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1 I, 4 | truth, by destroying your gods. Although the name of Christian
2 I, 4 | man who was denying the gods. However, on your principle
3 I, 4 | wise because he denied the gods, although, in truth, he
4 I, 8 | that Rome borrowed even her gods), where at least are the
5 I, 9 | is as despisers of your gods that we call down on us
6 I, 9 | Christians, who despise your gods, but) your gods themselves,
7 I, 9 | despise your gods, but) your gods themselves, who are proved
8 I, 9 | may not have to tax your gods with extreme injustice,
9 I, 9 | when you hold them to be gods, who make no distinction
10 I, 9 | the chastisement of your gods because you are too slack
11 I, 9 | shame, then, must it be for gods to be defended by a human
12 I, 10 | THE ONLY CONTEMNERS OF THE GODS. CONTEMPT OF THEM OFTEN
13 I, 10 | PERSONS. HOMER MADE THE GODS CONTEMPTIBLE.~Pour out now
14 I, 10 | regarded as despisers of the gods like yourselves, on the
15 I, 10 | who believe that there are gods and (at the same time) despise
16 I, 10 | since you worship various gods, some one and some another,
17 I, 10 | that so many and so great gods can be worshipped by all.
18 I, 10 | ordering things, that all the gods could not become objects
19 I, 10 | especially in respect of your gods, are themselves found to
20 I, 10 | Christians, which despises the gods. If, however, you were even
21 I, 10 | There are your household gods, the Lares and the Penates,
22 I, 10 | for your private household gods under these affronts, that
23 I, 10 | marks of slavery). But the gods, the more tribute they pay,
24 I, 10 | religion; the sanctity of the gods is beggared with sales and
25 I, 10 | whole divinity (of your gods). You will not permit their
26 I, 10 | insolently made a profit of your gods, if we would test the amount
27 I, 10 | by way of honouring your gods, which you do not equally
28 I, 10 | You build temples for the gods, you erect temples also
29 I, 10 | you build altars for the gods, you build them also for
30 I, 10 | dead as you do for your gods. What excuse can be found
31 I, 10 | whatever sort as equal with the gods? Even to your princes there
32 I, 10 | less contumelious to the gods: in the first place, because
33 I, 10 | danger in swearing by the gods, since the oath by Caesar
34 I, 10 | the degradation of your gods; for those who perjure themselves
35 I, 10 | what great deriders of your gods you show yourselves to be!
36 I, 10 | irreverent towards your gods; and if their learning ever
37 I, 10 | and falsehoods about their gods. I will begin with that
38 I, 10 | as you derogate from your gods, by magnifying him who has
39 I, 10 | human condition, imbuing the gods with the falls and the passions
40 I, 10 | prince, calumniated the gods, by either betraying truth
41 I, 10 | refrained from making the gods the authors of the calamities
42 I, 10 | itself elevates against the gods, and secures from all fear
43 I, 10 | Socrates. In contempt of your gods, he swears by an oak, and
44 I, 10 | pleasures by disgracing the gods. Examine carefully the sacrilegious
45 I, 10 | is it the players or your gods who become the objects of
46 I, 10 | the foul conduct of the gods! Their majesty is defiled
47 I, 10 | your gladiators, when your gods dance, with equal zest,
48 I, 10 | punished personating the gods themselves. We have often
49 I, 10 | your mid-day game of the gods, when Father Pluto, Jove'
50 I, 10 | origin in a contempt (of the gods), on the part both of those
51 I, 10 | therefore, whether your gods have more reason to complain
52 I, 12 | indeed unaware that your gods in their origin have proceeded
53 I, 12 | in the production of your gods, you worship the cross which
54 I, 13 | course foreign from your gods. Wherefore, that I may return
55 I, 14 | images. You have amongst you gods with a dog's head, and a
56 I, 15 | a par in respect of the gods, it follows that there is
57 I, 17 | swear honestly even by your gods. Well, we do not call the
58 I, 20 | traitors to the majesty of the gods; and together do we provoke
59 II, 1 | I. THE HEATHEN GODS FROM HEATHEN AUTHORITIES.
60 II, 1 | you the character of your gods, O ye heathen, fit objects
61 II, 1 | determine whether they be truly gods, as you would have it supposed,
62 II, 1 | that, as we know all those gods of yours to have been instituted
63 II, 1 | spurious system of your gods. Wishing, then, to follow
64 II, 1 | subtle inventors of the gods, he points to either the
65 II, 1 | distinction in classifying the gods: one being the physical
66 II, 2 | whether there were any gods, he replied, "I do not know;
67 II, 2 | only there ought to be gods." When Croesus inquired
68 II, 2 | Miletus what he thought of the gods, the latter having taken
69 II, 2 | an air of certainty those gods of yours. Yet he with a
70 II, 2 | down such views about the gods that Dionysius the Stoic
71 II, 2 | supposes, includes those gods which are most obvious,
72 II, 2 | Democritus conjectures that the gods arose. Zeno, too, will have
73 II, 3 | contending that the elements are gods, since it alleges that other
74 II, 3 | since it alleges that other gods are sprung from them; for
75 II, 3 | them; for it is only from gods that gods could be born.
76 II, 3 | it is only from gods that gods could be born. Now, although
77 II, 3 | have to examine these other gods more fully in the proper
78 II, 3 | when once we turn to the gods themselves, succeed in showing
79 II, 3 | by no means appear to be gods who are said to be sprung
80 II, 3 | that the elements are not gods, since they which are born
81 II, 3 | of the elements are not gods. In like manner, whilst
82 II, 3 | that the elements are not gods, we shall, according to
83 II, 3 | rightly be maintained to be gods whose parents (in this case
84 II, 3 | case the elements) are not gods. It is a settled point that
85 II, 3 | elements, which they hold to be gods, when the Stoics deny that
86 II, 3 | elements, to be regarded as gods, when they deny that a god
87 II, 3 | you should believe to be gods, and the parents of gods,
88 II, 3 | gods, and the parents of gods, contrary to that generation
89 II, 3 | you also admit them to be gods which do not appear? If,
90 II, 3 | they must straightway be gods, because they are animated,
91 II, 3 | whatever being accounted gods, moving as they do of themselves?
92 II, 4 | THALES.~Some affirm that the gods (i.e. <greek>qeoi</greek>)
93 II, 4 | is more likely that the gods were not called <greek>qeoi</
94 II, 4 | greek>qeoi</greek> to the gods, whom you had in like manner
95 II, 4 | qeoi</greek> to all those gods of yours, in whom there
96 II, 4 | which you choose to call gods, then you ought to show
97 II, 4 | elements--be regarded as gods, since the component members
98 II, 5 | fairly enough accounted gods, whether their nature becomes
99 II, 5 | attributes) of power? But gods are not slaves; therefore
100 II, 5 | servile in character are not gods. Otherwise they should prove
101 II, 6 | PHYSICAL TO THE MYTHIC CLASS OF GODS.~Come now, do you allow
102 II, 6 | government they cannot be gods. If, however, one is in
103 II, 7 | VII. THE GODS OF THE MYTHIC CLASS. THE
104 II, 7 | pass to the mythic class of gods, which we attributed to
105 II, 7 | they must be affirmed to be gods, with proofs of divinity,
106 II, 7 | not consistently call them gods, but heroes. Why then discuss
107 II, 7 | characters are believed to be gods who are not fit to be men?
108 II, 7 | atrocious (examples) of your gods, you defend them as mere
109 II, 7 | as calumniators of the gods; he would even have) Homer
110 II, 7 | such things respecting your gods? And if you do believe your
111 II, 7 | it that you worship such gods (as they describe)? you
112 II, 7 | they only make men into gods after their death, do you
113 II, 7 | that before death the said gods were merely human? Now what
114 II, 7 | their telling us that your gods did such things when they
115 II, 7 | to you more credible that gods should exist, though not
116 II, 7 | characters, although not gods.~
117 II, 8 | VIII. THE GODS OF THE DIFFERENT NATIONS.
118 II, 8 | remains the gentile class of gods amongst the several nations:
119 II, 8 | at the little coteries of gods in each municipality, which
120 II, 8 | this licence of adopting gods has been pushed, the superstitious
121 II, 9 | threefold distribution of the gods, in order that a sufficient
122 II, 9 | quarters. Well, but even the gods of the Romans have received
123 II, 9 | need had they of uncertain gods, when they possessed certain
124 II, 9 | inscription: "To THE UNKNOWN GODS." Does, then, a man worship
125 II, 9 | again, as they had certain gods, they ought to have been
126 II, 9 | to be irreligious! For if gods are selected as onions are,
127 II, 9 | the Romans had two sets of gods, common and proper; in other
128 II, 9 | the public and the foreign gods? Their altars tell us so;
129 II, 9 | specimen) of the foreign gods at the lane of Carna, of
130 II, 9 | of Carna, of the public gods in the Palatium. Now, since
131 II, 9 | Now, since their common gods are comprehended in both
132 II, 9 | for that third set of the gods of their enemies, because
133 II, 9 | those which have become gods from human beings, and those
134 II, 9 | of Argos rather accounted gods, because they, to save their
135 II, 10 | appointed her heirs also. The gods, of the Romans received
136 II, 11 | XI. THE ROMANS PROVIDED GODS FOR BIRTH, NAY, EVEN BEFORE
137 II, 11 | wonderful oversight that no gods were appointed for cleaning
138 II, 11 | yourselves, ye impudent gods! No one is present at the
139 II, 12 | how many, and indeed what, gods shall I bring forward? Shall
140 II, 12 | require a catalogue (of gods), that they cannot possibly
141 II, 12 | of proving that all these gods were once human beings (
142 II, 12 | Now this origin of your gods dates, I suppose, from Saturn.
143 II, 12 | the most ancient of the gods, it ought not to have escaped
144 II, 12 | is the patriarch of the gods whom Heaven and Earth produced
145 II, 12 | unknown, the son of those gods from whom all may in a sense
146 II, 12 | must not suppose them to be gods.~
147 II, 13 | XIII. THE GODS HUMAN AT FIRST. WHO HAD
148 II, 13 | affirming that they became gods after their death. Here,
149 II, 13 | I take my stand. If your gods were elected to this dignity
150 II, 13 | if they were able to make gods of themselves after their
151 II, 13 | is no one who made them gods, how can they be said to
152 II, 13 | so great that He can make gods outright; whilst His bringing
153 II, 13 | the general body (of your gods), which took their cue from
154 II, 14 | XIV. GODS, THOSE WHICH WERE CONFESSEDLY
155 II, 14 | native and the factitious gods, I will add a few words
156 II, 14 | violence of a fire from the gods. He having devised some
157 II, 14 | loss how to sacrifice to gods of such a fashion, for they
158 II, 15 | THE GENII VERY INDIFFERENT GODS. THEROMAN MONOPOLY OF GODS
159 II, 15 | GODS. THEROMAN MONOPOLY OF GODS UNSATISFACTORY. OTHER NATIONS
160 II, 15 | audaciously minister to as gods. I suppose your Castors,
161 II, 15 | Why; you will have your gods to be spectators even of
162 II, 15 | all others, you account as gods the sites of places or of
163 II, 15 | men have their respective gods in their brothels, their
164 II, 15 | crowded with innumerable gods of its own, both these and
165 II, 15 | is no want of the others gods. Although, it is true, the
166 II, 15 | Although, it is true, the gods which we have enumerated
167 II, 15 | which men have willed their gods to preside, come about,
168 II, 16 | foolish a ground for making gods as even the invention of
169 II, conc| IMPERIAL POWER TO THEIR GODS. THE GREAT GOD ALONE DISPENSES
170 II, conc| posterity has believed to be gods, to be the guardians of
171 II, conc| excelling even their own gods in power. One cannot wonder
172 II, conc| Roman people has been by its gods alone ordained to such dominion.
173 II, conc| imagine that any foreign gods would have preferred doing
174 II, conc| Still the unhappy (queen of gods) had no power against the
175 II, conc| Larentina. But surely those gods of yours have not the power
176 II, conc| profound respect for the gods, when that empire was rather
177 II, conc| rather increased after the gods had been slighted? Now,
178 II, conc| wars, whilst they and their gods also are injured by conquerors.
179 II, conc| then as many triumphs over gods as over nations. Still remaining
180 II, conc| services and the worship of the gods, even after these had become
181 app, frag| CONCERNING THE EXECRABLE GODS OF THE HEATHEN.~So great
182 app, frag| is going on between two gods on earth, heaven is deserted.
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