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2001 27| the life, render all men unquiet; creeping also secretly
2002 10| MISCHIEVOUS, RESTLESS, AND UNSEASONABLY INQUISITIVE.~ "I purposely
2003 17| and spring, so that the unseen and harmless transitions
2004 24| perceive that people of unsound mind, and of weak and degraded
2005 | unto
2006 9| sisters, that even a not unusual debauchery may by the intervention
2007 31| more chaste (divers of us unviolated) enjoy rather than make
2008 9| that it may deceive the unwary, is placed before him who
2009 23| ascribed to those who are unwilling to bear it. They desire
2010 17| our upright stature, our uplooking countenance, our eyes placed
2011 17| to be its artificer: our upright stature, our uplooking countenance,
2012 21| be devoured; and clanging uproar is dashed out of the cymbals
2013 28| iota impudicitia vocatur urbanitas; qui scortorum licentiae
2014 9| young pupil, who has been urged on as if to harmless blows
2015 14| SELF-SATISFACTION, CAECILIUS URGES OCTAVIUS TO REPLY TO HIS
2016 36| these creatures are born for us--all of which things, if
2017 21| they were helpful to the uses of men in their wanderings,
2018 4| recognise, Caecilius, your usual liveliness? and why do I
2019 38| have sought for with the utmost eagerness, and have not
2020 16| inquire, should think, should utter his thoughts about divine
2021 5| V. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS BEGINS
2022 3| excessively delighted at its vagaries, as on the very threshold
2023 26| There are some insincere and vagrant spirits degraded from their
2024 16| fro in such an erratic, vague, and slippery manner, that
2025 4| liveliness? and why do I seek vainly for that joyousness which
2026 27| either at once leap forth, or vanish by degrees, as the faith
2027 1| cleaving to superstitious vanities, to the true religion.~
2028 5| to shine forth. Thus the vapours of the earth, being exhaled,
2029 19| above all, Nature. Aristotle varies, but nevertheless assigns
2030 14| smiling cheerfully (for the vehemence of his prolonged discourse
2031 6| the fury of victory, they venerate the conquered deities; while
2032 16| recriminations in the river of veracious words. Nor will I disguise
2033 34| which in winter hide their verdure with a deceptive dryness.
2034 32| we neither show nor see. Verily for this reason we believe
2035 14| them is often truth, and in verisimilitude falsehood. Therefore the
2036 11| in the sweetness of their verse, have been disgracefully
2037 23| silver, often from an impure vessel, as was done by the Egyptian
2038 25| without the knowledge of Vesta, had intercourse too carelessly
2039 25| Arvales, nor Salii, nor Vestals, nor Augurs, nor chickens
2040 35| Mount AEtna and of Mount Vesuvius, and of burning where, glow,
2041 6| VI. ARGUMENT: THE OBJECT OF
2042 22| been put forward with this view, that a certain authority
2043 26| degraded from their heavenly vigour by earthly stains and lusts.
2044 7| VII. ARGUMENT: THAT THE ROMAN
2045 8| VIII. ARGUMENT: THE IMPIOUS TEMERITY
2046 10| the obscurity of their vile religion declares. For why
2047 5| harvest already white, the vintage, already dropping, is destroyed
2048 2| holidays of the courts at the vintage-time had released me from my
2049 28| them, we were more cruelly violent against them, so as to torture
2050 21| from a noose, that as a virgin she might be glowing among
2051 31| make a boast of a perpetual virginity of a body. So far, in fact,
2052 9| say that they worship the virilia of their pontiff and priest,
2053 28| licentiae invident, qui medios viros lambunt, libidinoso ore
2054 2| sake of business and of visiting me, Octavius had hastened
2055 28| apud quos iota impudicitia vocatur urbanitas; qui scortorum
2056 5| and nourished, is as a voluntary concretion of the elements,
2057 25| women from their marriage vows--a thing unexampled--and
2058 26| resisted his making his voyage into Africa before the winter,
2059 22| builder did not receive the wages for his work. Then Jupiter'
2060 21| should hear the infant's wailing. Cybele of Dindymus--I am
2061 21| funerals, and the griefs and wailings of the miserable gods. Isis
2062 38| WHICH THEY BURY THEIR DEAD, WAITING WITH A VERY CERTAIN HOPE
2063 3| the sea, and we were now walking on the broad and open shore·
2064 36| the happier the lighter he walks, so happier is he in this
2065 22| Neptune, however, builds walls for Laomedon, and the unfortunate
2066 21| the uses of men in their wanderings, by the discovery of new
2067 10| everything that is done, wanders in and out in all places,
2068 16| divine things; since what is wanted is not the authority of
2069 9| the fellowship has grown warm, and the fervour of incestuous
2070 18| but it is refreshed by the warmth of the sea that flows around
2071 26| lightness; whence also he warns us of the desire of love,
2072 35| penal fire is not fed by the waste of those who burn, but is
2073 34| of the seas by the sweet waters of the springs shall pass
2074 16| he must neither doubt nor waver. And since my brother broke
2075 16| confused, or whether it wavered backwards and forwards by
2076 19| ascribes, although in various ways, a divine mind to God. Theophrastus,
2077 5| believed, in these various and wayward chances, fortune, unrestrained
2078 6| continued, which is not weakened by the long lapse of time,
2079 15| RELIGIOUS UMPIRE, WHEN HE IS WEAKENING THE FORCE OF HIS ARGUMENT.
2080 28| one, by reason of greater weakness, overcome with suffering,
2081 26| XXVI. ARGUMENT: THE WEAPON THAT CAECILIUS HAD SLIGHTLY
2082 38| withering garland, but we wear one living with eternal
2083 5| wonderful that some, from the weariness of thoroughly investigating
2084 21| fetters; Janus, indeed, wears two faces, as if that he
2085 24| your god. Spiders, indeed, weave their webs over his face,
2086 24| Spiders, indeed, weave their webs over his face, and suspend
2087 37| murder, in fact, while you weep at it in fiction. ~
2088 30| repressing their crying, that a weeping victim might not be sacrificed.
2089 26| of their nature by being weighed down and immersed in vices,
2090 36| searches out each one; He weighs the disposition of every
2091 1| of his, wherein by very weighty arguments he converted Caecilius,
2092 3| conqueror whose shell both went out furthest, and leaped
2093 28| the heads of oxen and of wethers, and you dedicate gods mingled
2094 3| threshold of the water we were wetting the soles of our feet, and
2095 | whenever
2096 | whereas
2097 | Wherever
2098 3| position with the fingers; to whiff it along sloping and as
2099 5| behold the harvest already white, the vintage, already dropping,
2100 23| shining of silver and the whiteness of ivory? But if any one
2101 4| further: the matter is now wholly and entirely between me
2102 9| UNCERTAIN MEDLEY.~ "And now, as wickeder things advance more fruitfully,
2103 32| I, a man, dwell far and wide, shall I shut up the might
2104 21| when Capitolinus, then he wields the thunderbolts; and when
2105 12| of thine infirmity, and wilt not confess it? But I omit
2106 34| revive again, after their win-try decay the shrubs resume
2107 31| prolong our feasts with wine; but we temper our joyousness
2108 21| with ox-eyes; Mercury with winged feet; Pan with hoofed feet;
2109 17| of soaring furnished by wings? The very beauty of our
2110 17| maturity of autumn, and the wintry olive-gathering, are needful;
2111 24| from his very head. You wipe, cleanse, scrape, and you
2112 15| HAD ADVANCED.~ "You are withdrawing," says Caecilius, "from
2113 38| and we do not bind to us a withering garland, but we wear one
2114 34| IT IS NOT AT ALL TO BE WONDERED AT IF THIS WORLD IS TO BE
2115 29| consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses perhaps as parts
2116 32| cannot see Him; for in His works, and in all the movements
2117 4| speech has bitterly vexed and worried me, in which he, attacking
2118 30| of a man, that is, with a worse disease. They also are not
2119 18| and therefore we are then worthily estimating Him when we say
2120 7| be averted, or that the wrath already swelling and raging
2121 12| whom you deny. You do not wreath your heads with flowers;
2122 27| diseases, alarm the minds, wrench about the limbs; that they
2123 12| acknowledge thy frailty? Poor wretch, art thou unwillingly convinced
2124 22| of mature age; and, poor wretches, they grow old in the same
2125 21| the passage of the comic writer runs, that Venus freezes
2126 21| the celebrated Macedonian, wrote in a remarkable document
2127 23| Lo, it is reeked, it is wrought, it is sculptured--it is
2128 10| X. ARGUMENT: WHATEVER THE
2129 19| It is a known fact, that Xenophanes delivered that God was all
2130 19| things, not for gods. For Xenophon the Socratic says that the
2131 19| was the chief of all; that Xeuxippus acknowledged as God a natural
2132 11| CHAP. XI. ARGUMENT: BESIDES ASSERTING
2133 12| XII. ARGUMENT: MOREOVER, WHAT
2134 13| XIII. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS AT
2135 14| XIV. ARGUMENT: WITH SOMETHING
2136 19| XIX. ARGUMENT: MOREOVER, THE
2137 40| XL. ARGUMENT: THEN CAECILIUS
2138 41| XLI. ARGUMENT:FINALLY, ALL ARE
2139 15| XV. ARGUMENT: CAECILIUS RETORTS
2140 16| XVI. ARGUMENT: OCTAVIUS ARRANGES
2141 17| XVII. ARGUMENT: MAN OUGHT INDEED
2142 18| XVIII. ARGUMENT: MOREOVER, GOD
2143 20| XX. ARGUMENT: BUT IF THE WORLD
2144 21| XXI. ARGUMENT: OCTAVIUS ATTESTS
2145 22| XXII. RGUMENT: MOREOVER, THESE
2146 23| XXIII. ARGUMENT: ALTHOUGH THE
2147 24| XXIV. ARGUMENT: HE BRIEFLY SHOWS,
2148 29| XXIX. ARGUMENT: NOR IS IT MORE
2149 25| XXV. ARGUMENT: THEN HE SHOWS
2150 26| XXVI. ARGUMENT: THE WEAPON THAT
2151 27| XXVII. ARGUMENT: RECAPITULATION.
2152 28| XXVIII. ARGUMENT: NOR IS IT ONLY
2153 30| XXX. ARGUMENT: THE STORY ABOUT
2154 31| XXXI. ARGUMENT: THE CHARGE OF
2155 32| XXXII. ARGUMENT: NOR CAN IT BE
2156 33| XXXIII. ARGUMENT: THAT EVEN' IF
2157 34| XXXIV. ARGUMENT: MOREOVER, IT
2158 39| XXXIX. ARGUMENT: WHEN OCTAVIUS
2159 35| XXXV. ARGUMENT: RIGHTEOUS AND
2160 36| XXXVI. ARGUMENT: FATE IS NOTHING,
2161 37| XXXVII. ARGUMENT: TORTURES MOST
2162 38| XXXVIII. ARGUMENT: CHRISTIANS ABSTAIN
2163 23| no assent is any longer yielded to fables of this kind?
2164 37| against kings and princes, and yields to God alone, whose he is;
2165 12| death. Behold, a portion of you--and, as you declare, the
2166 30| drain that new blood of a youngling, and of a man scarcley come
2167 21| he is the son of the ever youthful Apollo; Neptune with sea-green
2168 24| after with most religious zeal. What! would not a man who