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1 VI | result of which for about 600 years there was not among
2 VI | it clear, that, while you abandon the good ways of your fathers,
3 XXV | will of Juno, as to the abandoned harlot Larentina. It is
4 XXIII | might not thereby in fact abdicate their dignity; so those
5 XLI | rather have been aiding and abetting you by persecuting Christians--
6 XXI | forth utterances, and reason abides to dispose and arrange,
7 IX | any crime thoroughly and abidingly eradicated, nor does any
8 XLII | sojourn with you in the world, abjuring neither forum, nor shambles,
9 XLVII | properties, His nature, His abode. Some assert Him to be incorporeal;
10 XI | this respect, an entire absence of all reason for electing
11 IV | their determinations are absolutely conclusive, or the necessity
12 II | why dost thou not also absolve? Military stations are distributed
13 VI | pledged to himself; when the abstinence of women from wine was carried
14 XLVIII | seeds do not spring up with abundant produce, save as they rot
15 XVI | things we have discussed ex abundanti, that we might not seem
16 III | Are not the Stoics and Academics so called also from the
17 XLIV | your long lists of those accased of many and various atrocities,
18 XXXIV | designation, but in the common acceptation of the word, and when I
19 II | for their confederates and accessories. The Christian alone must
20 XXXI | in hiding, and which many accidents put into the hands of those
21 XXXIX | but most tolerantly also accommodate their friends with theirs,
22 XXI | question of age, we neither accord with the Jews in their peculiarities
23 XXXIX | into debt; you must get the accountants to tell you what the tenths
24 III | for you do not even know accurately the name you hate), it comes
25 XXXVII | with a torch or two could achieve an ample vengeance? But
26 XXXV | wrestling, that they might acquire skill to strangle him? Whence
27 II | him to deny, that you may acquit him, which without him denial
28 II | no one is eager for the acquittal of the guilty; it is not
29 XXVI | the Vestal Virgins. And to add another point: if the religions
30 XV | is all in sport. But if I add--it is what all know and
31 XXXIV | not ashamed of its lie, in addressing a man as divine, let it
32 XLVII | purpose: for they had no adequate faith in their divinity
33 XXVII | are condemned for resolute adherence to our faith.~
34 XXIII | another to leap from an adjoining house; looking on one who
35 XLIX | so indeed, we should be adjudged to ridicule, not to swords,
36 XIV | One gives Apollo to king Admetus to tend his sheep; another
37 XXXIX | and sacred censures are administered. For with a great gravity
38 XLVII | Platonists, again, hold that He administers the affairs of the world;
39 I | Empire, if, seated for the administration of justice on your lofty
40 VI | their dogheaded friend, admission into the Capitol--in the
41 XXII | soul-knowledge of him. Plato also admits the existence of angels.
42 XLVII | made uncertain by their admixtures. Finding a simple revelation
43 XLI | are in our case gracious admonitions, while in yours they are
44 XXXIII | surpassing as to require an admonitory reference to his condition.
45 XXXIX | Christians alone a great ado is made. Our feast explains
46 IV | into a brand of shame. By adopting the plan of confiscating
47 XXXIV | of God himself. If such adulation is not ashamed of its lie,
48 XLVII | their opinions, have even adulterated our new-given Christian
49 XV | farces I mean as Anubis the Adulterer, and Luna of the masculine
50 XLVI | school, perished in the adulterous act. The Christian husband
51 II | numbers, at last sought the advice of Trajan, the reigning
52 XXVII | confession to our safety. You advise us, forsooth, to take unjust
53 XLVI | Christian does not aspire to the aedileship. If equanimity be the contention,
54 V | approved by the senate. Marcus AEmilius had experience of this in
55 XXV | and that by a nation of AEneadae? As to that I know, "Here
56 L | at Catana to the fires of AEtna: what mental resolution!
57 XLVI | with hostile ends merely affect to hold, and in doing so
58 XXV | for Cybele, if she set her affections on the city of Rome as sprung
59 XXXI | other which the calamity affects.~
60 IX | otherwise they should be affirmed to be free of Christianity
61 XL | public disaster, of every affliction with which the people are
62 XVII | incapacity of fully grasping Him affords us the idea of what He really
63 XI | adore? Your goodness is an affront in the heavens. Deify your
64 XIII | will still think themselves affronted by you, that the privilege
65 I | this case alone you are afraid or ashamed to exercise your
66 XXXIX | name The Greeks call it agape, i.e., affection. Whatever
67 XLVIII | place, whatever material agent has destroyed you, or swallowed
68 XLVIII | through the immeasurable ages of eternity. Therefore after
69 I | mean ignorance) at once aggravates and convicts it. For what
70 XXIII | retching, who vent it forth in agonies of gasping. Let that same
71 XXXIX | a common ignorance have agonized into the same light of truth!
72 XXIII | as Plato and the poets agree; let them put away from
73 XLII | purchased? I think it more agreeable to have them free and loose,
74 XLI | should rather have been aiding and abetting you by persecuting
75 XI | their ministrations and aids in performing the offices
76 XXI | with Numa; but as one who aimed to enlighten men already
77 XII | simply pieces of matter akin to the vessels and utensils
78 XXIII | filling the earth with dread alarms, making all but Christians
79 XXXV | came a Cassius, a Niger, an Albinus? Whence they who beset the
80 V | in reference to his god Alburnus. And this, too, makes for
81 XXV | to show more favour to an alien race than to their own,
82 IX | other, all memory of the alienated progeny must be lost; and
83 XV | Pessinus, and a man burnt alive as Hercules. We have made
84 XXXVIII| state. We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth--the world.
85 XXXVII | find yourselves, at such an all-prevailing silence, and that stupor
86 XLV | under the judgment of an all-seeing God, and who look forward
87 XXXI | opportunity of proving our allegations. Do you, then, who think
88 XVI | as Christianity is nearly allied to Judaism, from this, I
89 XXI | has at any rate undoubted allowance of the law, or because,
90 XLV | Which is more thorough, not allowing an injury, or not even suffering
91 XLVI | the right way, and Plato allows himself to be bought by
92 XLVII | inexplicable by-roads. And I have alluded to this, lest any one becoming
93 XXXV | of shamelessness to lust allurements! What! is public joy manifested
94 XLII | we are not able to give alms both to your human and your
95 VII | initiations to keep the profane aloof, and to beware of witnesses,
96 XXII | when they hear them read aloud. Thus getting, too, from
97 XLVII | proud to believe, set to altering it; so that even what they
98 XLVIII | out again; and, with like alternation, darkness succeeds light'
99 XXII | application of remedies either altogether new, or contrary to those
100 XXVI | before the Luperci; and the Amazons before the Vestal Virgins.
101 IV | Did not the Lacedaemonians amend the laws of Lycurgus himself,
102 XVI | name and the figure gave us amusement. But our opponents ought
103 I | knowledge has been bliss. Anacharsis reproved the rude venturing
104 XL | the islands of Hiera, and Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes,
105 XLVI | regard to trustworthiness, Anaxagoras denied the deposit of his
106 XLVIII | his beef he eats of some ancestor of his? But if a Christian
107 VI | they themselves show to ancestral institutions, if they have
108 XXIV | Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Ancharia of Asculum, Nortia of Volsinii,
109 XXVII | spirit, half devil and half angel, who, hating us because
110 XXII | of the things which they announce; and sometimes, no doubt,
111 XXI | race, God's own Son, was announced among us, born--but not
112 II | stedfastness, being still annoyed by their great numbers,
113 III | concerned, is derived from anointing. Yes, and even when it is
114 L | good philosophy did, on answering that it gave contempt of
115 XIX | most ancient name; while he antedates by a millennium the death
116 II | obtained; and if the torture is anticipated by confession, there will
117 XXI | dismissed from Him His spirit, anticipating the executioner's work.
118 XV | merriment; such farces I mean as Anubis the Adulterer, and Luna
119 I | One thing, meanwhile, she anxiously desires of earthly rulers--
120 | anywhere
121 XXI | of the law, or because, apart from the question of age,
122 XXXIX | cook is appointed for the Apaturia, the Dionysia, the Attic
123 III | Aristarchus, cooks even from Apicius? And yet the bearing of
124 XIX | Phalereus, and King Juba, and Apion, and Thallus, and their
125 XLIX | rather be condemned than apostatize from God; on the contrary,
126 XXXIV | the name of god before his apotheosis.~
127 XXII | spirits: of these Castor apparitions, of water carried by a sieve,
128 I | noiseless book. She has no appeals to make to you in regard
129 X | knowledge, or who make a sudden appearance, have fallen from the skies?
130 I | conceal themselves, avoid appearing in public, are in trepidation
131 VII | together. As soon as truth appears, it is regarded as an enemy.
132 XXIV | does not confess that the appellation of God as of Emperor belongs
133 XXX | heaven and every creature appertains. He gets his sceptre where
134 IX | should be proved by their appetite for human blood, as well
135 IX | of combat--who have keen appetites for bear and stag? That
136 XXII | of it, they command the application of remedies either altogether
137 XXXIX | wicked. To us, it seems, applies the saying of Diogenes: "
138 XXIV | For the common way is to apportion deity, giving an imperial
139 XLIX | For it is our joy they appropriate to themselves, since we
140 V | because it had not given the approval itself, rejected his proposal.
141 XXXV | light as confederates or approvers of these crimes and treasons,
142 III | they fall foul of their own approving judgment! "What a woman
143 XXV | sixteenth before the Kalends of April, that most sacred high priest
144 IX | the two blindnesses are apt to go together; so that
145 XXX | farthing buys--tears of an Arabian tree,--not a few drops of
146 XLII | no frankincense. If the Arabias complain of this, let the
147 XVI | entered the temple to see the arcana of the Jewish religion,
148 XXI | world-portent still in your archives. Then, when His body was
149 I | accused of which is his ardent wish, to be punished for
150 XXXVIII| But as those in whom all ardour in the pursuit of glory
151 XIX | rest; the matter is not so arduous as it would be tedious.
152 IX | Then, further, wherever you are--at home, abroad, over the
153 XIX | he is as far back as the Argive Inachus; by nearly four
154 XLVII | the Spartans also, and the Argives--its disciples sought to
155 XXI | Musaeus at Athens, Melampus at Argos, Trophonius in Boeotia,
156 XLVII | philosophers watered their arid minds, so that it is the
157 XVIII | same account is given by Aristaeus. So the king left these
158 III | Erasistratus, grammarians from Aristarchus, cooks even from Apicius?
159 XI | renowned for his wisdom, Aristides for his justice, Themistocles
160 XLVI | Dionysius for his belly's sake. Aristippus in the purple, with all
161 XXX | imperial house; for brave armies, a faithful senate, a virtuous
162 XXXV | Whence they who in full armour broke into the palace, more
163 VI | theatres as quickly as they arose to debauch the manners of
164 VI | forbade Serapis, and Isis, and Arpocrates, with their dogheaded friend,
165 XXI | reason abides to dispose and arrange, and power is over all to
166 XV | the temples adulteries are arranged, that at the altars pimping
167 XLI | of all His providential arrangings, and you will not make this
168 IV | be good, as one who has arrived at such a previous opinion,
169 XXXVIII| consider their violence an article to be bought and sold. But
170 XXII | to speak of their other artifices, or yet further of the deceptive
171 XIX | and the dates of events ascertained, that the chronological
172 XLII | their dues: so that, by ascertaining how much is lost by fraud
173 XXIII | Socordius, and Tenatius, and Asclepiodotus, now in the last extremity,
174 XXIII | and you surely can never ascribe deity to that which is under
175 XXV | progress of the empire is to be ascribed to Sterculus, the Mutunus,
176 XXI | of all things. Cleanthes ascribes all this to spirit, which
177 XXIV | Visidianus of Narnia, Ancharia of Asculum, Nortia of Volsinii, Valentia
178 XL | that a region larger than Asia or Africa was seized by
179 VI | ground, as it was counted, of aspiring to be too great, because
180 XXXVII | law into its own hand, and assails us with stones and flames!
181 XLIV | various atrocities, has any assassin, any cutpurse, any man guilty
182 XLIII | panders, and bath-suppliers; assassins, and poisoners, and sorcerers;
183 III | the places in which they assembled and stationed themselves?
184 XVIII | Menedemus, the well-known asserter of a Providence, regarded
185 XLVII | tainters of our purity, asserting that this is the rule of
186 XXV | invited by the groundless assertion of those who maintain that,
187 XXI | more certain far than the assertions of your Proculi concerning
188 XIII | less value; men under the assessment of a poll-tax are less noble;
189 VII | on whatever strength of asseveration it rests, that some time
190 XLVI | manifests Him, and hence assigns to Him all those attributes
191 XI | was to be in want of this assistance from the dead, He might
192 XI | these to be His heavenly associates, prescient as He must have
193 XXXVIII| the prevention of such associations is based on a prudential
194 XXVI | before the Salii; and the Assyrians before the Luperci; and
195 XXIV | has its god. Syria has Astarte, Arabia has Dusares, the
196 III | Christian." So another, "I am astonished that a wise man like Lucius
197 XXXVII | in pieces, rending them asunder. Yet, banded together as
198 XXXVII | rest of the tomb, from the asylum we might say of death, cutting
199 XXI | Orpheus at Pieria, Musaeus at Athens, Melampus at Argos, Trophonius
200 XL | Africa was seized by the Atlantic Ocean. An earthquake, too,
201 XXII | as though by the tainted atmosphere in some unknown way spreading
202 XLVII | think that He is composed of atoms, others of numbers: such
203 XLVI | scattering them abroad with every atrocity. But it will be said that
204 XXII | it is said an evil spirit attached itself specially to him
205 XLVI | and in their writings they attack your superstitions; and
206 XXXVII | save you, I mean, from the attacks of those spirits of evil,
207 VIII | believing, you think it worth attaining with a conscience such as
208 XVII | sleep, or a sickness, and attains something of its natural
209 XLVI | state: no Christian ever attempted such a thing in behalf of
210 IX | the seas--your lust is an attendant, whose general indulgence,
211 XIII | this latter personage also attends upon the dead? With perfect
212 XLII | same food wearing the same attire, having the same habits,
213 XV | representation of the mutilation of Attis, that famous god of Pessinus,
214 XLI | adversities, since you are ever attracting them--you by whom God is
215 XXV | utterly foolish it is to attribute the greatness of the Roman
216 XLVI | assigns to Him all those attributes which go to constitute a
217 XIII | of the crier, under the auction spear, under the registration
218 XIII | gods, putting them in the auction-catalogue, and making them a source
219 XXXV | broke into the palace, more audacious than all your Tigerii and
220 XXXIX | the Lord is one of their auditors. After manual ablution,
221 XXXV | astrologers, and soothsayers, and augurs, and magicians, about the
222 XXVIII | treason against a majesty more august; for you do homage with
223 XXXIV | XXXIV.~Augustus, the founder of the empire,
224 XIX | of his people, who either authenticates or refutes the others. Also
225 XVIII | attain an ampler and more authoritative knowledge at once of Himself,
226 L | cruelty, however exquisite, avail you; it is rather a temptation
227 XIII | of those whose honour you avenge? See now if I go beyond
228 XL | righteousness, the Judge and Avenger of sin, all vices and crimes
229 XXXVII | enemies, not merely of secret avengers, would there be any lacking
230 XL | men began to pray for the averting of God's wrath. In a word,
231 VIII | before he has really lived, await the departure of the lately
232 I | all, their minds are not awakened to the thought of some good
233 XLVI | to the enmity the truth awakens, you give offence by faithfully
234 XI | he were its creator, been awarded divine honours. Wherefore,
235 XVIII | them with the object of awarding either recompense. Once
236 XLV | it, we, who receive our awards under the judgment of an
237 VIII | plunge your knife into the babe, enemy of none, accused
238 XXVI | vast Capitol was built. The Babylonians exercised dominion, too,
239 XXXVII | With the very frenzy of the Bacchanals, they do not even spare
240 XXI | did as their Divine Master bade them; and after suffering
241 XXXVII | rending them asunder. Yet, banded together as we are, ever
242 XXXIX | troops of mischief-doers, nor bands of vagabonds, nor to break
243 XXXVII | raising no insurrectionary banner, but simply in enmity to
244 XVI | hangings of your standards and banners are robes of crosses. I
245 XXXIX | Hercules and the sacrificial banquets cost; the choicest cook
246 XLVII | at once put in a plea in bar against these tainters of
247 X | so various, new and old, barbarian, Grecian,Roman, foreign,
248 III | in the word sounds either barbarous, or unlucky, or scurrilous,
249 XVIII | the people we call Jews bare the name of Hebrews, and
250 XL | you enjoin on the people barefoot processions; you seek heaven
251 L | milder form of death, have bargained for glory. Nay, see how
252 XLVI | with your countenance, bark out against your rulers,
253 L | being beaten to death by a barley-pounder, cried out, "Beat on, beat
254 III | of character. Some even barter away their comforts for
255 XL | justification of their enmity the baseless plea, that they think the
256 XLVI | brought to trial, Aristotle basely thrust his friend Hermias
257 XLVI | even to his foe. With equal baseness does Aristotle play the
258 XLII | forum, nor shambles, nor bath, nor booth, nor workshop,
259 XLIII | pimps, and panders, and bath-suppliers; assassins, and poisoners,
260 XLIV | or seduction, or stealing bathers' clothes, his name entered
261 XL | ever eager for the banquet, baths and taverns and brothels
262 XXXIX | in another's eye than the beam in his own. Why, the very
263 XXII | along by a girdle, and a beard reddened by a touch, all
264 XL | such multitudes to a single beast? Pray, tell me how many
265 IX | blood. It is the blood of a beast-fighter, you say. Is it less, because
266 XLII | after the manner of the beast-fighters at their final banquet.
267 L | Anaxarchus, when he was being beaten to death by a barley-pounder,
268 | becomes
269 | becoming
270 IX | bear in the struggle was bedewed with the blood of the man
271 XLVIII | abstain, lest by chance in his beef he eats of some ancestor
272 XL | adversity has at any time befallen cities, the temples and
273 XLI | and next, if any adversity befalls us, it is laid to the door
274 XL | tell me how many calamities befell the world and particular
275 | beforehand
276 XL | world's wickedness, and men began to pray for the averting
277 IX | and unwittingly anywhere beget children, so that in this
278 XIII | Religion goes about the taverns begging. You demand a price for
279 | begin
280 XLVI | our superior modesty of behaviour, there at once occurs to
281 | behind
282 XVI | need there to fear outside beholders. For entrance to the holy
283 XVIII | written revelation for the behoof of every one whose heart
284 XXIV | of deities and demons. It behooves us, therefore, to show equal
285 XXIV | Dusares, the Norici have Belenus, Africa has its Caelestis,
286 VII | it? For a wise man never believes the dubious. Everybody knows,
287 IX | ourselves, blood consecrated to Bellona, blood drawn from a punctured
288 XLVI | bought by Dionysius for his belly's sake. Aristippus in the
289 XXXIX | selling themselves for a belly-feast to all disgraceful treatment,--
290 XXV | destruction of the Punic city, beloved even to the neglect of Samos,
291 XXVI | which would never have been beneath your sceptre but for that
292 IV | determined that whatever is beneficial is legitimate. Well, if
293 XLVI | become well known for its benefits as well as from the intercourse
294 III | comes from sweetness and benignity. You hate, therefore, in
295 XIX | Manetho the Egyptian, and Berosus the Chaldean, and Hieromus
296 XXXI | for our enemies, and to beseech blessings on our persecutors.
297 XXX | wring from us the soul, beseeching God on the emperor's behalf.
298 XXXV | unseemly at other times beseem the festal days of princes?
299 | beside
300 XL | when the Senones closely besieged the very Capitol. And it
301 IV | worst of men against the best, but now, as they will have
302 XXV | now possess the power of bestowing empire, when they were kings
303 XXXVII | break away from you, and betake themselves to some remote
304 XXIII | denied by gods. But since on beth sides there is a concurrent
305 XXXV | all graven over, would not betray the scene of another and
306 VII | beset by foes, we are daily betrayed; we are oftentimes surprised
307 VII | the profane aloof, and to beware of witnesses, unless it
308 XXIII | possession. The wicked spirit, bidden to speak by a follower of
309 XIII | farmed out to the highest bidder. But indeed lands burdened
310 II | you are in the habit of bidding the murderer deny, and of
311 XVI | have done homage to this biformed divinity, for they have
312 XXI | shape of serpent, or ox, or bird, or lover, for his vile
313 XXIV | liberty to make gods of birds and beasts, nay, to condemn
314 L | the executioner, at last bit off her tongue and spat
315 III | from the object of their bitter enmity. The wife, now chaste,
316 IV | stand on the plea of our blamelessness; and I shall not only refute
317 XII | them. O impious words! O blasphemous reproaches! Gnash your teeth
318 XXI | time was in his meridian blaze. Those who were not aware
319 XXI | men we say, and torn and bleeding under your tortures, we
320 VII | ears; and a small seminal blemish so darkens all the rest
321 XXI | eminence; and so highly blessed were they, that for their
322 XXII | unseen poison in the breeze blights the apples and the grain
323 XLIX | iniquitous cruelty not only the blinded populace exults and insults
324 III | it, that most people so blindly knock their heads against
325 III | which they praise. In the blindness of their hatred, they fall
326 IX | both facts. But the two blindnesses are apt to go together;
327 XII | We lay our heads upon the block; before the lead, and the
328 V | the unjust, the vile, the bloody, the senseless, the insane?
329 XV | assailed, if they go to blot out every trace of its majesty,
330 XI | that, you have those foul blots also as an added reason
331 IV | rather to pour the blood in blushes over his face than to pour
332 XXV | as their trophies. They boast as many triumphs over the
333 XXI | even in their well-known bodily sign, nor in the possession
334 XXI | at Argos, Trophonius in Boeotia, imposed religious rites;
335 XXI | with the object of bringing boers and savages by the dread
336 XIV | Jupiter--if he hurled the bolt--unnatural to his grandson,
337 XVII | Though under the oppressive bondage of the body, though led
338 XXXIX | among you, create fraternal bonds among us. One in mind and
339 XX | are written in the same books--the same Spirit inspires
340 XXV | which she has conferred as a boon upon the city; when, after
341 XLII | shambles, nor bath, nor booth, nor workshop, nor inn,
342 XXI | was announced among us, born--but not so born as to make
343 X | whole of Italy, after having borne the name of Oenotria, was
344 XLV | lead to virtue, have been borrowed from the law of God as the
345 XI | forth plentifully from the bosom of the earth, for nothing
346 XXXVII | confined within its own boundaries, surpasses, forsooth, in
347 XLVIII | forever. When, therefore, the boundary and limit, that millennial
348 XXV | others, who did not yet bow down to them, as not yet
349 XIII | feast of Jupiter? or the bowl of the gods from the ladle
350 XI | ravishers of virgins, and boy-polluters,and men of furious tempers,
351 XLII | existence? We are not Indian Brahmins or Gymnosophists, who dwell
352 XXXV | traitors, with what verdant and branching laurels they clad their
353 XXII | obscure, demons and angels breathe into the soul, and rouse
354 XXIII | Christ. So at our touch and breathing, overwhelmed bY the thought
355 XXII | inexplicable, unseen poison in the breeze blights the apples and the
356 XLV | too, in the light of the brevity of any punishment you can
357 VII | culprits' before the judge, was bribed into silence? If we always
358 VI | finger, which, with the bridal ring, her husband had sacredly
359 X | these notices of Saturn, brief as they are, suffice. It
360 XXXV | door-posts, with what lofty and brilliant lamps they smoked their
361 XXXV | they who in full armour broke into the palace, more audacious
362 XIII | happens to be worn done, or broken in its long sacred use,
363 XLVII | Scriptures. Some of their brood, with their opinions, have
364 XV | and you do not blush; you brook the stage recital of Jupiter'
365 XXXV | your house up like some new brothel. However, in the matter
366 XL | banquet, baths and taverns and brothels always busy--offer up to
367 XVI | lion-headed, with horn of buck and ram, with goat-like
368 XXII | flower, or kills them in the bud, or destroys them when they
369 XV | jokes and tricks it is the buffoons or the deities which afford
370 XIV | sheep; another hires out the building labours of Neptune to Laomedon.
371 XLVI | doer? between the man who builds up and the man who pulls
372 XXVI | proud, vast Capitol was built. The Babylonians exercised
373 XIII | bidder. But indeed lands burdened with tribute are of less
374 XLVIII | with fuel! The mountains burn, and last. How will it be
375 XLVIII | mountains continue ever burning; and a person struck by
376 XLVIII | it scorches, but while it burns it repairs. So the mountains
377 XV | god of Pessinus, and a man burnt alive as Hercules. We have
378 XI | was, every kind of fruit burst forth plentifully from the
379 XLVIII | thunderbolts from heaven, or bursting up out of the earth through
380 XXXIX | eating-houses, but to support and bury poor people, to supply the
381 XLII | expended as largely in the burying of Christians as in the
382 XL | taverns and brothels always busy--offer up to Jupiter your
383 XXXIX | established character. There is no buying and selling of any sort
384 XXX | grains of incense a farthing buys--tears of an Arabian tree,--
385 XLVII | off many and inexplicable by-roads. And I have alluded to this,
386 XLII | census declarations--the calculation may easily be made--it would
387 XXXV | they were in the habit of calling Christians enemies of the
388 L | Chances, as Diogenes, Pyrrhus, Callinicus; and yet their words do
389 XL | ashes. Nor had Tuscia and Campania to complain of Christians
390 VIII | blood; in addition to these, candlesticks, and lamps, and dogs--with
391 XL | at Rome, when Hannibal at Cannae counted the Roman slain
392 XLVIII | appear; for the soul is not capable of suffering without the
393 XXI | keeping with the enlarged capacities of a nobler dispensation.
394 VI | friend, admission into the Capitol--in the act casting them
395 XXV | simple, and there were no capitols struggling to the heavens;
396 L | how brave a man--even in captivity a conqueror! Anaxarchus,
397 XVI | that when Cneius Pompeius captured Jerusalem, he entered the
398 L | us a sort of triumphal, car. Naturally enough, therefore,
399 XXIII | blood and fumes and foetid carcasses of sacrificial animals,
400 II | righteous decision; all that is cared about is having what the
401 I | public inquiry with the carefulness which becomes justice; if,
402 XLVI | and in doing so deprave, caring for nought but glory, Christians
403 XLVII | itself, the spirits of error carrying on this system of opposition.
404 XXIII | demons, the real race in both cases. Let your search, then,
405 XXIV | such as Delventinus of Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Ancharia
406 XXII | have as spirits: of these Castor apparitions, of water carried
407 L | Empedocles gave his whole body at Catana to the fires of AEtna: what
408 IX | was tasted in the time of Catiline. They say, too, that among
409 I | trepidation when they are caught, deny their guilt, when
410 XV | blood, on the pollutions caused by inflicted punishments,
411 XXV | forgetful of that Idean cave and the Corybantian cymbals,
412 XXIV | clouds, and another the ceiling panels; let one consecrate
413 VI | the compartments of a wine cellar, was starved to death by
414 IX | as the fire-pan and the censer. They should be proved by
415 XXXIX | the philosopher and the censor playing pimps! What wonder
416 XIX | the others. Also the Greek censors' lists must be compared,
417 XIV | sacred rites; and I pass no censure on your sacrificing, when
418 XII | the persons, no doubt, who censured a certain Seneca speaking
419 XXXIX | made, rebukes and sacred censures are administered. For with
420 XLII | fraud and falsehood in the census declarations--the calculation
421 VI | impunity usurped? For I see the Centenarian suppers must now bear the
422 XXXVI | those ways which Deity as cerainly enjoins on us, as they are
423 XLII | frequent your religious ceremonies, I am still on the sacred
424 XIII | Phryne--among your Junos, and Cereses, and Dianas; when you instal
425 XIX | Egyptian, and Berosus the Chaldean, and Hieromus the Phoenician
426 XIX | such as the Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians, would
427 XLVI | known to all. But if we challenge you to comparison in the
428 V | prayers of the Christians who chanced to be fighting under him.
429 L | Tusculans, as Seneca in his Chances, as Diogenes, Pyrrhus, Callinicus;
430 XXVI | He have not ordained the changes of dynasties, with their
431 XV | the gods. Examine those charming farces of your Lentuli and
432 XVI | wont to hire himself out to cheat the wild beasts, and who
433 XXV | permit, the goddess tends and cherishes to be mistress of the nations."
434 XI | who first introduced the cherry from Pontus into Italy,
435 XXII | specially to him even from his childhood--turning his mind no doubt
436 XXXIX | sacrificial banquets cost; the choicest cook is appointed for the
437 XLVI | contention, you have Lycurgus choosing death by self-starvation,
438 IV | grapple with you as with their chosen protectors. Now first, when
439 III | wrongly pronounced by you "Chrestianus" (for you do not even know
440 XXIII | after the manner of our Christan faith and discipline. But
441 XIX | events ascertained, that the chronological connections may be opened
442 XXXIX | fidelity to the cause of God's Church, they become the nurslings
443 L | bearing of pain and death, as Cicero in the Tusculans, as Seneca
444 L | stake, we are burned in a circle-heap of fagots. This is the attitude
445 II | you thoroughly examine the circumstances of the confession--what
446 XXXVIII| with the madness of the circus, the immodesty of the theatre,
447 I | are in the fields, in the citadels, in the islands: they make
448 IV | been committed; nor does a citizen render a true subjection
449 II | which you are servants is a civil, not a tyrannical domination.
450 XXI | favour must be won into some civilization, as was the case with Numa;
451 XXI | to enlighten men already civilized, and under illusions from
452 XXXV | and branching laurels they clad their door-posts, with what
453 XXXVIII| societies of the illicit class? For, unless I mistake the
454 XII | image is not formed from the clay in the first instance, set
455 XXI | restoring vision to the blind, cleansing the leprous, reinvigorating
456 XXI | necessity of all things. Cleanthes ascribes all this to spirit,
457 XVI | unrefuted. Having thoroughly cleared ourselves, we turn now to
458 XXIII | follower of Christ. What clearer than a work like that? what
459 VI | charge of secret crimes, clearing my way to things of open
460 XXI | these things, all with equal clearness ever declared that, in the
461 IX | secreted in the viscera. To clench the matter with a single
462 XXI | from their own land and clime, they roam over the whole
463 XXXVI | performing, chiefly as a cloak to its purposes; but in
464 VI | Lacedaemonians invented their woollen cloaks for the plays. I see now
465 XXXIX | prayer, so with prayer it is closed. We go from it, not like
466 XL | acknowledged, when the Senones closely besieged the very Capitol.
467 I | they have no desire to make closer trial. Here alone the curiosity
468 XVI | painted on a piece of linen cloth, having himself everywhere
469 XLVIII | servants of God, ever with God, clothed upon with the proper substance
470 XXIII | from the world's beginning, clothing it again with the body it
471 XXI | He was encompassed with a cloud and taken up to heaven,--
472 XL | temple-ceilings for the longed-for clouds--God and heaven not in all
473 XVI | already mentioned, that when Cneius Pompeius captured Jerusalem,
474 XLVI | at his dying ordered a cock to be sacrificed to Aesculapius,
475 XXII | and intangible, we are not cognizant of their action save by
476 X | of writing, and a stamped coinage, and thence it is he presides
477 IX | drowning, or by exposure to cold and hunger and dogs. A maturer
478 VIII | thy knife; bread, too, to collect the gushing blood; in addition
479 XLVII | fell upon anything in the collection of sacred Scriptures which
480 XX | internal convulsions; the collision of kingdoms with kingdoms;
481 XXXVIII| public shows by the hostile collisions of rival parties; especially
482 IV | I might show in its true colours the injustice of the public
483 IX | wild beasts at the place of combat--who have keen appetites
484 XXVII | condemnation, it gives them some comfort, while punishment delays,
485 III | Some even barter away their comforts for that hatred, content
486 XIV | indeed do either tragic or comic writers shrink from setting
487 XXI | not yet occurred. For two comings of Christ having been revealed
488 XVII | the One God, He who by His commanding word, His arranging wisdom,
489 XXXIX | our drinking. As the feast commenced with prayer, so with prayer
490 XXII | which these deities are commended to the favour of deceived
491 IV | dignity of their maker that commends them, but simply that they
492 IX | mistakes leading to incestuous comminglings--your promiscuous looseness
493 XXI | Thereafter, having given them commission to preach the gospel through
494 XXIV | how great a crime does he commit, who, with the object of
495 XII | contempt, nay, in the very act commits sacrilege; so that it might
496 IV | secret, such as we find them committing in the light of day, and
497 XXXVIII| with any such crimes as are commonly dreaded from societies of
498 XXXVIII| acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth--the world. We renounce all
499 XXXI | disturbance in the empire, if the commotion is felt by its other members,
500 XXXVII | the very camp, tribes, companies, palace, senate, forum,--
501 XLVII | transmission through His companions, to whom we shall prove
502 XXI | admit that it dates from a comparatively recent period--no further
503 XL | all that is said, if we compare the calamities of former
504 VI | matron, for opening the compartments of a wine cellar, was starved
505 IX | they may be taken up by any compassionate passer-by, to whom they