26| also, without hesitation, tell of both angels and demons?
1876 31| feasts with wine; but we temper our joyousness with gravity,
1877 31| ARE NOT ONLY MODEST, BUT TEMPERATE. IN FACT, INCESTUOUS LUST
1878 18| around it. The river Nile tempers the dryness of Egypt; the
1879 32| and yet neither wind nor tempest comes under our eyesight.
1880 5| men. Why should I speak of tempests, various and uncertain,
1881 35| is there either measure termination to these torments. There
1882 7| the imprecations of the terrible sisters. I omit the old
1883 25| BY CRIME, AND GREW BY THE TERRORS OF THEIR FEROCITY. AND THEREFORE
1884 9| speech of our Cirtensian testifies to it. On a solemn day they
1885 22| Cassius in his history; and Thallus and Diodorus speak the same
1886 18| absolutely dead fable of the Theban brothers. The story about
1887 19| ways, a divine mind to God. Theophrastus, and Zeno, and Chrysippus,
1888 27| These impure spirits, therefore--the demons--as is shown
1889 | therein
1890 21| same result; and he adds thereto, that the fruits discovered,
1891 | Thereupon
1892 | thine
1893 29| neighbourhood of the truth, in thinking either that a criminal deserved,
1894 9| dark and secret wounds. Thirstily--O horror!--they lick up
1895 16| tide, and tossed hither and thither among things contrary and
1896 5| some, from the weariness of thoroughly investigating truth, should
1897 25| own people neither did the Thracian Mars, nor the Cretan Jupiter,
1898 7| fatal shipwreck. Thus, that Thrasymenus might be both swollen and
1899 24| face, and suspend their threads from his very head. You
1900 10| particulars. What! because they threaten conflagration to the whole
1901 3| vagaries, as on the very threshold of the water we were wetting
1902 22| loves. Elsewhere Hercules threw out dung, and Apollo is
1903 32| for my use, that I should throw back to Him His own gift?
1904 3| upon the waves, that when thrown it may either skim the back
1905 5| together, they cause the thunder to bellow, the lightnings
1906 32| power ever present when He thunders, lightens, darts His bolts,
1907 2| along the shore (of the Tiber), that both the breathing
1908 25| Romans--Romulus, Picus, Tiberinus, and Consus, and Pilumnus,
1909 16| way is cast about by the tide, and tossed hither and thither
1910 17| and flows with alternate tides. Look at the fountains,
1911 9| drunkenness, a dog that has been tied to the chandelier is provoked,
1912 40| HE POST PONES, HOWEVER, TILL THE MORROW HIS TRAINING
1913 19| belief. Therefore in his Timoeus Plato's God is by His very
1914 26| of a bracelet. The blind Tiresias saw the future, although
1915 18| CLEARLY WHEN THE USE OF ALL TITLES IS LAID ASIDE.~ "It would
1916 23| consecrated, it is prayed to--then at length it is a god,
1917 23| is soldered, it is built together--it is set up, and even yet
1918 21| cymbal of Isis, and the tomb of your Serapis or Osiris
1919 2| imperfection of the faltering tongue. And at this his arrival
1920 38| one who does not feel, a torch; or a garland to one who
1921 21| Roman ones. Ceres with her torches lighted, and surrounded
1922 11| not whether wild beasts tore the body to pieces, or seas
1923 35| know not God are deservedly tormented as impious, as unrighteous
1924 12| with fever, when thou art torn with pain, dost thou not
1925 36| of mind and of body grows torpid without the exercise of
1926 28| violent against them, so as to torture them when they confessed,
1927 3| rubbed and made smooth by the tossing of the waves; to take hold
1928 18| grasped--He is purer than touch; nor estimated; He is greater
1929 26| auspices or oracles have touched the truth. Although among
1930 3| quietly going along, we tracked the coast of the gently
1931 19| pervades all the lands, and the tracts of the sea, and the profound
1932 20| HAS BROUGHT IN RIDICULOUS TRADITIONS. NOR IS IT SHOWN LESS PLAINLY
1933 31| Athens. Your records and your tragedies, which you both read and
1934 6| gods whom you were first trained by your parents to fear
1935 25| incestuous, assassins, traitors, had flocked together; and
1936 24| feeling: they gnaw them, they trample on them, they sit upon them;
1937 37| triumphant and victorious, he tramples upon the very man who has
1938 5| inclined towards the earth, we transcend with daring ambition heaven
1939 14| by their temerity. They transfer the blame of the judge to
1940 17| the unseen and harmless transitions of the year returning on
1941 37| trusted; and with a large travelling equipage the brief journey
1942 1| thus, when my thoughts were traversing the entire period of our
1943 37| and young women among us treat with contempt crosses and
1944 23| that he had feared matter, treated after his fancy by the artificer
1945 12| your sepulchres--pallid, trembling beings, worthy of the pity
1946 37| receives a reward before his trial, and yet the general does
1947 16| his simplicity is crafty trickery. What then? As he who knows
1948 26| they show their wondrous tricks, making either those things
1949 28| the members of the priest, tries to confer upon us what belongs
1950 11| which deceiving poets have trifled in the sweetness of their
1951 21| and when exaggerated as Trivia, she is horrible with three
1952 3| retracing the same way again, we trod the path with reverted footsteps.
1953 22| he especially who in the Trojan was allowed your gods, although
1954 18| itself does not involve much trouble in opening out, to one who
1955 10| they make him out to be troublesome, restless, even shamelessly
1956 24| error of others, than to trust themselves; in that they
1957 37| rich? But fortune is ill trusted; and with a large travelling
1958 16| ARRANGES HIS REPLY, AND TRUSTS THAT HE SHALL BE ABLE TO
1959 16| REPROACH WITH THE RIVER OF TRUTHFUL WORDS. HE PROCEEDS TO WEAKEN
1960 22| possible have prejudiced the truths by their authority. And
1961 16| of particular roads, nor try them all; so, if a man has
1962 40| therefore, I was silently turning over these things in my
1963 38| scattered loose and free, and we twine our necks with them in garlands.
1964 18| brothers. The story about the twins (Romulus and Remus), in
1965 11| It is a double evil and a twofold madness to denounce destruction
1966 38| corrupters, and adulterers, and tyrants, and ever eloquent against
1967 21| mother of many gods, was ugly and old, mutilated him,
1968 15| THE OFFICE OF A RELIGIOUS UMPIRE, WHEN HE IS WEAKENING THE
1969 36| And thus God is neither unable to aid us, nor does He despise
1970 14| separate falsehood from truth; unaware that even in that which
1971 16| judgment of truth, even as his unbelieving suspicion is scattered,
1972 1| this life, left to me an unbounded regret for him, especially
1973 37| market of their spirit to the unbridled licence that is Characteristic
1974 25| very many of the virgins unchastity was punished, in that they,
1975 33| while you are forgetful or unconscious of former ones. For they
1976 12| especially for untaught, uncultivated, boorish, rustic people:
1977 37| willing without reason to undergo punishment, or is able without
1978 12| adoration, but as tortures to be undergone; fires also, which you both
1979 8| wisdom, who would strive to undermine or weaken this religion,
1980 17| cannot be felt, peceived and understood without the highest intelligence
1981 8| of the plea that I have undertaken)--that men, I say, of a
1982 7| ancestors succeeded in their undertakings either by the observance
1983 31| both continues and abides undiminished, and strangers increase
1984 11| remoulded by you, believing undoubtingly on your God.~
1985 4| the contest; but silent, uneasy, standing apart, confessed
1986 28| judgment on things unknown and unexamined, as you do! Believe us ourselves
1987 25| their marriage vows--a thing unexampled--and then engaged in war
1988 35| but is nourished by the unexhausted eating away of their bodies.
1989 2| joy I exulted, since the unexpected presence of a man so very
1990 22| we call those who appear unexpectedly, sent from heaven, those
1991 15| religious judge; for it is very unfair for you to weaken the force
1992 34| will fall upon it in an unforeseen way, or that the world will
1993 12| with odours; you reserve unguents for funeral rites; you even
1994 21| her adulterous lover, who unhappily was pleasing to her, to
1995 21| imitate the grief of the most unhappy mother. By and by, when
1996 11| All such figments of an unhealthy belief, and vain sources
1997 31| FACT, INCESTUOUS LUST IS SO UNHEARD OF, THAT WITH MANY EVEN
1998 15| that I have said, sound and unimpaired, if he can refute it." "
1999 28| GENTILES THEMSELVES.~ "BUT how unjust it is, to form a judgment
2000 19| that the air, infinite and unmeasured, is God. The agreement of