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2003 II, 8 | of adopting gods has been pushed, the superstitious practices
2004 II, 9 | the enemy with the mild pusillanimity of our Aeneas, refused to
2005 I, 8 | without danger, and the putrid gore flowing back to the
2006 I, 7 | night have fallen upon them, putting of course to the test the
2007 II, 14 | however, raised him from the pyre to the sky, with the same
2008 I, 19 | respective destinations of Pyriphlegethon and Elysium. Now they are
2009 II, conc| Delphi out of the hand of Pyrrhus? They who lost their own
2010 I, 4 | philosophers are called Pythagoreans and Platonists after their
2011 I, 4 | wise man, to whom your own Pythian (god) had borne witness.
2012 II, 4 | because the verbs <greek>qeein</greek> and <greek>seisqai</
2013 II, 4 | is also designated <greek>Qeos</greek>, without however
2014 II, conc| regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque
2015 I, 10 | the self-same levy of the quaestor. Now lands become cheaper
2016 I, 9 | conflagrations, yawnings, and quakings of the earth has history
2017 app, frag| and is ignorant of (his quarry's) flight; and while all
2018 II, 9 | superstitions gathered from all quarters. Well, but even the gods
2019 I, 15 | children whose life you quench; and this will supplement,
2020 I, 11 | supposed to be going in quest of water after pasture,
2021 II, 12 | WERE HUMAN WITH SOME VERY QUESTIONABLE CHARACTERISTICS. SATURN
2022 I, 1 | he makes no defence. When questioned, he confesses; when condemned,
2023 I, 10 | blush on your cheek; and you quietly endure songs which celebrate
2024 I, 18 | we enjoy) the blessing of quietness and peace; so that the minds
2025 II, 9 | becomes a god, and therefore a Quirinus ("god of the spear"), because
2026 I, 7 | is not this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum?"~
2027 I, 16 | polluted the entire ocean! Quote, then, one nation which
2028 II, 12 | original founders of the race--mortal beings (come) from
2029 II, 8 | private notions of different races. God, I imagine, is everywhere
2030 I, 2 | sure, you put others on the rack and the gibbet, to get them
2031 app, frag| overcame him; made a parricidal raid on his home; violated his
2032 app, frag| deserted. No one dispensed the rains, no one thundered, no one
2033 I, 14 | the horns of a cow, and a ram, and a goat, goat-shaped
2034 I, 8 | should obtain the first rank, since there is no nation
2035 I, 1 | every age--in short, every rank--is passing over from you
2036 I, 17 | conduct concerns that which is ranked by you immediately after
2037 I, 1 | meet the argument from our rapid increase. That indeed must
2038 I, 4 | would be indulging in a rash assumption. The first step
2039 app, frag| of) Cretans--born men!--rattling their arms; sucks a she-goat'
2040 II, 14 | spared Ostia itself in their ravages; and (as to carnage), how
2041 I, 7 | whether you are ready to reach them, as we do, through
2042 II, 5 | of the world is obedient, reaching even to the utility and
2043 II, 4 | and immoveable with equal readiness, there is a deviation as
2044 II, 2 | philosophy has not clearly realized. For although, in their
2045 I, 19 | that the human spirit is to reappear in a dog, or a mule, or
2046 II, 1 | of our governors, and the reasonings of the wise; against antiquity,
2047 I, 17 | tongue at all events always rebellious. But I suppose it is quite
2048 I, 10 | from a crowd of celestial (rebels;) or he draws from him tears
2049 I, 20 | alone; and we alone can rebut them, against whom they
2050 I, 16 | age, even his eyes help to recall his features, some peculiar
2051 I, 5 | and cruelty compelled to recant. Yet we should, of course,
2052 | recent
2053 I, 16 | diffusion of seed, or licentious reception thereof, will produce children
2054 II, 12 | For you cannot possibly reckon both these corporeal subjects
2055 I, 7 | whilst this is going on, recline. Carefully distinguish the
2056 I, 16 | darkness we are able to recognise our own misdeeds. The Persians,
2057 II, 15 | peculiarly, and as not easily recognised abroad; yet how do all those
2058 I, 7 | has had so long a time to recommend it to our acceptance. This
2059 II, 8 | following years. He accordingly recommends precautions to be taken
2060 II, 11 | been painted, and actions recounted, and memory retained amongst
2061 II, 12 | much further need I go in recounting your gods--because I want
2062 II, 6 | has been its loss, as it recovers its full form; its greater
2063 II, 13 | dignity and deity, just as you recruit the ranks of your senate,
2064 I, 7 | why need I disparagingly refer to strange spies and informers,
2065 I, 12 | the third will have to be referred to the first, through the
2066 I, 12 | produce throughout nature refers back its growth to its original
2067 I, 1 | this set your minds upon reflecting whether there be not here
2068 I, 16 | self-restraint and careful reflection, abstain from lusts which
2069 I, 20 | shall have effected your own reformation, will you refuse to inflict
2070 I, 4 | permit their wives to be reformed for the better! A father
2071 II, 8 | nation at war with itself, refractory to its kings, despised among
2072 I, 10 | whether in tragedy or comedy, refrained from making the gods the
2073 II, 11 | slumber, and supplies to it refreshing rest. To lift them (when
2074 I, 17 | XVII. THE CHRISTIAN REFUSAL TO SWEAR BY THE GENIUS OF
2075 I, 8 | DISCOVERY OF PSAMMETICHUS. REFUTATION OF THE STORY.~We are indeed
2076 I, 10 | shall stay no longer to refute them; but they shall by
2077 I, 3 | lest they should be easily refuted, you refuse to make inquiry,
2078 I, 19 | pious and innocent in a region of bliss. In your view likewise
2079 II, 14 | Hercules visited the infernal regions, who does not know that
2080 II, conc| arma,~ Hic currus fuit, hoc regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua
2081 I, 8 | many other nations come regularly after the Phrygians? Take
2082 I, 7 | this time ceased from the reiteration of such things (as are alleged
2083 I, 6 | and they are deservedly rejected with abhorrence, along with (
2084 I, 10 | the while that you were rejecting the very objects of your
2085 I, 10 | choice can be made without a rejection. He who selects some one
2086 I, 1 | ignorant of what other men rejoice to have discovered; you
2087 I, 1 | confesses; when condemned, he rejoices. What sort of evil is this,
2088 I, 10 | lightning-flash amid your rude rejoicing. Cybele sighs for a shepherd
2089 I, 18 | towards strangers. Well, you rejoin, be it so: you may compare
2090 II, 12 | after step comes in due relation--marriage, conception, birth--
2091 I, 3 | far less serious import, relinquish your care in cases like
2092 I, 7 | this of ours has firmly remained--righteous, it would seem,
2093 I, 11 | moment than to make a passing remark or two in a general way
2094 II, 9 | the more obvious or more remarkable points which we had to mention
2095 I, 9 | strokes of theirs. As we have remarked already, three hundred years
2096 I, 16 | manifest, the parents find a remedy for their despair by hanging
2097 II, 10 | her home. She complies, remembering that Hercules had told her
2098 I, 17 | sacrilegious vanity, and remind you of the irreverence of
2099 I, 15 | memory, you shall be duly reminded of them in the proper place;
2100 I, 10 | only to make up for the remissness by a more shameful invention
2101 II, 14 | pile in the anguish of his remorse for his parricides, deserved
2102 II, 12 | doubt, in the accounts of remote antiquity your god Saturn
2103 I, 20 | who are implicated in it. Remove the mote, or rather the
2104 II, 5 | judgment in all other cases, removing out of sight as you do the
2105 I, 10 | depreciate the little you do render to them by some indignity
2106 II, 15 | strange place, or live in rented houses. I say nothing about
2107 I, 10 | auctioneers necessitate more repairs than the priests. It was
2108 I, 2 | dressers (of our horrible repasts) be brought out,--ay, and
2109 I, 10 | private duties, antiquity is repealed; all the authority of your
2110 I, 7 | which is being for ever repeated, unless, forsooth, we have
2111 I, 16 | XVI. OTHER CHARGES REPELLED BY THE SAME METHOD. THE
2112 I, 10 | the Athenians afterwards repented of that condemnation, and
2113 I, 10 | testimony of Socrates is replaced at its full value, and I
2114 I, 7 | and, as if its office of reporting news were at an end, it
2115 II, 10 | temple alone; and in order to represent a partner for himself in
2116 II, 12 | there is a physiological representation of Time: (they think) that
2117 I, 10 | tears for Sarpedon; or he represents him wantoning with Juno
2118 I, 10 | that which is now-a-days reprobated in us. But besides this
2119 I, 12 | branches and foliage, and is a reproduction of its own kind, whether
2120 II, 7 | himself expelled from his republic, although, as you are aware,
2121 I, 2 | deny what they have the reputation of being. Now, when they
2122 I, 5 | retort, how men who are reputed to be Christians can be
2123 II, 13 | His bringing man into such request, on the pretence that he
2124 II, 2 | he with a like certainty requested that a cock should be sacrificed
2125 II, 12 | children. Of course they required a long time for vigorous
2126 II, 9 | contented with them, without requiring select ones. In this want
2127 II, conc| Xerxes? Or why did not Apollo rescue Delphi out of the hand of
2128 II, 9 | Is he "pious Aeneas" for (rescuing) his young only son and
2129 I, 2 | am I saying? Since your researches for rooting out our society
2130 I, 15 | suitable place whatever resemblance even to this practice is
2131 II, 2 | have it that their nature resembles it. Whence Varro also makes
2132 I, 7 | punishment from the prompt resentment of men! Since, therefore,
2133 I, 2 | to our charge, that your resentments might be the better glutted
2134 II, 5 | zones, except where human residence has been rendered impracticable
2135 I, 1 | dragged to trial, he does not resist; if accused, he makes no
2136 I, 13 | rest and for banqueting. By resorting to these customs, you deliberately
2137 I, 17 | curses with which the circus resounds. If not in arms, you are
2138 II, 6 | latter is really the more respectable one, since it ascribes a
2139 I, 17 | against us, even in these respects, there are not wanting points
2140 I, 3 | into against the defendant, responded to by him or denied, and
2141 I, 6 | its own accord, press and restrain your conscience, which is
2142 II, 12 | the subject is, the more restriction must we impose on it. As,
2143 I, 16 | lusts which could produce results of such a kind, in whatever
2144 I, 10 | authors of the calamities and retributions (of their plays)? I say
2145 I, 20 | confession. Our conscience has returned to the truth, and to the
2146 I, 7 | however, well that time reveals all things, as your own
2147 I, 10 | to the hammer among your revenues. For this purpose you frequent
2148 II, 12 | As, therefore, in this review we keep before us but one
2149 II, 9 | INCLUDED,) UNFAVOURABLY REVIEWED.~Such are the more obvious
2150 II, conc| constantly shaken kingdoms with revolution. Inquire who has ordained
2151 II, 5 | the way of a law for the revolutions of time, and for directing
2152 I, 19 | you ascribe to Minos and Rhadamanthus, while at the same time
2153 II, 7 | in accordance with their rhapsodies that you have arranged in
2154 I, 9 | Anaphe, and Delos, and Rhodes, and Cea were desolated
2155 I, 17 | in the waters of their Rhone. our allegations of our
2156 I, 12 | produced out of any other richer material, must needs have
2157 II, 14 | Asclepiades on a single sorry cow, riding on her back, and sometimes
2158 II, 5 | itself the light of day, ripens the fruit with its warmth,
2159 I, 7 | This name of ours took its rise in the reign of Augustus;
2160 I, 12 | a cross. Since the head rises upwards, and the back takes
2161 I, 10 | Father Bacchus, with all his ritual, was certainly by the consuls,
2162 II, 7 | some instances your very rituals? How is it that the priestess
2163 II, 5 | but on the enemy or the robber; whilst those whom a falling
2164 II, 7 | unchaste men, adulterers, robbers, and parricides. Must we
2165 II, 14 | arrayed in the poisoned robe which his wife sent him
2166 I, 18 | the character of a more robust age may have rendered the
2167 II, 5 | their calamity not to the rocks and waves, but to the tempest.
2168 II, 9 | IX. THE POWER OF ROME. ROMANIZED ASPECT OF ALL THE HEATHEN
2169 II, 12 | that he is called K<greek>ronos</greek> in Greek, meaning
2170 II, 12 | existence; there is simply no room for such fiction, where
2171 I, 8 | out, too, from the very root, with her throat mutilated,
2172 I, 2 | Since your researches for rooting out our society must needs
2173 I, 12 | each is represented by a rough stock, without form, and
2174 II, 4 | s form for the world was round. Its square, angular shape,
2175 I, 7 | them, and bits of meat to rouse the dogs. Moreover, a mother
2176 I, 12 | god. In a well-understood routine, the cross passes into a
2177 II, 9 | their princes and their royal house, they surrender even
2178 II, 9 | men, it was perhaps from rudeness, or a consciousness of deformity,
2179 I, 12 | form, and by the merest rudiment of a statue of unformed
2180 I, 12 | Starting, then, from this rudimental form and prop, as it were,
2181 II, 9 | embraces of her (dear but) ruined country. Is he "pious Aeneas"
2182 II, 11 | Levana, and along with her Rumina. It is a wonderful oversight
2183 II, 4 | seisqai</greek> signify to run and to be moved. This term,
2184 II, 13 | such way as is usual when a runaway slave is posted up in public,
2185 II, 9 | burning Carthage, as if rushing into the embraces of her (
2186 II, 12 | clever, or the unskilful? The rustic or the town ones? The national
2187 I, 7 | publicity; under Nero it was ruthlessly condemned, and you may weigh
2188 I, 13 | the Jewish feasts an the Sabbath and "the Purification,"
2189 app, frag| bind the parricide in a sack with beasts. "He violated
2190 II, 13 | have been "sewed up in both sacks." After this corroboration
2191 I, 10 | this feeling during your sacrificial acts, how you offer for
2192 I, 10 | your whims. Such insolent sacrilege might be excusable, if it
2193 II, conc| the Romans belong as many sacrileges as trophies; and then as
2194 app, frag| bond with novel severities, sacrilegiously guilty as it is of a novel
2195 II, 15 | to be spectators even of sadness, as is Viduus, who makes
2196 II, 5 | building; as again shipwrecked sailors impute their calamity not
2197 II, 8 | originally one of our own saints called Joseph. The youngest
2198 II, 12 | Janus, or Janes, as the Salii call him. The hill on which
2199 I, 20 | in fellowship, unite your salutations, mingle your embraces, sanguinary
2200 II, conc| which she even neglected Samos, should be destroyed, and
2201 I, 10 | with their religion; the sanctity of the gods is beggared
2202 II, 9 | they assailed! There is Sanctus, too, who for his hospitality
2203 II, 13 | youth), and the swan which sang (the enchanting song). Well
2204 I, 17 | emperor God; for on this point sannam facimus, as the saying is.
2205 I, 7 | THE CHRISTIANS DEFAMED. A SARCASTIC DESCRIPTION OF FAME; ITS
2206 I, 10 | draws from him tears for Sarpedon; or he represents him wantoning
2207 I, 2 | once ended, or the inquiry satisfied, on a man's confessing himself
2208 II, 12 | rounded still bears the name Saturnia; in short, the whole of
2209 II, 12 | he settled had the name Saturnius, whilst the city which he
2210 app, frag| Egyppa from a she-goat; a Satyr, to embrace Antiope. Beholding
2211 I, 7 | success among cruel and savage men. For the more inclined
2212 II, 12 | offers her an embrace? But he savours of brackishness, and she
2213 I, 7 | all things, as your own sayings and proverbs testify; yea,
2214 I, 17 | own lower classes, and the scandalous lampoons of which the statues
2215 II, conc| and the incense from them scant, and the god himself nowhere.
2216 II, 8 | lean-fleshed animals predicted the scarcity of the seven following years.
2217 I, 7 | others whom they bring on the scene. Besides, how absurd is
2218 app, frag| dint of arms. The remaining scenes, moreover, of that act have
2219 II, conc| yield assent,~ E'en then her schemes, her cares were bent."~Still
2220 I, 16 | is furnished, how wide a scope is opened for its accidental
2221 II, 15 | to heaven even dogs, and scorpions, and crabs. I postpone all
2222 I, 18 | defiantly danced beneath the scourge, the same feat has been
2223 I, 9 | existence; but what vast scourges before that time fell on
2224 II, 8 | PERVERSE THEOLOGY TAKEN FROM SCRIPTURE. SERAPIS A PERVERSION OF
2225 II, 2 | investigated the sacred Scriptures themselves for their antiquity,
2226 I, 10 | with it more influential scruples, which very circumstance
2227 I, 10 | certainly by the consuls, on the seate's authority, cast not only
2228 II, 9 | Juno. Now, if sons have seats in heaven owing to their
2229 I, 16 | sins of this sort which are secretly perpetrated among you. Nothing
2230 II, 3 | proper place, in the mythic section of the poets, yet, inasmuch
2231 I, 10 | from confidence, or the security of consciousness, or a natural
2232 I, 14 | other set of men is the seed-plot of all the calumny against
2233 II, 12 | name also they derive from seed-sowing; for they suppose him to
2234 II, 12 | unite him with Ops, because seeds produce the affluent treasure (
2235 I, 7 | material for it increases. Now, seeing that the multitude of offenders
2236 I, 18 | case by itself. I am not seeking for examples on a uniform
2237 | seemed
2238 | seems
2239 II, 4 | qeein</greek> and <greek>seisqai</greek> signify to run and
2240 I, 4 | so worthy a man as Caius Seius has become a Christian. "
2241 II, 1 | the object of arbitrary selection.~
2242 I, 10 | without a rejection. He who selects some one out of many, has
2243 I, 20 | yourselves, and you will become self-accusers. From these very few and
2244 I, 5 | when the Christians are so self-denying? why merciless, when they
2245 I, 16 | serious from a principle of self-restraint and careful reflection,
2246 I, 10 | of your sacrifices. You sell the whole divinity (of your
2247 I, 7 | apprehended at all; for who either sells or buys information about
2248 I, 20 | unchaste towards your own selves; whilst vigorous against
2249 II, 8 | imparts to our knowledge the semblance of truth is stated in our
2250 app, frag| self transformation? Of Semele, he begets Liber; of Latona,
2251 app, frag| living, eternal God, of sempiternal divinity, prescient of futurity,
2252 app, frag| arms." The Falcidian and Sempronian law would bind the parricide
2253 II, 12 | priests of your demons. She in senarian verse expounds the descent
2254 II, 11 | have life and its earliest sensation; then Diespiter, by whose
2255 II, 6 | to be superhuman in their sensibility, whether in respect of their
2256 I, 3 | indictment specifies, no sentence enumerates. In any case
2257 II, 11 | these come Vitumnus and Sentinus, through whom the babe begins
2258 II, 8 | which they regard (as a sentry) in Hades, and put it under
2259 II, 4 | power? For see how even Zeno separates the matter of the world
2260 II, 15 | archer-goddess Jana), and Septimontius of the seven hills. Men
2261 II, 7 | you sully heaven with the sepulchres of your kings: is it not
2262 I, 5 | clear with so perfect a serenity as not to be flecked with
2263 I, 8 | supposed to be the third; the series being the Romans, the Jews,
2264 I, 10 | and serious classes (for seriousness and wisdom to some extent
2265 I, 14 | and a goat, goat-shaped or serpent-shaped, and winged in foot, head,
2266 II, 4 | of language? It therefore served Thales of Miletus quite
2267 II, 1 | digests, has shown himself a serviceable guide for us. Now, if I
2268 II, 12 | rule about their origin serving for all other cases, to
2269 II, 9 | that the Romans had two sets of gods, common and proper;
2270 I, 5 | for the express purpose of setting their proper limits between
2271 II, 12 | conception, birth--country, settlements, kingdoms, all give the
2272 II, conc| Mutunus, and Larentina, have severally advanced this empire to
2273 app, frag| the sexual bond with novel severities, sacrilegiously guilty as
2274 II, 12 | We read of him in Cassius Severus and in the Corneliuses,
2275 I, 16 | the necessity of age and sex--to say nothing of lust and
2276 app, frag| crime of transgressing the sexual bond with novel severities,
2277 I, 7 | in order that, when the shades of night have fallen upon
2278 I, 8 | dog-faced race? Or broadly shadow-footed? Or some subterranean Antipodes?
2279 II, 11 | what incorporeal, inanimate shadows, and the mere names of things--
2280 I, 5 | the real thing under the shallow pretence of its name. Men
2281 I, 1 | fact, that all who once shared in your ignorance and hatred (
2282 I, 4 | preferred to be the husbands of she-wolves than of Christian women:
2283 I, 10 | rejoicing. Cybele sighs for a shepherd who disdains her, without
2284 II, 5 | of the building; as again shipwrecked sailors impute their calamity
2285 I, 18 | upon and put on the burning shirt. If a woman once defiantly
2286 II, 14 | Did he not on a foreign shore abandon the preserver of
2287 I, 5 | sect to which (a partial shortcoming) is imputed as a general
2288 I, 12 | straight direction, and the shoulders project laterally, if you
2289 I, 16 | himself;" and then they shouted out one to the other, H<
2290 II, 8 | issue of all that happened showed how wise he was, how invariably
2291 II, 13 | money's worth of one, and showered (gold. into the maiden's
2292 II, 3 | gods themselves, succeed in showing that they can by no means
2293 I, 8 | out some dull sound. And a shrill inarticulate noise from
2294 I, 1 | eager for concealment, they shrink from publicity, they tremble
2295 I, 11 | temple which was carefully shut to all but the priests,
2296 II, conc| regnum des gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc
2297 I, 20 | cause without hearing both sides of it; and it is only in
2298 I, 10 | your rude rejoicing. Cybele sighs for a shepherd who disdains
2299 I, 12 | cross is, in its material, a sign of wood; amongst yourselves
2300 I, 17 | constantly getting surnames to signalize their triumphs--one becoming
2301 II, 4 | sacred name be peculiarly significant of deity, and be simply
2302 I, 8 | attached to it a definite signification. Granted, then, that the
2303 II, 8 | fat-fleshed and well-favoured kine signified as many years of plenty;
2304 II, 4 | and <greek>seisqai</greek> signify to run and to be moved.
2305 I, 7 | mysteries the obligation of silence is imposed. How much more
2306 II, 7 | whenever we volunteer a silent contempt of this said poetic
2307 II, 15 | sloping (haunts); I pass silently by the deities called Forculus
2308 I, 16 | either the author was very silly, if he invented (this mutilation
2309 II, 13 | in some other way" that similarity of character was exacted
2310 I, 6 | all other crimes which are similarly forbidden and punished by
2311 II, 12 | more to those who were the simplest as belonging to that age,
2312 II, 2 | in other cases also the simplicity of truth is shaken by the
2313 II, conc| gentibus ease,~ Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque fovetque."~
2314 I, 3 | charge consists not of any sinful conduct, but lies wholly
2315 I, 2 | but to confess all and singular the crimes laid to our charge,
2316 app, frag| these adulteries, to which sinners are prone, they therefore
2317 II, 15 | you account as gods the sites of places or of the city;
2318 I, 10 | superscription over both; you sketch out the same lineaments
2319 II, 13 | with passers-by; sometimes sketching him out in the form of the
2320 II, 16 | useful arts. And yet if the skilful men of our own time be compared
2321 I, 14 | fact, who had only lost his skin, flayed of course by wild
2322 I, 14 | a condition to lose his skin--carried about in public
2323 I, 9 | gods because you are too slack in our extirpation, you
2324 I, 7 | DECEPTION AND ATROCIOUS SLANDERS OF THE CHRISTIANS LENGTHILY
2325 I, 16 | protracted inquiry. The slave-dealer is examined, the unhappy
2326 II, 14 | by philosophers in their slave-like poverty? Is it forgotten
2327 I, 15 | initiate our mysteries, with slaying an infant. As for you, since
2328 II, 10 | through her mind, in her sleep. In the morning, on going
2329 II, 12 | castrated Coelus as he was sleeping. We read this name Coelus
2330 II, 10 | consumed everything. Larentina sleeps alone in the temple; and
2331 I, 5 | is well attested by the slender flaw. But although you prove
2332 I, 5 | with some filmy cloud. A slight spot on the face, because
2333 I, 10 | is not possible without slighting the other, and no choice
2334 II, 7 | Amphiaraus. I must now indeed but slightly touch on this class, of
2335 II, 15 | and Clivicola, from her sloping (haunts); I pass silently
2336 I, 2 | cool. For most persons are slow to believe such things,
2337 I, 15 | you get rid of them by the slower death of drowning. If, however,
2338 II, 11 | protector of the child's deep slumber, and supplies to it refreshing
2339 I, 3 | has a barbarous sound, or smacks of ill-luck, or is immodest,
2340 II, 8 | cats, crocodiles, and their snake. It is therefore a small
2341 I, 17 | are so cognizant, and the sneers which are sometimes uttered
2342 I, 5 | disparagement of us, "Why is so-and-so deceitful, when the Christians
2343 II, 5 | the practical conduct of social life, this is the way in
2344 I, 2 | researches for rooting out our society must needs be made on a
2345 I, 9 | in which they were born, sojourned, and were buried, and even
2346 II, 5 | moon, which is at once the solace of the night and the controller
2347 II, 8 | intellect, he was from envy sold into Egypt, and became a
2348 I, 10 | in Mars you consecrate a soldier, a blacksmith in Vulcan.
2349 I, 12 | and ensigns, which your soldiers guard with no less sacred
2350 I, 3 | have their fault, and their solecism, and their absurdity of
2351 II, 10 | temple very early, she is solicited by a young man--"a third
2352 I, 10 | and the honours of the solisternia and the lectisternia, holidays
2353 II, 2 | divine oracle uttered by Solomon: "The fear of the Lord,"
2354 | somehow
2355 | something
2356 app, frag| hiding; and afterwards the son-god pursues his father, immortal
2357 II, 13 | which sang (the enchanting song). Well now, are not such
2358 II, 5 | well as the intermediate space within which, all things
2359 II, 11 | and likewise Perfica. O spare yourselves, ye impudent
2360 I, 18 | famous sufferings of the Spartans.~
2361 I, 18 | she bit off her tongue and spat out of her mouth the only
2362 I, 3 | or is indecorous for the speaker, or unpleasant to the hearer.
2363 II, 2 | maintained among you as the special property. of wisdom. You
2364 I, 8 | the latest race, and then specifically call us the third. But it
2365 I, 3 | action moots, no indictment specifies, no sentence enumerates.
2366 II, 9 | tell us so; there is (a specimen) of the foreign gods at
2367 I, 2 | crowds which throng the spectacles a zest would be given; for
2368 II, 15 | will have your gods to be spectators even of sadness, as is Viduus,
2369 II, 6 | better to err simply than speculatively, like your physical philosophers.
2370 I, 19 | the wicked will have to spend an eternity in endless fire,
2371 I, 7 | disparagingly refer to strange spies and informers, when you
2372 I, 10 | with equal zest, over the spilling of human blood, (and) over
2373 I, 18 | age may have rendered the spirits of antiquity more enduring.
2374 I, 19 | boldness, you must take your sponge, or perhaps your tongue,
2375 II, 13 | earth would bear all crops spontaneously. But he hated a father who
2376 II, 13 | debauchery? Ever since poetry sported thus with his character,
2377 II, 12 | Heaven came down to his spouse, or Earth went up to meet
2378 I, 12 | its own kind, whether it springs from the kernel of an olive,
2379 II, 4 | the world was round. Its square, angular shape, such as
2380 I, 11 | you consecrate, and their stables into the bargain! This,
2381 II, 13 | brother and sister who were stained with the sin of incest--
2382 II, 10 | was,) that if he won the stakes from Hercules, he should
2383 I, 5 | persons of this doubtful stamp do not assemble with us,
2384 I, 3 | Christian. No name of a crime stands against us, but only the
2385 I, 1 | nature of evil comes to a standstill?~
2386 II, 4 | Miletus quite right, when, star-gazing as he walked with all the
2387 I, 12 | general outline of a cross. Starting, then, from this rudimental
2388 I, 6 | AGAINST THEM.~Whenever these statements and answers of ours, which
2389 II, 11 | stand erect is the work of Statina, whilst Adeona helps him
2390 I, 12 | the merest rudiment of a statue of unformed wood? Every
2391 I, 10 | same lineaments for their statues--as best suits their genius,
2392 II, 12 | growth to attain to such a stature. By and by, as soon as the
2393 I, 10 | them with novel decrees and statutes. As to everything else in
2394 I, 7 | fresh blood in which to steep your bread; then feed yourself
2395 II, 6 | change. Look, however, at the stellar bodies; they both undergo
2396 II, 9 | hard to enrich the fields stercoribus, (with manure,) Augias had
2397 I, 10 | their proud severity and stern discipline. Take, for example,
2398 I, 7 | then feed yourself without stint; and whilst this is going
2399 I, 4 | as their own; and nobody stirs up any hatred against them,
2400 II, 13 | Saturn. Your Jupiter too, stolen in his infancy, was unworthy
2401 II, 9 | glorious, and was felled with a stone--a vulgar weapon, to pelt
2402 II, 5 | not blame the tiles or the stones, but the oldness of the
2403 II, 4 | state of the world, not to stoop down to uncertain speculations.
2404 I, 7 | eternal life will be in store for you. I want you to tell
2405 I, 18 | contempt of death produced stories of heroism amongst your
2406 I, 12 | upwards, and the back takes a straight direction, and the shoulders
2407 I, 19 | who write songs of this strain; but your philosophers also
2408 I, 12 | sacred care, you have the streamers (and) vestments of your
2409 II, 15 | tutelar deities of their street doors. There is nothing
2410 app, frag| which are far more just and strict than their actions. "He
2411 I, 4 | are so obstinate in their strife as to do battle with their
2412 I, 2 | judicial process, and to strive with all your might not
2413 I, 9 | we call down on us these strokes of theirs. As we have remarked
2414 I, 16 | neglect of his attendants, had strolled too far from home, was decoyed
2415 I, 10 | which you actually find your strongest grounds for impeaching us
2416 II, 9 | to law and right, because struck with madness, it was more
2417 II, 11 | is present at the secret struggles of married life. Those very
2418 II, 4 | purpose, since they indulge a stupid curiosity on natural objects,
2419 I, 19 | as you like the excessive stupidity of such minds as die that
2420 I, 10 | your ancestors--in your style, your dress, your equipage,
2421 II, conc| suffer his own Crete to be subdued by the Roman fasces, forgetting
2422 II, 13 | sway; under him--~"Nulli subigebant arva coloni"~"No swains
2423 II, 11 | Tutunus and Pertunda and Subigus and the goddess Prema and
2424 II, 12 | reckon both these corporeal subjects as co-existing in one person.
2425 II, 16 | province of the enemy whose subjugation he was constantly urging.
2426 II, 1 | against antiquity, custom, submission; against precedents, prodigies,
2427 I, 10 | advertise them for auction, submit them to public sale, knock
2428 I, 7 | what a witness you have suborned against us: it has not been
2429 II, 9 | nations that we owe the substitution of all (heathen worship
2430 I, 8 | broadly shadow-footed? Or some subterranean Antipodes? If you attach
2431 II, 1 | inquire of him who were the subtle inventors of the gods, he
2432 II, 3 | to the gods themselves, succeed in showing that they can
2433 I, 16 | and in proportion to their successful issue is your own ignorance
2434 II, 5 | very things from which the succour or the injury proceeds,
2435 II, 14 | tutelage than even Jove's, suckled even at the dugs of a dog);
2436 app, frag| men!--rattling their arms; sucks a she-goat's dugs; flays
2437 I, 7 | Who has discovered, by a sudden light invading our darkness,
2438 I, 3 | be gone into by such as sue for a condemnation, it becomes
2439 II, 7 | it is not because Ceres suffered a similar outrage? Why are
2440 I, 10 | That which is nothing, suffers nothing. From those, therefore,
2441 II, 5 | bodies and souls could have sufficed in themselves without the
2442 II, 12 | to that age, it becomes sufficiently certain that Saturn and
2443 I, 15 | knowledge of the public, and the suffrages of this entire age. Yet
2444 I, 11 | Cornelius Tacitus first suggested. In the fourth book of his
2445 II, 11 | work; to Consus, from his suggesting to them counsel. Juventa
2446 I, 6 | answers of ours, which truth suggests of its own accord, press
2447 I, 16 | him, the periods exactly suit his age, even his eyes help
2448 II, 9 | although dwelling among so many suitors of the vilest character,
2449 I, 10 | for their statues--as best suits their genius, or profession,
2450 II, 7 | excess of presumption you sully heaven with the sepulchres
2451 I, 18 | obstinacy against us you sum up in this indictment, that
2452 II, 12 | us adopt our compendious summary from the most natural method
2453 I, 5 | PASSING CLOUD OBSCURES A SUMMER SKY.~As to your saying of
2454 II, 8 | before him, according to his summons, was able to expound them.
2455 II, 16 | have discovered fruits and sundry necessaries of life, (and
2456 I, 9 | than Asia or Africa was sunk in the Atlantic Sea? or
2457 I, 13 | in the direction of the sunrise? It is you, at all events,
2458 I, 15 | Well, but we are said to sup off our impious sacrifice!
2459 II, 6 | which it supposes to be superhuman in their sensibility, whether
2460 II, 2 | Earth. Along with all the supernal fire Democritus conjectures
2461 I, 10 | dead; you inscribe the same superscription over both; you sketch out
2462 I, 10 | said, that you are daily supplanting them with novel decrees
2463 I, 15 | you quench; and this will supplement, nay, abundantly aggravate,
2464 II, 9 | when her husband Hasdrubal supplicated the enemy with the mild
2465 I, 2 | feeling a horrible disgust at supposing that our nature could have
2466 I, 8 | blush of shame; if on such a supposition she lived, she would still
2467 app, frag| father; adulterous births, supposititious births. And the living,
2468 II, conc| kingdoms, and has now put the supremacy of them into the hands of
2469 II, 16 | attainments, which cannot be surpassed.~
2470 I, 7 | commission. Now this, I must say, surpasses all admiration, that that
2471 I, 3 | so horrible, and of such surpassing sin that impiety is too
2472 II, 9 | their royal house, they surrender even children and wives,
2473 I, 11 | grievance against us, that, when surrounded by cattle-worshippers of
2474 II, 14 | nourished at her udder, surveyed the whole world with a personal
2475 I, 16 | themselves; to their son, who survives the miserable calamity,
2476 I, 10 | well as of those who are susceptible of being so represented.
2477 I, 16 | whatever we do ourselves, we suspect in others when we choose (
2478 II, 6 | not to be diminished, or suspended, or destroyed? Well, then,
2479 I, 1 | not allow yourselves in suspicions which may prove too true,
2480 II, 5 | nourished, or applied to the sustenance of man's life and of the
2481 II, 13 | subigebant arva coloni"~"No swains would bring the fields beneath
2482 II, 12 | of the way: (the father) swallowed a stone instead of the son,
2483 II, 14 | concubines and wives, and the swathes of Omphale, and his base
2484 I, 10 | contempt of your gods, he swears by an oak, and a dog, and
2485 II, 8 | either seen or heard of the Syrian Atargatis, the African Coelestis,
2486 I, 17 | been affected by us. The Syrias still exhale the odours
2487 II, 9 | preserved with delicate tact the purity which they assailed!
2488 I, 14 | therefore, Onocoetes is all the talk. As, however, it is less
2489 I, 10 | January, although he gave a tardy consent to some sacrifices,
2490 app, frag| sewed thereon three golden tassels worth the price of an hundred
2491 I, 10 | whatever may seem to the taste of the vulgar and profane
2492 II, 11 | have Potina and Edula; to teach the child to stand erect
2493 II, 11 | name to Peragenor, from his teaching men to go through their
2494 II, 7 | old prizes of human glory, tear up their decrees and titles,
2495 I, 10 | rebels;) or he draws from him tears for Sarpedon; or he represents
2496 II, 15 | QUITE AS MUCH.~It would be tedious to take a survey of all
2497 I, 7 | any price? Have Christians teeth of a different sort from
2498 II, 7 | is not because of their telling us that your gods did such
2499 II, 6 | evidence of the fact. The moon tells us how great has been its
2500 I, 7 | often happens either from a temper of rivalry, or a suspicious
2501 I, 4 | works of the human hand; the temperance, by which we abstain from
2502 I, 12 | pepper which has been duly tempered under ground. Now, if you
2503 II, 13 | would not the morals and tempers of men be likely to become
2504 II, 5 | rocks and waves, but to the tempest. And rightly too; for it
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