Book, Chapter

  1        1, XX      |          the worship of irrational animals, and in arguments which
  2        1, XX      |         account of the divinity of animals, are to be considered wise;
  3        1, XX      |       level of rational and mortal animals, but even to that of irrational
  4        1, XXXVII  |     generation of several kinds of animals, that what He has done in
  5        1, XXXVII  |            the male (as writers on animals say is the case with vultures),
  6        1, LXVIII  |         what are not really living animals, but which have only the
  7        2, I       |       respecting clean and unclean animals. And from the narrative
  8        3, XVII    |    resemblance to those irrational animals which are worshipped within,
  9        3, XVIII   |           loftily about irrational animals, and who assert that they
 10        3, XIX     |      multitude think, to ephemeral animals; and that we are silly,
 11        3, XIX     |     obscure explanations about the animals (worshipped) among them,
 12        3, LXXV    |            all kinds of irrational animals, and sometimes into that
 13        3, LXXVI   |      temples and worship images or animals as divinities. And they
 14        4, XXIV    |            and compare them to the animals above mentioned? And whatever
 15        4, XXIV    |         likened to these worthless animals, since their littleness
 16        4, XXV     |         ignorance, nor liken it to animals of the kind described.~
 17        4, XXVI    |          worship either irrational animals, or images, or other objects,
 18        4, XXXI    |          and Christians, and those animals previously enumerated by
 19        4, XXXI    |           female, or the nature of animals, or of birds, or of creeping
 20        4, XLI     |        that it contained (all) the animals that were upon the earth,
 21        4, LIV     |          proved that the bodies of animals are not the work of God,
 22        4, LIV     |         man in general, and of the animals which minister to man, whatever
 23        4, LIV     |          and others--those of wild animals? And he who saw that some
 24        4, LV      |        living thing among creeping animals which the waters brought
 25        4, LVIII   |          of the meanest irrational animals are God's work, so that
 26        4, LVIII   |           he says that "irrational animals are more beloved by God
 27        4, LVIII   |          degree that of irrational animals, the work of God; for this
 28        4, LXXIV   |        Because from the history of animals, and from the sagacity manifested
 29        4, LXXIV   |         man than of the irrational animals. And here he seems to me
 30        4, LXXIV   |          general before irrational animals, and who maintain that Providence
 31        4, LXXIV   |          dogs and other irrational animals have the benefit of the
 32        4, LXXV    |          most savage of irrational animals?" Let Celsus then say distinctly
 33        4, LXXV    |            on our account) for the animals which are subject to us,
 34        4, LXXV    |           even for the most savage animals is not matter of surprise,
 35        4, LXXV    |           surprise, for these very animals are said by some who have
 36        4, LXXVI   |            that of the most savage animals, thus proceeds: "We indeed
 37        4, LXXVI   |         degree than the irrational animals, and yet all with a view
 38        4, LXXVI   |      advantage. For the irrational animals have their food provided
 39        4, LXXV    |          viz., that the irrational animals were created on his account,
 40        4, LXXV    |          because we hunt the other animals and live upon their flesh,
 41        4, LXXV    |         our gentle treatment those animals whose nature it is to be
 42        4, LXXIX   |     exceeds that of the irrational animals, he says: "With respect
 43        4, LXXXI   |          be superior to irrational animals on this account, that they
 44        4, LXXXI   |          be found among irrational animals, although Celsus may transfer
 45        4, LXXXI   |        extended even to irrational animals the capacity, as it were,
 46        4, LXXXIII |            adorned even irrational animals, so that even the most insignificant
 47        4, LXXXIII |        what likeness of irrational animals.~
 48        4, LXXXIV  |           he heaps upon irrational animals, so much the more does he
 49        4, LXXXIV  |           is of opinion that these animals, which, agreeably to the
 50        4, LXXXVI  |            level of the irrational animals, and desiring to omit not
 51        4, LXXXVI  |         prophylactics displayed by animals,--whether that knowledge
 52        4, LXXXVII |           against poisons known to animals: what does that avail to
 53        4, LXXXVII |            on with the rest of the animals; but as many discoveries
 54        4, LXXXVIII|          certain of the irrational animals are capable of thinking
 55        4, LXXXVIII|       deemed superior to the other animals, let those who hold this
 56        4, LXXXVIII|       claimed by many of the other animals; and with good reason: for
 57        4, LXXXVIII|     acquire the art from the other animals, and especially from birds.
 58        4, LXXXVIII|            and the other prophetic animals, which are enabled by the
 59        4, LXXXVIII|             moreover, say that the animals hold meetings which are
 60        4, LXXXVIII|           foretold. And no race of animals appears to be more observant
 61        4, LXXXVIII|          birds of augury and other animals, by which certain prophetic
 62        4, LXXXVIII|            method of divination by animals, or not. And, in the second
 63        4, LXXXVIII|           of divination s that the animals receive their impulses to
 64        4, LXXXVIII|     different kinds, and the other animals to movements of one sort
 65        4, LXXXIX  |     statements that the irrational animals are more divine and intelligent
 66        4, LXXXIX  |           demons or from gods that animals receive the movements which
 67        4, LXXXIX  |        that the soul of irrational animals is more divine than that
 68        4, LXXXIX  |         allegation that irrational animals are wiser than men, and
 69        4, XC      |           and the other irrational animals, which he regards as capable
 70        4, XC      |            God than the irrational animals), beneath the Egyptians,
 71        4, XC      |             who worship irrational animals as divinities. Let the principal
 72        4, XC      | superiority of man over irrational animals, even over those that are
 73        4, XC      |          general, not one of these animals would have been captured
 74        4, XCI     |             and the other rational animals also ideas of the divinity
 75        4, XCI     |         may be found, to show that animals do not possess a prophetic
 76        4, XCII    |           and savage and wicked of animals, and stir them up to do
 77        4, XCII    |       turning the fancies of these animals to make flights and movements
 78        4, XCII    |          that is in the irrational animals, and neglect to seek after
 79        4, XCII    | prognostications are obtained from animals of this kind; because the
 80        4, XCII    |  effectively in the milder sort of animals as they can in these, in
 81        4, XCII    |   wickedness, which exist in these animals.~
 82        4, XCIII   |    observed the varying natures of animals, and having either learned
 83        4, XCIII   |         are kindred to each of the animals, or having himself ascertained
 84        4, XCIII   |   arranging the different kinds of animals, pronounced all those which
 85        4, XCIII   |            And amongst the unclean animals mentioned by Moses are the
 86        4, XCIII   |        also in the prophets, these animals are employed as examples
 87        4, XCV     |         neither employs irrational animals, nor any individuals whom
 88        4, XCVI    |            this, that "many of the animals claim to have ideas of God;"
 89        4, XCVI    |         for none of the irrational animals possess any idea of God.
 90        4, XCVI    |    assertion, that "the irrational animals are nearer the society of
 91        4, XCVII   |            only are the irrational animals wiser than the human race,
 92        4, XCVII   |            position, that if these animals be more beloved by God than
 93        4, XCVII   |         with the prayer: "If these animals be dearer to God than men,
 94        4, XCVII   |       assemblies of the irrational animals are more sacred than ours,
 95        4, XCVII   |     Intelligent men say that these animals hold assemblies which are
 96        4, XCVII   |       assemblies of the irrational animals were more sacred than those
 97        4, XCVII   |       assemblies of the irrational animals are more sacred than those
 98        4, XCVIII  |      instance among the irrational animals which might put men to shame,
 99        5, V       |       demons, or to statues, or to animals, but (by those who know
100        5, VII     |          true, for neither are the animals and plants upon the earth
101        5, VII     |            according to this view, animals, as flies, and gnats, and
102        5, XXIV    |         departed) like that of the animals. Let it not then be held,
103        5, XXXVI   |            them, or for irrational animals, but that what is written
104        5, XXXVI   |          of relating to irrational animals, contains certain truths
105        5, XXXVIII |          of the essence of all the animals and plants that are under
106        5, XXXIX   |          derived by men from these animals. Whereas, is it not the
107        5, XXXIX   |           stupidity to spare those animals which do not spare us, and
108        5, XLIX    |        nature of clean and unclean animals, and the cause of the distinction,
109        6, XVI     |           why a camel--that one of animals which, as regards its physical
110        6, XXV     |          There go the ships; small animals with great; there is this
111        6, XXVI    |       boasted of their pictures of animals and diagrams, as if the
112        6, LX      |         the fourth, and of aquatic animals upon the fifth, and of land
113        6, LX      |        upon the fifth, and of land animals and man upon the sixth,
114        7, LXVII   |       sometimes from the bodies of animals; for even these creatures
115        8, XV      |          rules over the irrational animals,--not by persuasion, but
116        8, XXVIII  |      abstain from the flesh of all animals. We do not indeed deny that
117        8, XXX     |           were to eat of strangled animals, we might have such spirits
118        8, XXX     |       forbids the use of strangled animals for food is also applicable
119        8, XXX     |         Christians: "The eating of animals," says he, "is a matter
120        8, XXX     |          abstain from the flesh of animals in the same way as we are
121        8, XXX     |         not only from the flesh of animals, but from all other kinds
122        8, XXX     |           from eating the flesh of animals, it is evidently, therefore,
123        8, L       |          as it does the irrational animals, but our Creator made us
124        8, LII     |          to the necessities of the animals, and especially of man,
125        8, LVII    |       earth, and over the birth of animals, it is the latter that we