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2505 II, 10 | his twelve labours! The temple-warden buys a supper for the hero,
2506 II, 10 | deified. They relate that his temple-warder happened to be playing at
2507 II, 1 | are many things by which tenderness of conscience is hardened
2508 II, conc| qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque fovetque."~ Here were her
2509 I, 10 | very circumstance indeed tends to the degradation of your
2510 II, 3 | ELEMENTS; THE ABSURDITY OF THE TENET EXPOSED.~From these developments
2511 II, 12 | to this effect: "In the tenth generation of men, after
2512 II, 5 | favourable, or of fear because terrible--the sovereign dispenser,
2513 I, 18 | own ancestors all these terrors have come in men's intrepidity
2514 I, 7 | own sayings and proverbs testify; yea, as nature herself
2515 I, 5 | is, however, a sufficient testimonial for our name, that this
2516 I, 9 | peruse and reflect upon these testimonies of history, the record of
2517 I, 10 | winged cap and heated wand, tests with his cautery whether
2518 app, frag| giver, and to him they give thanks. They call those (deities),
2519 I, 2 | would they resort to the theatre, when one had to fight in
2520 I, 20 | to inflict punishment on them--nay, so far will you have
2521 I, 7 | end, it quits its post: thenceforward the thing is held to be
2522 II, 2 | such the physical class of theologizers conclude it to be, since
2523 II, 5 | V. THE PHYSICAL THEORY CONTINUED. FURTHER REASONS
2524 II, 4 | WRONG DERIVATION OF THE WORD THEOS. THE NAME INDICATIVE OF
2525 | thereby
2526 II, 5 | for directing the guidance thereof--can it fail to result from
2527 app, frag| his own hand! but he sewed thereon three golden tassels worth
2528 I, 7 | does not keep equal pace therewith? To the best of my belief,
2529 II, 15 | GENII VERY INDIFFERENT GODS. THEROMAN MONOPOLY OF GODS UNSATISFACTORY.
2530 II, 14 | ready to hand their own Theseus to worship, so highly deserving
2531 II, 11 | shadows, and the mere names of things--dividing man's entire existence
2532 I, 10 | a prisoner in chains for thirteen months, with the prospect
2533 I, 7 | Fame. Well, now, is not this--"Fama malum, quo non aliud
2534 I, 16 | fields, chained as a slave. Thither the tutor and the nurse
2535 I, 16 | greek>eis</greek> <greek>thn</greek> <greek>mhtera</greek>.
2536 app, frag| world to him were some three thousand. He is born in Greece, from
2537 II, 14 | as to carnage), how many thousands, let me ask, were cooped
2538 I, 7 | it; on the other hand, it threatens with the eternal punishment
2539 II, 15 | and Limentinus the god of thresholds, and whatever others are
2540 I, 2 | Even to the crowds which throng the spectacles a zest would
2541 II, 5 | their wrath and anger--as thunder, and hail, and drought,
2542 app, frag| dispensed the rains, no one thundered, no one governed all this
2543 I, 7 | tragedies, (worse than those) of Thyestes or OEdipus, do not at all
2544 I, 9 | calamity or injury. If the Tiber has overflowed its banks,
2545 I, 7 | reign of Augustus; under Tiberius it was taught with all clearness
2546 I, 16 | which the full and strong tides of passion fail to waft
2547 I, 7 | also want candles, and dogs tied together to upset them,
2548 I, 7 | bursts asunder even all ties of domestic fidelity? How
2549 II, 5 | covers do not blame the tiles or the stones, but the oldness
2550 II, 5 | are to be observed in the tillage of our fields; lastly, the
2551 I, 12 | unformed wood? Every piece of timber which is fixed in the ground
2552 II, 12 | race, reigned Saturn, and Titan, and Japetus, the bravest
2553 II, 2 | division--the Olympian and the Titanian, which descend from Coelus
2554 II, 2 | Olympian, the Astral, the Titanian--sprung from Coelus and Terra;
2555 I, 4 | of saying of us: "Lucius Titius is a good man, only he is
2556 II, 7 | tear up their decrees and titles, pull down their statues,
2557 II, 11 | dear Mramma, and Abeona to toddle off again; then there is
2558 I, 14 | ears, and was dressed in a toga with a book, having a hoof
2559 II, 13 | Under him, a stranger to toil and want, peace maintained
2560 II, 10 | remembering that Hercules had told her that it would be for
2561 I, 18 | of men (should be) more tolerant even towards strangers.
2562 II, conc| Would he not have made that tomb of his superior to the whole
2563 I, 15 | everywhere handling the selfsame topics. Meanwhile, as I have said,
2564 I, 1 | which human curiosity grows torpid. You love to be ignorant
2565 I, 1 | accused, they deny; even when tortured, they do not readily or
2566 II, 3 | both touch them and are touched by them, and we see certain
2567 II, 12 | unskilful? The rustic or the town ones? The national or the
2568 I, 7 | us)? Who has detected the traces of a bite in our blood-steeped
2569 II, 5 | Now do we not, in thus tracing out an artificer and master
2570 I, 4 | bad, it is punished as the traditional bearer of a bad name. But
2571 I, 10 | converted into an article of traffic; men drive a business with
2572 I, 7 | for granted; and so these tragedies, (worse than those) of Thyestes
2573 I, 18 | life that you go to the trainers sword in hand and offer
2574 II, 9 | this Aeneas turns out a traitor to his country; yes, quite
2575 I, 20 | each other, we have been traitors to the majesty of the gods;
2576 II, 14 | stroke of lightning. In this transaction, however, your most excellent
2577 I, 15 | for you, since your own transactions in human blood and infanticide
2578 app, frag| say, he did without self transformation? Of Semele, he begets Liber;
2579 app, frag| would condemn the crime of transgressing the sexual bond with novel
2580 II, 6 | THAT THEY ARE NOT DIVINE. TRANSITION FROM THE PHYSICAL TO THE
2581 II, 9 | religion) although they transmitted the superstition, but to
2582 I, 12 | under ground. Now, if you transplant it, or take a cutting off
2583 I, 12 | attributed to us, with its transverse beam, of course, and its
2584 II, 11 | they bear in the stages of travail. There were two Carmentas
2585 II, 14 | it was for his world-wide travels, how often has the same
2586 I, 18 | circus-) hunters as he traversed the appointed course, not
2587 II, 12 | Italy itself. For, after (traversing) many countries, and (enjoying)
2588 I, 10 | family consecration: you even tread them profanely under foot,
2589 I, 10 | innocent of the charge of treason against them in the honour
2590 II, 12 | seeds produce the affluent treasure (Opem) of actual life, and
2591 I, 11 | his histories, where he is treating of the Jewish war, he begins
2592 II, 1 | of Varro; for he in his treatise Concerning Divine Things,
2593 I, 16 | father buys him unawares, and treats him as a Greek. Afterwards,
2594 I, 12 | let us take the case of a tree which grows up into a system
2595 I, 1 | shrink from publicity, they tremble when caught; when accused,
2596 I, 19 | Here end, I suppose, your tremendous charges of obstinacy against
2597 I, 2 | case you actually conduct trials contrary to the usual form
2598 II, 4 | scrupulous curiosity, which is tricked out with an artful show
2599 II, 9 | brother in the bargain, and trickishly ravished some foreign virgins.
2600 I, 15 | Is it, forsooth, only a trifle to lick up human blood,
2601 II, conc| trophies; and then as many triumphs over gods as over nations.
2602 I, 17 | surnames to signalize their triumphs--one becoming Parthicus,
2603 II, 7 | licence, then you are not only troubled with no horror of it, but
2604 I, 9 | CALAMITIES: THERE WERE SUCH TROUBLES BEFORE CHRISTIANITY.~But
2605 I, 4 | is the truth, which is so troublesome to the world, that these
2606 I, 7 | nerve for incestuous lust? I trow not. It is enough for us
2607 app, frag| but by most impure and truculent human beings; beings who,
2608 II, conc| Si qua fata sinant, jam tunc tenditque fovetque."~ Here
2609 II, 12 | earlier than all liters ture was the Sibyl; that Sibyl,
2610 II, 9 | ignoble! But this Aeneas turns out a traitor to his country;
2611 app, frag| unwilling to record, lest turpitude, once buried, be again called
2612 II, 14 | also, and found in a worse tutelage than even Jove's, suckled
2613 I, 16 | as a slave. Thither the tutor and the nurse had already
2614 II, 11 | you have your Mutunus and Tutunus and Pertunda and Subigus
2615 II, 10 | well have been added to his twelve labours! The temple-warden
2616 II, 4 | well, and was unmercifully twitted by an Egyptian, who said
2617 I, 18 | woman of Athens defied the tyrant, exhausted his tortures,
2618 II, 14 | sometimes nourished at her udder, surveyed the whole world
2619 I, 7 | quo non aliud velocius ullum?"~Now, why a plague, if
2620 II, 9 | by king Plotius; and even Ulysses had it in his power to have
2621 II, 12 | Terra. They led in some unaccountable way single lives, and had
2622 I, 12 | ashamed, I suppose, to worship unadorned and simple crosses.~
2623 I, 19 | In your view likewise an unalterable condition is ascribed to
2624 I, 12 | shall show. You are indeed unaware that your gods in their
2625 II, 13 | aside from the faith to unbelief and to such fables, we must
2626 I, 20 | a par is apt to furnish unconsciously the materials for rivalry.
2627 II, 6 | stellar bodies; they both undergo change, and give clear evidence
2628 I, 10 | gods--I shall prove to be undergoing ruin and contempt from yourselves
2629 I, 4 | that his sect might be understood, instead of hindering inquiry
2630 I, 7 | eternal punishment of an unending fire those who are profane
2631 II, 9 | HEROES(AENEAS INCLUDED,) UNFAVOURABLY REVIEWED.~Such are the more
2632 I, 12 | rudiment of a statue of unformed wood? Every piece of timber
2633 II, 14 | deserved rather to die the unhonoured death which awaited him,
2634 I, 18 | seeking for examples on a uniform scale. Since, forsooth,
2635 II, 6 | His course, but exists in unimpaired integrity, and ought not
2636 I, 16 | noble birth, who, by the unintentional neglect of his attendants,
2637 II, 10 | permission that they should be united in lawful wedlock (for none
2638 I, 13 | lamps, and the fasts of unleavened bread, and the "littoral
2639 | unlike
2640 II, 12 | male, or the female? The unmarried, or such as are joined in
2641 II, 4 | falling into a well, and was unmercifully twitted by an Egyptian,
2642 I, 3 | indecorous for the speaker, or unpleasant to the hearer. These crimes
2643 II, conc| even after these had become unpropitious to them, until at last almost
2644 II, 15 | THEROMAN MONOPOLY OF GODS UNSATISFACTORY. OTHER NATIONS REQUIRE DEITIES
2645 II, 12 | wedlock? The clever, or the unskilful? The rustic or the town
2646 II, 5 | from men's common sense and unsophisticated deduction? Even Varro bears
2647 app, frag| associating Him) with crimes so unspeakable.~
2648 I, 4 | whom they had known to be unsteady, worthless, or wicked before
2649 II, 1 | they see not; your ears are unstopped, yet they hear not; though
2650 I, 17 | remain nations which are unsubdued and foreign to their rule.
2651 II, 13 | he whom mythic story left untainted with no conspicuous infamy,
2652 II, 5 | effectual. So again, in untoward events, they who are wounded
2653 I, 5 | amongst us those who have unwillingly forsaken our discipline
2654 I, 4 | new assiduity, and their unwonted attention to the duties
2655 II, 12 | laugh at your absurdity, or upbraid you for your blindness.
2656 I, 7 | and dogs tied together to upset them, and bits of meat to
2657 I, 12 | cross. Since the head rises upwards, and the back takes a straight
2658 I, 2 | FORM OF TRIAL. TERTULLIAN URGES THIS WITH MUCH INDIGNATION.~
2659 II, 16 | subjugation he was constantly urging. The cherry was first made
2660 app, frag| in her hide; and (thus) uses his own nurse's hide, after
2661 II, 5 | obedient, reaching even to the utility and injury of the human
2662 I, 5 | a most shameful set, and utterly steeped in luxury, avarice,
2663 I, 7 | wickedness of the human mind, and utters its falsehoods with more
2664 II, 1 | that has been gauged by vague suspicion? One that history
2665 II, 13 | very infancy of time are a valid claim for their deification,
2666 II, 14 | merits. If it was for his valour in destroying wild beasts
2667 I, 8 | abandons itself more to vanities than to verities. Can it
2668 II, 1 | uncertain, because of their variation with the poets all is worthless,
2669 II, 2 | weakness mainly by that variety of opinion which proceeds
2670 II, 8 | African Coelestis, the Moorish Varsutina, the Arabian Obodas and
2671 I, 10 | against each other with varying success, like pairs of gladiators:
2672 I, 7 | Fama malum, quo non aliud velocius ullum?"~Now, why a plague,
2673 II, 11 | the goddess) of fear; Venilia, of hope; Volupia, of pleasure;
2674 I, 10 | CONTEMPTIBLE.~Pour out now all your venom; fling against this name
2675 I, 1 | too true, nor do you like ventures which may be too near the
2676 II, 4 | were so called because the verbs <greek>qeein</greek> and <
2677 I, 2 | hand for arriving at a true verdict. In our case, on the contrary,
2678 II, 12 | demons. She in senarian verse expounds the descent of
2679 II, conc| artlessly reared, and the vessels (thereof) plain, and the
2680 I, 12 | have the streamers (and) vestments of your crosses. You are
2681 II, 7 | castrated, owing to her vexation at his daring to cross her
2682 I, 20 | whilst vigorous against vice out of doors, you succumb
2683 II, 15 | spectators even of sadness, as is Viduus, who makes a widow of the
2684 II, 9 | among so many suitors of the vilest character, preserved with
2685 I, 4 | the name, just as if you vilified in it both sect and founder,
2686 I, 3 | goodness. You are therefore vilifying in harmless men even the
2687 I, 3 | THEIR VERY NAME. THE NAME VINDICATED.~Since, therefore, you who
2688 app, frag| would visit its adulterous violator capitally. "He defiled freeborn
2689 I, 10 | grounds for impeaching us as violators of the law, and from which
2690 II, 7 | illustrious for justice, virtue, piety, and every excellence
2691 I, 4 | OF OLD, IN SOCRATES. THE VIRTUES OF THE CHRISTIANS.~But the
2692 II, 8 | Deluentinus of Casinum, Visidianus of Narnia, Numiternus of
2693 app, frag| wedlock." The Julian law would visit its adulterous violator
2694 I, 9 | earthquake or famine, or such visitations). I suppose it is as despisers
2695 II, 14 | inspection? Even if Hercules visited the infernal regions, who
2696 II, 15 | to bereave seed of its vital power; moreover, there is
2697 I, 4 | that which they know, they vitiate by that which they do not
2698 II, 11 | the womb; after these come Vitumnus and Sentinus, through whom
2699 II, conc| opposition to you, O heathen, viz. that the Romans have become
2700 app, frag| god. Do they perceive how void of amendment are the rest
2701 II, 11 | have likewise Volumnus and Voleta, to control the will; Paventina, (
2702 I, 9 | from heaven overwhelmed Volsinii, and flames from their own
2703 II, 11 | evil. They have likewise Volumnus and Voleta, to control the
2704 II, 7 | poetic licence; whenever we volunteer a silent contempt of this
2705 II, 3 | several other machines--he volunteers the statement that he believes
2706 II, 11 | fear; Venilia, of hope; Volupia, of pleasure; Praestitia,
2707 I, 7 | to the public. Even more voracious bites take nothing away
2708 I, 15 | far removed from you in voracity. If in the one case there
2709 II, 8 | befall those whom their very votaries have not succeeded in discovering!
2710 II, conc| destroyed his own liberal votary Croesus by deceiving him
2711 I, 7 | me ask on my side, what voucher they had then, or you now,
2712 I, 10 | AEmilius, who had made a vow to the god Alburnus. Now
2713 I, 10 | temple, which he may have vowed in battle, before the senate
2714 II, 8 | clear notions of Nortia of Vulsinii? There is no difference
2715 I, 16 | tides of passion fail to waft to the commission of this
2716 app, frag| This Jupiter, in adult age, waged war several years with his
2717 I, 18 | lately has offered for a wager to go to any place which
2718 I, 16 | inheritance, but as the wages of infamy and incest. That
2719 II, 7 | more pure than those who wait on the Supreme God? You
2720 II, 4 | when, star-gazing as he walked with all the eyes he had,
2721 II, 8 | confined within their own city walls. To what lengths this licence
2722 I, 10 | his winged cap and heated wand, tests with his cautery
2723 II, 2 | not be wise, since they wandered away indeed from the beginning
2724 I, 10 | Sarpedon; or he represents him wantoning with Juno in the most disgraceful
2725 I, 10 | and pawning them for your wants or your whims. Such insolent
2726 I, 16 | how they had lost their ward when he was a boy; he, on
2727 II, 5 | ripens the fruit with its warmth, and measures the year with
2728 I, 5 | a mole should grow, or a wart arise on it, or freckles
2729 I, 17 | still do the Gauls fail to wash away (their blood) in the
2730 I, 17 | away (their blood) in the waters of their Rhone. our allegations
2731 II, 5 | calamity not to the rocks and waves, but to the tempest. And
2732 II, 9 | felled with a stone--a vulgar weapon, to pelt a dog withal, inflicting
2733 I, 2 | committed murder; with what weapons, in what place, with what
2734 II, 6 | by their artful method of weaving conjectures, belie both
2735 I, 7 | ruthlessly condemned, and you may weigh its worth and character
2736 II, 12 | having met with a kind welcome from Janus, or Janes, as
2737 II, 8 | those seven fat-fleshed and well-favoured kine signified as many years
2738 I, 12 | the clay, the god. In a well-understood routine, the cross passes
2739 II, 12 | to his spouse, or Earth went up to meet her lord. Be
2740 II, 3 | the apparent mover of the wheel, or propeller of the carriage,
2741 II, 3 | things else have motion--as wheels, as carriages, as several
2742 | wherein
2743 I, 10 | them for your wants or your whims. Such insolent sacrilege
2744 II, 13 | that there is a certain wholesale distributor of divinity.
2745 II, 1 | adversaries she gains to her side whomsoever she will, as her friends
2746 II, 10 | hires Larentina to play the whore. The fire which dissolved
2747 I, 7 | through such crimes. Come, whosoever you are, plunge your sword
2748 II, conc| that that land should most widely rule which covered the ashes
2749 II, 9 | authority, another phase of the widespread error of man must now be
2750 II, 15 | as is Viduus, who makes a widow of the soul, by parting
2751 II, 12 | an artificer in iron. The widowed Tetra, however, although
2752 II, conc| aggrandized with the power of wielding empire might always have
2753 II, 1 | human error, owing to the wiles of its author, that it is
2754 app, frag| does foolish error think wings were born him in his old
2755 II, 10 | Hercules, however, proved the winner, I mean his other hand,
2756 I, 19 | perhaps your tongue, and wipe away those records of yours
2757 I, 4 | in truth, he was all the wiser by reason of this denial.
2758 I, 4 | learned to die? Whoever wishes to understand who the Christians
2759 II, 1 | spurious system of your gods. Wishing, then, to follow step by
2760 app, frag| themselves, too, gods--born, to wit, of an incestuous father;
2761 II, 9 | vulgar weapon, to pelt a dog withal, inflicting a wound no less
2762 I, 3 | therefore, that the issue may be withdrawn from the offensive name,
2763 I, 10 | are not content to have withheld honour from them, you must
2764 I, 10 | themselves. We have often witnessed in a mutilated criminal
2765 I, 7 | exclude every stranger from witnessing them, unless illicit ones
2766 I, 10 | heads. Your other wanton wits likewise minister to your
2767 II, 12 | should take them) than the wolves, (for to these would they
2768 I, 16 | Afterwards, as was his wont, the youth is sent by his
2769 II, 2 | held) Him to care about wordly things, both as the disposer
2770 II, 9 | merit deification? If he worked hard to enrich the fields
2771 II, 14 | zeal? If it was for his world-wide travels, how often has the
2772 I, 9 | since they injure even their worshippers on account of their despisers,
2773 II, 9 | dog withal, inflicting a wound no less ignoble! But this
2774 II, 5 | acknowledgments on the flannel wraps, or the medicines, or the
2775 II, 5 | what one might call their wrath and anger--as thunder, and
2776 II, 7 | hold up to execration the wretched, disgraceful and atrocious (
2777 I, 19 | composers of myth and poetry who write songs of this strain; but
2778 I, 10 | from whom every depraved writer gets his dreams, to whom
2779 II, 1 | HEATHEN AUTHORITIES. VARRO HAS WRITTEN A WORK ON THE SUBJECT. HIS
2780 II, 14 | is once more found in the wrong--impious to his grandson,
2781 II, conc| universal sway,~ Might fate be wrung to yield assent,~ E'en then
2782 II, 2 | and their entire progeny. Xenocrates, of the Academy, makes a
2783 II, conc| Minerva defend Athens from Xerxes? Or why did not Apollo rescue
2784 I, 19 | XIX. IF CHRISTIANS AND THE HEATHEN
2785 I, 18 | XVIII. CHRISTIANS CHARGED WITH
2786 I, 20 | XX. TRUTH AND REALITY PERTAIN
2787 I, 9 | famines, conflagrations, yawnings, and quakings of the earth
2788 I, 7 | sayings and proverbs testify; yea, as nature herself attests,
2789 | yes
2790 II, conc| Might fate be wrung to yield assent,~ E'en then her schemes,
2791 II, 9 | devotion more than human, yoked themselves to her car and
2792 I, 6 | failing to perceive what it is yon have to keep? No law must
2793 II, 8 | saints called Joseph. The youngest of his brethren, but superior
2794 II, 9 | why are not those noble youths of Argos rather accounted
2795 II, 14 | and that with more earnest zeal? If it was for his world-wide
2796 II, 5 | by the distribution into zones, except where human residence
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