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503 I, 2 | however, confess without compulsion, you aply the torture to
504 I, 1 | short, they are eager for concealment, they shrink from publicity,
505 I, 16 | No ignorance, however, conceals our conduct from our eyes,)
506 II, 13 | senate, you cannot help conceding, in your wisdom, that there
507 II, 8 | care of the Egyptians was concentrated s under his hand. And they
508 II, 4 | of time their ambitious conceptions advanced, and so the sun
509 I, 17 | this contumacious conduct concerns that which is ranked by
510 I, 15 | cruelty is always found in concord with unchastity. But, after
511 II, 10 | have intercourse with the concubine of a god without being punished
512 II, 14 | Hercules his debaucheries with concubines and wives, and the swathes
513 II, 11 | Consevius, to preside over concubital generation; and Fluviona,
514 II, 5 | is capable, without their concurrence, of being produced, nourished,
515 II, 5 | very observance of their conditions and the fidelity of their
516 I, 16 | relationship, and thence to conduce to incest; from which consummation
517 II, 12 | the most natural method of conducting the examination, even by
518 II, 13 | to be discussed, that God conferred divine honours in consideration
519 I, 1 | defence. When questioned, he confesses; when condemned, he rejoices.
520 I, 2 | inquiry satisfied, on a man's confessing himself the murderer. However
521 II, 4 | that you think you ought to confine your gaze to the sky?" His
522 II, 8 | which have their honours confined within their own city walls.
523 I, 9 | what pestilences, famines, conflagrations, yawnings, and quakings
524 II, 1 | nations all is irregular and confused, because dependent on their
525 I, 16 | doors, serve to produce confusions of blood and complications
526 I, 7 | prisoners actually in our secret congregations. Yet who ever came upon
527 II, 4 | in this hankering after conjectural speculations? What proof
528 II, 13 | cause is it permitted us to conjecture. Now there is no one who,
529 I, 11 | Pompey the Great, after conquering the Jews and capturing Jerusalem,
530 II, 14 | illustrious Pompey, the conqueror of the pirates who had not
531 II, 11 | you; but men insist upon consecrating with a heavenly life I know
532 I, 10 | you possess by a family consecration: you even tread them profanely
533 II, 2 | products of their own mind. The consequence of this is, that even that
534 II, 11 | so that there is a god Consevius, to preside over concubital
535 I, 7 | which it began, that no one considers whether the mouth which
536 II, 14 | games, though they are even consigned to the contest of the vile
537 I, 3 | crime laid to our charge consists not of any sinful conduct,
538 I, 10 | There is, however, some consolation for your private household
539 II, 1 | things have had their part in consolidating that spurious system of
540 I, 14 | therefore brand our one God so conspicuously? Many an Onocoetes is found
541 I, 17 | Romans to the emperors. No conspiracy has ever broken out from
542 II, 3 | that of its elements and constituent portions), it must needs
543 I, 10 | vulgar and profane to have constituted the religion of your forefathers;
544 I, 7 | suppose, since by the very constitution and law of all mysteries
545 I, 10 | the popular violence. The Consul Gabinius, however, on the
546 I, 10 | ritual, was certainly by the consuls, on the seate's authority,
547 I, 10 | destroyed (a god) without consulting the people. Father Bacchus,
548 I, 15 | feed on an infant, when you consume one wholly before it is
549 I, 16 | conduce to incest; from which consummation your players and buffoons
550 II, 11 | go through their work; to Consus, from his suggesting to
551 II, 3 | most comprehensive sense) contains the elements, ministering
552 app, frag| the Castors; an eagle, to contaminate Ganymede; a bull, to violate
553 II, 1 | uncertain speculations, nor contaminated with worthless fables, nor
554 I, 10 | CHRISTIANS ARE NOT THE ONLY CONTEMNERS OF THE GODS. CONTEMPT OF
555 I, 10 | PERSONS. HOMER MADE THE GODS CONTEMPTIBLE.~Pour out now all your venom;
556 II, 3 | driven to the necessity of contending that the elements are gods,
557 I, 7 | condition, that it can only continue to exist while it lies.
558 II, 5 | V. THE PHYSICAL THEORY CONTINUED. FURTHER REASONS ADVANCED
559 II, 12 | Terra to become firm, they contract marriage with one another.
560 II, 10 | fortunate than Ceres, who contributed to the pleasure of the (
561 II, 5 | themselves alone, without contributing anything to the advantage
562 I, 17 | Our first step in this contumacious conduct concerns that which
563 I, 10 | still it is none the less contumelious to the gods: in the first
564 II, 16 | really come, instead of converting the Author into mere discoverers?
565 I, 1 | accounted a good thing which converts a great number of persons,
566 I, 19 | conclusion, based on our strong convictions; for we take for granted
567 II, 5 | operations, that you will be convinced both by the recurrence of
568 I, 7 | and for the hearer who convinces himself of the credibility
569 II, 12 | not wish to omit the more convincing testimony of your sacred
570 I, 2 | detestation of us should begin to cool. For most persons are slow
571 II, 14 | thousands, let me ask, were cooped up in one corner of the
572 I, 12 | are, as it were, the very core of your pageants. Thus,
573 I, 9 | Pompeii? when the sea of Corinth was engulphed by an earthquake?
574 II, 8 | marks the memory of his corn-provisioning; whilst evidence is given
575 app, frag| defiled freeborn boys." The Cornelian law would condemn the crime
576 II, 12 | Cassius Severus and in the Corneliuses, Nepes and Tacitus, and,
577 II, 12 | possibly reckon both these corporeal subjects as co-existing
578 I, 7 | came upon a half-consumed corpse (amongst us)? Who has detected
579 I, 17 | exhale the odours of their corpses; still do the Gauls fail
580 II, 13 | both sacks." After this corroboration of his lust with incestuous
581 I, 10 | the old order of things corrupted, nay, destroyed by you?
582 app, frag| Hercules. But the rest of his corruptions, which they themselves confess,
583 II, conc| the brazen cymbals of the Corybantes, and the most pleasant odour
584 II, 8 | often enough at the little coteries of gods in each municipality,
585 I, 20 | CHRISTIANS ALONE. THE HEATHEN COUNSELLED TO EXAMINE AND EMBRACE IT.~
586 II, 9 | who have built cities, counting even women? To be sure,
587 II, 12 | after (traversing) many countries, and (enjoying) the hospitality
588 I, 10 | witness, because he had the courage to publicly despise the
589 I, 18 | of her country was more courageous than her husband Asdrubal,
590 I, 2 | may have committed under cover of the night! What am I
591 II, conc| should most widely rule which covered the ashes of Jupiter? Would
592 I, 12 | as it were, he applies a covering of clay, and so gradually
593 II, 15 | dogs, and scorpions, and crabs. I postpone all remarks
594 II, 13 | able from the very first to create for Himself immortal beings.
595 II, 16 | was discovered were alike created. The green fig of Africa
596 I, 7 | simply gaze at the breathing creature dying before it has lived;
597 I, 10 | poorest and most emaciated creatures; or else of the sound and
598 I, 7 | convinces himself of the credibility of what he hears. But then
599 I, 4 | unable to bear even mice to creep into their bed-room without
600 I, 7 | one mouth; afterwards it creeps on somehow to ears and tongues
601 app, frag| search) by (the aid of) Cretans--born men!--rattling their
602 I, 7 | listened, and peeped through crevices and holes, and stealthily
603 I, 10 | well-known voice of the crier, (and) the self-same levy
604 II, 9 | S THREEFOLD DISTRIBUTION CRITICISED. ROMAN HEROES(AENEAS INCLUDED,)
605 II, 8 | native animals, such as cats, crocodiles, and their snake. It is
606 I, 19 | yours every now and then cropping out, which assert in not
607 II, 13 | the earth would bear all crops spontaneously. But he hated
608 I, 12 | the process:) after the cross-shaped frame, the clay; after the
609 II, 15 | prison. Heaven, therefore, is crowded with innumerable gods of
610 I, 2 | without a fault. Even to the crowds which throng the spectacles
611 II, 5 | amusements you do not award the crown as a prize to the flute
612 II, 7 | you are aware, he was the crowned head of them all. But while
613 I, 12 | VERY IDOLS WERE FORMED ON A CRUCIAL FRAME.~As for him who affirms
614 I, 3 | be led to execution, be crucified, or be thrown to the beasts.
615 I, 18 | the instrument of his own crucifixion, yet a contempt of the fire
616 I, 16 | very well, according to Ctesias, live quite promiscuously
617 II, 13 | gods), which took their cue from their kings, and princes,
618 I, 1 | UNJUST, BECAUSE BASED ON CULPABLE IGNORANCE.~ONE proof of
619 I, 2 | against criminals; for when culprits are brought up for trial,
620 II, 11 | from his gift of speech. Cunina is present as the protector
621 II, 14 | the dead to life by his cures. He was the son of Apollo,
622 I, 18 | because it does not obtain currency among us. Answer me, then,
623 II, 7 | deface their images on the current coin? Will He, however,
624 II, conc| Hic illius arma,~ Hic currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus
625 I, 17 | him what he is not, and curse him, because he does not
626 I, 17 | the public games, and the curses with which the circus resounds.
627 II, conc| cave of Ida, and the brazen cymbals of the Corybantes, and the
628 II, 14 | Is it forgotten that the cynic Asclepiades on a single
629 app, frag| know not. That they are daemons they understand: but they
630 II, 7 | Why was not Hercules "a dainty dish" to the good ladies
631 app, frag| Europa; gold, to violate Danae; a horse, to beget Pirithous;
632 I, 10 | gladiators, when your gods dance, with equal zest, over the
633 I, 18 | If a woman once defiantly danced beneath the scourge, the
634 II, 14 | she, who had bestowed so dangerous a beast on the world, should
635 II, 7 | owing to her vexation at his daring to cross her love? Why was
636 II, 12 | this origin of your gods dates, I suppose, from Saturn.
637 II, 10 | sought deification for her daughters too, whom indeed the divine
638 I, 16 | full cognizance of broad day-light. (No ignorance, however,
639 II, 9 | obscured the childhood of the de generate worship with germs
640 II, 9 | children and wives, and every dearest pledge. They deify the son
641 II, 14 | claims of (our) Hercules his debaucheries with concubines and wives,
642 II, 13 | excesses of adultery and debauchery? Ever since poetry sported
643 II, 13 | which was the fee of his debauchery--as when (he personated)
644 II, 10 | mistress of Hercules, now deceased, that is to say, now deified.
645 I, 5 | of us, "Why is so-and-so deceitful, when the Christians are
646 I, 5 | say so of them: they only deceive people who attach reality
647 II, conc| liberal votary Croesus by deceiving him with ambiguous oracles.
648 I, 10 | it could not possibly be decent that other beings should
649 I, 7 | DESCRIPTION OF FAME; ITS DECEPTION AND ATROCIOUS SLANDERS OF
650 I, 5 | consistency with fact which decides the condition implied in
651 II, 4 | have not seen to pass to a decision on the objects which you
652 I, 6 | fresh deliberations and decisions.~
653 II, 1 | objection ready to hand in the declaration that, as we know all those
654 I, 6 | object of suspicion when it declines to approve itself. Naturally
655 I, 3 | mild a word for them, by declining to hear confession, which
656 I, 16 | strolled too far from home, was decoyed by some passers-by, and
657 I, 10 | if they did not sometimes decree that no general should dedicate
658 II, 9 | his young only son and decrepid old father, but deserting
659 II, 5 | sense and unsophisticated deduction? Even Varro bears it in
660 II, 2 | have interpolated these deductions they prove that they have
661 I, 3 | a name. Now this in very deed is neither more nor less
662 II, 14 | This was the man who, after deeming himself worthy of a funeral
663 II, 11 | protector of the child's deep slumber, and supplies to
664 II, 7 | down their statues, and deface their images on the current
665 I, 7 | VII. THE CHRISTIANS DEFAMED. A SARCASTIC DESCRIPTION
666 II, 13 | may have some supports, or defences, or it may be even ornaments
667 I, 3 | inquired into against the defendant, responded to by him or
668 I, 9 | must it be for gods to be defended by a human being!~
669 I, 9 | another party, that which defends is the greater of the two.
670 I, 10 | consent to some sacrifices, in deference to the crowd which assembled,
671 I, 18 | burning shirt. If a woman once defiantly danced beneath the scourge,
672 I, 18 | again, a woman of Athens defied the tyrant, exhausted his
673 II, 2 | philosophy, in its practice of defining about God, is detected in
674 I, 14 | when our concern is about deformed images. You have amongst
675 II, 9 | rudeness, or a consciousness of deformity, or shame for her father'
676 II, 2 | which they had discovered degenerated into uncertainty, and there
677 I, 10 | circumstance indeed tends to the degradation of your gods; for those
678 app, frag| they honour them with a deific name. As for him whom they
679 II, 9 | every dearest pledge. They deify the son of Venus, and this
680 I, 15 | greater safety, with the deliberate knowledge of the public,
681 I, 13 | resorting to these customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious
682 I, 6 | severity and iniquity by fresh deliberations and decisions.~
683 II, 9 | character, preserved with delicate tact the purity which they
684 II, 5 | harp by the power of his delightful skill. In like manner, when
685 I, 16 | charge; yet there are like delinquencies to be traced amongst you,
686 I, 5 | our communion: by their delinquency they become yours once more
687 I, 9 | islands Hiera, Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cea were
688 II, conc| why did not Apollo rescue Delphi out of the hand of Pyrrhus?
689 II, 8 | those whom Varro mentions--Deluentinus of Casinum, Visidianus of
690 I, 9 | world was destroyed by the deluge? Where then were (I will
691 I, 2 | purpose of extorting truth, demand falsehood from us alone
692 I, 7 | reports, justice of course demanded that you should examine
693 II, 2 | with all the supernal fire Democritus conjectures that the gods
694 II, 1 | be broken up by a single demurrer, we should have our objection
695 II, 4 | designation may rightly depend on their union of essence.
696 II, 1 | irregular and confused, because dependent on their mere choice. The
697 I, 10 | for him from whom every depraved writer gets his dreams,
698 I, 5 | in luxury, avarice, and depravity, we will not deny that this
699 I, 10 | from them, you must also depreciate the little you do render
700 I, 19 | laugh more merrily, and deride us with greater boldness,
701 I, 19 | have for being personally derided. All our obstinacy, however,
702 I, 10 | only consider what great deriders of your gods you show yourselves
703 I, 16 | greeted him with laughter and derisive cheers. The actor, taking
704 I, 10 | hatred of the Christian name derives all its life--I mean the
705 I, 8 | without hearing it; and thus, deriving it from themselves alone,
706 I, 10 | ascribe as much honour as you derogate from your gods, by magnifying
707 II, conc| currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata
708 II, 12 | gods--because I want to descant on the character of such
709 II, 2 | and the Titanian, which descend from Coelus and Terra. Most
710 II, 7 | worship such gods (as they describe)? you worship them simply
711 I, 10 | literature of the stage, which describes all the foul conduct of
712 II, conc| such conduct become the deserters and neglecters, nay, the
713 II, 9 | decrepid old father, but deserting Priam and Astyanax? But
714 II, 14 | of Omphale, and his base desertion of the Argonauts because
715 I, 6 | discovered, and they are deservedly rejected with abhorrence,
716 I, 12 | the clay; then from this design, with the help of compasses
717 II, 4 | whom we worship is also designated <greek>Qeos</greek>, without
718 I, 9 | and Rhodes, and Cea were desolated with multitudes of men?
719 I, 16 | find a remedy for their despair by hanging themselves; to
720 II, 14 | contest of the vile arena, despatch several of these animals
721 II, 13 | examine the reasons for despatching mortal beings to heaven.
722 I, 10 | yourselves or of us. After despising them on the one hand, you
723 app, frag| oppressed peoples lawlessly with despotic and kingly sway. The father,
724 I, 19 | ascribed to the respective destinations of Pyriphlegethon and Elysium.
725 I, 15 | out the blood which was destined to live? Is it a light thing
726 I, 14 | nine days' wonder," and so destitute of all authority from time,
727 I, 10 | of this sort although so destructive of the honour of the Divine
728 I, 7 | marriages are invented and detailed by ignorant persons, who
729 I, 2 | the criminal might escape detection, and that every means should
730 II, 9 | the Romans ought rather to detest him; for in defence of their
731 I, 2 | incredible, and the public detestation of us should begin to cool.
732 II, 13 | Afterwards, when full-grown, he dethrones his own father, who, whatever
733 I, 9 | commotion, if death has made its devastations, or famine its afflictions,
734 II, 12 | actual life, and because they develope with labour (Opus). Now
735 II, conc| victory, cannot seem to have developed owing to the merits of its
736 II, 3 | TENET EXPOSED.~From these developments of opinion, we see that
737 I, 13 | customs, you deliberately deviate from your own religious
738 II, 4 | equal readiness, there is a deviation as well from the meaning
739 II, 2 | Now what wise man is so devoid of truth, as not to know
740 I, 11 | every kind we are simply devoted to asses!~
741 II, 4 | the sun to be a foot in diameter. Thus far you must confess
742 II, 10 | happened to be playing at dice in the temple alone; and
743 I, 8 | nation was whose speech was dictated by nature. Their first utterance
744 I, 18 | example, set long before by Dido herself, of going through
745 II, 11 | earliest sensation; then Diespiter, by whose office the child
746 I, 7 | It is enough for us to differ from you in condition by
747 II, 12 | described. But the more diffuse the subject is, the more
748 I, 16 | so that no indiscriminate diffusion of seed, or licentious reception
749 II, 1 | collected out of ancient digests, has shown himself a serviceable
750 I, 13 | that I may return from this digression, you who reproach us with
751 I, 10 | men by the capitation tax diminish in value (these are the
752 II, 6 | integrity, and ought not to be diminished, or suspended, or destroyed?
753 II, 12 | amongst the Greeks also, in Diodorus, and all other compilers
754 I, 7 | some bread to be broken and dipped in his blood; you also want
755 II, 5 | revolutions of time, and for directing the guidance thereof--can
756 II, 10 | Prostitutes mount it in all directions, so that you must not suppose
757 I, 10 | and so far it points more directly to a carping insolence.
758 II, 3 | propeller of the carriage, or director of the machine. If, then,
759 I, 20 | both inspires counsel and directs the judgment. Now it is
760 I, 20 | things which you do not disallow in yourselves you condemn
761 II, 6 | all His blessedness would disappear, if He were ever subject
762 app, frag| is it credible?), and is disappointed by an interval of sea, and
763 I, 9 | so many chronicles of its disasters? Where were the Christians
764 I, 5 | CHRISTIAN NO MORE CONDEMNS TRUE DISCIPLES OF CHRIST, THAN A PASSING
765 I, 4 | of their wives to others, disclaimed all jealousy, (and) preferred
766 II, 7 | not believe them when they disclose such things respecting your
767 I, 20 | smith." But we must now discontinue this imaginary confession.
768 I, 15 | even to this practice is discoverable amongst yourselves, we are
769 I, 10 | is only to your greater discredit, for you nevertheless persistently
770 I, 12 | not stay any longer in the discussion of this point, since by
771 II, 9 | children along with her, disdained to take her beautiful self
772 II, 7 | unhappy) youth who was too disdainful of her advances was castrated,
773 I, 10 | sighs for a shepherd who disdains her, without raising a blush
774 I, 5 | arise on it, or freckles disfigure it. Not even the sky itself
775 I, 5 | the profession, and they disgrace the real thing under the
776 I, 10 | minister to your pleasures by disgracing the gods. Examine carefully
777 I, 2 | things, feeling a horrible disgust at supposing that our nature
778 II, 13 | these made up of the most disgusting intrigues and the worst
779 II, 7 | was not Hercules "a dainty dish" to the good ladies of Lanuvium,
780 II, 7 | once men are subject to the dishonour of human casualties, or
781 I, 4 | for the better! A father disinherited his son, with whom he had
782 II, 4 | the sun too enlarged its disk. Accordingly, the Peripatetics
783 II, 4 | must have been discovered. Dismissing, then, that ingenious interpretation,
784 I, 5 | conversation yourselves to say, in disparagement of us, "Why is so-and-so
785 I, 7 | existence? But why need I disparagingly refer to strange spies and
786 II, 5 | terrible--the sovereign dispenser, in fact, both of help and
787 I, 12 | parade of images, and that display of pure gold, are (as so
788 II, 8 | put into prison. There he displays the power of his divine
789 I, 16 | said, "Gentlemen, have I displeased you?" "Certainly not," replied
790 I, 4 | possession afford the greater displeasure, because he who affects
791 II, 12 | been man, is not at your disposal to be treated anyhow, nor
792 I, 11 | CAVIL OF THE ASS'S HEAD DISPOSED OF.~In this matter we are (
793 II, 2 | wordly things, both as the disposer and judge thereof. The Epicureans
794 I, 18 | peace; so that the minds and dispositions of men (should be) more
795 II, 2 | they found Him, but rather disputed about His quality, and His
796 I, 7 | which first set it a-going disseminated a falsehood,--a circumstance
797 I, 19 | out, which assert in not dissimilar terms that souls will return
798 I, 15 | however, there does occur any dissimilarity between us in this matter,
799 app, frag| immeasurable, they have dissipated (into nothing, by associating
800 I, 7 | extinctions of candles; so many dissolute marriages. And up to the
801 II, 10 | the whore. The fire which dissolved the body of even a Hercules
802 II, 5 | regular seasons, at proper distances, and at equal intervals--
803 I, 3 | found applicable, so that distinct sentences would be pronounced
804 II, 15 | to the Romans, which have distributed amongst them the functions
805 II, 13 | there is a certain wholesale distributor of divinity. Let us accordingly
806 II, 4 | difference of the words is the diversity of the things; the condition
807 II, 2 | that Dionysius the Stoic divides them into three kinds. The
808 II, 11 | the mere names of things--dividing man's entire existence amongst
809 II, 3 | therefore ought to be accounted divine--since, as divine, it is
810 II, 2 | a threefold form of the divinity--the Olympian, the Astral,
811 II, 2 | Academy, makes a twofold division--the Olympian and the Titanian,
812 I, 10 | us the general charge of divorcing ourselves from the institutions
813 I, 7 | certainly do not ourselves divulge with very much noise--either
814 II, 9 | more fit that he should be doctored than deified. If the daughter
815 II, 5 | the poultices, but on the doctors by whose care and prudence
816 I, 7 | now concerned about the doctrine of these (verities), which
817 I, 8 | third race" of men. What, a dog-faced race? Or broadly shadow-footed?
818 I, 10 | under foot, you and your domestics, by hawking and pawning
819 II, 11 | off again; then there is Domiduca, (to bring home the bride;)
820 II, 9 | superstition, but to the dominant Romans, who received the
821 II, 11 | see to the offering of the dower; but fie on you! you have
822 I, 10 | Pluto, Jove's own brother, drags away, hammer in hand, the
823 I, 10 | feigning falsehood? Have the dramatists also, whether in tragedy
824 I, 10 | celestial (rebels;) or he draws from him tears for Sarpedon;
825 II, 8 | prison, he opens out his dream to the king: those seven
826 I, 11 | for some among you have dreamed that our god is an ass's
827 I, 10 | ancestors--in your style, your dress, your equipage, your very
828 I, 14 | had ass's ears, and was dressed in a toga with a book, having
829 I, 2 | our infanticides and the dressers (of our horrible repasts)
830 II, 14 | which Dionysius the Stoic drew should be made between the
831 II, 11 | their first pap and earliest drink you have Potina and Edula;
832 I, 10 | article of traffic; men drive a business with their religion;
833 II, 2 | there arose from one or two drops of truth a perfect flood
834 II, 12 | that the seed, in fact, was dropt down from heaven to earth
835 II, 5 | as thunder, and hail, and drought, and pestilential winds,
836 I, 15 | them by the slower death of drowning. If, however, there does
837 I, 8 | persons, who account for the dumbness not by cutting out the tongue,
838 II, 9 | manure,) Augias had more dung than he to bestow on them.
839 II, 8 | the Arabian Obodas and Dusaris, or the Norican Belenus,
840 II, 15 | others besides, when they dwell in a strange place, or live
841 II, 9 | Penelope, who, although dwelling among so many suitors of
842 I, 7 | at the breathing creature dying before it has lived; at
843 II, conc| wrung to yield assent,~ E'en then her schemes, her
844 I, 1 | shame. In short, they are eager for concealment, they shrink
845 I, 2 | for with how much greater eagerness would they resort to the
846 I, 3 | tongue, nor harsh to the ear, nor injurious to a single
847 II, 12 | proportion to its antiquity. Now earlier than all liters ture was
848 II, 14 | time, and that with more earnest zeal? If it was for his
849 II, 12 | as we also commonly call earth-born all those whose descent
850 II, 5 | openings of the ground, and earthquakes: these are all fairly enough
851 II, conc| hoc regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam
852 I, 13 | that we pray towards the east, or because we make Sunday
853 II, 12 | people, however, found it easy enough to call him, whose
854 II, 6 | frequently put to the trial of an eclipse. Explain as best you may
855 II, 11 | drink you have Potina and Edula; to teach the child to stand
856 II, 12 | exploits in words to this effect: "In the tenth generation
857 II, 5 | prudence the remedies become effectual. So again, in untoward events,
858 app, frag| Pirithous; a goat, to beget Egyppa from a she-goat; a Satyr,
859 II, 4 | unmercifully twitted by an Egyptian, who said to him, "Is it
860 I, 16 | greek>lsune</greek> <greek>eis</greek> <greek>thn</greek> <
861 app, frag| born the years (that had elapsed) from the foundation of
862 II, 13 | stand. If your gods were elected to this dignity and deity,
863 II, 14 | THOSE WHICH WERE CONFESSEDLY ELEVATED TO THE DIVINE CONDITION,
864 I, 10 | inspiration of truth itself elevates against the gods, and secures
865 I, 4 | bark out their bitterest eloquence against your customs, rites,
866 I, 19 | destinations of Pyriphlegethon and Elysium. Now they are not merely
867 I, 10 | victims the poorest and most emaciated creatures; or else of the
868 II, 8 | very ears of corn which embellish the border of the head-dress.
869 I, 11 | consecrated under the same emblematic form. The same Cornelius
870 II, 10 | After so many examples and eminent names among you, who might
871 I, 17 | Well, we do not call the emperor God; for on this point sannam
872 I, 4 | Christians are, must needs employ these marks for their discovery.~
873 II, conc| wrung to yield assent,~ E'en then her schemes, her cares
874 I, 10 | its full value, and I am enabled to meet you with this retort,
875 II, 13 | the swan which sang (the enchanting song). Well now, are not
876 II, 15 | not permitting him to be enclosed within your city-walls;
877 II, 9 | error of man must now be encountered by us; nay, another forest
878 I, 2 | the case is not at once ended, or the inquiry satisfied,
879 I, 19 | to spend an eternity in endless fire, the pious and innocent
880 I, 18 | spirits of antiquity more enduring. Now, however, (we enjoy)
881 I, 9 | when the sea of Corinth was engulphed by an earthquake? when the
882 II, 10 | body of even a Hercules enjoyed the supper, and the altar
883 II, 12 | traversing) many countries, and (enjoying) the hospitality of Athens,
884 II, 3 | being, according to the enlightened view of Plato, or else by
885 II, conc| were born and bred, and ennobled and buried. Thus not even
886 II, 1 | cognizant. If indeed the enormous perverseness (of your worship)
887 II, 9 | deification? If he worked hard to enrich the fields stercoribus, (
888 I, 18 | through fear of death do you enrol your names in the army.
889 II, 8 | character and condition enshrined by a nation at war with
890 I, 12 | also, in the banners and ensigns, which your soldiers guard
891 I, 10 | on the first day of the ensuing January, although he gave
892 I, 11 | and capturing Jerusalem, entered the temple, but found nothing
893 I, 11 | be no fear of a stranger entering. But what apology must I
894 I, 14 | beasts, against which he enters the lists for hire day after
895 I, 10 | I will begin with that enthusiastic fondness which you show
896 I, 15 | to you to pant for human entrails, because you devour full-grown
897 I, 8 | intercourse, and to have entrusted them to a nurse, whom he
898 I, 3 | indictment specifies, no sentence enumerates. In any case which is submitted
899 I, 20 | rivalry. Thus "a potter envies a potter, and a smith a
900 II, 14 | impious to his grandson, envious of his artistic skill. Pindar,
901 II, 8 | in intellect, he was from envy sold into Egypt, and became
902 II, 2 | disposer and judge thereof. The Epicureans regarded Him as apathetic
903 I, 11 | along with their tutelar Epona; and all herds, and cattle,
904 I, 10 | style, your dress, your equipage, your very food, and even
905 I, 20 | case that you neglect (the equitable principle). You indulge
906 I, 4 | physicians are called after Erasistratus, and grammarians after Aristarchus.
907 II, 15 | Castors, and Perseus, and Erigona, have just the same claims
908 II, 6 | matter, it is better to err simply than speculatively,
909 app, frag| sway. The father, whom they erringly suppose to have been the
910 II, 7 | shall men be allowed an especial mount of care and righteousness,
911 II, 4 | depend on their union of essence. But the true God, on the
912 II, 3 | wanting as it does that essential character of divinity, eternity,
913 II, 10 | people the rather large estate which she had obtained through
914 I, 7 | how incalculable must be esteemed the grandeur (of that religion)
915 app, frag| Ganymede; a bull, to violate Europa; gold, to violate Danae;
916 I, 2 | acknowledges the charge to evade it, and him who is unwilling,
917 I, 15 | happens that no laws are evaded with more impunity or greater
918 I, 13 | its postponement until the evening, or for taking rest and
919 II, 5 | occurrence, who appoints both the event itself and that by whose
920 I, 16 | our religion. You ply us evermore with this charge; yet there
921 II, 8 | everywhere present, powerful everywhere--an object whom all ought
922 app, frag| did lurk there, is clearly evidenced on the face of it, from
923 I, 3 | condemnation, it becomes evident that the crime laid to our
924 II, 3 | for although the soul is evidently immortal, this attribute
925 I, 1 | in thinking thus of the evil-doer, so that not even the guilty
926 app, frag| in it committed all these evils, and yet is no more in it,
927 II, 13 | similarity of character was exacted by their authority. But
928 II, conc| many nations were after its exaction amassed in one (vast) coffer.
929 I, 16 | excites him, the periods exactly suit his age, even his eyes
930 II, 9 | make a goddess, for her exceeding piety, of that daughter
931 II, 9 | the daughter of Faunus so excelled in chastity, that she would
932 II, 14 | transaction, however, your most excellent Jupiter is once more found
933 II, conc| within a very little of excelling even their own gods in power.
934 II, 13 | lavishly in the lighter excesses of adultery and debauchery?
935 I, 1 | evil as good. Base things excite their fear, impious ones
936 II, 12 | habitually rude, that they were excited by the appearance of every
937 I, 7 | overcome with impatient excitement as to turn informer, did
938 I, 16 | presentiment about the time excites him, the periods exactly
939 I, 10 | Arpocrates, and Anubis, were excluded from the Capitol, and that
940 I, 7 | unless illicit ones are less exclusive? Well, then, it is more
941 I, 10 | insolent sacrilege might be excusable, if it were not practised
942 I, 1 | which condemns whilst it excuses your injustice, is at once
943 app, frag| FRAGMENT CONCERNING THE EXECRABLE GODS OF THE HEATHEN.~So
944 I, 20 | us, and (what is more) to execrate your own (worthies), since
945 II, 7 | For whenever we hold up to execration the wretched, disgraceful
946 II, 11 | while the other, Prosa, executed the like office for the
947 I, 10 | their proof and plot for executing your criminals, or else (
948 I, 3 | charged with, be led to execution, be crucified, or be thrown
949 I, 7 | place within you for the exercise of prudence in investigating
950 I, 10 | all. Then you must have exercised your contempt (in this matter)
951 II, 13 | of the divine honours), exercises his function, either that
952 I, 17 | by us. The Syrias still exhale the odours of their corpses;
953 I, 18 | Athens defied the tyrant, exhausted his tortures, and at last,
954 I, 4 | good? For what mark do we exhibit except the prime wisdom,
955 I, 7 | came the rumour, then the exhibition of the proof; first the
956 I, 16 | draw the materials of their exhibitions. It was from such a source,
957 II, 9 | father's noble heart s into exile, but plunged into the flames
958 I, 8 | order that, being completely exiled from all sound of the human
959 II, 7 | indeed, on outcasts and exiles, on the poor and weak, on
960 I, 10 | therefore, to whom it is an existing thing, must necessarily
961 II, 7 | is not, of course, to be expected of poets. But when you say
962 II, 7 | even have) Homer himself expelled from his republic, although,
963 II, 10 | she might possibly have experienced this, as it passed through
964 II, 14 | having devised some few experiments, was said to have restored
965 II, 12 | descent of Saturn and his exploits in words to this effect: "
966 I, 20 | are so minded, only first explore it. But if your prescribed
967 I, 16 | sufficient example for public exposure of the sins of this sort
968 II, 12 | demons. She in senarian verse expounds the descent of Saturn and
969 I, 5 | names were appointed for the express purpose of setting their
970 II, 16 | inventor himself no doubt expressed his gratitude to the Author;
971 I, 18 | instances have occurred, exquisite in cruelty, your own Regulus
972 II, 16 | tell me, have not all the extant inventions superseded antiquity,
973 I, 2 | wide scale, you ought to extend your inquiry against our
974 II, 3 | limited to it alone: it is not extended to that with which it is
975 I, 7 | steeped in blood; so many extinctions of candles; so many dissolute
976 I, 16 | now come to the hour for extinguishing the lamps, and for using
977 I, 2 | preside for the purpose of extorting truth, demand falsehood
978 I, 20 | that you may be able to extract the mote from the eyes of
979 I, 18 | Carthaginian woman, who in the last extremity of her country was more
980 II, 12 | that, by this allegorical fable of Saturn, there is a physiological
981 II, 14 | to the sky, with the same facility with which (you have distinguished
982 I, 17 | for on this point sannam facimus, as the saying is. But the
983 II, 14 | between the native and the factitious gods, I will add a few words
984 I, 15 | blood and infanticide have faded from your memory, you shall
985 I, 1 | comparison as this fails in fairness of application; for all
986 II, 12 | ancient annals. No more faithful records of him are to be
987 app, frag| father by dint of arms." The Falcidian and Sempronian law would
988 I, 11 | truth, is most loquacious in falsehood--forgetting his later statement,
989 II, 1 | would have it supposed, or falsely, as you are unwilling to
990 I, 7 | Well, now, is not this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius
991 II, 12 | truth is, there are so many families, so many nations, which
992 I, 9 | domestic! what pestilences, famines, conflagrations, yawnings,
993 II, 9 | nourished her father who was famishing in prison? What other glorious
994 II, 11 | the rightly born. The god Farinus was so called from (his
995 II, conc| be subdued by the Roman fasces, forgetting that cave of
996 I, 4 | inquiry into his sect, you fasten merely on the name, just
997 I, 16 | willed it for the purpose of fastening a stain upon that age, a
998 I, 13 | ceremonies of the lamps, and the fasts of unleavened bread, and
999 II, 8 | to the king: those seven fat-fleshed and well-favoured kine signified
1000 II, conc| des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque
1001 II, 12 | their own, and that the (fatal) scythe was used, and that (
1002 II, 9 | spear"), because then their fathers had to use the spear on
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