Chapter

 1 II    | Christians alone are forbidden to say anything in exculpation
 2 IV    |           accusations I shall not say of the worst of men against
 3 IV    |      practiser of incest (so they say); why do they not inquire
 4 V     |                             V.~To say a word about the origin
 5 V     |        yourselves have no good to say, the sufferers under whose
 6 VII   |         says, for instance, "They say that it took place at Rome,"
 7 VIII  |           case, no doubt he would say, "You must have a child
 8 IX    |           of a beast-fighter, you say. Is it less, because of
 9 IX    |        the time of Catiline. They say, too, that among some Scythian
10 X     |        not worship the gods," you say; " and you do not offer
11 X     |       were indeed divine. But you say, They are gods. We protest
12 X     |     antiquities, have ventured to say that Saturn was any but
13 X     |         unknown, sons of earth. I say nothing of how men in these
14 XI    |          to their fellows. But to say no more about a way of acting
15 XIII  |         they are gods to us," you say. And how is it, then, that
16 XX    |         they are as ancient as we say, we offer proof that they
17 XXI   |         god he has repudiated. We say, and before all men we say,
18 XXI   |        say, and before all men we say, and torn and bleeding under
19 XXIII |           least suspicion. Do you say that it is done by magic,
20 XXIII |           that sort? You will not say anything of the sort, if
21 XXIII | discipline. But at once they will say, Who is this Christ with
22 XXIII |       death; let them declare it, say, before your tribunal, that
23 XXVIII|       right he should be ready to say, "I want none of Jupiter'
24 XXXI  |          XXXI.~But we merely, you say, flatter the emperor, and
25 XXXIII|          on valid grounds I might say Caesar is more ours than
26 XXXV  |     beasts' schools bear witness. Say now if nature had covered
27 XXXV  |           this is the rabble, you say; yet, as the rabble, they
28 XXXVII|          from the asylum we might say of death, cutting them in
29 XXXIX |          brand upon us. See, they say, how they love one another,
30 XXXIX |          wishes, I am not able to say. Why should they have any
31 XXXIX |           befits the chaste. They say it is enough, as those who
32 XL    |         them. But where--I do not say were Christians, those despisers
33 XLI   |         Christians. But this, you say, hits your God as well,
34 XLII  |        the gods. At any rate, you say, the temple revenues are
35 XLV   |      which is the ampler rule, to say, "Thou shalt not kill,"
36 XLVI  |         to gods. Socrates used to say, "If the demon grant permission."
37 XLVIII|        done by them. But how, you say, can a substance which has
38 L     |              L.~In that case, you say, why do you complain of