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1506 XXI | the blind, cleansing the leprous, reinvigorating the paralytic,
1507 XIX | hundred years--only seven less--he precedes Danaus, your
1508 XXXV | matter of this homage to a lesser majesty, in reference to
1509 XXIII | themselves. No one plays the liar to bring disgrace upon his
1510 XXV | offering, a week after, impure libations of blood drawn from his
1511 III | was! how profligate! how libidinous!--they have become Christians!"
1512 XVIII | the temple of Serapis, the libraries of Ptolemy are to be seen,
1513 XXXV | from them? Shall piety be a license to immoral deeds, and shall
1514 IX | on them because they only lick up what is to turn into
1515 XLVIII | and a person struck by lighting is even now kept safe from
1516 XL | times, they fall on us more lightly now, since God gave Christians
1517 XIV | deservedly stricken with lightning for his greed in practising
1518 XI | Jove himself dreaded the lightnings you put in his hands; that
1519 XLVIII | therefore, the boundary and limit, that millennial interspace,
1520 IX | its indulgence in the most limited scale, may easily and unwittingly
1521 XXXIII | majesty of Caesar within due limits, and putting it under the
1522 XVI | day painted on a piece of linen cloth, having himself everywhere
1523 XL | with the Christians to the lion!" What! shall you give such
1524 XVI | acknowledged gods dog-headed and lion-headed, with horn of buck and ram,
1525 XVII | are the words on every lip. It bears witness, too,
1526 XVIII | authority, we have still in the literary treasures they have left,
1527 VII | only while it lies, and to live but so long as there is
1528 VIII | dying before he has really lived, await the departure of
1529 XXI | even the incredulous. But, lo, on the third day there
1530 XXI | laid on the Romans a heavy load of costly superstitions.
1531 IX | entrails of the very bears, loaded with as yet undigested human
1532 XX | famines and pestilences, and local massacres, and widespread
1533 XXI | proving that He was the Logos of God, that primordial
1534 XXI | philosophers, too, regard the Logos--that is, the Word and Reason--
1535 XVI | and ram, with goat-like loins, with serpent legs, with
1536 XLV | if it is great, it is not long-continued. No doubt about it, we,
1537 XLV | threatened torment, not merely long-enduring but everlasting, fearing
1538 XL | temple-ceilings for the longed-for clouds--God and heaven not
1539 L | the way that the soldier longs for war. No one indeed suffers
1540 XXIII | from an adjoining house; looking on one who cuts his arms
1541 IX | comminglings--your promiscuous looseness supplying the materials.
1542 XXXIV | called fathers rather than lords. Far less should the emperor
1543 XXI | serpent, or ox, or bird, or lover, for his vile ends transmuting
1544 XXXV | which we are accused of a lower sacrilege, because we do
1545 XI | have sunk them down into lowest depths of Tartarus,--the
1546 XXI | has been fulfilled in the lowliness of a human lot; a second,
1547 VI | themselves, you their most loyal children have rescinded,
1548 XL | waves cut off a part of Lucania, whence it obtained the
1549 XI | Bacchus is raised to godship, Lucullus, who first introduced the
1550 XV | have made merry amid the ludicrous cruelties of the noonday
1551 XII | are they in their original lump. We are condemned to the
1552 XV | Anubis the Adulterer, and Luna of the masculine gender,
1553 XXVI | the Assyrians before the Luperci; and the Amazons before
1554 XLV | restrain from even a single lustful look? Which indicates the
1555 XLVI | not look on women without lusting after them, and was pained
1556 XVI | day of Saturn to ease and luxury, though they too go far
1557 XXII | a moment he had been to Lydia. From dwelling in the air,
1558 XIV | to Laomedon. A well-known lyric poet, too--Pindar, I mean--
1559 IX | with their mothers. The Macedonians, too, are suspected on this
1560 XII | teeth upon us--foam with maddened rage against us--ye are
1561 XLII | calculation may easily be made--it would be seen that the
1562 XXI | that they should hold Him a magician from the powers which He
1563 XXXV | soothsayers, and augurs, and magicians, about the life of the Caesars,--
1564 XXV | in these days the Mater Magna has given a notable proof
1565 L | on Anaxarchus himself." O magnanimity of the philosopher, who
1566 XI | Scipio? which of them more magnanimous than Pompey, more prosperous
1567 XIII | instal in your Pantheon Simon Magus, giving him a statue and
1568 XLV | all suffering and pain, maintaining that if it is small, it
1569 X | adopted, private and common, male and female, rural and urban,
1570 XXVII | have the usufruct of their malignant dispositions. And yet, when
1571 XV | witnessed Jove's brother, mallet in hand, dragging out the
1572 IX | you have men rifting up man-fed flesh? If you partake of
1573 IX | birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it matter whether
1574 XVIII | whom he had committed the management of these things, applied
1575 XLV | evade them, by generally managing to hide himself out of sight
1576 XIII | gods from the ladle of the manes? or the undertaker from
1577 XIX | called in as witnesses. Manetho the Egyptian, and Berosus
1578 XXI | which, as matter of more manifest prediction, they set their
1579 XI | hands, as Plato hold--was manifestly, once for all in its original
1580 XLVI | workman but finds out God, and manifests Him, and hence assigns to
1581 XXXIX | of their auditors. After manual ablution, and the bringing
1582 XXXVII | resources? The Moors, the Marcomanni, the Parthians themselves,
1583 XXXVII | islands, fortresses, towns, market-places, the very camp, tribes,
1584 XIII | for these things are the marks of servitude. In the case
1585 XIV | from the same Diomede; that Mars was almost wasted away by
1586 XXII | extraordinary excesses. Their marvellous subtleness and tenuity give
1587 XV | Adulterer, and Luna of the masculine gender, and Diana under
1588 XX | and pestilences, and local massacres, and widespread desolating
1589 XXVII | while that they are not a match for us, and just on that
1590 XXV | even in these days the Mater Magna has given a notable
1591 XI | high God has taken up their mates to a share of His majesty,
1592 IV | before the Julian laws allow matrimony to be contracted, and that
1593 XXI | is kindled. The material matrix remains entire and unimpaired,
1594 VI | was carried so far, that a matron, for opening the compartments
1595 VI | difference between the dress of matrons and prostitutes. In regard
1596 IX | cold and hunger and dogs. A maturer age has always preferred
1597 XXIV | Africa has its Caelestis, Mauritania has its own princes. I have
1598 IX | after blood of men; unless, mayhap, you have tried it, and
1599 XIV | lyric poet, too--Pindar, I mean--sings of Aesculapius deservedly
1600 III | Christian, so far as the meaning of the word is concerned,
1601 | meantime
1602 IX | you and for their severe measures against us, may I charge
1603 VI | for merely tasting wine, Mecenius killed his wife, and suffered
1604 XXVI | of the Pontiffs; and the Medes before the Quindecemvirs;
1605 XXIII | Aesculapius discoverer of medicines, ready to prolong the life
1606 IV | But since, when our truth meets you successfully at all
1607 XXXIX | Diogenes: "The people of Megara feast as though they were
1608 XXI | Pieria, Musaeus at Athens, Melampus at Argos, Trophonius in
1609 XXXI | commotion is felt by its other members, surely we too, though we
1610 VII | is in the highest degree mendacious?--a thing, not even when
1611 XIX | successors too, Ptolemy the Mendesian, and Demetrius Phalereus,
1612 XLII | human and your heavenly mendicants; nor do we think that we
1613 XVIII | interpreters-men whom the philosopher Menedemus, the well-known asserter
1614 L | the fires of AEtna: what mental resolution! A certain foundress
1615 XLVI | sightless in this matter; he is mentally blind against the assaults
1616 II | ashamed or unwilling to mention the very names of our crimes-If
1617 XLII | more precious and costly merchandise is expended as largely in
1618 II | as guilty. It is at once merciful and cruel; it, passes by,
1619 XXVII | cunning suasion, and now by merciless persecution, to overthrow
1620 XXVII | quarters they supplicate for mercy. So when, like insurrectionary
1621 XXI | the very time was in his meridian blaze. Those who were not
1622 XV | deities which afford you merriment; such farces I mean as Anubis
1623 XV | as Hercules. We have made merry amid the ludicrous cruelties
1624 XLVI | XLVI.~We have sufficiently met, as I think, the accusation
1625 XLVIII | again, to have its dues meted out according as it has
1626 IX | exclaiming, hlaune eis thn mhtera. Even now reflect what opportunity
1627 XII | originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well
1628 XLVI | put out useless lamps at midday? Nay, they openly overthrow
1629 III | faithful, the master, once so mild, commands away from his
1630 XLVIII | boundary and limit, that millennial interspace, has been passed,
1631 XIX | while he antedates by a millennium the death of Priam. I might
1632 III | testimony to any one, they mingle with it abuse of the name
1633 XI | great God has need of their ministrations and aids in performing the
1634 XXIII | work has been allotted to Minos and Rhadamanthus, as Plato
1635 XXII | you ill; then, to get a miracle out of it, they command
1636 IX | tragedy of OEdipus they made mirth of the incest-doer's grief,
1637 XXXIX | from it, not like troops of mischief-doers, nor bands of vagabonds,
1638 XV | stage recital of Jupiter's misdeeds, and the shepherd judging
1639 II | they should be punished. O miserable deliverance,--under the
1640 IX | not exposed to incestuous mishaps. Some of us, making matters
1641 IX | opportunity there is for mistakes leading to incestuous comminglings--
1642 XIV | recounting (to her) former mistresses, now for a long time past
1643 XXI | Deity unveiled; and, by misunderstanding the first, they have concluded
1644 II | punishments: with you they are mitigated to a means of questioning
1645 XXXVII | often, too, the hostile mob, paying no regard to you,
1646 XLVI | which philosophers, these mockers and corrupters of it, with
1647 XXIII | can to join you in your mocking; let them deny that Christ
1648 XLVIII | fixing and distinguishing its mode, according to which this
1649 XVI | are derived from shapes modelled from the cross. But you
1650 XLVII | necessary to keep my work to a moderate size, I might launch forth
1651 XXXIX | the firemen. Yet about the modest supper-room of the Christians
1652 VII | out of a desire to extort money; our very domestics, by
1653 XXX | ashamed; finally, without a monitor, because it is from the
1654 XIV | that Jupiter was saved by a monster's aid from suffering the
1655 XXXIX | that has its price. On the monthly day, if he likes, each puts
1656 XIV | wasted away by a thirteen months' imprisonment; that Jupiter
1657 L | In so far you can by your monuments, you yourselves afford a
1658 XXXVII | numbers or resources? The Moors, the Marcomanni, the Parthians
1659 XLV | your system of practical morality is deficient, both in the
1660 II | emperor, of the laws, of good morals, of all nature; yet you
1661 II | nothing but meetings at early morning for singing hymns to Christ
1662 XXXIX | were going to die on the morrow; they build as though they
1663 X | another the whole swarm is mortal like the primal stock.~
1664 XX | and widespread desolating mortalities; the exaltation of the lowly,
1665 XXXIX | one sees more readily the mote in another's eye than the
1666 IX | illicit intercourse with their mothers. The Macedonians, too, are
1667 XXII | report. Their swiftness of motion is taken for divinity, because
1668 XXVII | by an occult influence, moulding and instigating them to
1669 XLVIII | out of the earth through mountain-tops; for it does not consume
1670 X | dead men by their public mourning for them. Let these notices
1671 XV | vileness of your gods. The Sun mourns his offspring cast down
1672 VII | had found them, the gory mouths of Cyclops and Sirens? Whoever
1673 XVI | worshipping the heavenly bodies, move your lips in the direction
1674 XLVIII | there is any ground for the moving to and fro of human souls
1675 L | to us. The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in
1676 L | cause of glory and of fame. Mucius of his own will left his
1677 XXXV | one great tavern, to make mud with wine, to run in troops
1678 XLVIII | may have his origin from a mule, a serpent from a woman,
1679 XXI | savages by the dread of multitudinous gods, whose favour must
1680 XXIV | deities over Italy itself by municipal consecration, such as Delventinus
1681 II | might be found how many murdered children each of us had
1682 XI | of furious tempers, and murderers, and thieves, and deceivers;
1683 XI | ashamed at these worthies murmuring over their lot in the regions
1684 XXI | that Orpheus at Pieria, Musaeus at Athens, Melampus at Argos,
1685 XV | a representation of the mutilation of Attis, that famous god
1686 XXXIX | themselves are animated by mutual hatred; how they are ready
1687 XXV | ascribed to Sterculus, the Mutunus, and Larentina! For I can
1688 XII | sacred rites rounded on mere myths. As to the actual images,
1689 XXXIII | keeps whispering in his ear, n "Look behind thee; remember
1690 XXI | done it as well. And yet, nailed upon the cross, He exhibited
1691 XII | lead, and the glue, and the nails are put in requisition,
1692 XXIII | exhibited to the eye in its naked reality? If, on the one
1693 III | and are not physicians named from Erasistratus, grammarians
1694 | namely
1695 XXIII | have over them is from our naming the name of Christ, and
1696 XXIV | of Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Ancharia of Asculum, Nortia
1697 XVI | histories, beginning the (narrative of the) Jewish war with
1698 XXI | admit it, their present national ruin would afford sufficient
1699 XXV | the Romans, along with the native-born inhabitants, afterwards
1700 VIII | suppose we are of a different nature--are we Cynopae or Sciapodes?
1701 V | Trajan to some extent made naught by forbidding Christians
1702 X | female, rural and urban, naval and military? It were useless
1703 XXII | dwelling in the air, and their nearness to the stars, and their
1704 XI | being. Accordingly, these necessaries of life are said to have
1705 L | willingly, since suffering necessarily implies fear and danger.
1706 XI | rashly, improperly; nor needlessly bestow a reward so great.
1707 XXXIX | the feast we benefit the needy; not as it is with you,
1708 XLI | to believe that it is the neglected One who is angry, and not
1709 XIII | irreligious conduct to them, neglecting those you imagine to exist,
1710 X | Cassius Severus or Cornelius Nepos, nor any writer upon sacred
1711 XIV | the building labours of Neptune to Laomedon. A well-known
1712 XLVII | have even adulterated our new-given Christian revelation, and
1713 | next
1714 XXXV | then, came a Cassius, a Niger, an Albinus? Whence they
1715 XL | as the city walls, if the Nile does not send its waters
1716 XXXIX | that no tragedy makes a noise about our brotherhood, or
1717 I | the secret pathway of a noiseless book. She has no appeals
1718 X | us to demonstrate their non-existence, and thereby prove that
1719 XII | those who we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist, is
1720 XII | does not exist, is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.~
1721 XLIX | question to regard them as nonsensical; at any rate, if they are
1722 XV | ludicrous cruelties of the noonday exhibition, at Mercury examining
1723 XXIV | Arabia has Dusares, the Norici have Belenus, Africa has
1724 XXIV | Narnia, Ancharia of Asculum, Nortia of Volsinii, Valentia of
1725 XLII | smell the crown with our nostrils: let those look to it who
1726 VIII | you recline at table, take note of the places which your
1727 VI | they have departed from nothing--if they have in nothing
1728 X | mourning for them. Let these notices of Saturn, brief as they
1729 XXXIX | with the sacred words we nourish our faith, we animate our
1730 XXI | formed by the Spirit is nourished, grows up to manhood, speaks,
1731 VI | and yet every day you have novelties in your way of living. From
1732 XXV | the sweet odour of her who nursed him there. Would he not
1733 XXXIX | Church, they become the nurslings of their confession. But
1734 XIV | habit of swearing by an oak, and a goat, and a dog.
1735 III | his house; the son, now obedient, the father, who used to
1736 IV | also retort them on the objectors, that in this way all may
1737 XXV | eagerness after superstitious observances, yet religion among the
1738 XXXV | of princes? Do they who observe the rules of virtue out
1739 VII | wickedness, we are accused of observing a holy rite in which we
1740 XXVII | your minds against us by an occult influence, moulding and
1741 XIII | had his age, his art, his occupation, so it is with the deity.
1742 XXI | believe the advent has not yet occurred. For two comings of Christ
1743 XLVI | behaviour, there at once occurs to me Diogenes with filth-covered
1744 XL | was seized by the Atlantic Ocean. An earthquake, too, drank
1745 XXIV | of Volsinii, Valentia of Ocriculum, Hostia of Satrium, Father
1746 XXV | Corybantian cymbals, and the sweet odour of her who nursed him there.
1747 XXV | earthen-ware, and from these the odours rose, and no likeness of
1748 IX | first hearing the tragedy of OEdipus they made mirth of the incest-doer'
1749 X | having borne the name of Oenotria, was called Saturnia from
1750 IX | the wound, and then rush off--to whom do they belong?
1751 L | secures the remission of all offences. On this account it is that
1752 X | is the sum-total of our offending; and it is worthy then of
1753 III | whatever he has instituted, offends no one. No doubt, if it
1754 XXX | and, in addition to other offensive things, a polluted conscience,
1755 I | it; if he is accused, he offers no defence; interrogated,
1756 XXV | heavens; but the altars were offhand ones of turf, and the sacred
1757 VI | not permit the insignia of official dignities or of noble birth
1758 L | a temptation to us. The oftener we are mown down by you,
1759 VII | are daily betrayed; we are oftentimes surprised in our meetings
1760 II | been witness of our deeds. Oh, how great the glory of
1761 XXI | writings of the Jews, the oldest which exist, though it is
1762 XXVIII | reverence to Caesar, than Olympian Jove himself. And if you
1763 XXXIV | dread at least of the evil omen which it bears. It is the
1764 L | had jokes upon his lips! I omit all reference to those who
1765 XXXIV | but one true Lord, the God omnipotent and eternal, who is Lord
1766 XXIV | the altar of Fides; let one--if you choose to take this
1767 XIX | chronological connections may be opened up, and thus the reckonings
1768 VI | far, that a matron, for opening the compartments of a wine
1769 XVI | gave us amusement. But our opponents ought straightway to have
1770 XXXV | established rather as affording opportunities for licentiousness than
1771 XXVII | whom at a distance they oppose, in close quarters they
1772 XVII | itself? Though under the oppressive bondage of the body, though
1773 XXIII | get a response from the oracle; if, with their juggling
1774 XVI | though we do not worship the orb of day painted on a piece
1775 XXV | their enemies, and they ordain illimitable empire to those
1776 XXVI | who rules; if He have not ordained the changes of dynasties,
1777 II | the murderer deny, and of ordering the man guilty of sacrilege
1778 XXXII | respect in the emperors the ordinance of God, who has set them
1779 VI | Italy, you offer up your orgies,--I shall in its proper
1780 XII | mines; from these your gods originate. We are banished to islands;
1781 XXXVIII| we renounce the matters originating them, which we know were
1782 XIX | all the materials, the origins, classes, contents of your
1783 XVI | decking out the standards are ornaments of crosses. All those hangings
1784 XXI | the Greeks we urge that Orpheus at Pieria, Musaeus at Athens,
1785 VI | repressing expensive and ostentatious ways of living? which forbade
1786 XXXV | eve of their traitorous outbreak, offered sacrifices for
1787 XLI | reproofs. His will is, that outcasts and elect should have adversities
1788 XXI | by the violence of their outcries against Him, extorted a
1789 I | laid to our charge. The outcry is that the State is filled
1790 XLVIII | darkness succeeds light's outgoing. The defunct stars re-live;
1791 XXXIX | Whatever it costs, our outlay in the name of piety is
1792 XVI | forbidden to others by an outspread curtain. You will not, however,
1793 XXX | lift our eyes, with hands outstretched, because free from sin;
1794 XXV | image-making had not yet overrun the city with the products
1795 IX | suspended on the sacred trees overshadowing their temple--so many crosses
1796 XXIII | which they expect one day to overtake them. Fearing Christ in
1797 XIV | condemned to death, that he overthrew the worship of the gods.
1798 VII | dogs--our pimps, forsooth, overturning the lights and getting us
1799 XXV | a people great who have owed their greatness to their
1800 XXI | it is like some of your own--while we go on to show how
1801 XLVI | passion was not satisfied, owns plainly, by the punishment
1802 IX | of tasting the blood of oxen, are eager after blood of
1803 XIII | you make an infamous court page a god of the sacred synod,
1804 XLVI | lusting after them, and was pained if his passion was not satisfied,
1805 XVI | not worship the orb of day painted on a piece of linen cloth,
1806 XIV | fought among themselves like pairs of gladiators; that Venus
1807 XVI | how far does the Athenian Pallas differ from the stock of
1808 XLII | blood. I can be rigid and pallid like you after ablution
1809 XXIII | themselves forth as acting the pan of gods? For as beings who
1810 XLIII | for instance, pimps, and panders, and bath-suppliers; assassins,
1811 XXIV | and another the ceiling panels; let one consecrate his
1812 XXIII | cuts his arms and secret pans as under a different furor
1813 XIII | when you instal in your Pantheon Simon Magus, giving him
1814 IV | repealed the ridiculous Papian laws which compelled people
1815 XLVII | dead. And if we speak of Paradise, the place of heavenly bliss
1816 XXI | leprous, reinvigorating the paralytic, summoning the dead to life
1817 XXXIX | not as it is with you, do parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying
1818 VIII | they bear with them, and pardon them. They fear, it may
1819 XXI | it is still part of the parent mass; the sun will still
1820 L | suffer that he may become partaker of the fulness of God's
1821 XXIX | argument if they are also partakers of his favour, when he bestows
1822 XXXV | their own votive seasons in partaking of the festivities of another,
1823 XXXV | than all your Tigerii and Parthenii. If I mistake not, they
1824 XXXVII | Moors, the Marcomanni, the Parthians themselves, or any single
1825 XXXIX | vileness or immodesty. The participants, before reclining, taste
1826 XL | calamities befell the world and particular cities before Tiberius reigned--
1827 XXXIX | this acting against their partners' wishes, I am not able to
1828 IX | up by any compassionate passer-by, to whom they are quite
1829 XXI | the name of Son or of His paternal origin. It was not His lot
1830 XLVII | doctrines, and from the one path have struck off many and
1831 VI | nothing gone out of the old paths--if they have not put aside
1832 I | your ears by the secret pathway of a noiseless book. She
1833 XLVI | profess--innocence, justice, patience, sobriety, chastity. Why,
1834 III | father, who used to be so patient, disinherits; the servant,
1835 VI | fatted one; which expelled a patrician from the senate on the serious
1836 XLVI | play the proud man to the pauper. If sobriety of spirit be
1837 XXXVI | ourselves as those who take no payment either of praise or premium
1838 XIII | the larger is the tax he pays. Majesty is made a source
1839 XL | counted the Roman slain by the pecks of Roman rings. Your gods
1840 XXXIX | sacred writings, if any peculiarity of the times makes either
1841 XXVII | prisons, or mines, or any such penal slaveries, they break forth
1842 XLIX | on which you inflict no penalties--foolish and fabulous things,
1843 I | fear, shame, subterfuge, penitence, lamenting? What! is that
1844 XXXV | faithful and true you are, lest perchance here also those who will
1845 XI | under certain laws for the performance of its functions, there
1846 XVIII | the miracles which they performed, that men might have faith
1847 XLII | look to it who scent the perfume with their hair. We do not
1848 XIV | son Aeneas when he was in peril of his life from the same
1849 XXI | from a comparatively recent period--no further back indeed than
1850 XLVI | Speusippus, of Plato's school, perished in the adulterous act. The
1851 XLVIII | things are preserved by perishing, all things are refashioned
1852 XIII | knowledge of your divinities permitted--you must buy their favours
1853 VIII | guilty of a crime--unless you perpetrate a deed of incest. Initiated
1854 II | account of how the crime was perpetrated. So that with all the greater
1855 XV | of your religion that the perpetrators of sacrilege are always
1856 XXIX | power. Besides this, you persecute those who know where to
1857 XXX | rendering homage to Him alone, persecuted for His doctrine, offering
1858 V | them, point out a single persecutor of the Christian name. So
1859 I | diminished, a stronger reason for perseverance in that detestation is obtained,
1860 XXVII | convictions we prefer an obstinate persistence in our confession to our
1861 XIII | as in fact this latter personage also attends upon the dead?
1862 XLVIII | food? May any one have the persuasion that he should so abstain,
1863 XXI | spirit, which he maintains pervades the universe. And we, in
1864 XV | Attis, that famous god of Pessinus, and a man burnt alive as
1865 XL | earthquake, if there is famine or pestilence, straightway the cry is, "
1866 XX | with kingdoms; famines and pestilences, and local massacres, and
1867 XXII | way spreading abroad its pestilential exhalations. So, too, by
1868 XVI | stock of the cross, or the Pharian Ceres as she is put up uncarved
1869 XVIII | to all. Ptolemy, surnamed Philadelphus, the most learned of his
1870 XLVII | corrupted it into a system of philosophic doctrines, and from the
1871 XIX | Chaldean, and Hieromus the Phoenician king of Tyre; their successors
1872 XIX | Egyptians, the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians, would need to be ransacked;
1873 XXV | Greece the conqueror of Phrygia was to be subdued, let her
1874 XLVI | read also how the harlot Phryne kindled in Diogenes the
1875 XIII | least have been Lais or Phryne--among your Junos, and Cereses,
1876 XIV | exhibiting envious feeling to the Physician. Things like these should
1877 III | themselves? and are not physicians named from Erasistratus,
1878 XVI | beasts, and who exhibited a picture with this inscription: The
1879 XXI | we urge that Orpheus at Pieria, Musaeus at Athens, Melampus
1880 L | marriage to the funeral pile: what a noble witness of
1881 XLVII | Him within the world, as a pilot is in the ship he steers.
1882 XV | arranged, that at the altars pimping is practised, that often
1883 XIV | well-known lyric poet, too--Pindar, I mean--sings of Aesculapius
1884 XVIII | the book enthusiasm of Pisistratus, among other remains of
1885 VI | whole of Italy. The consuls Piso and Gabinius, no Christians
1886 V | subjugator of the Jews, nor a Pius, nor a Verus, ever enforced?
1887 XII | your own gods, axes, and planes, and rasps are put to work
1888 VII | which it first came forth, planted the seed of falsehood, as
1889 XXXIX | philosopher and the censor playing pimps! What wonder if that
1890 II | their own lips and of hired pleaders to show their innocence.
1891 XXXVIII| not yours. We reject what pleases you. You, on the other hand,
1892 L | ours gives us the glory of pleasing God, and the spoil of life
1893 XXXVIII| themselves one true source of pleasure--I mean equanimity the Christian,
1894 II | way of life by a united pledge to be faithful to their
1895 VI | her husband had sacredly pledged to himself; when the abstinence
1896 XIII | domestic authority over, pledging them, selling them, changing
1897 XI | kind of fruit burst forth plentifully from the bosom of the earth,
1898 II | forbidden. For the younger Pliny, when he was ruler of a
1899 XLVI | Hippias is put to death laying plots against the state: no Christian
1900 VIII | as you will have. Come, plunge your knife into the babe,
1901 XXI | in special revelations, pointing out to them beforehand how
1902 XXII | some inexplicable, unseen poison in the breeze blights the
1903 XLIII | bath-suppliers; assassins, and poisoners, and sorcerers; soothsayers,
1904 XIII | under the assessment of a poll-tax are less noble; for these
1905 XXX | other offensive things, a polluted conscience, so that one
1906 XV | dance on human blood, on the pollutions caused by inflicted punishments,
1907 XI | for his sublimity of soul, Polycrates for his good fortune, Croesus
1908 XL | overwhelmed Vulsinii, and Pompeii was destroyed by fire from
1909 XVI | mentioned, that when Cneius Pompeius captured Jerusalem, he entered
1910 XI | them more magnanimous than Pompey, more prosperous than Sylla,
1911 XXI | nations, it was the man Numa Pompilius who laid on the Romans a
1912 XXVI | before the days of the Pontiffs; and the Medes before the
1913 XXI | they brought Him before Pontius Pilate, at that time Roman
1914 XI | introduced the cherry from Pontus into Italy, has not been
1915 XLIX | cruelty not only the blinded populace exults and insults over
1916 XLIX | not scrupling to gain the popular favour by your injustice.
1917 XXXV | themselves, to the native population of the seven hills: does
1918 XXXV | lamps they smoked their porches, with what most exquisite
1919 XX | ordinary course, monsters and portents taking the place of nature'
1920 XI | humanity to divinity; for the positions and powers which you have
1921 XXXIX | it, I may point out its positive good. We are a body knit
1922 VIII | had the will, I deny the possibility. Why then can others do
1923 XVII | One, of whom they cannot possibly be ignorant. Would you have
1924 IX | from adulteries and all post-matrimonial unfaithfulness, we are not
1925 XL | day unless as belonging to postdiluvian times. Palestine had not
1926 XLVII | different doctrines are all posterior. Everything opposed to the
1927 XXIV | there is one higher and more potent, as it were the world's
1928 XLVII | mass from without like a potter; while the Platonists place
1929 VI | because he had acquired ten pounds of silver; which put down
1930 II | so hostile to that rival power--its crimes presumed, not
1931 XLV | rests: hence your system of practical morality is deficient, both
1932 IX | openly, in part secretly, practices prevail among you which
1933 VII | which, after the feast, we practise incest, the dogs--our pimps,
1934 IV | from the wrong done? I am a practiser of incest (so they say);
1935 XIV | lightning for his greed in practising wrongfully his art. A wicked
1936 VI | progenitors. You are always praising antiquity, and yet every
1937 XXI | illuminate man's nature was pre-announced by God--I mean Christ, that
1938 XXIII | where in that case is the pre-eminence of deity, which we must
1939 XI | before; and that which had a pre-existence must be regarded as belonging
1940 XXI | under the force of their pre-judgment, they had convinced themselves
1941 XXI | given them commission to preach the gospel through the world,
1942 XVIII | not born, Christians. The preachers of whom we have spoken are
1943 XLVII | for never does the shadow precede the body which casts it,
1944 XIX | years--only seven less--he precedes Danaus, your most ancient
1945 L | you rail against is the preceptress. For who that contemplates
1946 XXXIX | by inculcations of God's precepts we confirm good habits.
1947 XLII | assured that their more precious and costly merchandise is
1948 XLI | world's close, does not precipitate the separation, which is
1949 XVIII | which belongs to them of predicting the future. Their words,
1950 XXI | matter of more manifest prediction, they set their hopes on--
1951 IV | remarks as it were by way of preface, that I might show in its
1952 XXIV | respect to the procurators, prefects, and governors of the divine
1953 XIII | cannot continue to give preference to one without slighting
1954 I | know no more. Thus they prejudge that of which they are ignorant
1955 X | inquired into, if neither prejudice nor injustice be the judge,
1956 XV | and when we have offered a preliminary refutation of some false
1957 XXXVI | payment either of praise or premium from man, but from God,
1958 XXX | Christian praying is one of preparation for all punishment. Let
1959 VIII | that he may explain what preparations are to be made. Then, in
1960 XXII | have means of knowing the preparatory processes going on in these
1961 XI | His heavenly associates, prescient as He must have surely been
1962 XX | future we think of it as presents and then from being present
1963 XLVIII | dissolve away;--all things are preserved by perishing, all things
1964 XLII | and healthful hour, which preserves me both in heat and blood.
1965 XXXIX | tried men of our elders preside over us, obtaining that
1966 L | But go zealously on, good presidents, you will stand higher with
1967 X | coinage, and thence it is he presides over the public treasury.
1968 XLVI | they, as so like us, not pressed to the same offices, for
1969 XXXVIII| honour is dead, we have no pressing inducement to take part
1970 XIII | the family head feels the pressure of some more sacred home
1971 II | rival power--its crimes presumed, not proved--may be condemned
1972 XLIX | These are what are called presumptuous speculations in our case
1973 XXIII | really gods, why do they pretend to be demons? Is it from
1974 XXIII | it were, it would not be pretended to by demons, and it would
1975 X | or from the custom which prevails among us of saying that
1976 XXXIX | welfare of the world, for the prevalence of peace, for the delay
1977 VI | country, being anxious to prevent the vices of their base
1978 XXIV | In, fact, we alone are prevented having a religion of our
1979 XXXVIII| mistake the matter, the prevention of such associations is
1980 XX | now see with your eye was previously heard by the ear. The swallowing
1981 XIX | millennium the death of Priam. I might affirm, too, that
1982 XLVI | the influence of another pride: the Christian does not
1983 XLVI | Pythagoras at Thurii, and Zeno at Priene, ambitious of the supreme
1984 XXV | April, that most sacred high priest of hers was offering, a
1985 X | swarm is mortal like the primal stock.~
1986 XXI | was the Logos of God, that primordial first-begotten Word, accompanied
1987 VI | and in which you find your principal matter of accusation against
1988 XLIV | always with your folk the prison is steaming, the mines are
1989 XI | regard, with many, as the prison-house of infernal punishments.
1990 XXIV | excluded from the rights and privileges of Romans, because we do
1991 II | he has done it, who were privy to it, and who actually
1992 XLVIII | beasts one and another might probably be changed, we would need
1993 XLVII | revelation of God, they proceeded to dispute about Him, not
1994 XXI | have been taught that He proceeds forth from God, and in that
1995 XII | which in the transforming process treats them with utter contempt,
1996 XXII | knowing the preparatory processes going on in these upper
1997 XXI | forth from God, and in that procession He is generated; so that
1998 XL | enjoin on the people barefoot processions; you seek heaven at the
1999 XVIII | Spirit, that they might proclaim that there is one God only
2000 XLVII | ourselves laughed at for proclaiming that God will one day judge
2001 IX | Saturn as lately as the proconsulship of Tiberius, who exposed
2002 XXI | than the assertions of your Proculi concerning Romulus. All
2003 XXIV | show equal respect to the procurators, prefects, and governors
2004 XXV | overrun the city with the products of their art. The Romans,
2005 XXVII | services are offered, under profaning of images and the deification