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 1        1, XX     |         if the Egyptians related fables of this kind, they are believed
 2        1, XX     |        to be considered as empty fables, the language of which admits
 3        1, XXIII  |         gods. And why should the fables of the Greeks regarding
 4        1, XXXII  |          blindly concocted these fables about the adultery of the
 5        1, XXXVII |          yet these are veritable fables, which have led to the invention
 6        1, XXXVII |      virgin, comparing the Greek fables about Danae, and Melanippe,
 7        1, LXVI   |      such as is described in the fables of Homer; and with a taunt
 8        1, LXVII  | continues: "The old mythological fables, which attributed a divine
 9        1, LXVII  |          produce a belief in the fables which represented them as
10        1, LXVII  |       they take us back to their fables and histories, wishing us
11        2, V      |         day are mere trifles and fables, since they have not the
12        2, LII    |          convert men from Jewish fables, and from the human traditions
13        4, XXXVI  |      relating certain old wives' fables, and most impiously representing
14        4, XLII   |        they assert that they are fables, clumsily invented for infant
15        4, XLVIII |       him, that if we must admit fables and fictions, whether written
16        4, XLVIII |          countless other similar fables, that we would not even
17        4, L      |         who invented the Grecian fables. And therefore not without
18        4, L      |         expel from his state all fables and poems of such a nature
19        4, LI     |     shameful and absurd than the fables themselves, inasmuch as
20        4, LI     |       what Celsus imagines to be fables in the sacred writings.
21        5, XX     |          contemptible old wives' fables, it is at them rather than
22        5, XXXVIII|           And with regard to the fables which relate to Osiris and
23        5, XXXVIII|      meaning may be given to the fables, they will nevertheless
24        5, XLII   |          progress therein, these fables, so to speak, were transfigured
25        5, LVII   |         regarded as fictions and fables; but when those who are
26        5, LVII   |         to men only fictions and fables. Moreover, regarding the
27        6, XXXIII |        Celsus next relates other fables, to the effect that "certain
28        6, XXXIII |          which, according to the fables of these impious individuals,
29        6, XXXVII |      lull him to sleep, any such fables as those have done who invented
30        7, XL     |        of the inventors of these fables, and that he imagines the
31        7, XL     |           If we reject all these fables, it is not out of deference
32        7, LIV    |      acquainted with his impious fables about the gods, he did not
33        8, XLV    |      same time he treats as mere fables the wonders which are recorded
34        8, XLV    |        true, and those of Celsus fables and fictions? At least,
35        8, LXVI   |          we must also admit many fables and fictions which can be
36        8, LXVI   |   allowed by no one who discards fables and seeks after truth.~