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1003 I, 1 | ashamed to cast off your faults, or sorry to free yourselves
1004 I, 3 | anointing. Even when by a faulty pronunciation you call us "
1005 II, 5 | object of reverence as being favourable, or of fear because terrible--
1006 I, 17 | that we acknowledge the fealty of Romans to the emperors.
1007 app, frag| while (Saturnus his father) fears lest he be driven by him
1008 I, 18 | beneath the scourge, the same feat has been very recently performed
1009 I, 10 | and hoofs, or the plucked feathers and hair, and whatever at
1010 II, 10 | X. A DISGRACEFUL FEATURE OF THE ROMAN MYTHOLOGY.
1011 I, 16 | eyes help to recall his features, some peculiar marks on
1012 I, 10 | But, of the two kindred feelings of contempt and derision,
1013 I, 14 | having a hoof on one of his feet. And the crowd believed
1014 II, 12 | foulest matters with the feigned appearance of reasonable
1015 II, 13 | Men like Varro and his fellow-dreamers admit into the ranks of
1016 II, 8 | aright the dreams of some (fellow-prisoners). Meanwhile the king, too,
1017 I, 20 | rather your right hands in fellowship, unite your salutations,
1018 I, 13 | we make Sunday a day of festivity. What then? Do you do less
1019 II, 12 | simply no room for such fiction, where there is reality.
1020 II, 11 | offering of the dower; but fie on you! you have your Mutunus
1021 II, 9 | seen in the fight on the field of Laurentum? Following
1022 I, 7 | persecution). Two hundred and fifty years, then, have not yet
1023 II, 16 | alike created. The green fig of Africa nobody at Rome
1024 I, 7 | it is mere report which fights against the Christians.
1025 II, 4 | His fall, therefore, is a figurative picture of the philosophers;
1026 II, 8 | beings, they combined both figures under one form Anubis, in
1027 II, 13 | with a bribe; sometimes (figuring him) in the very likenesses
1028 app, frag| enemy Lord, and preach the filcher of blessings as being their
1029 I, 5 | to be flecked with some filmy cloud. A slight spot on
1030 II, 11 | appointed for cleaning up the filth of children. Then, to preside
1031 app, frag| of misdeed and of every filthiness are borrowed from their
1032 I, 19 | of the twofold award of a final judgment.~
1033 II, 7 | one of the indispensable (fine) arts; nay, you carry out
1034 II, conc| destroyed, and that, too, by the fires of the sons of AEneas? Although
1035 II, 12 | breasts of Terra to become firm, they contract marriage
1036 I, 7 | destroyed, yet this of ours has firmly remained--righteous, it
1037 app, frag| which we will treat of first--nativity, lurking, ignorance,
1038 I, 20 | female in one, it is more fitted to men and women (for offices
1039 I, 10 | highest bidder, when you every five years bring them to the
1040 II, conc| Here goddess-like, to fix one day~ The seat of universal
1041 I, 16 | such a source, too, that so flagrant a tragedy recently burst
1042 II, 5 | your acknowledgments on the flannel wraps, or the medicines,
1043 I, 10 | them on the one hand, you flatter them on the other; if you
1044 I, 4 | persons, that they even flaunt their licentious words against
1045 I, 5 | attested by the slender flaw. But although you prove
1046 I, 14 | had only lost his skin, flayed of course by wild beasts,
1047 app, frag| sucks a she-goat's dugs; flays her; clothes himself in
1048 I, 5 | a serenity as not to be flecked with some filmy cloud. A
1049 II, 9 | Following his bent, perhaps he fled a second time as a fugitive
1050 I, 10 | out now all your venom; fling against this name of ours
1051 I, 17 | BY THE GENIUS OF CAESAR. FLIPPANCY AND IRREVERENCE RETORTED
1052 I, 16 | the licentiousness which floats about amongst men's passions
1053 II, 5 | and pestilential winds, floods also, and openings of the
1054 I, 8 | danger, and the putrid gore flowing back to the chest, and deprived
1055 II, 11 | concubital generation; and Fluviona, to preserve the (growth
1056 app, frag| in his old age, whence to fly heavenward? Why, even this
1057 I, 12 | a system of branches and foliage, and is a reproduction of
1058 app, frag| been recorded. Of other folks' wives, or else of violated
1059 I, 10 | more shameful invention of follies and falsehoods about their
1060 I, 18 | her husband Asdrubal, only followed the example, set long before
1061 II, 9 | worth so much pains. Their fond father Aeneas, in whom they
1062 I, 10 | begin with that enthusiastic fondness which you show for him from
1063 I, 15 | we are still on the same footing (if I may so far admit our
1064 I, 10 | clamour of the multitude, and forbade the altars to be built.
1065 II, 15 | silently by the deities called Forculus from doors, and Cardea from
1066 I, 19 | however, is with you a foregone conclusion, based on our
1067 II, 8 | its kings, despised among foreigners, with even the appetite
1068 II, 9 | encountered by us; nay, another forest must be felled by our axe,
1069 II, conc| was he afraid boldly to foretell to him the truth that he
1070 I, 12 | plastic hands engaged in its formation. Well, then, this modeller,
1071 | formerly
1072 I, 16 | of adultery, all cases of fornication, all the licentiousness
1073 I, 1 | How many there are which forsake virtuous living! How many
1074 I, 5 | those who have unwillingly forsaken our discipline than wilful
1075 I, 11 | be) guilty not merely of forsaking the religion of the community,
1076 II, 10 | and she was even far more fortunate than Ceres, who contributed
1077 II, 12 | what, gods shall I bring forward? Shall it be the greater
1078 I, 10 | which describes all the foul conduct of the gods! Their
1079 II, 12 | it be not to colour the foulest matters with the feigned
1080 I, 9 | and even those which they founded? For else they would not
1081 II, 12 | is shown by the original founders of the race--mortal beings (
1082 II, 2 | Egyptians believe that there are four gods--the Sun and the Moon,
1083 I, 11 | first suggested. In the fourth book of his histories, where
1084 II, conc| sinant, jam tunc tenditque fovetque."~ Here were her arms, her
1085 app, frag| A FRAGMENT CONCERNING THE EXECRABLE
1086 II, 6 | which we have already seen frail men making in the latter
1087 I, 12 | joy they bring you. The frames on which you hang up your
1088 I, 2 | compelling the man who frankly acknowledges the charge
1089 I, 5 | or a wart arise on it, or freckles disfigure it. Not even the
1090 I, 10 | not forswear himself so freely and palpably before the
1091 I, 10 | revenues. For this purpose you frequent the temple of Serapis or
1092 II, 6 | asserted. The sun, too, is frequently put to the trial of an eclipse.
1093 I, 4 | teaches us not to worship the frivolous works of the human hand;
1094 II, 5 | light of day, ripens the fruit with its warmth, and measures
1095 II, 16 | certain men have discovered fruits and sundry necessaries of
1096 II, 9 | fled a second time as a fugitive from the battle. In like
1097 II, conc| illius arma,~ Hic currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus
1098 II, 12 | Heaven, and when her year was fulfilled brought forth Saturn in
1099 II, 7 | on this class, of which a fuller view will be taken in the
1100 II, 5 | which are but the slaves and functionaries. Now do we not, in thus
1101 II, 14 | deeming himself worthy of a funeral pile in the anguish of his
1102 I, 16 | as that which the prefect Fuscianus had judicially to decide.
1103 II, 8 | to be taken against the future famine from the previous
1104 app, frag| sempiternal divinity, prescient of futurity, immeasurable, they have
1105 I, 10 | popular violence. The Consul Gabinius, however, on the first day
1106 II, 14 | his avarice and love of gain, influenced by which he
1107 II, 14 | number of victories was gained by the illustrious Pompey,
1108 I, 10 | songs which celebrate the gallantries of Jove. You are, of course,
1109 I, 10 | assail them. One may also gather the same conclusion from
1110 II, 9 | with germs of superstitions gathered from all quarters. Well,
1111 II, 1 | believe? One that has been gauged by vague suspicion? One
1112 I, 17 | their corpses; still do the Gauls fail to wash away (their
1113 II, 12 | Coelus as of the masculine gender. And for the matter of that,
1114 II, 5 | is that the world is made generally habitable,--a result which
1115 II, 9 | the childhood of the de generate worship with germs of superstitions
1116 II, conc| currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant,
1117 II, 13 | maintained its joyous and gentle sway; under him--~"Nulli
1118 I, 16 | mask in great alarm, said, "Gentlemen, have I displeased you?" "
1119 I, 7 | case you could not be a genuine Christian. Now, do let me
1120 I, 17 | and another Medicus and Germanicus. On this head the Roman
1121 II, 9 | de generate worship with germs of superstitions gathered
1122 I, 2 | others on the rack and the gibbet, to get them to deny what
1123 II, 14 | himself for raising the gist of a reply (to the question)
1124 app, frag| blessings as being their very giver, and to him they give thanks.
1125 I, 11 | origin of that nation, and gives his own views respecting
1126 II, 7 | authors, without any fear of giving offence to those whose calumniators
1127 I, 1 | at (for his religion), he glories in it; if dragged to trial,
1128 II, 14 | of baseness add for his glorification likewise his attacks of
1129 I, 2 | resentments might be the better glutted with an accumulation of
1130 I, 14 | and a ram, and a goat, goat-shaped or serpent-shaped, and winged
1131 II, conc| her chariot here,~ Here goddess-like, to fix one day~ The seat
1132 II, 11 | of the candle; and other goddesses there are "who get their
1133 I, 4 | abstain from other men's goods; the chastity, which we
1134 I, 8 | without danger, and the putrid gore flowing back to the chest,
1135 II, 13 | have been in the habit of gossiping without restraint of his
1136 II, 5 | controller of the months by its governance; the stars also, certain
1137 app, frag| no one thundered, no one governed all this mass of world.
1138 II, 5 | their recurrence, that a governing power presides over them,
1139 II, 4 | direct) to their Creator and Governor.~
1140 II, 1 | tradition, the laws of our governors, and the reasonings of the
1141 II, 2 | that in the world fire governs all things, just as the
1142 II, 11 | guide on assuming the manly gown, and "bearded Fortune" when
1143 II, 7 | of His own inexhaustible grace and mercy? And shall men
1144 I, 12 | covering of clay, and so gradually completes the limbs, and
1145 I, 4 | after Erasistratus, and grammarians after Aristarchus. If, therefore,
1146 I, 7 | incalculable must be esteemed the grandeur (of that religion) which
1147 II, 13 | and had once mutilated his grandfather. And yet, behold, he himself
1148 II, 13 | one to attain to. Let us grant that anciently men may have
1149 I, 17 | the Roman name. But I will grapple with the charge of sacrilegious
1150 II, 10 | Was even Ganymede more grateful and dear than he to (the
1151 II, 13 | his lust with incestuous gratification, why should he hesitate
1152 I, 14 | character of its author, I shall gratify myself by using it simply
1153 I, 10 | You will not permit their gratuitous worship. The auctioneers
1154 II, 14 | grandson of Jupiter, and great-grandson of Saturn (or rather of
1155 II, conc| religious before they achieved greatness, (nor great) because they
1156 II, 16 | were alike created. The green fig of Africa nobody at
1157 I, 16 | came upon their stage, they greeted him with laughter and derisive
1158 I, 11 | This, perhaps, is your grievance against us, that, when surrounded
1159 I, 5 | body, that a mole should grow, or a wart arise on it,
1160 I, 7 | must bring an infant, as a guarantee for our rites, to be sacrificed,
1161 II, conc| believed to be gods, to be the guardians of your religion, there
1162 II, 5 | time, and for directing the guidance thereof--can it fail to
1163 I, 11 | escaped by following for guides some wild asses, which they
1164 II, 12 | living on earth in human guise. Anything whatever may obviously
1165 I, 16 | shouted out one to the other, H<greek>lsune</greek> <greek>
1166 II, 5 | world is made generally habitable,--a result which is harmoniously
1167 II, 12 | s eyes and minds were so habitually rude, that they were excited
1168 II, 5 | and anger--as thunder, and hail, and drought, and pestilential
1169 I, 10 | the plucked feathers and hair, and whatever at home you
1170 II, 14 | He was the son of Apollo, half human, although the grandson
1171 I, 7 | Yet who ever came upon a half-consumed corpse (amongst us)? Who
1172 I, 10 | and if their learning ever halts, it is only to make up for
1173 II, 2 | it to be, since they have handed down such views about the
1174 II, 11 | you, whom you heard and handled, and whose portraits have
1175 I, 15 | not seem to be everywhere handling the selfsame topics. Meanwhile,
1176 I, 12 | The frames on which you hang up your trophies must be
1177 I, 16 | remedy for their despair by hanging themselves; to their son,
1178 II, 4 | wisdom is there in this hankering after conjectural speculations?
1179 II, 9 | deification? If he worked hard to enrich the fields stercoribus, (
1180 II, 1 | tenderness of conscience is hardened into the callousness of
1181 II, 5 | habitable,--a result which is harmoniously secured by the distribution
1182 II, 9 | Carthage, who, when her husband Hasdrubal supplicated the enemy with
1183 I, 6 | betake yourselves in hot haste to that poor altar of refuge,
1184 II, 10 | CHARACTERS AS LARENTINA.~I hasten to even more abominable
1185 I, 1 | they had hated, and take to hating what they had once been.
1186 II, 15 | Clivicola, from her sloping (haunts); I pass silently by the
1187 I, 10 | you and your domestics, by hawking and pawning them for your
1188 II, 8 | embellish the border of the head-dress. For the same reason, also,
1189 I, 5 | must happen even in the healthiest and purest body, that a
1190 I, 10 | or else of the sound and healthy animals only the portions
1191 I, 7 | the credibility of what he hears. But then you say that (
1192 I, 7 | of the proof; first the hearsay, then the inspection; and
1193 II, 14 | the same indifference, nay heartlessness, with which he became the
1194 II, 5 | by intensity of cold or heat. On this account, men have
1195 I, 10 | with his winged cap and heated wand, tests with his cautery
1196 I, 12 | WORSHIPPING A CROSS. THE HEATHENS THEMSELVES MADE MUCH OF
1197 II, 12 | the custom to call him a heaven-born man,--just as we also commonly
1198 app, frag| his old age, whence to fly heavenward? Why, even this may possibly
1199 I, 10 | which affects it. All the heavier, then, is the accusation
1200 II, 10 | the husband makes her his heir. By and by, just before
1201 I, 10 | approbation! But even that very heir-loom of your forefathers, which
1202 II, 10 | ought to have appointed her heirs also. The gods, of the Romans
1203 I, 18 | us also. Be content from henceforth to repeal the praises of
1204 I, 11 | their tutelar Epona; and all herds, and cattle, and beasts
1205 | hereby
1206 I, 18 | death produced stories of heroism amongst your ancestors,
1207 II, 13 | gratification, why should he hesitate to indulge himself lavishly
1208 app, frag| that from his lurking the Hesperian tongue is to this day called
1209 II, 4 | members cannot possibly be heterogeneous from the body? But what
1210 I, 7 | ordered it that nothing lies hid, not even that which fame
1211 app, frag| stealthily carried off, and is in hiding; and afterwards the son-god
1212 I, 9 | Christians when the islands Hiera, Anaphe, and Delos, and
1213 I, 16 | natural night, or before high Heaven; and in proportion
1214 II, 14 | own Theseus to worship, so highly deserving a god's distinction!
1215 II, 12 | the Salii call him. The hill on which he settled had
1216 II, 15 | Septimontius of the seven hills. Men sacrifice to the same
1217 I, 4 | be understood, instead of hindering inquiry into the founder'
1218 II, 15 | from doors, and Cardea from hinges, and Limentinus the god
1219 I, 14 | he enters the lists for hire day after day with a sound
1220 II, 10 | of Larentina. She was a hired prostitute, whether as the
1221 II, 10 | supper for the hero, and hires Larentina to play the whore.
1222 II, conc| arma,~ Hic currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus ease,~
1223 I, 7 | peeped through crevices and holes, and stealthily got information
1224 I, 10 | solisternia and the lectisternia, holidays and games. Rightly enough,
1225 I, 17 | point, when you do not swear honestly even by your gods. Well,
1226 II, 4 | through the former, like honey through the comb. God, therefore,
1227 I, 10 | derision, contempt is the more honourable, having a certain glory
1228 I, 10 | indeed, do you do by way of honouring your gods, which you do
1229 I, 14 | toga with a book, having a hoof on one of his feet. And
1230 I, 10 | food, such as the heads and hoofs, or the plucked feathers
1231 I, 14 | a lion's head, with the horns of a cow, and a ram, and
1232 I, 2 | hundred babies! For since such horrid and monstrous crimes are
1233 I, 7 | possible for it to endure what horrified the mind and affrighted
1234 app, frag| gold, to violate Danae; a horse, to beget Pirithous; a goat,
1235 II, 1 | and prostrates the entire host of her assailants. It is
1236 I, 10 | beauties of your Lentuli and Hostii; now, is it the players
1237 I, 7 | those who are profane and hostile; while to both classes alike
1238 I, 7 | course punished what produced hostility to himself. Now, although
1239 I, 6 | you betake yourselves in hot haste to that poor altar
1240 I, 16 | PARENTS.~I am now come to the hour for extinguishing the lamps,
1241 II, 15 | place, or live in rented houses. I say nothing about Ascensus,
1242 I, 10 | not practised against your humbler deities; as it is, the case
1243 I, 10 | the Divine Being, and so humiliating to His majesty? They all,
1244 I, 15 | expose them to the cold and hunger, and to wild beasts, or
1245 I, 18 | one of your own (circus-) hunters as he traversed the appointed
1246 I, 10 | out of our own body, and hurling them back on yourselves.
1247 II, 12 | still quite young, was in no hurry to marry another. Indeed,
1248 II, 9 | refused to accompany him, but hurrying her children along with
1249 II, 5 | fact, both of help and of hurt. But in the practical conduct
1250 I, 4 | and) preferred to be the husbands of she-wolves than of Christian
1251 II, 4 | Some affirm that the gods (i.e. <greek>qeoi</greek>) were
1252 II, 7 | mutilated in honour of the Idaean goddess Cybele, unless it
1253 II, 4 | of the word as from the idea of godhead, which is set
1254 II, conc| civilians and of priests; identical the plunder of profane things
1255 I, 16 | gave sure proofs of his identity. Accordingly, as God willed
1256 I, 12 | wooden materials of your idolatrous images. Examples are not
1257 II, 9 | inflicting a wound no less ignoble! But this Aeneas turns out
1258 II, 5 | like manner, when one is in ill-health, you do not bestow your
1259 I, 3 | barbarous sound, or smacks of ill-luck, or is immodest, or is indecorous
1260 I, 7 | witnessing them, unless illicit ones are less exclusive?
1261 II, conc| am well aware that~ "Hic illius arma,~ Hic currus fuit,
1262 I, 8 | CALUMNY AGAINST THE CHRISTIANS ILLUSTRATED IN THE DISCOVERY OF PSAMMETICHUS.
1263 I, 20 | must now discontinue this imaginary confession. Our conscience
1264 II, 12 | some persons with a refined imagination are of opinion that, by
1265 I, 10 | level of human condition, imbuing the gods with the falls
1266 I, 8 | probable, the infants readily imitated, and the more so because
1267 II, 4 | DEITY. GOD WITHOUT SHAPE AND IMMATERIAL. ANECDOTE OF THALES.~Some
1268 app, frag| prescient of futurity, immeasurable, they have dissipated (into
1269 I, 3 | smacks of ill-luck, or is immodest, or is indecorous for the
1270 I, 7 | many crosses have obtained immortality; so many infants have been
1271 II, 4 | greek>qeoi</greek> and immoveable with equal readiness, there
1272 I, 7 | who was so overcome with impatient excitement as to turn informer,
1273 I, 10 | your strongest grounds for impeaching us as violators of the law,
1274 II, 3 | without any apparent mover or impeller from without, like the apparent
1275 I, 12 | religion only a mutilated imperfect piece of wood, while others
1276 II, 2 | The God whom they had so imperfectly admitted, they could neither
1277 II, conc| THE ROMANS OWE NOT THEIR IMPERIAL POWER TO THEIR GODS. THE
1278 I, 20 | judged by those who are implicated in it. Remove the mote,
1279 I, 5 | which decides the condition implied in the name. And yet persons
1280 I, 12 | the form, too, is of no importance, if so be it be the actual
1281 II, 16 | Italy by Cn. Pompey, who imported it from Pontus. I might
1282 II, 8 | Pharaoh king of the country. Importuned by the unchaste queen, when
1283 I, 16 | age is regarded in (the importunities of) lust. All acts of adultery,
1284 II, 13 | their sway;"~and without the importunity of any one the earth would
1285 II, 12 | more restriction must we impose on it. As, therefore, in
1286 I, 7 | obligation of silence is imposed. How much more would this
1287 II, 5 | residence has been rendered impracticable by intensity of cold or
1288 I, 12 | shape which he meant to impress upon the clay; then from
1289 I, 10 | charges I shall show to be imprinted on yourselves, that you
1290 II, 11 | O spare yourselves, ye impudent gods! No one is present
1291 I, 7 | our darkness, any marks of impurity, I will not say of incest, (
1292 I, 9 | astonished at your vain imputations? Under the same natural
1293 II, 5 | again shipwrecked sailors impute their calamity not to the
1294 I, 5 | partial shortcoming) is imputed as a general stain. You
1295 I, 16 | children, might encounter in inadvertent incest, for no restraint
1296 II, 11 | know not what incorporeal, inanimate shadows, and the mere names
1297 I, 8 | dull sound. And a shrill inarticulate noise from opening the mouth
1298 I, 7 | be proved to be true, how incalculable must be esteemed the grandeur (
1299 II, 4 | not an object of sense, is incapable of being compared with those
1300 II, conc| thereof) plain, and the incense from them scant, and the
1301 II, 13 | stained with the sin of incest--Ops and Saturn. Your Jupiter
1302 I, 2 | celebrated, and how many incests we may have committed under
1303 I, 7 | savage men. For the more inclined you are to maliciousness,
1304 II, 2 | The first, he supposes, includes those gods which are most
1305 II, 12 | SATURN OR TIME WAS HUMAN. INCONSISTENCIES OF OPINION ABOUT HIM.~Now,
1306 II, 2 | in such uncertainty and inconsistency, what "fear" could it possibly
1307 I, 3 | name we bear, which is not inconvenient for the tongue, nor harsh
1308 II, conc| when that empire was rather increased after the gods had been
1309 I, 1 | indeed, you groan over the increasing number of the Christians.
1310 I, 2 | lest they should seem to be incredible, and the public detestation
1311 I, 3 | ill-luck, or is immodest, or is indecorous for the speaker, or unpleasant
1312 II, 11 | BEFORE BIRTH, TO DEATH. MUCH INDELICACY IN THIS SYSTEM.~And you
1313 I, 8 | themselves alone, might indicate what that first nation was
1314 II, 4 | attribute of course or motion indicated. When, therefore, you call
1315 II, 5 | the stars also, certain indications as they are of those seasons
1316 I, 2 | numerous crimes, you frame your indictments in briefer and lighter terms.
1317 II, 14 | his life, with the same indifference, nay heartlessness, with
1318 II, 15 | CONSTELLATIONS AND THE GENII VERY INDIFFERENT GODS. THEROMAN MONOPOLY
1319 I, 16 | home or abroad, so that no indiscriminate diffusion of seed, or licentious
1320 II, 12 | prevent our going wrong in individual instances. The particular
1321 I, 2 | you aply the torture to induce them to deny. What great
1322 II, 12 | custom amongst men, which induces them to say of any who are
1323 I, 10 | be! I say nothing of your indulgence of this feeling during your
1324 I, 4 | name. But this would be indulging in a rash assumption. The
1325 I, 10 | institutions, which were too inefficient to be lasting, all the while
1326 II, 2 | regarded Him as apathetic and inert, and (so to say) a non-entity.
1327 II, 7 | the attribute of His own inexhaustible grace and mercy? And shall
1328 I, 16 | for us, we of course have infected the very sun, polluted the
1329 II, 8 | VARRO'S GENTILE CLASS. THEIR INFERIORITY. A GOOD DEAL OF THIS PERVERSE
1330 II, 14 | if Hercules visited the infernal regions, who does not know
1331 I, 20 | reformation, will you refuse to inflict punishment on them--nay,
1332 II, 11 | and the goddess Mens, to influence the mind to either good
1333 II, 14 | avarice and love of gain, influenced by which he would bring
1334 II, 5 | it from their beneficent influences only that a faith in their
1335 I, 10 | Caesar carries with it more influential scruples, which very circumstance
1336 I, 10 | all Italy; whilst Varro informs us that Serapis also, and
1337 II, 1 | therefore, the philosophers have ingeniously composed their physical (
1338 II, 12 | that conceit of your mental ingenuity, if it be not to colour
1339 I, 16 | by the prefect, not as an inheritance, but as the wages of infamy
1340 I, 19 | more ridiculous is your inherited conceit, that the human
1341 I, 6 | CHRISTIANS NOT COMPROMISED BY THE INIQUITOUS LAWS WHICH WERE MADE AGAINST
1342 I, 6 | modifying their severity and iniquity by fresh deliberations and
1343 I, 15 | our religious service, or initiate our mysteries, with slaying
1344 I, 7 | no doubt, when any desire initiation in the mysteries, their
1345 I, 9 | extreme injustice, since they injure even their worshippers on
1346 II, 4 | the property of divinity, innate in Himself, must have been
1347 II, 15 | therefore, is crowded with innumerable gods of its own, both these
1348 II, 2 | For although, in their inquisitive disposition to search into
1349 I, 10 | them also for the dead; you inscribe the same superscription
1350 II, 9 | there was an altar with this inscription: "To THE UNKNOWN GODS."
1351 I, 20 | you will plainly get some insight into (your own) error, and
1352 I, 9 | question of their weakness and insignificance; for they would not be angry
1353 I, 16 | mhtera</greek>. But how insignificant, (say you,) is the stain
1354 I, 10 | not enough that you had insolently made a profit of your gods,
1355 I, 20 | knowledge is learnt which both inspires counsel and directs the
1356 II, 11 | was so called from (his inspiring) the first utterance; while
1357 I, 7 | could not fail to bring down instant punishment from the prompt
1358 I, 2 | them but on our denial, you instantly believe us. If you feel
1359 I, 9 | opposed us under the One instigator of error. Indeed, I feel
1360 II, 1 | gods of yours to have been instituted by men, all belief in the
1361 I, 7 | Now, although every other institution which existed under Nero
1362 II, 12 | beings (not, indeed, to instruct you in the fact, for your
1363 II, 13 | kings, and princes, and instructors, was not of the self-same
1364 II, 5 | itself and that by whose instrumentality it comes to pass (as there
1365 I, 6 | abhorrence, along with (their instruments of torture)--the swords,
1366 I, 10 | impiety, nay, the greatest insult, to place the honour of
1367 II, 6 | but exists in unimpaired integrity, and ought not to be diminished,
1368 II, 8 | but superior to them in intellect, he was from envy sold into
1369 II, 4 | which they ought rather (intelligently to direct) to their Creator
1370 I, 3 | cause: some mysterious force intensified by your ignorance assails
1371 II, 5 | rendered impracticable by intensity of cold or heat. On this
1372 I, 4 | battle with their own best interests, which they have it in their
1373 II, 5 | over which, as well as the intermediate space within which, all
1374 II, 2 | opinions; yet because they have interpolated these deductions they prove
1375 II, 8 | his divine inspiration, by interpreting aright the dreams of some (
1376 II, 5 | distances, and at equal intervals--appointed in the way of
1377 I, 7 | the wish to lie, as not to interweave the false with the true,
1378 II, 13 | up of the most disgusting intrigues and the worst of scandals?
1379 II, 16 | have thought the earliest introducers of apples amongst the Romans
1380 I, 10 | Diogenes of the Roman cut, introduces to our view some three hundred
1381 I, 11 | of the community, but of introducing a monstrous superstition;
1382 II, 11 | assisting the birth of the introverted child; while the other,
1383 app, frag| penalties, limb by limb. "He invaded others' wedlock." The Julian
1384 I, 7 | discovered, by a sudden light invading our darkness, any marks
1385 I, 7 | state of a case), and to invent (a false account). Our domestic
1386 II, 16 | have not all the extant inventions superseded antiquity, whilst
1387 II, 16 | who made the discover, the inventor himself no doubt expressed
1388 II, 2 | philosophers may seem to have investigated the sacred Scriptures themselves
1389 II, 10 | Hercules," so to speak. He invites her home. She complies,
1390 I, 18 | suffer by them, it were irksome to enumerate. (If we take
1391 II, 12 | not yet an artificer in iron. The widowed Tetra, however,
1392 I, 10 | always, in fact, the most irreverent towards your gods; and if
1393 I, 16 | happens among men in solitary isolation. But, as it seems to me,
1394 II, 12 | himself all things which have issued from him. They call in also
1395 app, frag| doing in Italy? For the Italian land is "not in a corner."
1396 app, frag| him. But that he whom the Italians call Saturnus did lurk there,
1397 II, 3 | beginning nor an end of itself--how is it that some assign
1398 II, conc| ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque fovetque."~
1399 II, 15 | moreover, the archer-goddess Jana), and Septimontius of the
1400 II, 12 | kind welcome from Janus, or Janes, as the Salii call him.
1401 I, 10 | first day of the ensuing January, although he gave a tardy
1402 II, 12 | reigned Saturn, and Titan, and Japetus, the bravest of the sons
1403 I, 10 | fall by your own swords and javelins. Now, first, when you direct
1404 I, 7 | others? Have they more ample jaws? Are they of different nerve
1405 I, 4 | to others, disclaimed all jealousy, (and) preferred to be the
1406 I, 11 | conquering the Jews and capturing Jerusalem, entered the temple, but
1407 II, 12 | unmarried, or such as are joined in wedlock? The clever,
1408 I, 10 | mirth in their tricks and jokes? Then, again, with what
1409 I, 10 | view some three hundred Joves, or, as they ought to be
1410 II, 13 | want, peace maintained its joyous and gentle sway; under him--~"
1411 I, 20 | free from guilt, we are judged by those who are implicated
1412 I, 16 | the prefect Fuscianus had judicially to decide. A boy of noble
1413 app, frag| invaded others' wedlock." The Julian law would visit its adulterous
1414 I, 10 | they ought to be called, Jupiters, (and all) without heads.
1415 I, 19 | reject Aristides, who was a juster judge than either. By the
1416 I, 7 | attributed to you, as to have justified the lawmakers perhaps by
1417 II, 11 | suggesting to them counsel. Juventa is their guide on assuming
1418 II, 12 | they say that he is called K<greek>ronos</greek> in Greek,
1419 I, 7 | Well, then, it is more in keeping with the character of strangers
1420 I, 10 | arrow from a human hand; he keeps Mars a prisoner in chains
1421 app, frag| own nurse's hide, after killing her, to be sure, with his
1422 II, 13 | towards their own kith and kin, unchaste to strangers,
1423 I, 10 | Jupiter. But, of the two kindred feelings of contempt and
1424 II, 8 | fat-fleshed and well-favoured kine signified as many years
1425 app, frag| lawlessly with despotic and kingly sway. The father, whom they
1426 II, 15 | in their brothels, their kitchens, and even in their prison.
1427 II, 13 | incestuous towards their own kith and kin, unchaste to strangers,
1428 I, 10 | submit them to public sale, knock them down to the highest
1429 I, 20 | we have to suffer), that, knowing truth, we are condemned
1430 II, 12 | the same thing as <greek>kronos</greek>. His Latin name
1431 I, 14 | caricature of us with this label: Onocoetes. This (figure)
1432 II, 12 | because they develope with labour (Opus). Now I wish that
1433 II, 13 | engaged in their mission, have laboured to turn men aside from the
1434 II, 4 | with compasses, from his labouring to have it believed to be
1435 II, 10 | been added to his twelve labours! The temple-warden buys
1436 II, 3 | of a god, and that what lacks divinity is born of what
1437 II, 14 | escape to heaven by the same ladder. And yet the Athenians will
1438 II, 7 | dainty dish" to the good ladies of Lanuvium, if it was not
1439 app, frag| in these days, would have lain under the impeachment of
1440 I, 17 | classes, and the scandalous lampoons of which the statues are
1441 I, 10 | levy of the quaestor. Now lands become cheaper when burdened
1442 II, 9 | the foreign gods at the lane of Carna, of the public
1443 II, 7 | dish" to the good ladies of Lanuvium, if it was not for the primeval
1444 I, 10 | your household gods, the Lares and the Penates, which you
1445 II, 14 | sent him on account of his lascivious attachment (to another).
1446 II, 5 | the tillage of our fields; lastly, the very heaven also under
1447 I, 18 | since one of yourselves very lately has offered for a wager
1448 I, 12 | and the shoulders project laterally, if you simply place a man
1449 I, 8 | makes you say we are the latest race, and then specifically
1450 app, frag| Semele, he begets Liber; of Latona, Apollo and Diana; of Maia,
1451 I, 10 | personated Hercules. We have laughed at the sport of your mid-day
1452 I, 16 | stage, they greeted him with laughter and derisive cheers. The
1453 II, 9 | the fight on the field of Laurentum? Following his bent, perhaps
1454 II, 13 | hesitate to indulge himself lavishly in the lighter excesses
1455 app, frag| boys; oppressed peoples lawlessly with despotic and kingly
1456 I, 7 | as to have justified the lawmakers perhaps by its imputation?
1457 app, frag| under the impeachment of all laws--laws which are far more
1458 II, 3 | therefore, they are animated, laying aside the principle of a
1459 I, 12 | the help of compasses and leaden moulds, he has got all ready
1460 II, 8 | in like manner, the seven lean-fleshed animals predicted the scarcity
1461 I, 20 | whence that full knowledge is learnt which both inspires counsel
1462 I, 10 | the solisternia and the lectisternia, holidays and games. Rightly
1463 II, 14 | the rich at their pleasant leisure, or by philosophers in their
1464 II, 12 | safety for a time; but at length the son, whom he had not
1465 I, 7 | SLANDERS OF THE CHRISTIANS LENGTHILY DESCRIBED.~Whence comes
1466 II, 8 | own city walls. To what lengths this licence of adopting
1467 I, 10 | sacrilegious beauties of your Lentuli and Hostii; now, is it the
1468 II, 12 | the greater ones, or the lesser? The old ones, or the novel?
1469 II, 12 | of them might learn the lesson of his father's scythe.
1470 I, 4 | alone are, contrary to the lessons of nature, branded as very
1471 II, 11 | them (when fallen) there is Levana, and along with her Rumina.
1472 I, 10 | Divine Being on the low level of human condition, imbuing
1473 I, 10 | crier, (and) the self-same levy of the quaestor. Now lands
1474 I, 16 | the human state as to be liable neither to ignorance, nor
1475 II, 7 | The poets, no doubt, are liars. Yet it is not because of
1476 app, frag| transformation? Of Semele, he begets Liber; of Latona, Apollo and Diana;
1477 II, conc| although he destroyed his own liberal votary Croesus by deceiving
1478 I, 16 | say nothing of lust and licentiousness--that nation will be a stranger
1479 I, 15 | forsooth, only a trifle to lick up human blood, when you
1480 I, 7 | so free from the wish to lie, as not to interweave the
1481 II, 1 | things that our contest lies--against the institutions
1482 I, 10 | Christian name derives all its life--I mean the worship of the
1483 I, 10 | whether the bodies were really lifeless, or only feigning death.
1484 II, 11 | to it refreshing rest. To lift them (when fallen) there
1485 I, 10 | the death of his son by a lightning-flash amid your rude rejoicing.
1486 I, 16 | to dispense with earthly lights, and to play tricks also
1487 II, 13 | figuring him) in the very likenesses of the parts which were
1488 I, 12 | gradually completes the limbs, and forms the body, and
1489 II, 15 | Cardea from hinges, and Limentinus the god of thresholds, and
1490 II, 3 | immortal, this attribute is limited to it alone: it is not extended
1491 I, 5 | of setting their proper limits between mere designation
1492 I, 10 | you sketch out the same lineaments for their statues--as best
1493 II, 12 | the primeval one. I will linger some time longer over the
1494 I, 14 | with a dog's head, and a lion's head, with the horns of
1495 I, 6 | swords, the crosses, and the lions. An unjust law secures no
1496 I, 3 | noted name), you in fact lisp out the sense of pleasantness
1497 I, 20 | adduced, by getting you to listen to the other side of the
1498 I, 7 | domestic servants (perhaps) listened, and peeped through crevices
1499 II, 12 | antiquity. Now earlier than all liters ture was the Sibyl; that
1500 I, 13 | unleavened bread, and the "littoral prayers," all which institutions
1501 I, 10 | through your life and customs, lo, what do I discover but
1502 I, 2 | suppose you do not care to load with accusations men whom
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