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1503 I, 7 | bite in our blood-steeped loaf? Who has discovered, by
1504 I, 4 | home, offered the entire loan of their wives to others,
1505 I, 7 | have been slain; so many loaves steeped in blood; so many
1506 II, 11 | while others believed in Locutius from his gift of speech.
1507 I, 10 | consciousness, or a natural loftiness of mind. Derision, however,
1508 I, 9 | not be angry with you for loitering over our punishment, if
1509 I, 11 | to say the truth, is most loquacious in falsehood--forgetting
1510 II, conc| the Romans have become the lords and masters of the whole
1511 II, 6 | its full form; its greater losses you are already accustomed
1512 II, 10 | to (the supreme god) who loved him? According to you, heaven
1513 I, 10 | the Divine Being on the low level of human condition,
1514 II, 7 | the obscurely born and the low-lived; but yet you honour, even
1515 I, 17 | irreverence of your own lower classes, and the scandalous
1516 I, 16 | one to the other, H<greek>lsune</greek> <greek>eis</greek> <
1517 I, 4 | habit of saying of us: "Lucius Titius is a good man, only
1518 II, 10 | Romulus, and therefore called Lupa, because she was a prostitute,
1519 app, frag| Italians call Saturnus did lurk there, is clearly evidenced
1520 I, 16 | reflection, abstain from lusts which could produce results
1521 I, 5 | and utterly steeped in luxury, avarice, and depravity,
1522 II, 3 | carriage, or director of the machine. If, then, they are not
1523 II, 3 | carriages, as several other machines--he volunteers the statement
1524 II, 6 | believe in anywise what magians have asserted. The sun,
1525 I, 10 | derogate from your gods, by magnifying him who has made such sport
1526 II, 6 | position, their power, their magnitude, or their divinity. For
1527 app, frag| Latona, Apollo and Diana; of Maia, Mercury; of Alcmena, Hercules.
1528 II, 13 | showered (gold. into the maiden's chamber, or rather forced
1529 I, 16 | But they agreed in the main, that he was a native of
1530 II, 2 | attests its own weakness mainly by that variety of opinion
1531 II, 7 | purity of conscience and the maintenance thereof! For whenever we
1532 I, 9 | Under the same natural form, malice and folly have always been
1533 I, 7 | more inclined you are to maliciousness, the more ready are you
1534 I, 7 | now, is not this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius
1535 II, 5 | them, to which the entire management of the world is obedient,
1536 II, 5 | but to the musician who manages the said flute or harp by
1537 II, 11 | when they come to full manhood. If I must touch on their
1538 I, 7 | that religion) which is manifestly not overbalanced even by
1539 II, 5 | anything to the advantage of mankind, when you maintain that
1540 II, 11 | their guide on assuming the manly gown, and "bearded Fortune"
1541 I, 13 | with greater regard to good manners, it must be confessed, suppose
1542 II, 9 | fields stercoribus, (with manure,) Augias had more dung than
1543 I, 12 | is to be brought out into marble, or clay, or whatever the
1544 I, 10 | sanction; as in the case of Marcus AEmilius, who had made a
1545 I, 10 | contracts, as if they were markets, with the well-known voice
1546 II, conc| your proceedings were not marred by a religion of idols and
1547 II, 11 | the secret struggles of married life. Those very few persons
1548 II, 12 | young, was in no hurry to marry another. Indeed, there was
1549 II, 12 | this name Coelus as of the masculine gender. And for the matter
1550 II, 4 | things which are inherent in matter--that is, the elements--be
1551 I, 20 | Now it is in fact your own maxim, that no one should determine
1552 II, 4 | godhead, which is set aside if measured by the notion of course
1553 II, 5 | fruit with its warmth, and measures the year with its stated
1554 I, 7 | upset them, and bits of meat to rouse the dogs. Moreover,
1555 II, conc| time, as the Assyrians, the Medes, the Persians, the Egyptians;
1556 II, 14 | the perverted use of his medical art which he put up for
1557 II, 5 | the flannel wraps, or the medicines, or the poultices, but on
1558 I, 17 | becoming Parthicus, and another Medicus and Germanicus. On this
1559 II, 7 | a par with our own human mediocrity, or whether they must be
1560 I, 12 | a god through the clayey medium. The cross then you consecrate,
1561 I, 8 | the loss of so important a member, the very organ of the breath
1562 II, 4 | gods, since the component members cannot possibly be heterogeneous
1563 II, 11 | bride;) and the goddess Mens, to influence the mind to
1564 II, 12 | of that conceit of your mental ingenuity, if it be not
1565 I, 9 | or, again, when the land mentioned by Plato as larger than
1566 II, 8 | Belenus, or those whom Varro mentions--Deluentinus of Casinum,
1567 I, 10 | and contracts. You make merchandise of the ground of your temples,
1568 I, 5 | merciless, when they are so merciful?" You thus bear your testimony
1569 I, 5 | are so self-denying? why merciless, when they are so merciful?"
1570 I, 12 | without form, and by the merest rudiment of a statue of
1571 I, 19 | may be able to laugh more merrily, and deride us with greater
1572 I, 12 | wood or stone, or molten in metal, or produced out of any
1573 II, 12 | that you would explain this metaphorical statement. It was either
1574 I, 16 | greek>thn</greek> <greek>mhtera</greek>. But how insignificant, (
1575 I, 4 | and unable to bear even mice to creep into their bed-room
1576 I, 10 | laughed at the sport of your mid-day game of the gods, when Father
1577 II, 12 | the poets officiating as midwives. Now some persons with a
1578 app, frag| again, whom they believe the mightier god, knows not that the
1579 I, 11 | that the Jews, in their migration in the desert, when suffering
1580 I, 20 | error still, if you are so minded, only first explore it.
1581 I, 20 | unite your salutations, mingle your embraces, sanguinary
1582 II, 3 | contains the elements, ministering to them as its component
1583 I, 19 | man. This you ascribe to Minos and Rhadamanthus, while
1584 II, 1 | against precedents, prodigies, miracles,--all which things have
1585 II, 6 | accustomed to measure in a mirror of water; so that I need
1586 I, 10 | become the objects of your mirth in their tricks and jokes?
1587 app, frag| believe that sanctions of misdeed and of every filthiness
1588 I, 16 | able to recognise our own misdeeds. The Persians, you know
1589 I, 16 | their son, who survives the miserable calamity, their property
1590 I, 16 | ignorance, nor error, nor misfortune, that alone may be adduced
1591 I, 16 | they relate each other's misfortunes: they, on the one hand,
1592 II, 13 | been long engaged in their mission, have laboured to turn men
1593 I, 7 | may not make the awkward mistake of alighting on somebody
1594 I, 5 | we should be unwilling to mix even with them whom your
1595 I, 17 | who call Caesar God both mock him, by calling him what
1596 I, 12 | formation. Well, then, this modeller, before he did anything
1597 II, 6 | Explain as best you may the modes of these celestial casualties,
1598 I, 16 | we make our incest look modest, in that we have devised
1599 II, 5 | in themselves without the modification of the elements. By this
1600 I, 6 | day passes without your modifying their severity and iniquity
1601 I, 8 | mouth only, without any modulation of the lips, might be forced
1602 I, 5 | and purest body, that a mole should grow, or a wart arise
1603 I, 12 | out of wood or stone, or molten in metal, or produced out
1604 II, 15 | INDIFFERENT GODS. THEROMAN MONOPOLY OF GODS UNSATISFACTORY.
1605 II, 8 | the African Coelestis, the Moorish Varsutina, the Arabian Obodas
1606 I, 3 | which no legal action moots, no indictment specifies,
1607 II, 7 | divinity, like the African Mopsus and the Boeotian Amphiaraus.
1608 II, 13 | scandals? or would not the morals and tempers of men be likely
1609 II, 10 | mind, in her sleep. In the morning, on going out of the temple
1610 II, 3 | condition as bodies, they are mortal--of course not immortal.
1611 II, 12 | death; they who allow their mortality must not suppose them to
1612 II, 12 | mortal beings (come) from mortals, earthly ones from earthly;
1613 II, 4 | eyes he had, he had the mortification of falling into a well,
1614 I, 16 | promiscuously with their mothers, in full knowledge of the
1615 II, 3 | that many things else have motion--as wheels, as carriages,
1616 I, 12 | of compasses and leaden moulds, he has got all ready for
1617 I, 9 | and flames from their own mountain consumed Pompeii? when the
1618 I, 10 | infamous paltry head. The Sun mourns for the death of his son
1619 II, 3 | whatever being accounted gods, moving as they do of themselves?
1620 II, 11 | helps him to come to dear Mramma, and Abeona to toddle off
1621 I, 19 | reappear in a dog, or a mule, or a peacock! Again, we
1622 I, 7 | the same practices, and we multiply from day to day; the more
1623 II, 7 | be wise in selecting and multiplying their deities? Shall attendants
1624 I, 9 | Cea were desolated with multitudes of men? or, again, when
1625 II, 1 | is only promiscuous and municipal. Now all things with the
1626 II, 8 | coteries of gods in each municipality, which have their honours
1627 I, 2 | how often had he committed murder; with what weapons, in what
1628 I, 3 | the past: we are no longer murderers, no longer incestuous, because
1629 II, 5 | or the harp, but to the musician who manages the said flute
1630 II, 5 | and the accuracy of their mutations, when you bear in mind how
1631 I, 16 | silly, if he invented (this mutilation as an atonement for the
1632 I, 19 | merely your composers of myth and poetry who write songs
1633 II, 1 | the poets have drawn their mythical from fables, and the (several)
1634 II, 8 | of Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Numiternus of Atina, or
1635 II, 8 | to expound them. Having narrated the proofs of true interpretation
1636 II, 12 | rustic or the town ones? The national or the foreign? For the
1637 I, 8 | they did it a little more neatly, as they had tongues; and
1638 II, 16 | discovered fruits and sundry necessaries of life, (and hence are
1639 I, 10 | worship. The auctioneers necessitate more repairs than the priests.
1640 I, 12 | pure gold, are (as so many) necklaces of the crosses. in like
1641 I, 4 | which prompts us to help the needy; the truth itself, which
1642 II, conc| the love of which she even neglected Samos, should be destroyed,
1643 II, conc| become the deserters and neglecters, nay, the betrayers of the
1644 II, 15 | others are worshipped by your neighbours as tutelar deities of their
1645 II, 12 | and in the Corneliuses, Nepes and Tacitus, and, amongst
1646 I, 7 | jaws? Are they of different nerve for incestuous lust? I trow
1647 I, 6 | the law forbids, if you neutralize the carefulness of the precaution
1648 II, 12 | the appearance of every newcomer as if it were that of a
1649 | next
1650 II, 4 | you must confess men were niggardly in even celestial objects.
1651 I, 9 | overflowed its banks, if the Nile has remained in its bed,
1652 | nine
1653 I, 8 | And a shrill inarticulate noise from opening the mouth only,
1654 I, 7 | ourselves divulge with very much noise--either as soon as you hear
1655 I, 7 | not this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum?"~Now,
1656 II, 2 | inert, and (so to say) a non-entity. The Stoics believed Him
1657 II, 8 | Obodas and Dusaris, or the Norican Belenus, or those whom Varro
1658 II, 8 | have any clear notions of Nortia of Vulsinii? There is no
1659 I, 3 | about even the sound of this noted name), you in fact lisp
1660 II, 4 | aside if measured by the notion of course and motion. But
1661 II, 1 | circumstance brought to nought; because, of course, nothing
1662 I, 10 | bestowed on that which is now-a-days reprobated in us. But besides
1663 II, 13 | gentle sway; under him--~"Nulli subigebant arva coloni"~"
1664 II, conc| rites were introduced by Numa, but then your proceedings
1665 I, 10 | that other beings should be numbered with them, even if it has
1666 I, 2 | guilty of more atrocious and numerous crimes, you frame your indictments
1667 II, 8 | Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Numiternus of Atina, or Ancharia of
1668 II, 11 | If I must touch on their nuptial duties, there is Afterenda
1669 I, 2 | minister to our (incestuous) nuptials; then the business (of our
1670 II, conc| odour of the goat which nursed him on that dear spot. Would
1671 II, 13 | of both the home and the nutriment accorded to human beings;
1672 I, 10 | your gods, he swears by an oak, and a dog, and a goat.
1673 I, 12 | are the sanction of its oaths; your standards it prefers
1674 I, 18 | nor tortures, such is our obduracy and contempt of death. But (
1675 I, 6 | those from whom it claims obedience. The law, however, becomes
1676 II, 5 | management of the world is obedient, reaching even to the utility
1677 II, 12 | we keep before us but one object--that of proving that all
1678 II, 3 | to anticipate what may be objected on the other side, that
1679 II, 1 | demurrer, we should have our objection ready to hand in the declaration
1680 II, 8 | Moorish Varsutina, the Arabian Obodas and Dusaris, or the Norican
1681 app, frag| to so wicked a king, so obscene and so cruel, God's honour
1682 app, frag| parricide, adulteries, obscenities--things committed not by
1683 II, 9 | felled by our axe, which has obscured the childhood of the de
1684 II, 7 | the poor and weak, on the obscurely born and the low-lived;
1685 I, 4 | human conduct to determine obscurities by what is manifest, than
1686 I, 8 | of place if we make one observation, with a view to show how
1687 I, 7 | life to such as follow and observe it; on the other hand, it
1688 II, 5 | seasons which are to be observed in the tillage of our fields;
1689 II, 16 | TO TIME, AND SOME BECOME OBSOLETE.~Well, but certain men have
1690 II, 10 | advantage. He then, to be sure, obtains permission that they should
1691 II, 12 | guise. Anything whatever may obviously be pictured as incorporeal
1692 II, 5 | it occurs. On all other occasions therefore, your conduct
1693 I, 20 | which you will choose to occupy yourselves is different
1694 I, 15 | If, however, there does occur any dissimilarity between
1695 I, 18 | which so many instances have occurred, exquisite in cruelty, your
1696 I, 3 | make inquiry, so that the odious name is punished under the
1697 I, 3 | nor less than the entire odium which is felt against us.
1698 II, conc| Corybantes, and the most pleasant odour of the goat which nursed
1699 II, 12 | Italy, or, as it was called, OEnotria, having met with a kind
1700 app, frag| his) I have made mention; off-springs whom in their error they
1701 I, 20 | lust). Well, then, do we offend you by the very fact of
1702 II, 11 | function is to see to the offering of the dower; but fie on
1703 I, 10 | to your altars, of your offerings, of your sacrifices. You
1704 II, 12 | for you, with the poets officiating as midwives. Now some persons
1705 app, frag| ears. But of these few (offsprings of his) I have made mention;
1706 I, 10 | in your speech; for the old-fashioned you banish, as if it were
1707 II, 12 | therefore, is attached to your older writers and literature,
1708 II, 5 | tiles or the stones, but the oldness of the building; as again
1709 I, 12 | springs from the kernel of an olive, or the stone of a peach,
1710 II, 14 | wives, and the swathes of Omphale, and his base desertion
1711 II, 9 | if gods are selected as onions are, then such as are not
1712 II, 12 | produce the affluent treasure (Opem) of actual life, and because
1713 I, 8 | inarticulate noise from opening the mouth only, without
1714 II, 5 | winds, floods also, and openings of the ground, and earthquakes:
1715 I, 4 | of whatever. And yet you openly allow your philosophers
1716 II, 8 | given in the prison, he opens out his dream to the king:
1717 II, 5 | whose strength and power the operation of the things is effected.
1718 II, 5 | and the fidelity of their operations, that you will be convinced
1719 II, 2 | derived thence some of their opinions; yet because they have interpolated
1720 I, 16 | yourselves, do you forget what an opportunity for incest is furnished,
1721 II, 12 | they develope with labour (Opus). Now I wish that you would
1722 II, 15 | of their perception; and Orbana, to bereave seed of its
1723 II, 5 | the recurrence of their orbital courses and the accuracy
1724 II, 5 | their courses in certain orbits, in regular seasons, at
1725 II, 2 | came Neptune, Jupiter, and Orcus, and their entire progeny.
1726 I, 10 | were not then afraid of so ordering things, that all the gods
1727 I, 8 | important a member, the very organ of the breath of life,--
1728 II, 8 | that Serapis of yours was originally one of our own saints called
1729 I, 7 | circulated, it must needs have originated some time or other from
1730 I, 12 | worship the cross which originates them, here will be the original
1731 II, 13 | defences, or it may be even ornaments to his own dignity; or from
1732 II, 14 | pirates who had not spared Ostia itself in their ravages;
1733 | Otherwise
1734 II, 13 | was made for him: To<greek>ou</greek> <greek>patros</greek>--"
1735 II, 7 | back in horror, indeed, on outcasts and exiles, on the poor
1736 II, 13 | great that He can make gods outright; whilst His bringing man
1737 I, 12 | with his arms and hands outstretched, you will make the general
1738 II, 2 | of truth is shaken by the over-scrupulousness of an irregular belief,
1739 I, 7 | which is manifestly not overbalanced even by the burden of these
1740 I, 4 | the wisest of men. Truth overbore Apollo, and made him pronounce
1741 app, frag| several years with his father; overcame him; made a parricidal raid
1742 I, 7 | both that he who was so overcome with impatient excitement
1743 I, 9 | injury. If the Tiber has overflowed its banks, if the Nile has
1744 II, 5 | all the (heavenly bodies) overhead forget not to fulfil their
1745 I, 15 | this matter, you must not overlook the fact that it is your
1746 II, 11 | Rumina. It is a wonderful oversight that no gods were appointed
1747 I, 6 | own righteousness, but (it owes it) to those from whom it
1748 app, frag| the price of an hundred oxen each, as their author Homer
1749 I, 7 | informers does not keep equal pace therewith? To the best of
1750 II, 12 | divine or Time. In every page of your literature the origin
1751 I, 12 | were, the very core of your pageants. Thus, in your victories,
1752 II, 13 | personated) a bull, or rather paid the money's worth of one,
1753 II, 11 | whose portraits have been painted, and actions recounted,
1754 II, 13 | suppose you will produce a pair of them. Whoever, then,
1755 I, 10 | with varying success, like pairs of gladiators: he wounds
1756 I, 17 | the senate or even in the palace; no assumption of the purple
1757 II, 9 | of the public gods in the Palatium. Now, since their common
1758 I, 12 | difference between the Athenian Pallas, or the Pharian Ceres, and
1759 I, 10 | forswear himself so freely and palpably before the people, if it
1760 I, 15 | a small matter to you to pant for human entrails, because
1761 II, 11 | preside over their first pap and earliest drink you have
1762 app, frag| violated his sisters." The Papinian law would punish the outrage
1763 I, 12 | Jupiter himself, But all that parade of images, and that display
1764 I, 10 | prospect of perishing; he parades Jupiter as suffering a like
1765 II, 13 | father, who, whatever his parental character may have been,
1766 app, frag| father; overcame him; made a parricidal raid on his home; violated
1767 I, 17 | their triumphs--one becoming Parthicus, and another Medicus and
1768 I, 5 | is any sect to which (a partial shortcoming) is imputed
1769 I, 6 | is ordered touching the particulars of the crime, even though
1770 I, 19 | grounds which the respective parties have for being personally
1771 II, 15 | a widow of the soul, by parting it from the body, and whom
1772 II, 10 | in order to represent a partner for himself in the game,
1773 II, 11 | But when women begin their parturition, Candelifera also comes
1774 I, 9 | is maintained by another party, that which defends is the
1775 I, 11 | in quest of water after pasture, and that on this account
1776 I, 6 | crime, even though it is patent to all what its nature is.
1777 II, 12 | kingdom. Such, then, is the patriarch of the gods whom Heaven
1778 II, 13 | greek>ou</greek> <greek>patros</greek>--" Father's own
1779 II, 11 | Voleta, to control the will; Paventina, (the goddess) of fear;
1780 I, 10 | domestics, by hawking and pawning them for your wants or your
1781 I, 18 | after day in the midst of peaceful times. Although no longer
1782 I, 12 | olive, or the stone of a peach, or a grain of pepper which
1783 I, 19 | in a dog, or a mule, or a peacock! Again, we affirm that a
1784 II, 8 | which adorned his head. The peck-like shape of this turban marks
1785 II, 4 | notwithstanding to have a peep at the sky, and found the
1786 I, 7 | perhaps) listened, and peeped through crevices and holes,
1787 II, 9 | stone--a vulgar weapon, to pelt a dog withal, inflicting
1788 I, 6 | punished by the laws, the penalty is not inflicted until it
1789 I, 10 | gods, the Lares and the Penates, which you possess by a
1790 II, 9 | this "good goddess" was Penelope, who, although dwelling
1791 I, 12 | of a peach, or a grain of pepper which has been duly tempered
1792 II, 11 | again, they give his name to Peragenor, from his teaching men to
1793 I, 6 | purport; but when this is perceived, their extreme injustice
1794 II, 4 | says that the latter has percolated through the former, like
1795 II, 11 | goddess Prema and likewise Perfica. O spare yourselves, ye
1796 II, 9 | mother from guilt in the performance of some sacred rites, with
1797 I, 18 | feat has been very recently performed again by one of your own (
1798 II, 4 | its disk. Accordingly, the Peripatetics marked it out as a larger
1799 II, 14 | which befell him when he perished by a stroke of lightning.
1800 I, 10 | months, with the prospect of perishing; he parades Jupiter as suffering
1801 I, 10 | your gods; for those who perjure themselves when swearing
1802 I, 17 | open to doubt as to who are perjurers on this point, when you
1803 II, 10 | then, to be sure, obtains permission that they should be united
1804 II, 13 | deserving. No other cause is it permitted us to conjecture. Now there
1805 II, 15 | you have condemned, by not permitting him to be enclosed within
1806 I, 7 | unlike the author (of its persecution). Two hundred and fifty
1807 II, 15 | suppose your Castors, and Perseus, and Erigona, have just
1808 I, 3 | cases most scrupulous and persevering in investigating charges
1809 II, 4 | philosophers; of those, I mean, who persist in applying their studies
1810 I, 10 | discredit, for you nevertheless persistently reject them. How great must
1811 II, 14 | surveyed the whole world with a personal inspection? Even if Hercules
1812 I, 19 | respective parties have for being personally derided. All our obstinacy,
1813 I, 10 | your criminals are punished personating the gods themselves. We
1814 I, 10 | those who practise these personations, as well as of those who
1815 I, 20 | XX. TRUTH AND REALITY PERTAIN TO CHRISTIANS ALONE. THE
1816 II, 11 | Mutunus and Tutunus and Pertunda and Subigus and the goddess
1817 I, 9 | catastrophe, If you do not care to peruse and reflect upon these testimonies
1818 II, 8 | FROM SCRIPTURE. SERAPIS A PERVERSION OF JOSEPH.~There remains
1819 I, 10 | mutilated criminal your god of Pessinum, Attis; a wretch burnt alive
1820 I, 9 | foreign and domestic! what pestilences, famines, conflagrations,
1821 II, 5 | and hail, and drought, and pestilential winds, floods also, and
1822 II, 8 | And they put at his side Pharia, whose name shows her to
1823 I, 12 | Athenian Pallas, or the Pharian Ceres, and wood formed into
1824 II, 9 | wide authority, another phase of the widespread error
1825 I, 8 | that by the remedies of a Philomela she retained her life, in
1826 I, 3 | like barbarous words and phrases, which have their fault,
1827 I, 8 | bread" in the language of Phrygia: the Phrygians, therefore,
1828 I, 4 | masters; in the same way physicians are called after Erasistratus,
1829 II, 4 | therefore, is a figurative picture of the philosophers; of
1830 II, 12 | whatever may obviously be pictured as incorporeal which never
1831 II, 9 | them. If Faunus, the son of Picus, used to do violence to
1832 II, 14 | himself worthy of a funeral pile in the anguish of his remorse
1833 II, 13 | child." There was "not a pin to choose" between the father'
1834 II, 14 | envious of his artistic skill. Pindar, indeed, has not concealed
1835 II, 14 | Pompey, the conqueror of the pirates who had not spared Ostia
1836 app, frag| Danae; a horse, to beget Pirithous; a goat, to beget Egyppa
1837 I, 10 | passions of men; who has pitted them against each other
1838 II, 1 | the world must truth be placed? In the conjectures? Well,
1839 I, 7 | velocius ullum?"~Now, why a plague, if it be always true? It
1840 I, 12 | its branches for another plant, to what will you attribute
1841 I, 12 | material, must needs have had plastic hands engaged in its formation.
1842 I, 16 | the Macedonians, "you have played your part well enough; but
1843 II, 10 | temple-warder happened to be playing at dice in the temple alone;
1844 I, 3 | fact lisp out the sense of pleasantness and goodness. You are therefore
1845 I, 10 | towards them in any way you please. We, however, live in a
1846 I, 10 | likewise minister to your pleasures by disgracing the gods.
1847 II, 9 | wives, and every dearest pledge. They deify the son of Venus,
1848 I, 10 | at once their proof and plot for executing your criminals,
1849 II, 9 | consecrated to him by king Plotius; and even Ulysses had it
1850 I, 10 | heads and hoofs, or the plucked feathers and hair, and whatever
1851 I, 10 | content myself now indeed with plucking these shafts out of our
1852 I, 7 | Come, whosoever you are, plunge your sword into an infant;
1853 II, 9 | heart s into exile, but plunged into the flames of the burning
1854 I, 10 | of the gods, when Father Pluto, Jove's own brother, drags
1855 I, 16 | mysteries of our religion. You ply us evermore with this charge;
1856 I, 1 | former (sins). If he is pointed at (for his religion), he
1857 II, 14 | awaited him, arrayed in the poisoned robe which his wife sent
1858 I, 4 | the chastity, which we pollute not even with a look; the
1859 I, 16 | have infected the very sun, polluted the entire ocean! Quote,
1860 I, 16 | spurious night, to avoid polluting the real light and darkness,
1861 II, 1 | have forged their gentile (polytheism) according to their own
1862 I, 9 | their own mountain consumed Pompeii? when the sea of Corinth
1863 II, 16 | Pompey, who imported it from Pontus. I might possibly have thought
1864 I, 10 | offer for your victims the poorest and most emaciated creatures;
1865 II, 11 | heard and handled, and whose portraits have been painted, and actions
1866 II, 12 | on the other hand, whilst portraying him as Time, do you on that
1867 I, 4 | thing plays with it; he who possesses it maintains it. For example,
1868 II, 3 | cannot of course, by any possibility, seem to be a god, wanting
1869 I, 7 | at an end, it quits its post: thenceforward the thing
1870 II, 13 | when a runaway slave is posted up in public, we have been
1871 II, 9 | In like manner, Romulus posthumously becomes a god. Was it because
1872 I, 13 | from the bath, or for its postponement until the evening, or for
1873 II, 11 | to one of them, called Postverta, belonged the function of
1874 I, 10 | of the senate to be more potent than the clamour of the
1875 II, 11 | earliest drink you have Potina and Edula; to teach the
1876 II, 5 | or the medicines, or the poultices, but on the doctors by whose
1877 I, 10 | MADE THE GODS CONTEMPTIBLE.~Pour out now all your venom;
1878 II, 14 | philosophers in their slave-like poverty? Is it forgotten that the
1879 II, 11 | existence amongst separate powers even from his conception
1880 II, 5 | and of hurt. But in the practical conduct of social life,
1881 I, 10 | the part both of those who practise these personations, as well
1882 I, 10 | excusable, if it were not practised against your humbler deities;
1883 I, 16 | for using the dogs, and practising the deeds of darkness. And
1884 II, 11 | hope; Volupia, of pleasure; Praestitia, of beauty. Then, again,
1885 I, 18 | henceforth to repeal the praises of your forefathers, in
1886 I, 10 | be sure, you are for ever praising old customs; but this is
1887 I, 13 | bread, and the "littoral prayers," all which institutions
1888 II, 14 | THE DIVINE CONDITION, WHAT PRE-EMINENT RIGHT HAD THEY TO SUCH HONOUR?
1889 app, frag| call their enemy Lord, and preach the filcher of blessings
1890 I, 7 | to both classes alike is preached a resurrection from the
1891 I, 6 | neutralize the carefulness of the precaution by your failing to perceive
1892 I, 8 | they be supposed to be who preceded them in the first and the
1893 I, 18 | to his day was without a precedent; a queen of Egypt used wild
1894 II, 1 | custom, submission; against precedents, prodigies, miracles,--all
1895 I, 13 | day, in preference to the preceding day as the most suitable
1896 I, 7 | then you say that (this is precisely what has taken place): first
1897 I, 2 | wild beasts, when it has precluded these from all concubinage
1898 II, 8 | seven lean-fleshed animals predicted the scarcity of the seven
1899 II, 16 | existence? Why then do you not prefer to honour the Author, from
1900 I, 4 | what is manifest, than to prejudice what is manifest by what
1901 II, 11 | Subigus and the goddess Prema and likewise Perfica. O
1902 II, 10 | is open to the dead. You prepare a way from Hades to the
1903 app, frag| of sempiternal divinity, prescient of futurity, immeasurable,
1904 I, 20 | explore it. But if your prescribed rule is to love error and
1905 II, 12 | principle which amounts to a prescriptive rule about their origin
1906 I, 10 | majesty is defiled in your presence in some unchaste body. The
1907 I, 16 | a stain upon that age, a presentiment about the time excites him,
1908 II, 9 | of the vilest character, preserved with delicate tact the purity
1909 II, 14 | foreign shore abandon the preserver of his life, with the same
1910 II, 5 | that a governing power presides over them, to which the
1911 II, 13 | own dignity; or from the pressing claims of the meritorious,
1912 I, 11 | this, I suppose, it was presumed that we, too, from our close
1913 II, 3 | natural relationship, get a presumptive argument that they cannot
1914 II, 5 | human race? For you cannot pretend that these (phenomena) act
1915 II, 12 | instead of the son, as was pretended. This artifice secured his
1916 II, 9 | advanced the same colourable pretext for the deification of the
1917 II, 12 | the world: whatever doubt prevails about the origin of Saturn,
1918 I, 6 | Then what is it which has prevented a like consideration on
1919 II, 12 | these would they become a prey) if he exposed them. He
1920 II, 9 | old father, but deserting Priam and Astyanax? But the Romans
1921 I, 7 | know mysteries which the priest knows not! They keep them
1922 II, 7 | rituals? How is it that the priestess of Ceres is ravished, if
1923 I, 12 | affirms that we are "the priesthood of a cross," we shall claim
1924 I, 12 | product is comprised in its primal cause, so does that cause
1925 II, 12 | by fully discussing his primordial history I shall beforehand
1926 II, 5 | thing comes into notice prior to the thing which he wills,
1927 I, 10 | human hand; he keeps Mars a prisoner in chains for thirteen months,
1928 I, 7 | and attacked, and kept prisoners actually in our secret congregations.
1929 II, 5 | not award the crown as a prize to the flute or the harp,
1930 II, 7 | disgraceful of even the old prizes of human glory, tear up
1931 II, 6 | allow it to be a greater probability that those elements which
1932 I, 8 | tongue to help. This, it is probable, the infants readily imitated,
1933 II, 3 | present class, we shall probably even from their present
1934 I, 20 | let me ask,) do you not probe to a full discovery the
1935 I, 10 | name, at all events the procedure, of the Christians, which
1936 I, 10 | thing, must necessarily proceed the suffering which affects
1937 I, 12 | gods in their origin have proceeded from this hated cross. Now,
1938 II, 12 | thenceforth they ceased to procreate. The truth is, Saturn castrated
1939 II, 12 | to have been the actual procreator--that the seed, in fact,
1940 II, 10 | Hercules, he should with them procure a supper and a prostitute;
1941 II, 1 | submission; against precedents, prodigies, miracles,--all which things
1942 I, 12 | source; and just as the product is comprised in its primal
1943 I, 12 | produced. Since, then, in the production of your gods, you worship
1944 II, 2 | desire of glory grew, into products of their own mind. The consequence
1945 I, 10 | consecration: you even tread them profanely under foot, you and your
1946 I, 10 | and wisdom to some extent profess to be derived from learning)
1947 I, 10 | you had insolently made a profit of your gods, if we would
1948 II, conc| excessive religiousness and very profound respect for the gods, when
1949 II, 3 | it is necessary the more profoundly to investigate what one
1950 II, 2 | Orcus, and their entire progeny. Xenocrates, of the Academy,
1951 II, 12 | own sister. No laws as yet prohibited incest, nor punished parricide.
1952 I, 12 | direction, and the shoulders project laterally, if you simply
1953 I, 12 | beam, of course, and its projecting seat. Now you have the less
1954 I, 16 | according to Ctesias, live quite promiscuously with their mothers, in full
1955 I, 7 | behold, we set before you the promise which our sacred system
1956 II, 5 | course of things, liberty is promoted by irregular licence, despotism
1957 I, 7 | instant punishment from the prompt resentment of men! Since,
1958 app, frag| adulteries, to which sinners are prone, they therefore easily believe
1959 I, 4 | overbore Apollo, and made him pronounce even against himself since
1960 I, 3 | distinct sentences would be pronounced against us in this wise:
1961 II, 15 | is attested by him who pronounces the oracle. Why; you will
1962 I, 3 | anointing. Even when by a faulty pronunciation you call us "Chrestians" (
1963 I, 12 | this rudimental form and prop, as it were, he applies
1964 I, 12 | and grain, from which are propagated the wooden materials of
1965 I, 12 | what is produced by the propagation? Will it not be to the grain,
1966 II, 3 | apparent mover of the wheel, or propeller of the carriage, or director
1967 II, 15 | his name for his climbing propensity, and Clivicola, from her
1968 II, 12 | I mean, who was the true prophetess of truth, from whom you
1969 I, 17 | towards them, since we neither propititate their images nor swear by
1970 II, 4 | words (and) two things. Proportioned to the difference of the
1971 II, 3 | which Varro has vainly proposed that you should believe
1972 II, 11 | child; while the other, Prosa, executed the like office
1973 I, 10 | thirteen months, with the prospect of perishing; he parades
1974 II, 13 | may have been, was most prosperous in his reign, king as he
1975 II, 10 | from Hades to the stars. Prostitutes mount it in all directions,
1976 II, 1 | friends and protectors, and prostrates the entire host of her assailants.
1977 II, conc| of Rome has merited the protection! But is it not rather the
1978 II, 11 | Cunina is present as the protector of the child's deep slumber,
1979 II, 1 | will, as her friends and protectors, and prostrates the entire
1980 I, 16 | mother, anxiously urge a protracted inquiry. The slave-dealer
1981 I, 10 | secures from all fear in their proud severity and stern discipline.
1982 I, 7 | as your own sayings and proverbs testify; yea, as nature
1983 II, 10 | other hand, then he should provide the same for Hercules. The
1984 II, 12 | but one object--that of proving that all these gods were
1985 II, 8 | that he might secure the provision of corn for it, and thenceforth
1986 I, 20 | gods; and together do we provoke their indignation. You too
1987 I, 13 | Sunday should consider your proximity to us. We are not far off
1988 I, 10 | For those very wise and prudent ancestors of yours, whose
1989 II, 12 | and Tetra. When grown to puberty, he marries his own sister.
1990 II, 10 | have not been ashamed to publish that of Larentina. She was
1991 II, 7 | their decrees and titles, pull down their statues, and
1992 II, conc| too, be willing that the Punic city, for the love of which
1993 I, 2 | with an accumulation of our punishments, when it becomes known how
1994 I, 5 | even in the healthiest and purest body, that a mole should
1995 I, 13 | an the Sabbath and "the Purification," and Jewish also are the
1996 I, 17 | palace; no assumption of the purple has ever in any of the provinces
1997 I, 6 | ignorant of their aim and purport; but when this is perceived,
1998 I, 18 | ancients; we must needs pursue with hatred all that we
1999 app, frag| and afterwards the son-god pursues his father, immortal seeks
2000 I, 3 | tell us plainly why you are pursuing this name even to extirpation?
2001 I, 1 | and turn away from the pursuit of good to perverse ways,
2002 I, 10 | Everywhere, in your public pursuits and private duties, antiquity
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