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1 I, 7 | mouth which first set it a-going disseminated a falsehood,--
2 II, 14 | he not on a foreign shore abandon the preserver of his life,
3 I, 14 | Not so long ago, a most abandoned wretch in that city of yours,
4 I, 8 | view to show how your faith abandons itself more to vanities
5 II, 11 | come to dear Mramma, and Abeona to toddle off again; then
6 I, 2 | plunder, accomplices, and abettors after the fact (was the
7 I, 6 | deservedly rejected with abhorrence, along with (their instruments
8 II, 2 | nature, and even about His abode. The Platonists, indeed, (
9 II, 10 | LARENTINA.~I hasten to even more abominable cases. Your writers have
10 II, 1 | facts), I have taken and abridged the works of Varro; for
11 II, 10 | himself in the game, in the absence of an actual one, he began
12 II, 13 | thing over which he has not absolute control. Besides, if they
13 I, 10 | despises what he knows has absolutely no existence. What certainly
14 I, 3 | acquitted, with an entire absolution for the past: we are no
15 II, 12 | offspring, because he, in fact, absorbs within himself all things
16 I, 13 | week for either an entire abstinence from the bath, or for its
17 I, 15 | this will supplement, nay, abundantly aggravate, on your side
18 I, 4 | themselves to a perverse abuse of nature, but they could
19 II, 2 | progeny. Xenocrates, of the Academy, makes a twofold division--
20 II, 10 | of the Romans received an accession in her dignity. For she
21 I, 2 | above this, you inquire into accessory circumstances--how often
22 I, 16 | scope is opened for its accidental commission? Undoubtedly,
23 II, 9 | of our Aeneas, refused to accompany him, but hurrying her children
24 I, 2 | place, with what plunder, accomplices, and abettors after the
25 I, 18 | wild beasts of her own (to accomplish her death); the Carthaginian
26 II, 14 | has the same thing been accomplished by the rich at their pleasant
27 II, 11 | by whose office the child accomplishes its birth. But when women
28 II, 13 | the home and the nutriment accorded to human beings; and, as
29 II, conc| almost universal dominion has accrued to the Romans. It is the
30 I, 1 | hatred, which will indeed accumulate so much the more in the
31 I, 2 | the better glutted with an accumulation of our punishments, when
32 II, 5 | orbital courses and the accuracy of their mutations, when
33 I, 2 | do not care to load with accusations men whom you earnestly wish
34 I, 10 | and even put to death his accusers. By this conduct of theirs
35 II, conc| not religious before they achieved greatness, (nor great) because
36 I, 4 | against himself since he acknowledged that he was no god, when
37 I, 2 | compelling the man who frankly acknowledges the charge to evade it,
38 II, 5 | you do not bestow your acknowledgments on the flannel wraps, or
39 I, 7 | they afterwards cannot help acquiring some knowledge of them,
40 I, 2 | say "No," and so have to acquit the objects of your hatred;
41 I, 3 | then upon our denial we are acquitted, with an entire absolution
42 II, 13 | of the parts which were acted--as the eagle which ravished (
43 I, 16 | and derisive cheers. The actor, taking off his mask in
44 II, 13 | I should suppose the old adage was made for him: To<greek>
45 II, 10 | achievement might well have been added to his twelve labours! The
46 II, 16 | daily experience goes on adding to the new stock? Those,
47 I, 3 | real crimes were clearly adducible against us, their very names
48 II, 11 | work of Statina, whilst Adeona helps him to come to dear
49 II, conc| masters, and the bond-slave of Admetus aggrandizes with empire
50 II, 8 | for it, and thenceforth administer its government. They called
51 I, 7 | even then as having to be administered by others whom they bring
52 I, 7 | must say, surpasses all admiration, that that was once for
53 II, 9 | deity. We ought then to admire the Romans for that third
54 II, 12 | have forgotten it)--let us adopt our compendious summary
55 II, 8 | lengths this licence of adopting gods has been pushed, the
56 I, 16 | others, or leave them for adoption to better parents than yourselves,
57 II, 14 | his attacks of madness, adore the arrows which slew his
58 I, 12 | worship; your standards it adores, your standards are the
59 II, 8 | Serapis, from the turban which adorned his head. The peck-like
60 app, frag| believe it. This Jupiter, in adult age, waged war several years
61 I, 6 | case of a murderer or an adulterer. An examination is ordered
62 II, 7 | sanctions, unchaste men, adulterers, robbers, and parricides.
63 I, 10 | you have made a consistent advance in superstition as well
64 II, 7 | was too disdainful of her advances was castrated, owing to
65 II, 1 | enough when from her very adversaries she gains to her side whomsoever
66 I, 10 | insolence. First of all, you advertise them for auction, submit
67 app, frag| begotten anew), is by the advice of his mother carried down
68 I, 10 | the most disgraceful way, advocating his incestuous passion for
69 I, 10 | as in the case of Marcus AEmilius, who had made a vow to the
70 II, 13 | whilst in Virgil he is "AEquus Jupiter." All therefore
71 I, 17 | suppose it is quite another affair to refuse to swear by the
72 I, 4 | that these philosophers affect, but which Christians possess:
73 I, 17 | any of the provinces been affected by us. The Syrias still
74 II, 13 | men; (and this they do) by affirming that they became gods after
75 I, 12 | CRUCIAL FRAME.~As for him who affirms that we are "the priesthood
76 I, 9 | devastations, or famine its afflictions, your cry immediately is, "
77 II, 12 | because seeds produce the affluent treasure (Opem) of actual
78 I, 4 | who have it in possession afford the greater displeasure,
79 I, 7 | what horrified the mind and affrighted the eye? This is also a
80 I, 10 | household gods under these affronts, that you treat your public
81 II, 8 | world worships, and the Africans swear by; about whose state
82 II, 11 | nuptial duties, there is Afterenda whose appointed function
83 II, 12 | Saturn, and only one daughter afterwards--Ops; thenceforth they ceased
84 I, 1 | calamity, that each sex, every age--in short, every rank--is
85 II, 5 | instrument with which, but to the agent by whom, it takes place;
86 II, conc| kingdom. Surely those who were aggrandized with the power of wielding
87 II, conc| the bond-slave of Admetus aggrandizes with empire the citizens
88 I, 15 | supplement, nay, abundantly aggravate, on your side of the question,
89 I, 14 | respecting our God. Not so long ago, a most abandoned wretch
90 I, 12 | cause, so does that cause agree in character with the thing
91 I, 20 | of our approximation and agreement? Being on a par is apt to
92 I, 6 | remain ignorant of their aim and purport; but when this
93 II, 2 | Socrates denied with an air of certainty those gods
94 I, 16 | taking off his mask in great alarm, said, "Gentlemen, have
95 I, 10 | had made a vow to the god Alburnus. Now is it not confessedly
96 II, 9 | person of the most refined Alcinous.~
97 app, frag| Diana; of Maia, Mercury; of Alcmena, Hercules. But the rest
98 I, 7 | make the awkward mistake of alighting on somebody else: you would
99 I, 7 | this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum?"~Now, why
100 I, 7 | reiteration of such things (as are alleged of us). But we are called
101 II, 12 | of opinion that, by this allegorical fable of Saturn, there is
102 I, 16 | from the passions which allure the whole race of men to
103 | almost
104 II, conc| were after its exaction amassed in one (vast) coffer. What
105 II, conc| Croesus by deceiving him with ambiguous oracles. Being a god, why
106 II, 4 | In process of time their ambitious conceptions advanced, and
107 I, 20 | from the eyes of others. Amend your own lives first, that
108 I, 10 | son by a lightning-flash amid your rude rejoicing. Cybele
109 I, 10 | gods, if we would test the amount of your contempt; and you
110 I, 10 | enumeration of his various amours. Since then, which of the
111 I, 7 | from others? Have they more ample jaws? Are they of different
112 II, 5 | effected. For even in your amusements you do not award the crown
113 I, 9 | when the islands Hiera, Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes,
114 I, 10 | you have made from your ancestors--in your style, your dress,
115 II, 8 | Numiternus of Atina, or Ancharia of Asculum? And who have
116 II, 13 | attain to. Let us grant that anciently men may have deserved heaven
117 I, 18 | compare yourselves with the ancients; we must needs pursue with
118 II, 4 | WITHOUT SHAPE AND IMMATERIAL. ANECDOTE OF THALES.~Some affirm that
119 app, frag| say so, should be begotten anew), is by the advice of his
120 II, 13 | demons, the offspring of evil angels who have been long engaged
121 II, 5 | might call their wrath and anger--as thunder, and hail, and
122 I, 9 | insignificance; for they would not be angry with you for loitering over
123 II, 14 | of a funeral pile in the anguish of his remorse for his parricides,
124 II, 4 | world was round. Its square, angular shape, such as others had
125 II, 12 | other compilers of ancient annals. No more faithful records
126 I, 3 | goes, bears the sense of anointing. Even when by a faulty pronunciation
127 I, 6 | Whenever these statements and answers of ours, which truth suggests
128 II, 9 | country; yes, quite as much as Antenor. And if they will not believe
129 II, 3 | motion. And then, in order to anticipate what may be objected on
130 II, 10 | to his divinity against Antinous? Was even Ganymede more
131 app, frag| she-goat; a Satyr, to embrace Antiope. Beholding these adulteries,
132 I, 8 | shadow-footed? Or some subterranean Antipodes? If you attach any meaning
133 I, 4 | than one husband, formerly anxious about their wives' conduct,
134 I, 16 | his own father and mother, anxiously urge a protracted inquiry.
135 | anyhow
136 II, 6 | not any longer believe in anywise what magians have asserted.
137 II, 8 | worth of even their names, apart from the human surnames
138 II, 2 | Epicureans regarded Him as apathetic and inert, and (so to say)
139 I, 2 | without compulsion, you aply the torture to induce them
140 I, 11 | stranger entering. But what apology must I here offer for what
141 I, 5 | our discipline than wilful apostates. However, you have no right
142 I, 19 | GROUNDS AND NATURE OF THEIR APPARENTLY SIMILAR CONDUCT.~Here end,
143 II, 1 | fit objects of our pity, appealing even to your own conscience
144 II, 12 | that, because a stranger appeared suddenly everywhere, it
145 I, 10 | any duty towards them, you appease them with a fee; in short,
146 app | APPENDIX~
147 II, 16 | earliest introducers of apples amongst the Romans deserving
148 I, 7 | Then he will say (to the applicant), You must bring an infant,
149 I, 1 | this fails in fairness of application; for all are agreed in thinking
150 II, 5 | produced, nourished, or applied to the sustenance of man'
151 I, 12 | and prop, as it were, he applies a covering of clay, and
152 II, 3 | philosophers treat (for I apply this term to the universe
153 II, 4 | I mean, who persist in applying their studies to a vain
154 II, 5 | cause of the occurrence, who appoints both the event itself and
155 I, 7 | own power not to be thus apprehended at all; for who either sells
156 II, 7 | beholds all things, who approves, nay, rewards the good,
157 I, 20 | by the very fact of our approximation and agreement? Being on
158 II, 8 | the Moorish Varsutina, the Arabian Obodas and Dusaris, or the
159 II, 1 | shame, or the object of arbitrary selection.~
160 II, 2 | Amphiaraus. In like manner, Arcesilaus makes a threefold form of
161 II, 15 | there being, moreover, the archer-goddess Jana), and Septimontius
162 II, 14 | the contest of the vile arena, despatch several of these
163 II, 14 | uncertain, as Socrates of Argon has related; he was exposed
164 II, 14 | his base desertion of the Argonauts because he had lost his
165 II, 9 | not those noble youths of Argos rather accounted gods, because
166 II, 2 | truth a perfect flood of argumentation. For after they had simply
167 II, 13 | will require no further arguments on these points. And yet
168 II, 8 | inspiration, by interpreting aright the dreams of some (fellow-prisoners).
169 I, 5 | mole should grow, or a wart arise on it, or freckles disfigure
170 I, 12 | god. If, however, there arises a question of difference
171 I, 4 | Erasistratus, and grammarians after Aristarchus. If, therefore, a sect has
172 I, 19 | the same time you reject Aristides, who was a juster judge
173 II, conc| aware that~ "Hic illius arma,~ Hic currus fuit, hoc regnum
174 I, 18 | enrol your names in the army. Since an ordinary woman
175 I, 10 | Serapis also, and Isis, and Arpocrates, and Anubis, were excluded
176 II, 9 | Their other deities we arrange in two classes: those which
177 II, 7 | rhapsodies that you have arranged in some instances your very
178 II, 14 | death which awaited him, arrayed in the poisoned robe which
179 I, 16 | Asia, he is brought, when arrived at full age, back to Rome,
180 I, 2 | means should be at hand for arriving at a true verdict. In our
181 I, 10 | having a certain glory in its arrogance; for it sometimes proceeds
182 I, 10 | he wounds Venus with an arrow from a human hand; he keeps
183 II, 14 | attacks of madness, adore the arrows which slew his sons and
184 II, 14 | perverted use of his medical art which he put up for sale.
185 I, 10 | majesty is converted into an article of traffic; men drive a
186 II, 14 | grandson, envious of his artistic skill. Pindar, indeed, has
187 II, conc| worship humble; altars were artlessly reared, and the vessels (
188 II, 13 | him--~"Nulli subigebant arva coloni"~"No swains would
189 II, 4 | better for one's mind to ascend above the state of the world,
190 II, 15 | houses. I say nothing about Ascensus, who gets his name for his
191 II, 14 | forgotten that the cynic Asclepiades on a single sorry cow, riding
192 II, 6 | respectable one, since it ascribes a divine nature to those
193 II, 8 | of Atina, or Ancharia of Asculum? And who have any clear
194 I, 18 | courageous than her husband Asdrubal, only followed the example,
195 II, conc| widely rule which covered the ashes of Jupiter? Would Juno,
196 I, 11 | that our God, then, be an asinine person, will you at all
197 II, 2 | divinity. Diogenes, when asked what was taking place in
198 II, 9 | POWER OF ROME. ROMANIZED ASPECT OF ALL THE HEATHEN MYTHOLOGY.
199 I, 10 | them, who honour and also assail them. One may also gather
200 II, 1 | prostrates the entire host of her assailants. It is therefore against
201 II, 9 | tact the purity which they assailed! There is Sanctus, too,
202 I, 3 | intensified by your ignorance assails it, so that you do not wish
203 I, 5 | this doubtful stamp do not assemble with us, neither do they
204 I, 10 | deference to the crowd which assembled, because he had failed to
205 I, 7 | know the very days of our assemblies; therefore we are both besieged,
206 II, conc| Might fate be wrung to yield assent,~ E'en then her schemes,
207 II, 6 | anywise what magians have asserted. The sun, too, is frequently
208 II, 4 | strong confidence of its assertions, by the useless affectation
209 I, 4 | discovering the cause of their new assiduity, and their unwonted attention
210 II, 3 | itself--how is it that some assign generation to the elements,
211 II, conc| also were assigned many to assist them. Thus he who serves
212 II, 11 | belonged the function of assisting the birth of the introverted
213 app, frag| dissipated (into nothing, by associating Him) with crimes so unspeakable.~
214 I, 12 | because even our own body assumes as its natural position
215 II, 11 | Juventa is their guide on assuming the manly gown, and "bearded
216 II, conc| its proper time, as the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians,
217 I, 9 | CHRISTIANITY.~But why should I be astonished at your vain imputations?
218 II, 2 | divinity--the Olympian, the Astral, the Titanian--sprung from
219 II, 9 | but deserting Priam and Astyanax? But the Romans ought rather
220 I, 7 | righteous indignation bursts asunder even all ties of domestic
221 II, 8 | seen or heard of the Syrian Atargatis, the African Coelestis,
222 I, 12 | the difference between the Athenian Pallas, or the Pharian Ceres,
223 II, 8 | of Narnia, Numiternus of Atina, or Ancharia of Asculum?
224 I, 9 | or Africa was sunk in the Atlantic Sea? or when fire from heaven
225 I, 7 | the burden of these vast atrocities! O ye heathen; who have
226 I, 4 | philosophers the right of attaching themselves to any school,
227 II, 14 | account of his lascivious attachment (to another). You, however,
228 I, 7 | we are both besieged, and attacked, and kept prisoners actually
229 II, 14 | glorification likewise his attacks of madness, adore the arrows
230 II, 16 | divinity) by means of rival attainments, which cannot be surpassed.~
231 I, 10 | criminal your god of Pessinum, Attis; a wretch burnt alive has
232 I, 12 | Because, as the third stage is attributable to the second, and the second
233 II, 5 | to which you ascribe (the attributes) of power? But gods are
234 I, 10 | you advertise them for auction, submit them to public sale,
235 I, 10 | gratuitous worship. The auctioneers necessitate more repairs
236 II, 15 | the constellations, and audaciously minister to as gods. I suppose
237 II, 9 | stercoribus, (with manure,) Augias had more dung than he to
238 II, conc| augmenting their power, or augmented their power by injuring
239 II, conc| injured the religion by augmenting their power, or augmented
240 I, 12 | deities; and they are the more august in proportion to the joy
241 I, 7 | its rise in the reign of Augustus; under Tiberius it was taught
242 II, 1 | HEATHEN GODS FROM HEATHEN AUTHORITIES. VARRO HAS WRITTEN A WORK
243 I, 10 | to publicly despise the avengers of perjury. Now, as to that,
244 I, 9 | punishment on us you seem to be avenging them. If one interest is
245 I, 10 | a consistent and entire aversion to them.~
246 I, 16 | devised a spurious night, to avoid polluting the real light
247 II, 14 | the unhonoured death which awaited him, arrayed in the poisoned
248 II, 13 | them. Whoever, then, is the awarder (of the divine honours),
249 I, 7 | you, you may not make the awkward mistake of alighting on
250 II, 9 | forest must be felled by our axe, which has obscured the
251 I, 2 | repasts) be brought out,--ay, and the very dogs which
252 II, 11 | Sentinus, through whom the babe begins to have life and
253 I, 2 | who had devoured a hundred babies! For since such horrid and
254 I, 10 | consulting the people. Father Bacchus, with all his ritual, was
255 I, 10 | for the old-fashioned you banish, as if it were offensive
256 I, 9 | Tiber has overflowed its banks, if the Nile has remained
257 I, 12 | like manner also, in the banners and ensigns, which your
258 I, 13 | for taking rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs,
259 I, 4 | public and in private they bark out their bitterest eloquence
260 I, 3 | there in a name? For you are barred by the rule which puts it
261 II, 14 | beautiful boy. To this mark of baseness add for his glorification
262 II, 3 | superstitious vanity has another basis.~
263 I, 13 | entire abstinence from the bath, or for its postponement
264 II, 14 | his much carnage and many battles, a much greater number of
265 II, 11 | assuming the manly gown, and "bearded Fortune" when they come
266 I, 10 | an old man of Saturn, a beardless youth of Apollo; you form
267 I, 4 | punished as the traditional bearer of a bad name. But this
268 I, 4 | themselves to any school, and bearing its founder's name as their
269 II, 14 | bestowed so dangerous a beast on the world, should escape
270 II, 1 | hear not; though your heart beats, it is yet dull, nor does
271 I, 10 | carefully the sacrilegious beauties of your Lentuli and Hostii;
272 II, 11 | pleasure; Praestitia, of beauty. Then, again, they give
273 | becoming
274 I, 4 | mice to creep into their bed-room without a groan of suspicion,
275 II, 8 | how much more must this befall those whom their very votaries
276 II, 14 | he deserved the end which befell him when he perished by
277 II, 3 | principle of a soul, as befits their condition as bodies,
278 | beforehand
279 app, frag| of violated virgins, he begat him sons; defiled freeborn
280 app, frag| transformation? Of Semele, he begets Liber; of Latona, Apollo
281 I, 10 | sanctity of the gods is beggared with sales and contracts.
282 app, frag| lawful to say so, should be begotten anew), is by the advice
283 II, 8 | Since, however, they had begun to worship both wild animals
284 II, conc| their power used not to behave without attention to religious
285 I, 10 | because the witness who beheld the man caught up into heaven
286 app, frag| Satyr, to embrace Antiope. Beholding these adulteries, to which
287 II, 7 | coin? Will He, however, who beholds all things, who approves,
288 I, 8 | Their first utterance was BEKKOS, a word which means "bread"
289 II, 1 | of wilful error. Truth is beleaguered with the vast force (of
290 II, 8 | Dusaris, or the Norican Belenus, or those whom Varro mentions--
291 II, 6 | of weaving conjectures, belie both wisdom and truth. Besides,
292 I, 3 | denied, and cited from the bench, I acknowledge a legal charge.
293 II, 5 | man. Nor is it from their beneficent influences only that a faith
294 II, 10 | just before her death, she bequeathed to the Roman people the
295 II, 15 | perception; and Orbana, to bereave seed of its vital power;
296 app, frag| possibly find credit among men bereft of sense, if indeed they
297 I, 1 | cry is, that the state is beset (by us); that Christians
298 I, 7 | assemblies; therefore we are both besieged, and attacked, and kept
299 II, 13 | there is no one who, when bestowing a gift on another, does
300 I, 6 | of its own ignorance, you betake yourselves in hot haste
301 I, 7 | we say when our servants betray them to you? It is better, (
302 I, 10 | calumniated the gods, by either betraying truth or feigning falsehood?
303 I, 10 | them down to the highest bidder, when you every five years
304 II, 15 | the sky as Jupiter's own big boy had. But why should
305 app, frag| and Sempronian law would bind the parricide in a sack
306 II, 12 | relation--marriage, conception, birth--country, settlements, kingdoms,
307 I, 18 | succumb through weakness, she bit off her tongue and spat
308 I, 7 | detected the traces of a bite in our blood-steeped loaf?
309 I, 7 | public. Even more voracious bites take nothing away from the
310 I, 7 | together to upset them, and bits of meat to rouse the dogs.
311 I, 4 | private they bark out their bitterest eloquence against your customs,
312 I, 10 | consecrate a soldier, a blacksmith in Vulcan. No wonder, therefore,
313 I, 18 | however, (we enjoy) the blessing of quietness and peace;
314 I, 16 | approbation: for once, when the blinded OEdipus came upon their
315 I, 19 | innocent in a region of bliss. In your view likewise an
316 I, 7 | traces of a bite in our blood-steeped loaf? Who has discovered,
317 I, 10 | they shall by and by be blunted, when we come to explain
318 I, 8 | she would still be able to blurt out some dull sound. And
319 II, 10 | woman from the brothel, boasts that in her dreams she had
320 II, 7 | the African Mopsus and the Boeotian Amphiaraus. I must now indeed
321 I, 1 | good to perverse ways, are bold enough to defend evil as
322 I, 19 | and deride us with greater boldness, you must take your sponge,
323 app, frag| transgressing the sexual bond with novel severities, sacrilegiously
324 II, conc| also makes masters, and the bond-slave of Admetus aggrandizes with
325 II, 8 | corn which embellish the border of the head-dress. For the
326 I, 4 | worthless, or wicked before they bore this name, have been suddenly
327 I, 4 | your own Pythian (god) had borne witness. Socrates, he said,
328 II, 12 | of truth, from whom you borrow their title for the priests
329 I, 7 | these (blessings) can be bought by us at any price? Have
330 I, 16 | he had been lost from his boyhood. But they agreed in the
331 II, 12 | embrace? But he savours of brackishness, and she has been accustomed
332 I, 14 | and back. Why therefore brand our one God so conspicuously?
333 I, 4 | to the lessons of nature, branded as very evil because of
334 I, 18 | swords there were, and what brave men were willing to suffer
335 II, 12 | Titan, and Japetus, the bravest of the sons of Tetra and
336 II, conc| that cave of Ida, and the brazen cymbals of the Corybantes,
337 II, 12 | voice of Coelus began to break, and the breasts of Terra
338 I, 8 | member, the very organ of the breath of life,--cut out, too,
339 I, 7 | then simply gaze at the breathing creature dying before it
340 II, conc| wherein they were born and bred, and ennobled and buried.
341 II, 8 | Joseph. The youngest of his brethren, but superior to them in
342 II, 11 | Domiduca, (to bring home the bride;) and the goddess Mens,
343 I, 4 | master sent his slave to bridewell, whom he had even found
344 II, 12 | our possession, then, a brief principle which amounts
345 I, 2 | frame your indictments in briefer and lighter terms. I suppose
346 II, 13 | gods outright; whilst His bringing man into such request, on
347 I, 16 | in the full cognizance of broad day-light. (No ignorance,
348 I, 8 | What, a dog-faced race? Or broadly shadow-footed? Or some subterranean
349 II, 10 | and she a woman from the brothel, boasts that in her dreams
350 I, 16 | consummation your players and buffoons draw the materials of their
351 II, 5 | but the oldness of the building; as again shipwrecked sailors
352 I, 10 | lands become cheaper when burdened with tribute, and men by
353 I, 10 | is the accusation which burdens you who believe that there
354 I, 10 | slay the same victims and burn the same odours for your
355 I, 10 | Pessinum, Attis; a wretch burnt alive has personated Hercules.
356 I, 16 | flagrant a tragedy recently burst upon the public as that
357 I, 7 | a righteous indignation bursts asunder even all ties of
358 II, 15 | your city-walls; there is Caeculus also, to deprive the eyes
359 I, 17 | due to the majesty of the Caesars, in respect of which we
360 I, 4 | that so worthy a man as Caius Seius has become a Christian. "
361 I, 13 | admitted the sun into the calendar of the week; and you have
362 II, 1 | conscience is hardened into the callousness of wilful error. Truth is
363 I, 10 | authority of their great prince, calumniated the gods, by either betraying
364 I, 12 | victories, the religion of your camp makes even crosses objects
365 I, 1 | in your fields, in your camps, in your islands. You grieve
366 II, 11 | begin their parturition, Candelifera also comes in aid, since
367 II, 14 | claim to be considered a fit candidate for deification than Hercules.
368 II, 11 | requires the light of the candle; and other goddesses there
369 I, 10 | Mercury, with his winged cap and heated wand, tests with
370 II, 5 | because nothing whatever is capable, without their concurrence,
371 app, frag| its adulterous violator capitally. "He defiled freeborn boys."
372 I, 10 | tribute, and men by the capitation tax diminish in value (these
373 II, 8 | were adopted out of mere caprice, not from the knowledge
374 II, conc| Still remaining are their captive idols amongst them; and
375 I, 16 | gone into the house and captured him. Having been taken away
376 I, 11 | conquering the Jews and capturing Jerusalem, entered the temple,
377 II, 9 | yoked themselves to her car and dragged her to the temple?
378 II, 15 | Forculus from doors, and Cardea from hinges, and Limentinus
379 app, frag| amendment are the rest of his career's acts which can find credit,
380 I, 6 | forbids, if you neutralize the carefulness of the precaution by your
381 II, conc| en then her schemes, her cares were bent."~Still the unhappy (
382 I, 14 | carried about in public a caricature of us with this label: Onocoetes.
383 II, 11 | travail. There were two Carmentas likewise, according to the
384 II, 9 | foreign gods at the lane of Carna, of the public gods in the
385 I, 10 | points more directly to a carping insolence. Now only consider
386 II, 3 | wheel, or propeller of the carriage, or director of the machine.
387 II, 3 | have motion--as wheels, as carriages, as several other machines--
388 II, 7 | indispensable (fine) arts; nay, you carry out the studies of your
389 I, 10 | ceremonies, and chariots, and cars, and the honours of the
390 I, 18 | accomplish her death); the Carthaginian woman, who in the last extremity
391 I, 12 | Now, every image, whether carved out of wood or stone, or
392 II, 8 | mentions--Deluentinus of Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Numiternus
393 II, 12 | conspicuous. We read of him in Cassius Severus and in the Corneliuses,
394 II, 12 | what instrument was the castration effected? He had a scythe.
395 II, 12 | nations, which require a catalogue (of gods), that they cannot
396 I, 9 | been more recent than that catastrophe, If you do not care to peruse
397 I, 7 | has lived; at any rate, catch its fresh blood in which
398 II, 16 | at Rome had heard of when Cato introduced it to the Senate,
399 II, 8 | native animals, such as cats, crocodiles, and their snake.
400 I, 11 | Epona; and all herds, and cattle, and beasts you consecrate,
401 I, 11 | that, when surrounded by cattle-worshippers of every kind we are simply
402 I, 9 | insist on our being the causes of every public calamity
403 I, 10 | heated wand, tests with his cautery whether the bodies were
404 I, 11 | XI. THE ABSURD CAVIL OF THE ASS'S HEAD DISPOSED
405 I, 9 | and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cea were desolated with multitudes
406 II, 5 | when you bear in mind how ceaseless is their recurrence, that
407 I, 7 | be always true? It never ceases from lying; nor even at
408 I, 2 | each one of us may have celebrated, and how many incests we
409 I, 10 | him? Many times have the censors destroyed (a god) without
410 I, 12 | celebrate with religious ceremony as deities; and they are
411 I, 16 | master into the fields, chained as a slave. Thither the
412 I, 10 | keeps Mars a prisoner in chains for thirteen months, with
413 II, 16 | injuring by your very arts, and challenging (their divinity) by means
414 II, 13 | gold. into the maiden's chamber, or rather forced his way
415 II, 2 | and that they therefore changed them, as their desire of
416 II, 12 | their race. For the origin characterizes all that comes after it.
417 II, conc| Here were her arms, her chariot here,~ Here goddess-like,
418 I, 10 | and sacred ceremonies, and chariots, and cars, and the honours
419 I, 20 | different from ours: whilst chaste in the eyes of others, you
420 I, 9 | vainly said, you incur the chastisement of your gods because you
421 II, 13 | restraint of his tricks in our chat with passers-by; sometimes
422 I, 10 | quaestor. Now lands become cheaper when burdened with tribute,
423 I, 10 | raising a blush on your cheek; and you quietly endure
424 I, 16 | with laughter and derisive cheers. The actor, taking off his
425 I, 1 | know it, because you now cherish your hatred as if you were
426 II, 16 | was constantly urging. The cherry was first made common in
427 I, 8 | gore flowing back to the chest, and deprived for so long
428 II, 11 | also comes in aid, since childbearing requires the light of the
429 II, 9 | which has obscured the childhood of the de generate worship
430 II, 13 | death, pray tell me why they chose to be in an inferior condition
431 II, 9 | are, then such as are not chosen are declared to be worthless.
432 I, 3 | pronunciation you call us "Chrestians" (for you are not certain
433 I, 5 | CONDEMNS TRUE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, THAN A PASSING CLOUD OBSCURES
434 I, 9 | WERE SUCH TROUBLES BEFORE CHRISTIANITY.~But why should I be astonished
435 I, 9 | state furnished so many chronicles of its disasters? Where
436 I, 7 | uncertainty. In however wide a circuit a report has been circulated,
437 II, 15 | all those functions and circumstances, over which men have willed
438 I, 2 | you inquire into accessory circumstances--how often had he committed
439 I, 17 | the curses with which the circus resounds. If not in arms,
440 I, 18 | again by one of your own (circus-) hunters as he traversed
441 II, 14 | up in one corner of the citadel of Carthage, and slain by
442 I, 3 | to by him or denied, and cited from the bench, I acknowledge
443 II, conc| aggrandizes with empire the citizens of Rome, although he destroyed
444 II, conc| similar is the carnage both of civilians and of priests; identical
445 I, 10 | be more potent than the clamour of the multitude, and forbade
446 II, 1 | threefold distinction in classifying the gods: one being the
447 I, 12 | passes into a god through the clayey medium. The cross then you
448 II, 11 | gods were appointed for cleaning up the filth of children.
449 I, 7 | Tiberius it was taught with all clearness and publicity; under Nero
450 II, 12 | are joined in wedlock? The clever, or the unskilful? The rustic
451 I, 16 | should at once commend the cleverness with which we make our incest
452 II, 15 | who gets his name for his climbing propensity, and Clivicola,
453 II, 15 | climbing propensity, and Clivicola, from her sloping (haunts);
454 I, 11 | presumed that we, too, from our close connection with the Jewish
455 app, frag| she-goat's dugs; flays her; clothes himself in her hide; and (
456 II, 16 | made common in Italy by Cn. Pompey, who imported it
457 II, 12 | these corporeal subjects as co-existing in one person. What, however,
458 I, 12 | we shall claim him as our co-religionist. A cross is, in its material,
459 II, 2 | certainty requested that a cock should be sacrificed to
460 II, 8 | Syrian Atargatis, the African Coelestis, the Moorish Varsutina,
461 II, 12 | Indeed, there was no second Coeus for her. What but Ocean
462 II, conc| exaction amassed in one (vast) coffer. What He has determined
463 II, 4 | false deities which are cognizable to sight and sense (to sense
464 I, 16 | intercourse in the full cognizance of broad day-light. (No
465 II, 7 | their images on the current coin? Will He, however, who beholds
466 II, 1 | Concerning Divine Things, collected out of ancient digests,
467 II, 13 | Nulli subigebant arva coloni"~"No swains would bring
468 II, 12 | ingenuity, if it be not to colour the foulest matters with
469 II, 9 | there is advanced the same colourable pretext for the deification
470 II, 4 | like honey through the comb. God, therefore, and Matter
471 II, 8 | animals and human beings, they combined both figures under one form
472 II, 4 | name with the purpose of combining them also in power? For
473 I, 10 | also, whether in tragedy or comedy, refrained from making the
474 I, 16 | But you should at once commend the cleverness with which
475 I, 18 | you may not have to accord commendation to us for the same (sufferings).
476 II, 1 | follow step by step your own commentaries which you have drawn out
477 II, 12 | heaven-born man,--just as we also commonly call earth-born all those
478 I, 9 | still, or the earth been in commotion, if death has made its devastations,
479 I, 5 | neither do they belong to our communion: by their delinquency they
480 I, 16 | consider whether there be any communities which the full and strong
481 I, 20 | Christians, so far will you have compassed your own amendment of life.
482 I, 4 | not even with a look; the compassion, which prompts us to help
483 II, 5 | divinity has been deemed compatible with the elements, but from
484 I, 2 | the more perverse that you compel us to deny charges about
485 I, 2 | the use of the torture, compelling the man who frankly acknowledges
486 II, 2 | had of Him whom it was not competent clearly to determine? We
487 II, 12 | Diodorus, and all other compilers of ancient annals. No more
488 I, 10 | gods have more reason to complain of yourselves or of us.
489 I, 3 | part think, that not even a complaint is due to a word or a name,
490 I, 8 | tongue, in order that, being completely exiled from all sound of
491 I, 12 | of clay, and so gradually completes the limbs, and forms the
492 I, 5 | show purity of the entire complexion. The goodness of the larger
493 I, 16 | confusions of blood and complications of natural relationship,
494 II, 10 | He invites her home. She complies, remembering that Hercules
495 II, 8 | queen, when he refused to comply with her desire, she turned
496 II, 1 | philosophers have ingeniously composed their physical (theology)
497 I, 19 | they are not merely your composers of myth and poetry who write
498 II, 9 | since their common gods are comprehended in both the physical and
499 II, 3 | the universe in the most comprehensive sense) contains the elements,
500 I, 12 | and just as the product is comprised in its primal cause, so
501 I, 17 | omit, because they do not compromise the Roman name. But I will
502 I, 6 | INNOCENCE OF THE CHRISTIANS NOT COMPROMISED BY THE INIQUITOUS LAWS WHICH
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