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2006 XLVI | philosophers counsel and profess--innocence, justice, patience,
2007 XXV | kingdom, that the religion she professes made its chief progress!
2008 XIV | fabricated among people professing a great respect for religion.
2009 XLIX | what beyond all doubt is profitable. Thus, in fact, you are
2010 III | What a youth he was! how profligate! how libidinous!--they have
2011 VI | you have renounced your progenitors. You are always praising
2012 XXIII | discoverer of medicines, ready to prolong the life of Socordius, and
2013 XXX | prayer. We pray for life prolonged; for security to the empire;
2014 XVIII | ground (for He is the true Prometheus who gave order to the world
2015 IX | incestuous comminglings--your promiscuous looseness supplying the
2016 XLVIII | his? But if a Christian promises the return of a man from
2017 VII | Thence it must creep into propagating tongues and ears; and a
2018 XXXIX | satisfying their licentious propensities, selling themselves for
2019 XLVII | aside to debate about His properties, His nature, His abode.
2020 XIX | than the work of a single prophet, in whom you have the thesaurus
2021 V | them: the god will have to propitiate the man. Tiberius accordingly,
2022 XXXIV | God, if you wish Him to be propitious to the emperor. Give up
2023 L | those who bear it honor proportionate to the blood which the young
2024 V | approval itself, rejected his proposal. Caesar held to his opinion,
2025 XXV | they worship, that those prosper beyond all others, who beyond
2026 XLI | should have adversities and prosperities in common, that we should
2027 XXV | religion been the source of the prosperity of Rome? Though Numa set
2028 XI | magnanimous than Pompey, more prosperous than Sylla, of greater wealth
2029 XIII | adore Larentina, a public prostitute --I could have wished that
2030 VI | the dress of matrons and prostitutes. In regard to women, indeed,
2031 XXIX | offered are really able to protect either emperor or anybody
2032 IX | and stedfast chastity has protected us from anything like this:
2033 V | before you one who was their protector, as you will see by examining
2034 X | you say, They are gods. We protest and appeal from yourselves
2035 II | its crimes presumed, not proved--may be condemned simply
2036 VII | brings all to light, as your proverbs and sayings testify, by
2037 XI | of the earth, for nothing provided for the support and sustenance
2038 XVIII | well-known asserter of a Providence, regarded with respect as
2039 XLI | But admit first of all His providential arrangings, and you will
2040 VII | and sayings testify, by a provision of Nature, which has so
2041 XXXVIII| associations is based on a prudential regard to public order,
2042 XVIII | The Jews, too, read them publicly. Under a tribute-liberty,
2043 VII | Christians are not themselves the publishers of their crime, it follows
2044 XXI | deeply they have sinned, puffed up to their fall with a
2045 XLVI | builds up and the man who pulls down? between the friend
2046 IX | Bellona, blood drawn from a punctured thigh and then partaken
2047 XXV | desired the destruction of the Punic city, beloved even to the
2048 II | cruel; it, passes by, and it punishes. Why dost thou play a game
2049 XI | for the very purpose of punishing such deeds; if every virtuous
2050 XXXIX | obtaining that honour not by purchase, but by established character.
2051 XXXIX | treasure-chest, it is not made up of purchase-money, as of a religion that has
2052 XLII | nevertheless the flowers are purchased? I think it more agreeable
2053 II | working against the truth, pursues with its enmity, doing this
2054 XXXIX | monthly day, if he likes, each puts in a small donation; but
2055 XLVII | so, too, they have their Pyriphlegethon, a river of flame in the
2056 XXII | events, your Croesi and Pyrrhi know too well. On the other
2057 L | his Chances, as Diogenes, Pyrrhus, Callinicus; and yet their
2058 III | Platonists, Epicureans, Pythagoreans? Are not the Stoics and
2059 XIII | the registration of the quaestor. Deity is struck off and
2060 IX | for the cure of epilepsy, quaff with greedy thirst the blood
2061 XXVII | distance they oppose, in close quarters they supplicate for mercy.
2062 II | mitigated to a means of questioning alone. Keep to your law
2063 XLVIII | animated by the Spirit who quickens all living things, its very
2064 XXVI | and the Medes before the Quindecemvirs; and the Egyptians before
2065 XXIII | that there is but a single race--I mean the race of demons,
2066 XII | upon us--foam with maddened rage against us--ye are the persons,
2067 L | spat it in the face of the raging tyrant, that she might at
2068 L | That very obstinacy you rail against is the preceptress.
2069 XXIII | Virgin Caelestis herself the rain-promiser, let Aesculapius discoverer
2070 XL | offer up to Jupiter your rain-sacrifices; you enjoin on the people
2071 XXIII | do the very proofs which raise your gods to godhead, than
2072 XXIV | more than others who are ranked as deities over Italy itself
2073 XIX | Phoenicians, would need to be ransacked; the men of these various
2074 XXV | and citizens; the hand of rapine is laid equally upon sacred
2075 XII | gods, axes, and planes, and rasps are put to work more vigorously
2076 XI | and seducers of wives, and ravishers of virgins, and boy-polluters,
2077 XLVIII | to know how you shall be re-created. Indeed, it will be still
2078 XLVIII | outgoing. The defunct stars re-live; the seasons, as soon as
2079 XXII | destroys them when they have reached maturity; as though by the
2080 IX | and such tragic dishes, read--I am not sure where it is
2081 XXIII | honour rather. You give a readier confidence to people making
2082 XV | under the lash, and the reading the will of Jupiter deceased,
2083 XXIII | overwhelmed bY the thought and realization of those judgment fires,
2084 XXVIII | whose presence you vividly realize; so that also in this you
2085 XLVIII | been dissolved be made to reappear again? Consider thyself,
2086 L | in the battle, because he reaps from it glory and spoil.
2087 XXI | Logos--that is, the Word and Reason--as the Creator of the universe.
2088 XXIII | Will it not then be more reasonable to hold that these spirits
2089 XLIX | trouble is therefore utterly reasonless. For it is our joy they
2090 VI | erred--although you have rebuilt the altars of Serapis, now
2091 XXXIX | also exhortations are made, rebukes and sacred censures are
2092 XXXVII | hands? In regard to this, recall your own experiences. How
2093 XXIII | the name of Christ, and recalling to their memory the woes
2094 | recently
2095 XV | blush; you brook the stage recital of Jupiter's misdeeds, and
2096 XXVII | account, indeed, rush the more recklessly to destruction. We resist
2097 L | the very desperation and recklessness you object to in us, among
2098 XIX | books, and the fingers busy reckoning. The histories of the most
2099 XIX | opened up, and thus the reckonings of the various annals be
2100 XXXIX | The participants, before reclining, taste first of prayer to
2101 IV | when their injustice is recognized, they are deservedly condemned,
2102 XV | given up in the very fact of recognizing it to be an error. Take
2103 XXIV | Instead of that, the charge recoils on your own head: worshipping
2104 X | you know brought to your recollection, for undoubtedly you act
2105 XIX | cities illustrious in the records of the past and noted for
2106 XIV | love to his own sister, recounting (to her) former mistresses,
2107 XXII | by a girdle, and a beard reddened by a touch, all done with
2108 XXII | and that chief we have referred to. It will for the present
2109 XLVII | in that case ours will be reflections of what are later than themselves,
2110 IX | nor does any of your gods reform his ways. When Saturn did
2111 III | hated name is given to a reformation of character. Some even
2112 XVIII | dead from the beginning, reforming and renewing them with the
2113 X | that those to whom they refused all worship were indeed
2114 XXIV | charge on us, not merely by refusing the true religion of the
2115 XXXIX | society, that, as I have refuted the evil charged against
2116 XIX | either authenticates or refutes the others. Also the Greek
2117 XIII | auction spear, under the registration of the quaestor. Deity is
2118 I | case? The only shame or regret he feels, is at not having
2119 XXXIX | that consider its further regulations. As it is an act of religious
2120 L | witness of her chastity! Regulus, not wishing that his one
2121 XL | particular cities before Tiberius reigned--before the coming, that
2122 XXXIV | offence to him who actually reigns?--an offence he, too, needs
2123 XLVIII | were inclined to give all rein upon this point, discussing
2124 XXI | cleansing the leprous, reinvigorating the paralytic, summoning
2125 XXXIV | as in God's place. But my relation to him is one of freedom;
2126 II | penalty which is his due, not released. Accordingly, no one is
2127 XXX | worthless ox to which death is a relief, and, in addition to other
2128 VI | them. What has come to your religion--of the veneration due by
2129 XXVI | add another point: if the religions of Rome give empire, ancient
2130 XXXV | befits their higher rank, are religiously faithful. No breath of treason
2131 XXIII | indubitably proved by their relish for the blood and fumes
2132 XXVII | sacrifice, we resolutely refuse, relying on the knowledge we possess,
2133 XXXVII | more enemies than citizens remaining. For now it is the immense
2134 XXI | must make, therefore, a remark or two as to Christ's divinity.
2135 XI | these gods of yours is more remarkable for gravity and wisdom than
2136 XXXVII | love our enemies, as I have remarked above, whom have we to hate?
2137 XXII | command the application of remedies either altogether new, or
2138 XLVIII | anything, you would have remembered it. You, then, who were
2139 XXXIII | that lofty chariot, he a is reminded that he is only human. A
2140 L | blood? For that secures the remission of all offences. On this
2141 XXXV | and treasons, the still remnant gleanings after a vintage
2142 XXXVII | betake themselves to some remote corner of the world, why,
2143 V | that Germanic drought was removed by the rains obtained through
2144 XXXVI | God, who both requires and remunerates an impartial benevolence.
2145 XXX | stretched out and up to God, rend us with your iron claws,
2146 XXX | being a servant of His, rendering homage to Him alone, persecuted
2147 I | confession; condemned he renders thanks. What sort of evil
2148 XXXVII | cutting them in pieces, rending them asunder. Yet, banded
2149 XLVIII | soon as they are finished, renew their course; the fruits
2150 XVIII | beginning, reforming and renewing them with the object of
2151 VI | your very speech, you have renounced your progenitors. You are
2152 XXI | implied in that the duty of renouncing what is opposed to it as
2153 XXI | among us, whose coming to renovate and illuminate man's nature
2154 XLV | injury done to you to be repaid? Though withal you know
2155 XLVIII | scorches, but while it burns it repairs. So the mountains continue
2156 IX | food like this, how do your repasts differ from those you accuse
2157 IV | of rulers, but yesterday repealed the ridiculous Papian laws
2158 XLVIII | there is neither death nor repeated resurrections, but we shall
2159 XLVII | things. Then the Stoics represent Him as placed outside the
2160 XV | We have seen in our day a representation of the mutilation of Attis,
2161 XXXVIII| which are the basis of their representations. Among us nothing is ever
2162 XXI | is otherwise than we have represented, for none may give a false
2163 XV | the art in all effeminacy, represents a Minerva or a Hercules,
2164 VI | What has become of the laws repressing expensive and ostentatious
2165 XII | impious words! O blasphemous reproaches! Gnash your teeth upon us--
2166 XLVIII | to maturity, and then are reproduced. The seeds do not spring
2167 XLI | together share His favours and reproofs. His will is, that outcasts
2168 I | has been bliss. Anacharsis reproved the rude venturing to criticise
2169 II | name, we may in like manner repudiate also the crimes with which,
2170 XXI | to worship the god he has repudiated. We say, and before all
2171 II | from our confession, that, repudiating the name, we may in like
2172 IX | human viscera, are in great request. And you have men rifting
2173 XXX | offering to Him, at His own requirement, that costly and noble sacrifice
2174 XXXVI | but from God, who both requires and remunerates an impartial
2175 XLV | the fulness and authority requisite to produce a life of real
2176 XII | and the nails are put in requisition, your deities are headless.
2177 IV | the new axes of imperial rescripts and edicts, that whole ancient
2178 XIV | a man, because she would rescue her son Aeneas when he was
2179 XIV | to praise your wisdom in rescuing something from being lost);
2180 XLVII | their own peculiar style of research, they perverted it to serve
2181 XXI | overthrow the truth, which they resemble. The Jews, too, were well
2182 XLVII | threaten Gehenna, which is a reservoir of secret fire under the
2183 XXVII | recklessly to destruction. We resist them, unwillingly, as though
2184 XXVII | therefore to sacrifice, we resolutely refuse, relying on the knowledge
2185 L | fires of AEtna: what mental resolution! A certain foundress of
2186 IV | authority of the laws as a last resort is set up against it, so
2187 IX | habit of offering, gladly responding to the call which was made
2188 XXIII | death, in order to get a response from the oracle; if, with
2189 XXII | the skill with which their responses are shaped to meet events,
2190 XLVIII | Assuredly, as the reason why restoration takes place at all is the
2191 XLVI | corrupts the truth, and one who restores and teaches it? between
2192 XLV | to forbid adultery, or to restrain from even a single lustful
2193 XLVIII | neither death nor repeated resurrections, but we shall be the same
2194 XLVIII | any given person, still retaining his humanity; so that the
2195 XXXVII | injured, we are forbidden to retaliate, lest we become as bad ourselves:
2196 XXXII | dreadful woes---is only retarded by the continued existence
2197 XXIII | who are delivered of it by retching, who vent it forth in agonies
2198 XIX | forms of your letters, those revealers and custodiers of events,
2199 XLII | rate, you say, the temple revenues are every day falling off:
2200 XIV | XIV.~I wish now to review your sacred rites; and I
2201 XLVI | against your rulers, and are rewarded with statues and salaries,
2202 XI | conferring of deity was a way of rewarding worth. And hence you grant,
2203 XXIII | been allotted to Minos and Rhadamanthus, as Plato and the poets
2204 XL | and Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cos, with many thousands
2205 IX | request. And you have men rifting up man-fed flesh? If you
2206 XXIV | we are excluded from the rights and privileges of Romans,
2207 XLII | heat and blood. I can be rigid and pallid like you after
2208 IV | and with unhesitating rigour you enjoin this to be carried
2209 VI | which, with the bridal ring, her husband had sacredly
2210 XL | slain by the pecks of Roman rings. Your gods were all objects
2211 XXXV | affording the occasion for all riotous extravagance? Poor we, worthy
2212 XL | are visited. If the Tiber rises as high as the city walls,
2213 XLVIII | then be always dying, and rising up from death? If so the
2214 VII | accused of observing a holy rite in which we kill a little
2215 VII | looked for, from a spirit of rivalry; the soldiers, out of a
2216 XXII | they set themselves up as rivals of the true God, while they
2217 XLVII | their Pyriphlegethon, a river of flame in the regions
2218 XXI | own land and clime, they roam over the whole world without
2219 XI | light shone, and thunders roared, and Jove himself dreaded
2220 XXXIII | To call him God, is to rob him of his title. If he
2221 II | the provinces for tracking robbers. Against traitors and public
2222 XXV | gods had their names on the roll of divinities. But how utterly
2223 XL | ordinary enjoyments of life, rolling in sackcloth and ashes,
2224 XXV | and from these the odours rose, and no likeness of God
2225 XLVIII | abundant produce, save as they rot and dissolve away;--all
2226 XVI | uncarved to sale, a mere rough stake and piece of shapeless
2227 XLVII | the world, and whirling round this huge mass from without
2228 XII | I recognize sacred rites rounded on mere myths. As to the
2229 XXII | breathe into the soul, and rouse up its corruptions with
2230 XIV | disliked. However, when rueing their judgment, the Athenians
2231 IV | that whole ancient and rugged forest of your laws? Has
2232 XXXVII | destroying your souls and ruining your health? Who would save
2233 XXVI | once of the world which is ruled, and of man himself who
2234 I | anxiously desires of earthly rulers--not to be condemned unknown.
2235 XVI | willingly to pass by any rumor against us unrefuted. Having
2236 XXXV | to make mud with wine, to run in troops to acts of violence,
2237 XLII | complain of this, let the Sabaeans be well assured that their
2238 XVIII | going to hear them every Sabbath. Whoever gives ear will
2239 XL | enjoyments of life, rolling in sackcloth and ashes, assail heaven
2240 VI | bridal ring, her husband had sacredly pledged to himself; when
2241 XIII | on the other hand, the sacredness is great in proportion to
2242 XXX | examination is not rather of the sacrificers than the sacrifices. With
2243 XXV | common treasure. Thus the sacrileges of the Romans are as numerous
2244 XIII | are convicted of impious, sacrilegious, and irreligious conduct
2245 XXXVII | dead, but tear them, now sadly changed, no longer entire,
2246 XLVIII | lighting is even now kept safe from any destroying flame.
2247 XLII | other places of commerce. We sail with you, and fight with
2248 XLVII | receive the spirits of the saints, severed from the knowledge
2249 XLIII | do not urge who for your sakes present prayers before the
2250 XLVI | rewarded with statues and salaries, instead of being given
2251 XVI | she is put up uncarved to sale, a mere rough stake and
2252 XXV | sacred vessels were yet of Samian earthen-ware, and from these
2253 XXV | beloved even to the neglect of Samos, and that by a nation of
2254 VII | ever due to mysteries. The Samothracian and Eleusinian make no disclosures--
2255 XXX | body, an unstained soul, a sanctified spirit, not the few grains
2256 L | subdued. Call us, if you like, Sarmenticii and Semaxii, because, bound
2257 XIV | now laments the fate of Sarpedon, now foully makes love to
2258 XXII | In fact, they call upon Satan, the demon-chief, in their
2259 V | beings. Unless gods give satisfaction to men, there will be no
2260 XLVI | pained if his passion was not satisfied, owns plainly, by the punishment
2261 XXXIX | God. As much is eaten as satisfies the cravings of hunger;
2262 XXXIX | parasites aspire to the glory of satisfying their licentious propensities,
2263 XXIV | of Ocriculum, Hostia of Satrium, Father Curls of Falisci,
2264 VIII | receive the fresh young blood, saturate your bread with it, freely
2265 XLII | day a man. I do not at the Saturnalia bathe myself at dawn, that
2266 X | which he dwelt was called Saturnius; the city he founded is
2267 IX | you tempt Christians with sausages of blood, just because you
2268 XXI | object of bringing boers and savages by the dread of multitudinous
2269 XIV | offer the worn-out, the scabbed, the corrupting; when you
2270 IX | indulgence in the most limited scale, may easily and unwittingly
2271 XVI | Arabia, where water is so scanty, they were in extremity
2272 XLVI | even when persecution was scattering them abroad with every atrocity.
2273 XXXV | over, would not betray the scene of another and another Caesar
2274 XLII | let those look to it who scent the perfume with their hair.
2275 XXXV | Tiber and the wild beasts' schools bear witness. Say now if
2276 VIII | nature--are we Cynopae or Sciapodes? You are a man yourself
2277 XI | more just and warlike than Scipio? which of them more magnanimous
2278 XLVIII | does not consume what it scorches, but while it burns it repairs.
2279 XV | Cybele sighs after the scornful swain, and you do not blush;
2280 L | given over to the tyrant's scourge, and sealed his opinion
2281 XXXI | terms, and most clearly, the Scripture says, "Pray for kings, and
2282 XLIX | some of you too glory, not scrupling to gain the popular favour
2283 III | barbarous, or unlucky, or scurrilous, or unchaste? But Christian,
2284 IX | say, too, that among some Scythian tribes the dead are eaten
2285 II | hymns to Christ and God, and sealing home their way of life by
2286 IX | thigh and then partaken of, seals initiation into the rites
2287 V | Hadrian, though fond of searching into all things strange
2288 IX | at home, abroad, over the seas--your lust is an attendant,
2289 XL | clouds give no rain, and the season is matter of anxiety, you
2290 I | of the Roman Empire, if, seated for the administration of
2291 XXI | have concluded that the second--which, as matter of more
2292 IX | pollution, so much as from blood secreted in the viscera. To clench
2293 VII | silence? If we always keep our secrets, when were our proceedings
2294 L | exchange his blood? For that secures the remission of all offences.
2295 XXX | for life prolonged; for security to the empire; for protection
2296 XI | incest with sisters, and seducers of wives, and ravishers
2297 XLIV | guilty of sacrilege, or seduction, or stealing bathers' clothes,
2298 XLVIII | then are reproduced. The seeds do not spring up with abundant
2299 | seemed
2300 III | man," says one, "is Gaius Seius, only that he is a Christian."
2301 IX | who, with savage lust, seize on human bodies, do less
2302 XL | than Asia or Africa was seized by the Atlantic Ocean. An
2303 XIII | without slighting another, for selection implies rejection. You despise,
2304 XLVIII | living things, its very self the unmistakable type of
2305 I | they have done. In their self-communings they admit their being impelled
2306 II | necessities of the case, a self-contradiction! It forbids them to be sought
2307 XI | entire world-mass--whether self-existent and uncreated, as Pythagoras
2308 IX | or merely at one's own self-impulse--although there is a great
2309 XLVI | Lycurgus choosing death by self-starvation, because the Lacons had
2310 L | you like, Sarmenticii and Semaxii, because, bound to a half-axle
2311 VII | tongues and ears; and a small seminal blemish so darkens all the
2312 VI | if this applied only to senators, and not to freedmen or
2313 XL | universally acknowledged, when the Senones closely besieged the very
2314 IV | making a law, or come to his senses in rejecting it? Did not
2315 IX | them entirely the power of sensual sin, by a virgin continence,
2316 XXXIX | congregations just what we are when separated from each other; we are
2317 VI | patrician from the senate on the serious ground, as it was counted,
2318 XIII | things are the marks of servitude. In the case of the gods,
2319 VI | asses, but from the hundred sestertia expended on them; and that
2320 XVIII | Ptolemy; for they gave him seventy-two interpreters-men whom the
2321 IX | justice to you and for their severe measures against us, may
2322 XLVII | the spirits of the saints, severed from the knowledge of this
2323 I | if, finally, the extreme severities inflicted on our people
2324 XLVI | confines himself to the female sex. I have read also how the
2325 I | some calamity, that both sexes, every age and condition,
2326 XXIII | making the whole world shake, filling the earth with
2327 XLII | abjuring neither forum, nor shambles, nor bath, nor booth, nor
2328 XXI | another's wife, a god in the shape of serpent, or ox, or bird,
2329 XXII | which their responses are shaped to meet events, your Croesi
2330 XVI | rough stake and piece of shapeless wood? Every stake fixed
2331 XVI | deities are derived from shapes modelled from the cross.
2332 XVI | in that adoration he is sharer with us. If you offer homage
2333 XVIII | regarded with respect as sharing in his views. The same account
2334 XII | greater length and far more sharply! In a word, if we refuse
2335 XIV | king Admetus to tend his sheep; another hires out the building
2336 XXI | God's way into a way of sheer impiety, though they themselves
2337 XV | Jupiter's misdeeds, and the shepherd judging Juno, Venus, and
2338 XXXIX | such, too, as have suffered shipwreck; and if there happen to
2339 XI | stars gleamed, and light shone, and thunders roared, and
2340 XXI | derive from it any number of shoots possessed of its qualities;
2341 XXV | to invaders from another shore! As for Cybele, if she set
2342 XI | and deceivers; all, in short, who tread in the footsteps
2343 XXI | Spirit. Even when the ray is shot from the sun, it is still
2344 XXXV | at the very time they are shouting, "May Jupiter take years
2345 XVI | exhibition would be the shrine; and that all the more that
2346 XIV | tragic or comic writers shrink from setting forth the gods
2347 XXXVII | itself by human fires, or shrinking from the sufferings in which
2348 II | many incests each of us had shrouded in darkness; what cooks,
2349 XL | it obtained the name of Sicily. These things surely could
2350 XVII | surfeit, or a sleep, or a sickness, and attains something of
2351 IV | authority of age upon their side? There were laws, too, in
2352 XXII | apparitions, of water carried by a sieve, and a ship drawn along
2353 I | openly inquire into and sift before the world the real
2354 XLIV | steaming, the mines are sighing, the wild beasts are fed:
2355 XV | are full of glee; Cybele sighs after the scornful swain,
2356 XLVI | with grace-healed eyes is sightless in this matter; he is mentally
2357 XXI | their well-known bodily sign, nor in the possession of
2358 XXI | which, however, would have signified little had not the prophets
2359 IX | led you perhaps to credit similar things about us. Children
2360 XIII | instal in your Pantheon Simon Magus, giving him a statue
2361 XXV | injuries rather than their simulated homage should have had retribution
2362 XLVI | religion. If the matter of sincerity is to be brought to trial,
2363 XXXIX | asked to stand forth and sing, as he can, a hymn to God,
2364 II | meetings at early morning for singing hymns to Christ and God,
2365 XIV | poet, too--Pindar, I mean--sings of Aesculapius deservedly
2366 VII | gory mouths of Cyclops and Sirens? Whoever found any traces
2367 XXV | State of Marcus Aurelius at Sirmium, on the sixteenth before
2368 XI | are guilty of incest with sisters, and seducers of wives,
2369 XXXIII | honours t of a triumph, he sits on that lofty chariot, he
2370 XXV | Aurelius at Sirmium, on the sixteenth before the Kalends of April,
2371 XLVII | keep my work to a moderate size, I might launch forth also
2372 X | appearance, have fallen from the skies? In this way it came about
2373 XI | ram poured down from the sky, and stars gleamed, and
2374 XX | the growth of sin, the slackening interest in all good ways;
2375 XXV | there is indiscriminate slaughter of priests and citizens;
2376 XXVII | mines, or any such penal slaveries, they break forth against
2377 XVII | and passions, though in slavery to false gods; yet, whenever
2378 XXXVII | better to be slain than to slay? Without arms even, and
2379 XVII | as out of a surfeit, or a sleep, or a sickness, and attains
2380 XXV | dead. O tardy messengers! O sleepy despatches! through whose
2381 XII | so that it might be no slight solace to us in all our
2382 XIII | preference to one without slighting another, for selection implies
2383 I | curiosity of human nature slumbers. They like to be ignorant,
2384 XLII | are woven into a crown, we smell the crown with our nostrils:
2385 XL | heaven. The country yet smells of that conflagration; and
2386 VIII | what it is to die, and can smile under thy knife; bread,
2387 XXXIX | the Attic mysteries; the smoke from the banquet of Serapis
2388 XXXV | and brilliant lamps they smoked their porches, with what
2389 XXI | if you choose to call it so--it is like some of your
2390 XXXIX | peculiarities of the Christian society, that, as I have refuted
2391 XXIII | ready to prolong the life of Socordius, and Tenatius, and Asclepiodotus,
2392 XL | there, when its neighbors Sodom and Gomorrah were consumed
2393 XLII | immoderate or sinful use. So we sojourn with you in the world, abjuring
2394 I | knows that she is but a sojourner on the earth, and that among
2395 XII | that it might be no slight solace to us in all our punishments,
2396 IV | case do they punish acts solely on the ground of a name,
2397 XXXVII | be horror-struck at the solitude in which you would find
2398 XXXVIII| to receive not merely a somewhat milder treatment, but to
2399 X | whose stock is unknown, sons of earth. I say nothing
2400 XIII | the undertaker from the soothsayer, as in fact this latter
2401 XLVII | proof of this. What poet or sophist has not drunk at the fountain
2402 XXIII | an ordinary man? is he a sorcerer? was his body stolen by
2403 XLIX | contrary, our haters should be sorry rather than rejoice, as
2404 XXII | though from some instinctive soul-knowledge of him. Plato also admits
2405 XVII | something of its natural soundness, it speaks of God; using
2406 III | that something in the word sounds either barbarous, or unlucky,
2407 XLI | You, therefore, are the sources of trouble in human affairs;
2408 XXXIX | own. Why, the very air is soured with the eructations of
2409 XXXV | friends as in the case of sovereigns. The anxiety of a kinsman
2410 XXI | last by Nero's cruel sword sowed the seed of Christian blood
2411 L | death. We all know how the Spartan lash, applied with the utmost
2412 XLVII | mean by the Thebans, by the Spartans also, and the Argives--its
2413 L | last bit off her tongue and spat it in the face of the raging
2414 XII | censured a certain Seneca speaking of your superstition at
2415 XIII | crier, under the auction spear, under the registration
2416 XXII | evil spirit attached itself specially to him even from his childhood--
2417 XVI | consecrated a head of this species of animal. And as Christianity
2418 IX | hinder a birth is merely a speedier man-killing; nor does it
2419 XLII | get, for our compassion spends more in the streets than
2420 XLVI | lust, and how a certain Speusippus, of Plato's school, perished
2421 XII | which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted,
2422 XVII | cannot see Him, though He is (spiritually) visible. He is incomprehensible,
2423 L | she might at the same time spit away her power of speech,
2424 XLI | gods you worship out of spite to us, why do you continue
2425 XV | Perhaps they too would be spoilers of them, if they worshipped
2426 XXV | over the nations; as many spoils of battle they have still,
2427 XXII | the prophets, even as they spoke them; and they gather them
2428 II | you do not reflect that a spontaneous confession is greatly more
2429 XV | said, however, is all in sport. But if I add--it is what
2430 L | return thanks on the very spot for your sentences. As the
2431 XXII | their own flee-will, there sprang a more wicked demon-brood,
2432 XVI | serpent legs, with wings sprouting from back or foot. These
2433 XXXII | emperors, nay, for the complete stability of the empire, and for Roman
2434 XVIII | into the world,--men whose stainless righteousness made them
2435 XII | Christians on crosses and stakes: what image is not formed
2436 X | the art of writing, and a stamped coinage, and thence it is
2437 L | yourselves lift high the standard of virtue in the cause of
2438 XIX | subject, as its vastness, that stands in the way of a statement
2439 IV | doomed himself to death by starvation? Are you not yourselves
2440 VI | compartments of a wine cellar, was starved to death by her friends,--
2441 XIX | the grounds on which these statements rest; the matter is not
2442 XLVII | was banished by certain states--I mean by the Thebans, by
2443 III | which they assembled and stationed themselves? and are not
2444 II | not also absolve? Military stations are distributed through
2445 XIII | Simon Magus, giving him a statue and the title of Holy God;
2446 IV | afterwards erased from the statutes, and the capital penalty
2447 XXII | the true God, while they steal His divinations. But the
2448 XLIV | sacrilege, or seduction, or stealing bathers' clothes, his name
2449 XXI | disciples might remove by stealth His body, and deceive even
2450 XLIV | your folk the prison is steaming, the mines are sighing,
2451 II | and driven some from their stedfastness, being still annoyed by
2452 XLVII | pilot is in the ship he steers. So, in like manner, they
2453 II | sentence,--you do not take that step till you thoroughly examine
2454 XX | for our faith in these two steps?~
2455 XLIII | Christians that they are a sterile race: as, for instance,
2456 IV | protectors. Now first, when you sternly lay it down in your sentences, "
2457 XXI | elements of nature obey Him, stilling the storms and walking on
2458 XXVII | separation from God, and stirred with envy for the favour
2459 XXI | shock of earthquake, and the stone which sealed the sepulchre
2460 XLVIII | people will be to have him stoned; they will not even so much
2461 XXI | nature obey Him, stilling the storms and walking on the sea;
2462 XXXV | they might acquire skill to strangle him? Whence they who in
2463 IX | who abstain from things strangled and that die a natural death,
2464 XLII | compassion spends more in the streets than yours does in the temples.
2465 XXX | sacrifices. With our hands thus stretched out and up to God, rend
2466 XIV | of Aesculapius deservedly stricken with lightning for his greed
2467 XVII | once to your enjoyment, and strike you with awe; or would you
2468 XLVIII | divine judgments, whether striking as thunderbolts from heaven,
2469 L | the case of Anaxarchus; no stroke falls on Anaxarchus himself."
2470 IV | too. Nay, a law lies under strong suspicions which does not
2471 I | being thus diminished, a stronger reason for perseverance
2472 XXXVIII| all your spectacles, as strongly as we renounce the matters
2473 XXV | and there were no capitols struggling to the heavens; but the
2474 XIX | would require the anxious study of many books, and the fingers
2475 XXXVII | all-prevailing silence, and that stupor as of a dead world. You
2476 XXVII | is made, now by cunning suasion, and now by merciless persecution,
2477 XXXVII | You would have to seek subjects to govern. You would have
2478 V | a Vespasian, though the subjugator of the Jews, nor a Pius,
2479 XLIX | poets they are regarded as sublime speculations and illustrious
2480 VI | fidelity and the honour, and submission they themselves show to
2481 XXI | back a people tributary and submissive to them from the faith,
2482 XXI | their proper and essential substratum, in which the Word has inbeing
2483 I | peculiarities of evil--fear, shame, subterfuge, penitence, lamenting? What!
2484 XXII | excesses. Their marvellous subtleness and tenuity give them access
2485 IV | when our truth meets you successfully at all points, the authority
2486 XIX | Phoenician king of Tyre; their successors too, Ptolemy the Mendesian,
2487 III | like Lucius should have suddenly become a Christian." Nobody
2488 XXI | disciples, and in His name to suffer--nor do we differ from the
2489 V | have no good to say, the sufferers under whose sentences you
2490 X | Saturn, brief as they are, suffice. It will thus also be proved
2491 XVIII | interest made famous, at the suggestion of Demetrius Phalereus,
2492 XXVII | but we know whence such suggestions come, who is at the bottom
2493 X | against us--nay, it is the sum-total of our offending; and it
2494 XL | wrath. In a word, when the summer clouds give no rain, and
2495 L | It is our battle to be summoned to your tribunals that there,
2496 XXI | reinvigorating the paralytic, summoning the dead to life again,
2497 XXI | because it is a ray of the sun--there is no division of
2498 XVI | the same way, if we devote Sun-day to rejoicing, from a far
2499 XVI | far different reason than Sun-worship, we have some resemblance
2500 XI | and not rather to have sunk them down into lowest depths
2501 XVI | in the direction of the sunrise. In the same way, if we
2502 VI | asses to be expended on a supper, and more than one fowl
2503 XXXIX | firemen. Yet about the modest supper-room of the Christians alone
2504 VI | For I see the Centenarian suppers must now bear the name,
2505 XXIV | another Jupiter; let one lift suppliant hands to the heavens, another
2506 XXXIX | wrestle with Him in our supplications. This violence God delights
2507 XLVIII | endless judgment which still supplies punishment with fuel! The
2508 XXXIX | and bury poor people, to supply the wants of boys and girls
2509 IX | your promiscuous looseness supplying the materials. You first