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506 XLVI | are imperilled? For who compels a philosopher to sacrifice
507 X | may content myself with a compend; and this not for your information,
508 XLII | department of revenue is compensated by the advantage which others
509 XXXIX | Scriptures or one of his own composing,--a proof of the measure
510 XLVIII | animate and inanimate, of comprehensible and incomprehensible, of
511 XXXIX | be able: for there is no compulsion; all is voluntary. These
512 I | that criminals are eager to conceal themselves, avoid appearing
513 VII | discovered such atrocities, concealed them; or, in the act of
514 XLV | knowledge, the impossibility of concealment, and the greatness of the
515 XI | the first place, you must concede the existence of one higher
516 XVII | while yet beyond all our conceptions--our very incapacity of fully
517 XLVI | as those who have a real concern about their salvation. So
518 XLI | thing in this life greatly concerns us, and that is, to get
519 XI | And hence you grant, I conclude, that the god-making God
520 XXI | misunderstanding the first, they have concluded that the second--which,
521 IV | determinations are absolutely conclusive, or the necessity of obedience
522 XXIII | on beth sides there is a concurrent acknowledgment that they
523 II | thyself, O Judgment? If thou condemnest, why dost thou not also
524 L | of friends encouraging, confers on those who bear it honor
525 II | the torture to make them confess--Christians alone you torture,
526 II | less to extract from the confessed murderer a full account
527 II | the circumstances of the confession--what is the real character
528 XXIII | confidence to people making confessions against themselves, than
529 VII | in the world; so that I confidently appeal to Nature herself,
530 XLVI | of youth. The Christian confines himself to the female sex.
531 VII | suspicious judgment, or from a confirmed, nay, in the case of some,
532 IV | By adopting the plan of confiscating a debtor's goods, it was
533 XL | country yet smells of that conflagration; and if there are apples
534 L | man who objected to the conflict, both fights with all his
535 XXVII | said in these remarks to confute the charge of treason against
536 X | to deny that, it will be confuted by its own books of antiquities,
537 XXVII | ill-disposed slaves sometimes conjoin contumacy with fear, and
538 XLI | troubles because of our close connection with you, we are rather
539 XIX | that the chronological connections may be opened up, and thus
540 XXV | of her native country's conquest by Greece). Why, too, even
541 XXXIX | among themselves names of consanguinity are assumed in mere pretence
542 IX | may I charge in their own consciences with the sin of putting
543 XII | injuries and disgraces of their consecrating, as they are equally unconscious
544 IV | creditors; however, by common consent that cruelty was afterwards
545 L | a taint on our purity is considered among us something more
546 XLIV | XLIV.~Yes, and no one considers what the loss is to the
547 XLVIII | in like manner shall be consigned to the punishment of everlasting
548 XXXVI | due to the emperors do not consist in such tokens of homage
549 I | absolute supremacy be more conspicuous in their condemning her,
550 XL | the name of faction who conspire to bring odium on good men
551 XXVII | persecution, to overthrow our constancy. No other than that spirit,
552 VII | impious lusts. This is what is constantly laid to our charge, and
553 XLVI | those attributes which go to constitute a divine being, though Plato
554 XI | for all in its original construction, disposed, and furnished,
555 XXXV | expectations after it? For consultations of this sort have not the
556 XLVIII | mountain-tops; for it does not consume what it scorches, but while
557 XL | Sodom and Gomorrah were consumed by fire from heaven. The
558 XXXIX | for the delay of the final consummation. We assemble to read our
559 XVII | and so great, which both contain you and sustain you, which
560 XXI | world, and all which it contains, by His Word, and Reason,
561 L | preceptress. For who that contemplates it, is not excited to inquire
562 XLV | that if it is small, it is contemptible; and if it is great, it
563 XIV | dwell on the philosophers, contenting myself with a reference
564 XIX | materials, the origins, classes, contents of your most ancient writings,
565 XXXVII | you, we could carry on the contest with you by an ill-willed
566 L | Nay, see how even torture contests are crowned by you. The
567 IX | sensual sin, by a virgin continence, still boys in this respect
568 VII | abroad, and at last by mere continuance made into a settled opinion
569 XXXII | is only retarded by the continued existence of the Roman empire.
570 IX | reason than that they may not contract pollution, so much as from
571 IV | laws allow matrimony to be contracted, and that though they have
572 XLII | how few now throw in a contribution! In truth, we are not able
573 XXV | Romans, I shall not avoid the controversy which is invited by the
574 XXVII | slaves sometimes conjoin contumacy with fear, and delight to
575 XXXVIII| the curiae, the special conventions, even in the public shows
576 XI | rejects all correspondence, converse, and intimacy with the wicked
577 XXIII | testimonies of your deities to convert men to Christianity; for
578 I | at once aggravates and convicts it. For what is there more
579 XX | bringing external and internal convulsions; the collision of kingdoms
580 XXXIX | banquets cost; the choicest cook is appointed for the Apaturia,
581 XXII | to declare that they were cooking a tortoise with the flesh
582 XIII | them--making sometimes a cooking-pot of a Saturn, a firepan of
583 XIV | what poet is not found copying the example of his chief,
584 X | Saturn settled, obtaining cordial welcome from Janus, or,
585 XL | earthquake, too, drank up the Corinthian sea; and the force of the
586 XXXVII | themselves to some remote corner of the world, why, the very
587 XV | indeed it is implied, as the corollary from their rejection of
588 XV | in hand, dragging out the corpses of the gladiators. But who
589 XLVI | prove that our statement is correct, from the trustworthiness,
590 XI | man among you rejects all correspondence, converse, and intimacy
591 XLVII | Christian revelation, and corrupted it into a system of philosophic
592 XLVI | Socrates, who was pronounced a corrupter of youth. The Christian
593 XLVI | philosophers, these mockers and corrupters of it, with hostile ends
594 XIV | worn-out, the scabbed, the corrupting; when you cut off from the
595 XXV | that Idean cave and the Corybantian cymbals, and the sweet odour
596 XL | and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cos, with many thousands of
597 XXXIX | the sacrificial banquets cost; the choicest cook is appointed
598 XXXIX | affection. Whatever it costs, our outlay in the name
599 XXXVIII| electoral assemblies, the councils, the curiae, the special
600 XLVI | it says, the philosophers counsel and profess--innocence,
601 XLVI | of them even, with your countenance, bark out against your rulers,
602 XII | frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals,
603 XXIII | not recognize elsewhere; counting the madness which leads
604 X | they were born, and the countries in which they have left
605 L | your writers exhort to the courageous bearing of pain and death,
606 L | crowned by you. The Athenian courtezan, having wearied out the
607 XI | of greater wealth than Crassus, more eloquent than Tullius?
608 IX | punishment which justice craved overtook their crimes, as
609 XXXIX | is eaten as satisfies the cravings of hunger; as much is drunk
610 XXXIX | destroy brotherhood among you, create fraternal bonds among us.
611 XLVIII | once, when the very same creative power made you without difficulty
612 II | Certainly you give no ready credence to others when they deny.
613 XLVII | truth, they might impair its credibility, or vindicate their own
614 IV | be cut in pieces by their creditors; however, by common consent
615 VII | its origin. Thence it must creep into propagating tongues
616 IX | on--the race and the crime creeping on together. Then, further,
617 XXV | never have permitted his own Crete to fall at once before the
618 L | death by a barley-pounder, cried out, "Beat on, beat on at
619 XIII | under the voice of the crier, under the auction spear,
620 II | am a Christian," the man cries out. He tells you what he
621 VIII | you will be guilty of a crime--unless you perpetrate a
622 II | mention the very names of our crimes-If to be called a "Christian"
623 XIX | and Thallus, and their critic the Jew Josephus, the native
624 I | reproved the rude venturing to criticise the cultured; how much more
625 XXII | shaped to meet events, your Croesi and Pyrrhi know too well.
626 XVI | expelled from Egypt, in crossing the vast plains of Arabia,
627 IX | many, think you, of those crowding around and gaping for Christian
628 L | even torture contests are crowned by you. The Athenian courtezan,
629 XXI | giving Him up to them to be crucified. He Himself had predicted
630 XXVI | against God, in rejecting and crucifying Christ.~
631 IX | instruction of Jupiter himself? Ctesias tells us that the Persians
632 VII | the act of dragging the culprits' before the judge, was bribed
633 I | venturing to criticise the cultured; how much more this judging
634 XXVII | every effort is made, now by cunning suasion, and now by merciless
635 XXXIX | call that a faction, but a curia--[i.e., the court of God.]~
636 XXXVIII| assemblies, the councils, the curiae, the special conventions,
637 XXXIX | eructations of so many tribes, and curioe, and decurioe. The Salii
638 I | closer trial. Here alone the curiosity of human nature slumbers.
639 XXIV | Hostia of Satrium, Father Curls of Falisci, in honour of
640 XXXIV | It is the invocation of a curse, to give Caesar the name
641 XXII | frequent use of them in cursing. In fact, they call upon
642 XVI | to others by an outspread curtain. You will not, however,
643 XLVI | between its chief and its custodier?~
644 XIX | letters, those revealers and custodiers of events, nay (I think
645 XVII | led astray by depraving customs, though enervated by lusts
646 XLIV | atrocities, has any assassin, any cutpurse, any man guilty of sacrilege,
647 VII | them, the gory mouths of Cyclops and Sirens? Whoever found
648 XXV | cave and the Corybantian cymbals, and the sweet odour of
649 XIV | of Hercules and the Roman cynic Varro brings forward three
650 VIII | different nature--are we Cynopae or Sciapodes? You are a
651 XXXII | these genii are called "Daemones," and thence the diminutive
652 XXXII | thence the diminutive name "Daemonia" is applied to them? We
653 XXII | to idol-images. What is daintier food to the spirit of evil,
654 XV | same fashion your deities dance on human blood, on the pollutions
655 L | necessarily implies fear and danger. Yet the man who objected
656 XXVIII | an obligation to face the dangers of it. This brings us, then,
657 VII | small seminal blemish so darkens all the rest of the story,
658 XXI | sister, or by violation of a daughter or another's wife, a god
659 XLII | Saturnalia bathe myself at dawn, that I may not lose both
660 XV | your temples even in the day-time. Perhaps they too would
661 XI | God--a certain wholesale dealer in divinity, who has made
662 XXII | existence of angels. The dealers in magic, no less, come
663 XLI | before the end. Meanwhile He deals with all sorts of men alike,
664 XI | Italy, has not been fairly dealt with; for as the discoverer
665 XLVIII | darkness, of life itself and death--has also disposed time into
666 IV | it not lost its power to debar me from it, though that
667 XLVII | for ever. So again it is debated concerning the nature of
668 VI | quickly as they arose to debauch the manners of the people;
669 IV | the plan of confiscating a debtor's goods, it was sought rather
670 XX | humbling of the proud; the decay of righteousness, the growth
671 XV | reading the will of Jupiter deceased, and the three famishing
672 XXI | by stealth His body, and deceive even the incredulous. But,
673 XI | murderers, and thieves, and deceivers; all, in short, who tread
674 XXXV | forbidden alike by modesty, decency, and purity,--in truth they
675 XLII | night; yet I bathe at a decent and healthful hour, which
676 XXII | artifices, or yet further of the deceptive power which they have as
677 XXXVIII| Epicureans were allowed by you to decide for themselves one true
678 XVI | gods. Well, as those images decking out the standards are ornaments
679 XLII | falsehood in the census declarations--the calculation may easily
680 XXXII | More than this, though we decline to swear by the genii of
681 XLVI | to the same offices, for declining which our lives are imperilled?
682 V | refer, there was an old decree that no god should be consecrated
683 II | condemned, not acquitted. The decrees of the senate, the commands
684 XXXIX | tribes, and curioe, and decurioe. The Salii cannot have their
685 XXI | His displeasure. But how deeply they have sinned, puffed
686 XLVII | different ways in which it is defended. But we at once put in a
687 XLV | of practical morality is deficient, both in the fulness and
688 XLVIII | succeeds light's outgoing. The defunct stars re-live; the seasons,
689 XI | affront in the heavens. Deify your vilest criminals, if
690 XXXII | that their coming may be delayed, we are lending our aid
691 XXVII | comfort, while punishment delays, to have the usufruct of
692 XXXIX | supplications. This violence God delights in. We pray, too, for the
693 II | be punished. O miserable deliverance,--under the necessities
694 VII | merely spreading a report, it delivers up a fact, and is henceforth
695 XL | of Hiera, and Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cos, with
696 XXII | the favour of deceived and deluded human beings, that they
697 XVI | others, you are under the delusion that our god is an ass's
698 XXIV | municipal consecration, such as Delventinus of Casinum, Visidianus of
699 XLVI | ground of which these fierce demands are made for Christian blood.
700 II | having what the public hatred demands--the confession of the name,
701 XLVI | with any but his own wife. Democritus, in putting out his eyes,
702 XXII | there sprang a more wicked demon-brood, condemned of God along
703 XXII | they call upon Satan, the demon-chief, in their execrations, as
704 XXIII | tribunals, who is plainly under demoniacal possession. The wicked spirit,
705 X | you should call on us to demonstrate their non-existence, and
706 XI | Croesus for his wealth, Demosthenes for his eloquence. Which
707 XXIII | against themselves, than denials in their own behalf. It
708 I | ignorant, might he have denounced X Because they already dislike,
709 XLVI | said that some of us, too, depart from the rules of our discipline.
710 XLII | ground of complaint in one department of revenue is compensated
711 VIII | really lived, await the departure of the lately given soul,
712 XLIX | you can do to us did not depend upon our pleasure. It is
713 XIII | already shown, every god depended on the decision of the senate
714 XV | dramatic literature, too, depicts all the vileness of your
715 XLVI | to hold, and in doing so deprave, caring for nought but glory,
716 XVII | body, though led astray by depraving customs, though enervated
717 XXI | written of them that they are deprived of wisdom and understanding--
718 XI | sunk them down into lowest depths of Tartarus,--the place
719 XLVII | we have in the same way derision heaped on us. For so, too,
720 IX | while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of
721 IX | religious city of the pious descendants of AEneas, there is a certain
722 XXI | foretold in ancient times, descending into a certain virgin, and
723 XXIV | hands of many, as Plato describes great Jupiter in the heavens,
724 XXXIX | Christians towards one another is desecrated by you! For you abuse also
725 XLVIII | judgment, whether of good desert or the opposite. And therefore
726 XL | the human race has always deserved ill at God's hand. First
727 IV | senseless, worthy of punishment, deserving of ridicule. But since,
728 III | can you bring against mere designations, save that something in
729 VI | of married life, ever so desirable, which distinguished our
730 XX | massacres, and widespread desolating mortalities; the exaltation
731 XXX | noble sacrifice of prayer despatched from the chaste body, an
732 XXV | tardy messengers! O sleepy despatches! through whose fault Cybele
733 L | reckless race. But the very desperation and recklessness you object
734 XL | say were Christians, those despisers of your gods--but where
735 XXVI | never have been a kingdom, despising as it did one and all these
736 XXXIX | wants of boys and girls destitute of means and parents, and
737 XXII | kills them in the bud, or destroys them when they have reached
738 VI | sobriety, have also fallen into desuetude, when a woman had yet known
739 VI | relatives, that they might be detected by their breath. Where is
740 XXI | all things according to a determinate plan; that his name is Fate,
741 IV | is either said that their determinations are absolutely conclusive,
742 VII | the story, that no one can determine whether the lips, from which
743 IV | in fact, it is already determined that whatever is beneficial
744 III | one to be reformed by the detested name. Goodness is of less
745 VII | taint of falsehood, either detracting, or adding, or changing
746 XXVII | other than that spirit, half devil and half angel, who, hating
747 XXI | He displayed,--expelling devils from men by a word, restoring
748 XLVII | we shall prove that those devisers of different doctrines are
749 XVI | granted that we too are devoted to the worship of the same
750 XLI | send trouble on their own devotees, whom they are bound to
751 IX | bodies, do less because they devour the living? Have they less
752 II | light some Christian who had devoured a hundred infants! But,
753 XV | You are, I suppose, more devout in the arena, where after
754 XV | the masculine gender, and Diana under the lash, and the
755 XIII | Junos, and Cereses, and Dianas; when you instal in your
756 XL | which they were born and died, nay, which they founed,
757 XLVI | when He is found, it is difficult to make Him known to all.
758 VI | the insignia of official dignities or of noble birth to be
759 XIX | we make too lengthened a digression.~
760 I | entertained for it being thus diminished, a stronger reason for perseverance
761 XXXII | Daemones," and thence the diminutive name "Daemonia" is applied
762 X | information, neither the Greek Diodorus or Thallus, neither Cassius
763 XIV | of his life from the same Diomede; that Mars was almost wasted
764 XXXIX | appointed for the Apaturia, the Dionysia, the Attic mysteries; the
765 XXXII | to be overtaken by these dire events; and in praying that
766 XVI | bodies, move your lips in the direction of the sunrise. In the same
767 XLVIII | its very nature indeed, directly ministers to their incorruptibility.
768 V | from Christians their legal disabilities, yet in another way he put
769 XXIII | ignominy and condemnation. They disclaim being unclean spirits, which
770 VII | Samothracian and Eleusinian make no disclosures--how much more will silence
771 XLIX | speculations and illustrious discoveries. They are men of wisdom,
772 X | of which has no idea of discovering the truth, and the other
773 XXI | bond. But, first, I shall discuss His essential nature, and
774 XVI | foot. These things we have discussed ex abundanti, that we might
775 XLVIII | all rein upon this point, discussing into what various beasts
776 XXXIX | for a belly-feast to all disgraceful treatment,--but as it is
777 XIV | example of his chief, to be a disgracer of the gods? One gives Apollo
778 XII | sense of the injuries and disgraces of their consecrating, as
779 II | forbidding murder, adultery, dishonesty, and other crimes. Upon
780 XV | insulted, and their deity dishonored? Yet you not merely look
781 XLI | on account of those who dishonour Him. But admit first of
782 XXV | unconscious are with impunity dishonoured, just as in vain they are
783 II | that, except an obstinate disinclination to offer sacrifices, he
784 II | have no proof, and they are disinclined to have them looked into,
785 III | who used to be so patient, disinherits; the servant, now faithful,
786 XVI | himself everywhere in his own disk. The idea no doubt has originated
787 XXI | free-will, He with a word dismissed from Him His spirit, anticipating
788 XXXI | not thought to be given to disorder, are to be found in some
789 XXI | enlarged capacities of a nobler dispensation. Accordingly, He appeared
790 XXVI | and see if He be not the dispenser of kingdoms, who is Lord
791 XXI | from the powers which He displayed,--expelling devils from
792 XLVII | sacred Scriptures which displeased them, in their own peculiar
793 XVI | is this, perhaps, which displeases you in us, that while your
794 XXI | utterances, and reason abides to dispose and arrange, and power is
795 XLVII | of God, they proceeded to dispute about Him, not as He had
796 XXIII | would not dare to treat with disrespect the higher majesty of beings,
797 XLVII | while others hold that it is dissoluble. According to each one's
798 XLVIII | evermore? Wherever your dissolution shall have taken place,
799 XLVIII | produce, save as they rot and dissolve away;--all things are preserved
800 XLVIII | substance which has been dissolved be made to reappear again?
801 XXVII | lot; and those whom at a distance they oppose, in close quarters
802 XXXVII | however great, inhabiting a distinct territory, and confined
803 XLVIII | into order, by fixing and distinguishing its mode, according to which
804 XXIII | entered, unwilling, and distressed, and before your very eyes
805 II | absolve? Military stations are distributed through all the provinces
806 XXXV | Caesar presiding at the distribution of a largess? And this at
807 XLVIII | made the universe out of diverse elements, so that all things
808 XXII | the illusions of a false divination? And here I explain how
809 XXII | God, while they steal His divinations. But the skill with which
810 XLIII | sorcerers; soothsayers, too, diviners, and astrologers. But it
811 XXI | of the sun--there is no division of substance, but merely
812 XLVI | between the talker and he doer? between the man who builds
813 XIV | an oak, and a goat, and a dog. In fact, for this very
814 XVI | they have acknowledged gods dog-headed and lion-headed, with horn
815 VIII | them well, so that when the dog-made darkness has fallen on you,
816 VI | and Arpocrates, with their dogheaded friend, admission into the
817 I | the laws, supreme in their domain, to give her a hearing?
818 XIII | call Lares, you exercise a domestic authority over, pledging
819 VII | to extort money; our very domestics, by their nature. We are
820 XXVI | The Babylonians exercised dominion, too, before the days of
821 V | it Nero's condemnation. Domitian, too, a man of Nero's type
822 XXXIX | likes, each puts in a small donation; but only if it be his pleasure,
823 IV | he shut himself up, and doomed himself to death by starvation?
824 XLI | befalls us, it is laid to the door of your transgressions.
825 VII | it. On the ground of your double dealing, we are entitled
826 XLVIII | were before. There will be doubts, perhaps, as to the power
827 XV | held up to ridicule. Your dramatic literature, too, depicts
828 XL | Ocean. An earthquake, too, drank up the Corinthian sea; and
829 VIII | and dogs--with tid-bits to draw them on to the extinguishing
830 XI | make gods, it is vain to, dream of gods being made when
831 XXIII | various miracles; if they put dreams into people's minds by the
832 XL | in all your thoughts. We, dried up with fastings, and our
833 XXXIX | proof of the measure of our drinking. As the feast commenced
834 XXXIX | and spent on feasts, and drinking-bouts, and eating-houses, but
835 II | the name of Christ, you drive us by torture to fall from
836 II | Christians to death, and driven some from their stedfastness,
837 XXX | Arabian tree,--not a few drops of wine,--not the blood
838 V | testimony that that Germanic drought was removed by the rains
839 IX | more cruel way to kill by drowning, or by exposure to cold
840 VII | wise man never believes the dubious. Everybody knows, however
841 XLIX | foundation, and give them duly the name of fancies, yet
842 XXXII | lending our aid to Rome's duration. More than this, though
843 | during
844 XXIV | has Astarte, Arabia has Dusares, the Norici have Belenus,
845 XIV | in wisdom and the nobler duties of life, what utterly ridiculous
846 XXIII | those who are so useful and dutiful to them, anxious even to
847 XXXV | The same homage is paid, dutifully too, by those who consult
848 XXII | had been to Lydia. From dwelling in the air, and their nearness
849 I | this, that her origin, her dwelling-place, her hope, her recompense,
850 X | The mountain on which he dwelt was called Saturnius; the
851 XXVI | ordained the changes of dynasties, with their appointed seasons,
852 XXV | Though Numa set agoing an eagerness after superstitious observances,
853 II | nothing but meetings at early morning for singing hymns
854 XXXII | impending over the whole earth--in fact, the very end of
855 XXV | vessels were yet of Samian earthen-ware, and from these the odours
856 XVI | devote the day of Saturn to ease and luxury, though they
857 XLVIII | Indeed, it will be still easier surley to make you what
858 XVI | being known to turn to the east in prayer. But you, many
859 XXXIX | and drinking-bouts, and eating-houses, but to support and bury
860 XLVIII | by chance in his beef he eats of some ancestor of his?
861 XXI | no doubt thought it an eclipse. You yourselves have the
862 XLVIII | a veil over the eternal economy, equally a thing of time--
863 IV | of imperial rescripts and edicts, that whole ancient and
864 XVI | ignorant. But lately a new edition of our god has been given
865 XIX | hints as to how it is to be effected. But it seems better to
866 XXI | that even your own gods are effective witnesses for Christ. It
867 XXII | their action save by its effects, as when some inexplicable,
868 XV | trained up for the art in all effeminacy, represents a Minerva or
869 IV | yourselves every day, in your efforts to illumine the darkness
870 XIX | as witnesses. Manetho the Egyptian, and Berosus the Chaldean,
871 IX | grief, exclaiming, hlaune eis thn mhtera. Even now reflect
872 XXXIX | intercourse. The tried men of our elders preside over us, obtaining
873 L | her inclination. Zeno the Eleatic, when he was asked by Dionysius
874 XLI | will is, that outcasts and elect should have adversities
875 XI | absence of all reason for electing humanity to divinity; for
876 XXXVIII| lead to disturbance in the electoral assemblies, the councils,
877 VII | mysteries. The Samothracian and Eleusinian make no disclosures--how
878 VII | yet you take no pains to elicit the truth of what we have
879 XI | wealth than Crassus, more eloquent than Tullius? How much better
880 XLVII | a sort of enclosure, the Elysian plains have taken possession
881 L | after inquiry, does not embrace our doctrines? and when
882 L | doctrines? and when he has embraced them, desires not to suffer
883 XLVI | the Lacons had made some emendation of his laws: the Christian,
884 XL | Egypt its Jewish swarm (of emigrants), nor had the race from
885 XXI | kingdom attained to a lofty eminence; and so highly blessed were
886 L | what sublimity of mind! Empedocles gave his whole body at Catana
887 XXV | not mistaken, kingdoms and empires are acquired by wars, and
888 XLVIII | existed, as from a death of emptiness and inanity, animated by
889 XXI | near, the grave was found empty of all but the clothes of
890 XVIII | acquaintance with all literature, emulating, I imagine, the book enthusiasm
891 VI | fathers in their wisdom had enacted concerning the very gods
892 XLVII | fiery zone as by a sort of enclosure, the Elysian plains have
893 XXI | through the world, He was encompassed with a cloud and taken up
894 VI | which used to be such an encouragement to modesty and sobriety,
895 L | the very eyes of friends encouraging, confers on those who bear
896 XXIV | the Caesar, transfers his endeavours and his hopes to another,
897 | ending
898 XLVIII | a notable example of the endless judgment which still supplies
899 L | the lives of many enemies, endured these crosses over all his
900 XVII | depraving customs, though enervated by lusts and passions, though
901 V | Pius, nor a Verus, ever enforced? It should surely be judged
902 XXXVI | which Deity as cerainly enjoins on us, as they are held
903 XL | It was His blessings they enjoyed--created before they made
904 XXXVIII| his part, has many such enjoyments--what harm in that?~
905 XXI | measure, in keeping with the enlarged capacities of a nobler dispensation.
906 XXI | but as one who aimed to enlighten men already civilized, and
907 XXI | grace and discipline, the Enlightener and Trainer of the human
908 VIII | you the reward of these enormities. They give promise of eternal
909 XLIV | one estimates the injury entailed upon the state, when, men
910 XV | found, for Christians do not enter your temples even in the
911 XXVII | beginning of our work, when entering on this discussion. For,
912 I | instead of the detestation entertained for it being thus diminished,
913 XVIII | emulating, I imagine, the book enthusiasm of Pisistratus, among other
914 VII | your double dealing, we are entitled to lay it down to you that
915 IX | the gladiator's gore. The entrails of the very bears, loaded
916 V | Christian name made its entry into the world, having himself
917 XIV | grandson, and exhibiting envious feeling to the Physician.
918 XXVII | from God, and stirred with envy for the favour God has shown
919 IX | gladiator shows, for the cure of epilepsy, quaff with greedy thirst
920 L | upon images, and cut out epitaphs on tombs, that their names
921 XVI | are with their goddess Epona objects of worship with
922 XXXV | ever in the senate, in the equestrian order, in the camp, in the
923 IV | that cruelty was afterwards erased from the statutes, and the
924 III | not physicians named from Erasistratus, grammarians from Aristarchus,
925 IV | wonderful that man should err in making a law, or come
926 VI | which antiquity has mainly erred--although you have rebuilt
927 XXII | lusts accompanied by various errors, of which the worst is that
928 XXXIX | very air is soured with the eructations of so many tribes, and curioe,
929 XXXI | these prayers of ours to escape persecution. Thank you for
930 XXII | existence of certain spiritual essences; nor is their name unfamiliar.
931 XLIV | great as it is real, no one estimates the injury entailed upon
932 XLV | is in man's power both to evade them, by generally managing
933 II | dost thou play a game of evasion upon thyself, O Judgment?
934 XXXV | all of them, on the very eve of their traitorous outbreak,
935 XX | world, and the age, and the event, are all be fore you. All
936 XLVIII | shalt thou die to perish evermore? Wherever your dissolution
937 VII | never believes the dubious. Everybody knows, however zealously
938 XXV | devotion to religion has evidently advanced to greatness a
939 I | ordinary peculiarities of evil--fear, shame, subterfuge,
940 XLV | intelligence, interdicting evil-doing, or evil-speaking? Which
941 XLV | interdicting evil-doing, or evil-speaking? Which is more thorough,
942 XVI | things we have discussed ex abundanti, that we might
943 XXXVI | been pleased so highly to exalt.~
944 XX | desolating mortalities; the exaltation of the lowly, and the humbling
945 XXX | wonders, when your victims are examined by these vile priests, why
946 XXI | same. But the Jews were so exasperated by His teaching, by which
947 V | except as being of singular excellence did anything bring on it
948 L | forgiveness, by giving in exchange his blood? For that secures
949 I | condition, for that does not excite her wonder. She knows that
950 L | contemplates it, is not excited to inquire what is at the
951 XXIV | offence to the Romans, we are excluded from the rights and privileges
952 II | forbidden to say anything in exculpation of themselves, in defence
953 I | very reason which seems to excuse this injustice (I mean ignorance)
954 I | at once condemning and excusing their injustice, is this,
955 XXII | the demon-chief, in their execrations, as though from some instinctive
956 L | that there, under fear of execution, we may battle for the truth.
957 XXVI | was built. The Babylonians exercised dominion, too, before the
958 XXXVIII| of the arena, the useless exercises of the wrestling-ground.
959 XLVI | to Alexander, instead of exercising to keep him in the right
960 XXII | abroad its pestilential exhalations. So, too, by an influence
961 XVI | ourselves, we turn now to an exhibi-ition of what our religion really
962 XIV | unnatural to his grandson, and exhibiting envious feeling to the Physician.
963 XLIV | fed: it is from you the exhibitors of gladiatorial shows always
964 L | seed. Many of your writers exhort to the courageous bearing
965 XXXIX | In the same place also exhortations are made, rebukes and sacred
966 XLII | who dwell in woods and exile themselves from ordinary
967 XXI | abroad, a race of wanderers, exiles from their own land and
968 XXI | made a second in manner of existence--in position, not in nature;
969 I | mere fact that an aversion exists, but from acquaintance with
970 XXXVII | without reward or hire we exorcise? This alone would be revenge
971 XXXII | have been in the habit of exorcising them, not of swearing by
972 XXIII | as Judge, and which they expect one day to overtake them.
973 XXXV | against it, or some hopes and expectations after it? For consultations
974 L | to the dead. Yet he who expects the true resurrection from
975 XLIX | the truth of which it is expedient to presume. On no ground
976 X | country in which, after many expeditions, and after having partaken
977 XXI | powers which He displayed,--expelling devils from men by a word,
978 VI | become of the laws repressing expensive and ostentatious ways of
979 XXXVII | to this, recall your own experiences. How often you inflict gross
980 VII | thing which you dare not expiscate. You impose on the executioner,
981 VII | duty the very opposite of expiscation: he is not to make them
982 XXII | was in that way we have explained, the Pythian was able to
983 II | was to do with the rest, explaining to his master that, except
984 XXXIX | great ado is made. Our feast explains itself by its name The Greeks
985 X | have left traces of their exploits, as well as where also they
986 IX | materials. You first of all expose your children, that they
987 IX | kill by drowning, or by exposure to cold and hunger and dogs.
988 XXV | acquired by wars, and are extended by victories. More than
989 XXI | substance, but merely an extension. Thus Christ is Spirit of
990 XX | the sea; wars, bringing external and internal convulsions;
991 XLVIII | resurrection. Light, every day extinguished, shines out again; and,
992 VIII | tid-bits to draw them on to the extinguishing of the lights: above all
993 II | murder is, none the less to extract from the confessed murderer
994 XXII | the soul into sudden and extraordinary excesses. Their marvellous
995 XXXIX | the ground that they are extravagant as well as infamously wicked.
996 I | justice; if, finally, the extreme severities inflicted on
997 XXXIII | And it only adds to his exultation, that he shines with a glory
998 XLIX | only the blinded populace exults and insults over us, but
999 XXI | Receive meanwhile this fable, if you choose to call it
1000 XIV | false, they should not be fabricated among people professing
1001 XXVIII | looks, with whichever of his faces he likes; what have you
1002 XV | admit as readily to be the fact--that in the temples adulteries
1003 XXXIX | such as lies against secret factions. But who has ever suffered
1004 L | burned in a circle-heap of fagots. This is the attitude in
1005 II | criminals,it being only fair that the same crime should