Chapter

 1 I      | acquaintance with the subject. When men, then, give way to a dislike
 2 I      |       judging of those who know, by men who are entirely ignorant,
 3 II     |           we are the most wicked of men, why do you treat us so
 4 II     |             object of securing that men may have no desire to know
 5 IV     |             not say of the worst of men against the best, but now,
 6 IV     |        unproved, it tyrannizes over men.~
 7 V      |           gods give satisfaction to men, there will be no deification
 8 V      |       always been our persecutors,--men unjust, impious, base, of
 9 V      |         judged more natural for bad men to be eradicated by good
10 VI     |          aside the authority of the men of old. I go on meantime
11 IX     |         great request. And you have men rifting up man-fed flesh?
12 IX     |             infants, as of grown-up men. Blush for your vile ways
13 IX     |            are eager after blood of men; unless, mayhap, you have
14 IX     |        would be no want of blood of men, amply supplied as that
15 X      |        these gods of yours were but men. If even it venture to deny
16 X      |         earth. I say nothing of how men in these rude times were
17 X      |              since even at this day men of culture make gods of
18 X      |             acknowledged to be dead men by their public mourning
19 XI     |          deities of yours once were men, you have taken it on you
20 XI     |      divinity, who has made gods of men. For they could neither
21 XI     |          they never would have been men. If, then, there be one
22 XI     |          Saturn and his race to do. Men will make fools of themselves
23 XI     |      virgins, and boy-polluters,and men of furious tempers, and
24 XI     |           unworthy, there have been men virtuous, and pure, and
25 XI     |            how many of these nobler men you have left in the regions
26 XI     |            He might have taken such men as these to be His heavenly
27 XII    |            I see only names of dead men of ancient times; I hear
28 XIII   |           them a source of revenue. Men seek to get the Capitol,
29 XIII   |          tribute are of less value; men under the assessment of
30 XVII   |            is the crowning guilt of men, that they will not recognize
31 XVIII  |         messengers into the world,--men whose stainless righteousness
32 XVIII  |           High, and to reveal Him,--men abundantly endowed with
33 XVIII  |           of your stock and nature: men are made, not born, Christians.
34 XVIII  |          which they performed, that men might have faith in their
35 XIX    |           need to be ransacked; the men of these various nations
36 XX     |       foretelling the future. Among men, it may be, a distinction
37 XXI    |        involves impurity; she, whom men suppose to be His mother
38 XXI    |               expelling devils from men by a word, restoring vision
39 XXI    |              We say, and before all men we say, and torn and bleeding
40 XXI    |          one who aimed to enlighten men already civilized, and under
41 XXI    |             the labours to convince men of its divinity by certain
42 XXII   |        spirit of evil, than turning men's minds away from the true
43 XXII   |          one object of showing that men should believe in the deity
44 XXIII  |             your deities to convert men to Christianity; for in
45 XXX    |              they know, as they are men, from whom they have received
46 XXX    |           they are above all living men, and the living, as living,
47 XXXV   |            to the emperor; that, as men believing in the true religion,
48 XXXVI  |              If it is the fact that men bearing the name of Romans
49 XXXVI  |       Romans and foes of Rome, when men passing for Romans are discovered
50 XXXVI  |        necessary in the case of all men as well as emperors. Deeds
51 XXXVI  |            ill, to think ill of all men. The thing we must not do
52 XXXVII |           For if such multitudes of men were to break away from
53 XXXVIII|            now, in pursuit of gain, men have begun to consider their
54 XXXIX  |       sacred intercourse. The tried men of our elders preside over
55 XXXIX  |       nature, though you are hardly men, because brothers so unkind.
56 XXXIX  |            I believe, of those wise men of ancient times, the Greek
57 XL     |     conspire to bring odium on good men and virtuous, who cry out
58 XL     |             and flourished. But had men sought, they would have
59 XL     |             world's wickedness, and men began to pray for the averting
60 XLI    |             deals with all sorts of men alike, so that all together
61 XLIV   |      entailed upon the state, when, men of virtue as we are, we
62 XLVI   |   pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Thoughtless Apollo! testifying
63 XLVII  |            use to me, that it leads men more easily to take it in
64 XLIX   |   illustrious discoveries. They are men of wisdom, we are fools.
65 XLIX   |             who believe them better men and women, under the fear
66 L      |           the blood which the young men shed. O glory legitimate,