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1006 XI | into Italy, has not been fairly dealt with; for as the discoverer
1007 III | their ignorance; though in fairness you should rather judge
1008 XLII | to Christians; for in the faithfulness which keeps us from fraud
1009 XXIV | Satrium, Father Curls of Falisci, in honour of whom, too,
1010 XLII | temple revenues are every day falling off: how few now throw in
1011 L | of Anaxarchus; no stroke falls on Anaxarchus himself."
1012 II | in our case, though the falsehoods disseminated about us ought
1013 XXIII | demon, as elsewhere he has falsely asserted that he is a god.
1014 XLVIII | incorruptibility. The philosophers are familiar as well as we with the distinction
1015 XXXIV | of power; so the heads of families are called fathers rather
1016 XL | earthquake, if there is famine or pestilence, straightway
1017 XX | kingdoms with kingdoms; famines and pestilences, and local
1018 XV | deceased, and the three famishing Herculeses held up to ridicule.
1019 XLIX | give them duly the name of fancies, yet still they are necessary;
1020 XLVII | According to each one's fancy, He has introduced either
1021 XIII | Deity is struck off and farmed out to the highest bidder.
1022 XXX | few grains of incense a farthing buys--tears of an Arabian
1023 XXV | at once before the Roman Fasces, forgetful of that Idean
1024 XLVII | more on that account the fastidiousness of man, too proud to believe,
1025 XL | thoughts. We, dried up with fastings, and our passions bound
1026 XIV | when you cut off from the fat and the sound the useless
1027 XXXIV | the most unworthy, nay, a fatal flattery; it is just as
1028 XXV | own, and given their own fatherland, in which they had their
1029 VI | at a time, and that not a fatted one; which expelled a patrician
1030 XXV | despatches! through whose fault Cybele had not an earlier
1031 XXI | how they should merit His favor and avoid His displeasure.
1032 III | name; that when they bear favourable testimony to any one, they
1033 XLIV | sighing, the wild beasts are fed: it is from you the exhibitors
1034 XLIV | their herds of criminals to feed up for the occasion. You
1035 XVI | might be seeking water after feeding, they discovered a fountain,
1036 XIV | and exhibiting envious feeling to the Physician. Things
1037 XLVI | Diogenes with filth-covered feet trampling on the proud couches
1038 XXXI | flatter the emperor, and feign these prayers of ours to
1039 I | punished for which is his felicity? You cannot call it madness,
1040 XI | thus condemn those whose fellow-actors you adore? Your goodness
1041 L | longer able to confess her fellow-conspirators, if even overcome, that
1042 XXXV | seasons in partaking of the festivities of another, and inaugurate
1043 XXXV | at the call of a public festivity, to dress your house up
1044 XXIV | another to the altar of Fides; let one--if you choose
1045 XLVI | the ground of which these fierce demands are made for Christian
1046 XLVII | knowledge of this world by that fiery zone as by a sort of enclosure,
1047 XVI | into people's minds. In the fifth book of his histories, beginning
1048 XLII | commerce. We sail with you, and fight with you, and till the ground
1049 V | Christians who chanced to be fighting under him. And as he did
1050 L | objected to the conflict, both fights with all his strength, and
1051 XVI | toga. Both the name and the figure gave us amusement. But our
1052 XI | cast all who offend against filial piety, and such as are guilty
1053 XV | priests, under the sacrificial fillets, and the sacred hats, and
1054 XXIII | making the whole world shake, filling the earth with dread alarms,
1055 XLVI | occurs to me Diogenes with filth-covered feet trampling on the proud
1056 XIX | study of many books, and the fingers busy reckoning. The histories
1057 XLVIII | seasons, as soon as they are finished, renew their course; the
1058 XLVIII | punishment of everlasting fire--that fire which, from its
1059 IX | Christians, as well as the fire-pan and the censer. They should
1060 XXXIX | Serapis will call out the firemen. Yet about the modest supper-room
1061 XIII | cooking-pot of a Saturn, a firepan of a Minerva, as one or
1062 XXI | of God, that primordial first-begotten Word, accompanied by power
1063 XXXVII | what wars should we not be fit, not eager, even with unequal
1064 XIX | affirm, too, that he is five hundred years earlier than
1065 XVI | shapeless wood? Every stake fixed in an upright position is
1066 XLVIII | disposed time into order, by fixing and distinguishing its mode,
1067 XXXI | But we merely, you say, flatter the emperor, and feign these
1068 XXXIV | most unworthy, nay, a fatal flattery; it is just as if, having
1069 XXI | rolled away, and the guard fled off in terror: without a
1070 XXII | angels, who fell of their own flee-will, there sprang a more wicked
1071 VII | thing? Is it because it is fleet? Is it because it carries
1072 XXII | get their proper food of flesh-fumes and blood when that is offered
1073 VII | that "among all evils, none flies so fast as rumour." Why
1074 XL | in those days, when the flood poured its destroying waters
1075 XVIII | majesty in H judgments by floods and fires, the rules appointed
1076 XXII | and the grain while in the flower, or kills them in the bud,
1077 XLII | them, if nevertheless the flowers are purchased? I think it
1078 XII | Gnash your teeth upon us--foam with maddened rage against
1079 XXIII | the blood and fumes and foetid carcasses of sacrificial
1080 IX | may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet
1081 XXI | was no more than man, it followed from that, as a necessary
1082 VII | publishers of their crime, it follows of course it must be strangers.
1083 V | neither a Hadrian, though fond of searching into all things
1084 VII | certain. Does any but a fool put his trust in it? For
1085 L | counted neither reckless foolhardiness, nor desperate obstinacy,
1086 XXI | set so much as a simple footstep in their native country.
1087 XI | short, who tread in the footsteps of your gods, not one of
1088 XXXIV | word, and when I am not forced to call him Lord as in God'
1089 XXXVII | eager, even with unequal forces, we who so willingly yield
1090 XX | and the event, are all be fore you. All that is taking
1091 XX | taking place around you I was fore-announced; all that you now see with
1092 XXV | of the same race,--if she foresaw her transference to the
1093 XX | nature's forms--it was all foreseen and predicted before it
1094 IV | whole ancient and rugged forest of your laws? Has not Severus,
1095 XXXV | but that they might get a foretaste of their own votive seasons
1096 XX | time is one to prophecy foretelling the future. Among men, it
1097 XLI | we recognize in it divine foretellings, which, in fact, go to confirm
1098 XXI | then, as it was always foretold in ancient times, descending
1099 XLVIII | we look forward continues forever. When, therefore, the boundary
1100 XXXIX | of the times makes either forewarning or reminiscence needful.
1101 XLII | ordinary human life. We do not forget the debt of gratitude we
1102 XXV | before the Roman Fasces, forgetful of that Idean cave and the
1103 L | obtain from God complete forgiveness, by giving in exchange his
1104 X | undoubtedly you act as if you had forgotten all about them. No one of
1105 XX | taking the place of nature's forms--it was all foreseen and
1106 XXXVI | would not do tO anybody, a fortiori, perhaps we should not do
1107 XXXVII | among you--cities, islands, fortresses, towns, market-places, the
1108 XI | Polycrates for his good fortune, Croesus for his wealth,
1109 | forty
1110 XIV | Trojans and Greeks the gods fought among themselves like pairs
1111 XIV | the fate of Sarpedon, now foully makes love to his own sister,
1112 X | called Saturnius; the city he founded is called Saturnia to this
1113 III | philosophers called from the founders of their systems--Platonists,
1114 L | mental resolution! A certain foundress of Carthage gave herself
1115 XL | and died, nay, which they founed, bear ample testimony; for
1116 XIX | Argive Inachus; by nearly four hundred years--only seven
1117 VI | supper, and more than one fowl to be set on the table at
1118 L | these crosses over all his frame: how brave a man--even in
1119 XLVIII | not to the same outward framework. Assuredly, as the reason
1120 XLII | places. We certainly buy no frankincense. If the Arabias complain
1121 XXXIX | brotherhood among you, create fraternal bonds among us. One in mind
1122 XXI | from all others. At His own free-will, He with a word dismissed
1123 VI | to senators, and not to freedmen or even mere whip-spoilers).
1124 XXXIV | relation to him is one of freedom; for I have but one true
1125 VIII | saturate your bread with it, freely partake. The while as you
1126 XXVIII | seen to be unjust to compel freemen against their will to offer
1127 XXXV | are Romans, and none more frequently than they demand the death
1128 L | place, for the empire, for friendship, endure all you are forbidden
1129 XII | our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart
1130 XLVIII | ground for the moving to and fro of human souls into different
1131 XXV | images or temples. It was frugal in its ways, its rites were
1132 XLVIII | supplies punishment with fuel! The mountains burn, and
1133 XX | times is made while the fulfilment is going on: from being
1134 XLII | of Christians as in the fumigating of the gods. At any rate,
1135 XI | for the performance of its functions, there is, in this respect,
1136 XXXIX | it were, piety's deposit fund. For they are not taken
1137 XXIII | pans as under a different furor from another who cuts his
1138 VI | Italy. The consuls Piso and Gabinius, no Christians surely, forbade
1139 L | object of the struggle is gained. This victory of ours gives
1140 XXIV | who, with the object of gaining higher favour with the Caesar,
1141 XLVI | precisely on this ground gains favour with its persecutors.
1142 XXI | of His disciples down in Galilee, a region of Judea, instructing
1143 II | punishes. Why dost thou play a game of evasion upon thyself,
1144 IX | certain Jupiter whom in their games they lave with human blood.
1145 IX | those crowding around and gaping for Christian blood,--how
1146 XXIII | vent it forth in agonies of gasping. Let that same Virgin Caelestis
1147 XI | straightway shut heaven's gates; and now He must surely
1148 XXXV | what most exquisite and gaudy couches they divided the
1149 IX | sacrificed to Mercury in Gaul. I hand over the Tauric
1150 III | she was! how wanton! how gay! What a youth he was! how
1151 XLVII | below. And if we threaten Gehenna, which is a reservoir of
1152 XV | and Luna of the masculine gender, and Diana under the lash,
1153 XXI | in that procession He is generated; so that He is the Son of
1154 V | his testimony that that Germanic drought was removed by the
1155 XXIII | if sorcerers call forth ghosts, and even make what seem
1156 XII | first consecrated on the gibbet. You tear the sides of Christians
1157 XXII | a ship drawn along by a girdle, and a beard reddened by
1158 XXXIX | supply the wants of boys and girls destitute of means and parents,
1159 XL | promise to the eye they give--you but touch them, and
1160 XLI | with you, we are rather glad of it, because we recognize
1161 XLIV | from you the exhibitors of gladiatorial shows always get their herds
1162 IX | in the habit of offering, gladly responding to the call which
1163 XXXV | virtue? Why, on the day of gladness, do we neither cover our
1164 XI | from the sky, and stars gleamed, and light shone, and thunders
1165 XXXV | treasons, the still remnant gleanings after a vintage of traitors,
1166 XV | heaven, and you are full of glee; Cybele sighs after the
1167 XLVI | your divinities he had a glimpse of the truth, at his dying
1168 I | If he is pointed out, he glories in it; if he is accused,
1169 XII | before the lead, and the glue, and the nails are put in
1170 XII | blasphemous reproaches! Gnash your teeth upon us--foam
1171 XVI | horn of buck and ram, with goat-like loins, with serpent legs,
1172 XXIII | by whose influence, too, goats and tables are made to divine,--
1173 XI | made when thus you have no god-maker. Most certainly, if they
1174 XI | grant, I conclude, that the god-making God is of transcendent righteousness,--
1175 XXIII | there be produced one of the god-possessed, as they are supposed, who,
1176 XI | vine, Bacchus is raised to godship, Lucullus, who first introduced
1177 XIII | source of gain. Religion goes about the taverns begging.
1178 XIV | his accusers, and set up a golden image of him in a temple,
1179 XL | its neighbors Sodom and Gomorrah were consumed by fire from
1180 IX | itself in the gladiator's gore. The entrails of the very
1181 VII | as he had found them, the gory mouths of Cyclops and Sirens?
1182 XXI | commission to preach the gospel through the world, He was
1183 XXXVII | have to seek subjects to govern. You would have more enemies
1184 XI | ordered, and supplied with a government of perfect wisdom. That
1185 XXI | Pilate, at that time Roman governor of Syria; and, by the violence
1186 XXIV | procurators, prefects, and governors of the divine empire. And
1187 XLVI | incontinence. But a Christian with grace-healed eyes is sightless in this
1188 XXII | blights the apples and the grain while in the flower, or
1189 XXX | sanctified spirit, not the few grains of incense a farthing buys--
1190 XIV | the bolt--unnatural to his grandson, and exhibiting envious
1191 XVI | suppose, it was taken for granted that we too are devoted
1192 XXIV | persecuting it. But now, granting that these objects of your
1193 IV | this matter of the laws grapple with you as with their chosen
1194 XVII | very incapacity of fully grasping Him affords us the idea
1195 XIII | sacred services; there is no gratuitous knowledge of your divinities
1196 XXXV | pass, whose hearts, all graven over, would not betray the
1197 XXXIX | of Attic wisdom, of Roman gravity--the philosopher and the
1198 X | new and old, barbarian, Grecian,Roman, foreign, captive
1199 XIV | stricken with lightning for his greed in practising wrongfully
1200 IX | of epilepsy, quaff with greedy thirst the blood of criminals
1201 IX | mirth of the incest-doer's grief, exclaiming, hlaune eis
1202 I | their condemnation, they grieve for what they have done.
1203 XXII | bodies diseases and other grievous calamities, while by violent
1204 XXXIX | when any one has sinned so grievously as to require his severance
1205 L | torture us, condemn us, grind us to dust; your injustice
1206 XXXVII | experiences. How often you inflict gross cruelties on Christians,
1207 XXV | which is invited by the groundless assertion of those who maintain
1208 VII | true, against those who groundlessly hold that such things are
1209 XXXV | Caesar between the two laurel groves? Whence they who practised
1210 L | you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians
1211 XXV | have put it, have either grown by injuring religion, or
1212 IX | so much of infants, as of grown-up men. Blush for your vile
1213 XXI | the Spirit is nourished, grows up to manhood, speaks, teaches,
1214 X | sudden and unlooked-for guest, got everywhere the name
1215 XVI | from thirst; but taking the guidance of the wild asses, which
1216 XXI | themselves from His lowly guise that Christ was no more
1217 VIII | bread, too, to collect the gushing blood; in addition to these,
1218 XLII | are not Indian Brahmins or Gymnosophists, who dwell in woods and
1219 XVIII | given of His majesty in H judgments by floods and
1220 V | sought after; which neither a Hadrian, though fond of searching
1221 XLII | scent the perfume with their hair. We do not go to your spectacles;
1222 L | Semaxii, because, bound to a half-axle stake, we are burned in
1223 V | having our condemnation hallowed by the hostility of such
1224 XVII | ordinary sense, can be seen and handled and conceived, is inferior
1225 XXX | us with your iron claws, hang us up on crosses, wrap us
1226 XVI | ornaments of crosses. All those hangings of your standards and banners
1227 XL | the true God at Rome, when Hannibal at Cannae counted the Roman
1228 VII | and congregations. Whoever happened withal upon an infant wailing,
1229 X | the look of any stranger happening to appear among them, as
1230 VI | their breath. Where is that happiness of married life, ever so
1231 XLII | are called to account as harm-doers on another ground, and are
1232 XIX | discussion of this, lest in our haste we do not sufficiently carry
1233 II | the name is surely very hateful, when that of itself is
1234 XXVII | devil and half angel, who, hating us because of his own separation
1235 XV | fillets, and the sacred hats, and the purple robes, amid
1236 XII | dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are
1237 XXII | they are in regard to the healing of diseases. For, first
1238 XXXVII | your souls and ruining your health? Who would save you, I mean,
1239 XLII | I bathe at a decent and healthful hour, which preserves me
1240 XLVII | in the same way derision heaped on us. For so, too, they
1241 XL | importunities--touch God's heart--and when we have extorted
1242 XXXVI | emperors. Deeds of true heart-goodness are not due by us to emperors
1243 XLII | which preserves me both in heat and blood. I can be rigid
1244 X | everywhere the name of the Heaven-born. or even the common folk
1245 XVIII | call Jews bare the name of Hebrews, and so both their writings
1246 XXV | have been raised to such heights of power as to have become
1247 XII | actual images, I regard hem as simply pieces of matter
1248 XLVII | fire; so it appeared to Heraclitus. The Platonists, again,
1249 XIII | as they seek to get the herb market, under the voice
1250 XV | and the three famishing Herculeses held up to ridicule. Your
1251 XLIV | gladiatorial shows always get their herds of criminals to feed up
1252 XLVI | basely thrust his friend Hermias from his place: the Christian
1253 IX | where it is told (it is in Herodotus, I think)--how blood taken
1254 | hers
1255 XXXIX | mind and soul, we do not hesitate to share our earthly goods
1256 XLIII | confess, however, without hesitation, that there are some who
1257 IV | of antiquity, cutting and hewing with the new axes of imperial
1258 XLV | by generally managing to hide himself out of sight in
1259 XL | We read of the islands of Hiera, and Anaphe, and Delos,
1260 XIX | Berosus the Chaldean, and Hieromus the Phoenician king of Tyre;
1261 XXXV | population of the seven hills: does that Roman vernacular
1262 IX | body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier
1263 XIX | before you, in giving those hints as to how it is to be effected.
1264 XLVI | way to extravagance; and Hippias is put to death laying plots
1265 II | of their own lips and of hired pleaders to show their innocence.
1266 XIV | tend his sheep; another hires out the building labours
1267 XIX | philosophers, and legislators, and historians. It is not so much the difficulty
1268 XIX | vindicator of the ancient history of his people, who either
1269 XLI | Christians. But this, you say, hits your God as well, since
1270 IX | incest-doer's grief, exclaiming, hlaune eis thn mhtera. Even now
1271 XI | creator's hands, as Plato hold--was manifestly, once for
1272 XLVIII | philosopher affirms, as Laberius holds, following an opinion of
1273 XXXV | celebrate along with you the holidays of the Caesars in a manner
1274 XXXIX | have drunk in one spirit of holiness, who from the same womb
1275 XIX | hundred years earlier than Homer, and have supporters of
1276 IX | vast difference between homicide and parricide. A more advanced
1277 IX | said, between parricide and homicide--I shall turn to the people
1278 L | confers on those who bear it honor proportionate to the blood
1279 XXVI | whose God you Romans once honoured with victims, and its temple
1280 XVI | the ears of an ass, was hoofed in one foot, carried a book,
1281 XIV | such as the head and the hoofs, which in your house you
1282 XVI | dog-headed and lion-headed, with horn of buck and ram, with goat-like
1283 IX | convinced that they regard with horror the idea of tasting the
1284 XXXVII | inflicted. Why, you would be horror-struck at the solitude in which
1285 X | having partaken of Attic hospitalities, Saturn settled, obtaining
1286 XXIV | Valentia of Ocriculum, Hostia of Satrium, Father Curls
1287 XV | farces of your Lentuli and Hostilii, whether in the jokes and
1288 XV | bodies of the dead with his hot iron; we have witnessed
1289 XXXIX | For you abuse also our humble feasts, on the ground that
1290 XX | exaltation of the lowly, and the humbling of the proud; the decay
1291 XLVIII | power of God, of Him who hung in its place this huge body
1292 X | It were useless even to hunt out all their names: so
1293 XIV | it was of Jupiter--if he hurled the bolt--unnatural to his
1294 XLIX | false and foolish, they hurt nobody. For they are just (
1295 XXII | straightway withdrawing hurtful influence, they are supposed
1296 XXXIX | their chastity, when their husbands so readily bestowed it away?
1297 XI | to him who discovered it, hut to him who made it, for
1298 XXXIX | forth and sing, as he can, a hymn to God, either one from
1299 II | early morning for singing hymns to Christ and God, and sealing
1300 XXV | Fasces, forgetful of that Idean cave and the Corybantian
1301 XLV | dare not despise. But your ideas of virtue you have got from
1302 XVIII | are to be seen, with the identical Hebrew originals in them.
1303 XXIII | different names you have real identity. Let a person be brought
1304 XLVII | the contrary, that He is idle and inactive, and, so to
1305 XXVI | it did one and all these idol deities; Judea, whose God
1306 XXII | when that is offered up to idol-images. What is daintier food to
1307 XV | is put on the head of an ignominious and infamous wretch, when
1308 XXIII | them at least the mark of ignominy and condemnation. They disclaim
1309 XVIII | retribution in store for the ignoring, forsaking and keeping them,
1310 II | II.~If, again, it is certain
1311 III | III.~What are we to think of
1312 XXVII | subject to us, yet still, as ill-disposed slaves sometimes conjoin
1313 XLIV | ever found among them an ill-doer of the sort? It is always
1314 XXXVII | the contest with you by an ill-willed severance alone. For if
1315 XXV | enemies, and they ordain illimitable empire to those whose injuries
1316 XXI | whose coming to renovate and illuminate man's nature was pre-announced
1317 IV | day, in your efforts to illumine the darkness of antiquity,
1318 XXV | the Greeks and Tuscans in image-making had not yet overrun the
1319 XXIII | for those whom you had imagined to be so you find to be
1320 XLVII | its disciples sought to imitate our doctrines; and ambitious,
1321 XLVII | belief, since even their imitations find faith among you. If
1322 XLVIII | these paid out through the immeasurable ages of eternity. Therefore
1323 XXXVII | remaining. For now it is the immense number of Christians which
1324 XLII | any gift of His we make an immoderate or sinful use. So we sojourn
1325 VI | unsheltered: no doubt it was that immodest pleasure might not be torpid
1326 XXXV | Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall religion
1327 XLVII | to the truth, they might impair its credibility, or vindicate
1328 XXXVI | requires and remunerates an impartial benevolence. We are the
1329 I | self-communings they admit their being impelled by sinful dispositions,
1330 XXXII | know that a mighty shock impending over the whole earth--in
1331 XXI | human lot; a second, which impends over the world, now near
1332 XI | perfect wisdom. That cannot be imperfect which has made all perfect.
1333 XLVI | declining which our lives are imperilled? For who compels a philosopher
1334 II | called a "Christian" does not imply any crime, the name is surely
1335 XX | something of even greater importance; we point to the majesty
1336 XXXVII | what is due to us for the important protection we afford you,
1337 XL | assail heaven with our importunities--touch God's heart--and when
1338 XLV | our ampler knowledge, the impossibility of concealment, and the
1339 XLVII | the nature of things is impossible, for never does the shadow
1340 X | wont to act, when they were impressed by the look of any stranger
1341 XIV | away by a thirteen months' imprisonment; that Jupiter was saved
1342 XI | who will neither rashly, improperly; nor needlessly bestow a
1343 XXIII | shed the blood of that most impudent follower of Christ. What
1344 XXI | any sense which involves impurity; she, whom men suppose to
1345 VIII | anything of the kind being imputed to Christians, or they would
1346 XIX | as far back as the Argive Inachus; by nearly four hundred
1347 XLVII | contrary, that He is idle and inactive, and, so to speak, a nobody
1348 XLVIII | and solid, of animate and inanimate, of comprehensible and incomprehensible,
1349 XLVIII | a death of emptiness and inanity, animated by the Spirit
1350 XXVIII | of impiety to your gods, inasmuch as you show a greater reverence
1351 XXXV | festivities of another, and inaugurate the model and image of their
1352 XXI | substratum, in which the Word has inbeing to give forth utterances,
1353 VII | in the case of some, an inborn, delight in lying. It is
1354 XVII | our conceptions--our very incapacity of fully grasping Him affords
1355 IX | OEdipus they made mirth of the incest-doer's grief, exclaiming, hlaune
1356 II | us had tasted; how many incests each of us had shrouded
1357 XLVIII | they had been. If we were inclined to give all rein upon this
1358 XIII | it, then, that in utter inconsistency with this, you are convicted
1359 XXIII | are demons or angels, why, inconsistently with this, do they presume
1360 XLVI | punishment he inflicts, his incontinence. But a Christian with grace-healed
1361 XLVII | abode. Some assert Him to be incorporeal; others maintain He has
1362 XLVIII | directly ministers to their incorruptibility. The philosophers are familiar
1363 XXI | body, and deceive even the incredulous. But, lo, on the third day
1364 XXXIX | stedfast; and no less by inculcations of God's precepts we confirm
1365 I | an unjust deed, you will incur the merited suspicion of
1366 XIII | gods will count themselves indebted to you; nay, it will be
1367 XL | is matter of anxiety, you indeed--full of feasting day by
1368 XLII | of existence? We are not Indian Brahmins or Gymnosophists,
1369 XLV | single lustful look? Which indicates the higher intelligence,
1370 XXV | temples suffer alike; there is indiscriminate slaughter of priests and
1371 XXXIX | a community what we are individuals; we injure nobody, we trouble
1372 XXIII | which yet we must hold as indubitably proved by their relish for
1373 XXXVIII| dead, we have no pressing inducement to take part in your public
1374 XXXIX | are extravagant as well as infamously wicked. To us, it seems,
1375 VII | happened withal upon an infant wailing, according to the
1376 IV | inquire into it? I am an infant-killer; why do they not apply the
1377 XI | as the prison-house of infernal punishments. For into this
1378 XVII | discovered; but that which is infinite is known only to itself.
1379 XLV | of any punishment you can inflict--never to last longer than
1380 IV | Lycurgus himself, thereby inflicting such pain on their author
1381 XLVIII | than that of which He has informed us. The Reason which made
1382 XLVIII | portion of it, which we inhabit from the beginning of the
1383 XXXVII | single people, however great, inhabiting a distinct territory, and
1384 XXIII | they are supposed, who, inhaling at the altar, conceive divinity
1385 XLIX | and wild beasts, in which iniquitous cruelty not only the blinded
1386 VIII | perpetrate a deed of incest. Initiated and sealed into things like
1387 VII | universal custom in religious initiations to keep the profane aloof,
1388 XXV | it, have either grown by injuring religion, or have injured
1389 XLII | booth, nor workshop, nor inn, nor weekly market, nor
1390 XLIX | I mean, which, as quite innocuous, are never charged as crimes
1391 XXVII | indeed, think it a piece of insanity that, when it is in our
1392 XVI | exhibited a picture with this inscription: The God of the Christians,
1393 L | such as these, and you put inscriptions upon images, and cut out
1394 III | are ignorant of, and they inspire their knowledge with their
1395 XIII | Cereses, and Dianas; when you instal in your Pantheon Simon Magus,
1396 XLVII | discipline have been secretly instigated; by them, too, certain fables
1397 XXVII | influence, moulding and instigating them to all that perversity
1398 XXIII | same, and the manner of instigation is one. But thus far we
1399 XXII | execrations, as though from some instinctive soul-knowledge of him. Plato
1400 III | institutor with whatever he has instituted, offends no one. No doubt,
1401 III | transmitted from the original institutor with whatever he has instituted,
1402 XXII | kinds of spirits. We are instructed, moreover, by our sacred
1403 XXI | Galilee, a region of Judea, instructing them in the doctrines they
1404 XX | without going very far. Your instructors, the world, and the age,
1405 XV | the majesty of your gods insulted, and their deity dishonored?
1406 XLIX | blinded populace exults and insults over us, but in which some
1407 XXII | harm; for, invisible and intangible, we are not cognizant of
1408 XLVI | for and maintain in its integrity, as those who have a real
1409 XLVI | but glory, Christians both intensely and intimately long for
1410 XXVIII | with a greater dread and an intenser reverence to Caesar, than
1411 XLV | the higher intelligence, interdicting evil-doing, or evil-speaking?
1412 XX | wars, bringing external and internal convulsions; the collision
1413 XVIII | they gave him seventy-two interpreters-men whom the philosopher Menedemus,
1414 I | accused, he offers no defence; interrogated, he makes voluntary confession;
1415 XLVIII | and limit, that millennial interspace, has been passed, when even
1416 XI | correspondence, converse, and intimacy with the wicked and base,
1417 XLVI | Christians both intensely and intimately long for and maintain in
1418 XXII | too, from this source some intimations of the future, they set
1419 XXXV | door-posts with laurels, nor intrude upon the day with lamps?
1420 XXV | last were buried, over to invaders from another shore! As for
1421 II | crimes require no i such investigation merely on .the ground that
1422 II | in your ordinary judicial investigations, on a man's confession of
1423 XXII | they can do no harm; for, invisible and intangible, we are not
1424 XXXIV | which it bears. It is the invocation of a curse, to give Caesar
1425 XLI | though we are likewise involved in troubles because of our
1426 XXI | mother in any sense which involves impurity; she, whom men
1427 IV | names, we may well call them irrational. But if they punish acts,
1428 XIII | impious, sacrilegious, and irreligious conduct to them, neglecting
1429 VI | surely, forbade Serapis, and Isis, and Arpocrates, with their
1430 XXV | drawn from his own arms, and issuing his commands that the ordinary
1431 XXIV | choose to take this view of it--count in prayer the clouds,
1432 XLVIII | outward fashion of the world itself--which has been spread like
1433 IV | IV.~And so, having made these
1434 IX | IX.~That I may refute more
1435 X | the Salii will have it, Janis. The mountain on which he
1436 III | the husband, now no longer jealous, casts out of his house;
1437 XVI | Cneius Pompeius captured Jerusalem, he entered the temple to
1438 XIX | Thallus, and their critic the Jew Josephus, the native vindicator
1439 XXIII | the demons if you can to join you in your mocking; let
1440 XIX | and their critic the Jew Josephus, the native vindicator of
1441 XIV | brings forward three hundred Joves, or Jupiters they should
1442 XIX | Demetrius Phalereus, and King Juba, and Apion, and Thallus,
1443 XVI | Christianity is nearly allied to Judaism, from this, I suppose, it
1444 V | enforced? It should surely be judged more natural for bad men
1445 XLV | should fear who the fearing judges,--even God, I mean, and
1446 XXIII | they are kept for that very judgment-day, with all their worshippers
1447 XLVII | and philosophers set up a judgment-seat in the realms below. And
1448 XXIII | the oracle; if, with their juggling illusions, they make a pretence
1449 IV | have children before the Julian laws allow matrimony to
1450 XIII | Lais or Phryne--among your Junos, and Cereses, and Dianas;
1451 XIV | A wicked deed it was of Jupiter--if he hurled the bolt--unnatural
1452 XIV | three hundred Joves, or Jupiters they should be called, all
1453 XL | innocent blood, offering as the justification of their enmity the baseless
1454 IV | if it were evil, it would justly forbid to me? If your law
1455 XXV | the sixteenth before the Kalends of April, that most sacred
1456 IX | place of combat--who have keen appetites for bear and stag?
1457 VI | merely tasting wine, Mecenius killed his wife, and suffered nothing
1458 IX | those who are their own kin, and have no notion that
1459 XXIII | Christ. Yes, your very gods kindle up faith in our Scriptures,
1460 XXII | to the existence of both kinds of spirits. We are instructed,
1461 XXV | had they received their kingly honours? Whom did Jupiter
1462 XXXV | sovereigns. The anxiety of a kinsman is something very different
1463 XXXIX | positive good. We are a body knit together as such by a common
1464 III | that most people so blindly knock their heads against the
1465 XVII | bestowed on it the name of Kosmos. The eye cannot see Him,
1466 L | L.~In that case, you say,
1467 XLVIII | philosopher affirms, as Laberius holds, following an opinion
1468 IX | blood of the man whom it lacerated: that stag rolled itself
1469 XXXVII | avengers, would there be any lacking in strength, whether of
1470 XLVI | self-starvation, because the Lacons had made some emendation
1471 VI | member of the body heavy laden with gold; wine-bibbing
1472 XIII | bowl of the gods from the ladle of the manes? or the undertaker
1473 XIII | might at least have been Lais or Phryne--among your Junos,
1474 XXII | tortoise with the flesh of a lamb; in a moment he had been
1475 I | in the islands: they make lamentation, as for some calamity, that
1476 I | subterfuge, penitence, lamenting? What! is that a crime in
1477 XIV | other gods; that he now laments the fate of Sarpedon, now
1478 XIII | highest bidder. But indeed lands burdened with tribute are
1479 XIV | building labours of Neptune to Laomedon. A well-known lyric poet,
1480 XIII | family deities you call Lares, you exercise a domestic
1481 XLII | merchandise is expended as largely in the burying of Christians
1482 XXXV | at the distribution of a largess? And this at the very time
1483 VI | vices of their base and lascivious religion from spreading.
1484 | latter
1485 II | soon as the trial is over, laugh at your hostility, a Christian
1486 XLVII | Accordingly, we get ourselves laughed at for proclaiming that
1487 XLVII | a moderate size, I might launch forth also into the proof
1488 XXXV | the Caesar between the two laurel groves? Whence they who
1489 IX | whom in their games they lave with human blood. It is
1490 XXXVIII| to have a place among the law-tolerated societies, seeing they are
1491 XLVI | Hippias is put to death laying plots against the state:
1492 XXI | of the universe. For Zeno lays it down that he is the creator,
1493 XXIX | believing their safety rests in leaden hands. But you are impious
1494 XXI | One. But nevertheless, the leaders of the Jews, whom it nearly
1495 IX | opportunity there is for mistakes leading to incestuous comminglings--
1496 XXXI | those who are not of us. Learn from them that a large benevolence
1497 XXIII | those judgment fires, they leave at our command the bodies
1498 XIX | of your philosophers, and legislators, and historians. It is not
1499 XVI | goat-like loins, with serpent legs, with wings sprouting from
1500 XLVIII | changed, we would need at our leisure to take up many points.
1501 XXXII | coming may be delayed, we are lending our aid to Rome's duration.
1502 XXXV | years from us, and with them lengthen like to you,"--words as
1503 XIX | thorough handling we make too lengthened a digression.~
1504 XV | charming farces of your Lentuli and Hostilii, whether in
1505 L | the law rather than to the leo you made confession that