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1 I | THE FALSE WORSHIP OF THE GODS.~
2 I, 2 | raised doubts respecting the gods; or Diagoras afterwards,
3 I, 2 | not hold the existence of gods, except that there was supposed
4 I, 2 | treat of the nature of the gods. And it was no difficult
5 I, 3 | hold that there are many gods, do indeed effect this;
6 I, 3 | indeed effect this; for those gods must of necessity be weak,
7 I, 3 | also, if there are more gods than one, they will be of
8 I, 3 | excellences and powers of the gods must necessarily be weaker,
9 I, 3 | deem that there are many gods, say that they have divided
10 I, 3 | other hand, that those many gods are such as we hold the
11 I, 3 | because the power of these gods individually will not be
12 I, 3 | believe that there are many gods, do not see that it may
13 I, 3 | as Homer represented the gods at war among themselves,
14 I, 3 | those maintainers of many gods are aware of this, they
15 I, 3 | this principle, will not be gods, but attendants and ministers,
16 I, 3 | one another, all are not gods; for that which serves and
17 I, 3 | therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to
18 I, 5 | however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified
19 I, 5 | poets, and coeval with the gods themselves,--since it is
20 I, 5 | is the Parent of all the gods, on whose account He framed
21 I, 5 | book the generation of the gods; but yet he gave us no information,
22 I, 5 | Antisthenes maintained that the gods of the people were many,
23 I, 5 | respecting the nature of the gods in this way: "Nothing is
24 I, 5 | God or heaven and of all gods, on whom those deities which
25 I, 5 | whole body, yet He produced gods as ministers of His kingdom."
26 I, 5 | deemed that there were other gods, and believed that those
27 I, 5 | be held and worshipped as gods.~
28 I, 6 | men and placed among the gods. According to Cicero, Caius
29 I, 6 | which prevail respecting the gods, in order that he might,
30 I, 6 | proclaiming the counsels of the gods. For in the Aeolic dialect
31 I, 6 | dialect they used to call the gods by the word Sioi, not .
32 I, 6 | testimonies of their own gods?~
33 I, 7 | TESTIMONIES OF APOLLO AND THE GODS.~Apollo, indeed, whom they
34 I, 7 | kingdom. But these are neither gods, nor do they wish to be
35 I, 7 | do they wish to be called gods or to be worshipped, inasmuch
36 I, 7 | Nor, however, are they gods who are worshipped in common,
37 I, 7 | if the worshippers of the gods think that they worship
38 I, 7 | many. If a multitude of gods delights them, we do not
39 I, 7 | took away from the other gods their name, as he took away
40 I, 7 | God ought not to be called gods, but angels. He spoke falsely
41 I, 8 | majesty, they who worship the gods sometimes appear so blind,
42 I, 8 | substance? Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal,
43 I, 8 | foolish regard and worship as gods. Why, then, some one will
44 I, 8 | were they believed to be gods? Doubtless because they
45 I, 9 | as an Africanus among the gods, by his debaucheries, lusts,
46 I, 9 | who spared not men nor gods, but these especially who
47 I, 9 | sting the praises of the gods. Whom, then, shall we believe,
48 I, 9 | who may teach us who these gods are, in what manner and
49 I, 10| contract he had made with gods. And he also, while in love
50 I, 10| wretched not only of the gods, but also of all mortals,
51 I, 10| rank in the senate of the gods, because he was the only
52 I, 11| the most powerful of the gods, but also as their conqueror.
53 I, 11| Jupiter, with the other gods, is led in chains before
54 I, 11| of religious dread to the gods above." What is this object
55 I, 11| power which may punish the gods who commit perjury? What
56 I, 11| Why do they swear by the gods above, when the gods above
57 I, 11| the gods above, when the gods above themselves have recourse
58 I, 11| recourse to the infernal gods, and find among them an
59 I, 11| there are fates whom all the gods and Jupiter himself obey?
60 I, 11| avail than all the heavenly gods, and their ruler and lord
61 I, 11| necessity compels all the gods to obey their laws and ordinances?
62 I, 11| they said that they were gods. Those things, therefore,
63 I, 11| spoke concerning them as gods were feigned, and not those
64 I, 11| and the marriages of the gods? Why, then, are they so
65 I, 11| frame the images of the gods, that, from the very diversity
66 I, 11| others, who are esteemed gods, and composed a history
67 I, 11| Crete, and departed to the gods. And the Curetes. his sons,
68 I, 11| concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three
69 I, 12| concerning the Nature of the Gods. They held, he says, that
70 I, 13| THE STOICS RESPECTING THE GODS, AND IN THEM CONCERNING
71 I, 13| that he reigned over the gods above. From which it appears
72 I, 14| ENNIUS TEACHES CONCERNING THE GODS.~Now, since the sacred history
73 I, 15| MEN OBTAINED THE NAME OF GODS.~Now, since it is evident
74 I, 15| they began to be called gods. For if there were no kings
75 I, 15| that they even called them gods; whether on account of their
76 I, 15| treatise on the Nature of the Gods, saying "But the life of
77 I, 15| Liber" were ranked with the gods. And in another passage: "
78 I, 15| honour paid to the immortal gods." It was doubtless on this
79 I, 15| the honours paid to the gods were instituted, when he
80 I, 15| hesitate to say that those gods who were publicly worshipped
81 I, 15| worships and venerates the same gods. And thus within the compass
82 I, 15| among the number of the gods, and venerate their shrines,
83 I, 15| with the approbation of the gods, I will place you the best
84 I, 15| Let them reverence the gods, both those who have always
85 I, 15| always been regarded as gods of heaven, and those whose
86 I, 15| held in the highest rank as gods will be found to have gone
87 I, 15| whom he termed the greater gods; and therefore he says that
88 I, 15| and the other more ancient gods: for if the ancients consecrated
89 I, 15| guardian of your country the gods produced you? You brought
90 I, 15| race, descended from the gods." On account of this regret
91 I, 15| Romulus had gone to the gods, and freed the senate from
92 I, 16| DIFFERENCE OF SEX CANNOT BE GODS.~I might be content with
93 I, 16| invented fables about the gods, and yet believe in the
94 I, 16| Jupiter and of the other gods. Therefore new gods are
95 I, 16| other gods. Therefore new gods are born, and that indeed
96 I, 16| and that indeed daily, for gods are not surpassed in fruitfulness
97 I, 16| that all things are full of gods without number, since forsooth
98 I, 16| to be the case with the gods who have been born through
99 I, 16| there are two sexes of the gods, not for the sake of generation,
100 I, 16| gratification, and that the gods practise those things which
101 I, 16| who maintain that they are gods, see in what manner they
102 I, 16| there are two sexes of the gods, conjugal intercourse follows;
103 I, 16| says, "The multitude of gods occupy separate places;
104 I, 16| there are females among the gods also. Therefore there are
105 I, 16| Therefore there are not gods. If any one is able, let
106 I, 16| argument, that there are no gods, since there are females
107 I, 16| are females also among the gods.~
108 I, 17| DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF THE GODS.~On these accounts the Stoics
109 I, 17| different conception of the gods; and because they do not
110 I, 17| this opinion respecting the gods and their religions. Do
111 I, 17| of false and fictitious gods? And this circumstance gave
112 I, 17| For both the forms of the gods, and their ages, and clothing
113 I, 17| the false and fictitious gods, and testifies that their
114 I, 17| respecting the Nature of the Gods altogether overthrows and
115 I, 17| those who are supposed to be gods were but men, and that their
116 I, 17| hardships of the unfortunate gods. Isis lost her son; Ceres
117 I, 17| forth. The mother of the gods both loved a beautiful youth,
118 I, 17| the lusts of all, not only gods, but also men? For from
119 I, 17| Vulcan had made arms for the gods, and Jupiter had given him
120 I, 18| ON THE CONSECRATION OF GODS, ON ACCOUNT OF THE BENEFITS
121 I, 18| who not only admit that gods have been made from men,
122 I, 18| those who had believed that gods owed their origin to the
123 I, 18| admitted to the assembly of the gods, and that there is no other
124 I, 18| should make to themselves gods from the slaughter of wild
125 I, 18| this earthly abode of the gods. But he who has slaughtered
126 I, 18| ascend to the regions of the gods above, the greatest gate
127 I, 18| benefits gave the name of gods to Ceres and Liber. I am
128 I, 19| who can extinguish even gods by His lightnings. But ingenious
129 I, 19| upon among themselves, that gods were made from men, why
130 I, 19| could not possibly become gods, since they were not even
131 I, 20| XX. OF THE GODS PECULIAR TO THE ROMANS,
132 I, 20| was worthy of having his gods always at hand, as men commonly
133 I, 20| in placing Mind among the gods; for if they had possessed
134 I, 20| and wished them to worship gods of profligacy, in those
135 I, 20| you that it worships some gods that it may receive benefits,
136 I, 20| who regard their evils as gods, as the Romans esteem Blight
137 I, 20| to invent for themselves gods from events. For when they
138 I, 20| greatly as that the name of gods had conic into such contempt
139 I, 20| were the chapels of many gods on that spot, he consulted
140 I, 21| ROMANS.~We have spoken of the gods themselves who are worshipped;
141 I, 21| sacrifices implore from the gods? Or what are such deities
142 I, 21| madness! What more could those gods do to them, if they were
143 I, 21| amidst the altars of the gods? Pescennius Festus relates
144 I, 21| honour of the mother of the gods, in which men mutilate themselves;
145 I, 21| first place, both among the gods and in religious rites,
146 I, 21| in religious rites, if no gods were worshipped by the people
147 I, 21| think that they are carrying gods themselves on their shoulders.
148 I, 22| were most acceptable to the gods. It is evident that he wished
149 I, 22| augurs; he arranged the gods in families; and by these
150 I, 22| Picus with a place among the gods, and consecrated his sister
151 I, 22| imagine that images are gods: "The terrestrial Lamiae,
152 I, 22| whereas these take them for gods: the one through their age,
153 I, 22| author of the worship of the gods. Didymus, in the books of
154 I, 22| first who sacrificed to the gods, and introduced new rites
155 I, 22| practice of worshipping the gods proceeded from Melisseus,
156 I, 22| still agreed upon when the gods began to be worshipped.
157 I, 22| taught the worship of the gods, namely, the mother of his
158 I, 23| was the father of all the gods. Let them not glory, then,
159 II, 1 | religious ceremonies of the gods are false, because those
160 II, 1 | believed that they were gods, and afterwards with an
161 II, 1 | the worshippers of other gods themselves confess and acknowledge
162 II, 1 | Jupiter, or a number of gods, but God; so entirely does
163 II, 1 | hasten to the temples of the gods: they pour libations to
164 II, 1 | these ceremonies paid to the gods are not in accordance with
165 II, 2 | heaven; for if they are gods, the case cannot be otherwise.
166 II, 2 | then, shall we reckon the gods? If among the dead, who
167 II, 2 | our prayers. But if the gods cannot be absent,--for,
168 II, 2 | are superfluous, since the gods are present everywhere,
169 II, 2 | worship the images of the gods, they supplicate them with
170 II, 2 | society him who makes your gods? What force, what power
171 II, 3 | their souls with fear of the gods, and weigh and press them
172 II, 3 | worshipped, because the gods do not regard the affairs
173 II, 3 | ceremonies and worship of the gods is an unavailing office:--~"
174 II, 3 | before the shrines of the gods, and sprinkle thealtars
175 II, 4 | set off and adorn their gods with gold, ivory, and jewels,
176 II, 4 | earth, so they honour the gods, who when they were made
177 II, 4 | images and statues of the gods, wrought in gold and ivory
178 II, 4 | plunder and jeer at such gods, for he followed up his
179 II, 4 | it was befitting that the gods should be their own avengers.
180 II, 4 | distrust the power of their gods. For why should they not
181 II, 4 | avenge the injury done to the gods. And, in truth, they display
182 II, 4 | shallowness in imagining that the gods will injure them on account
183 II, 4 | Dionysius, who insulted the gods openly, and not in secret?
184 II, 4 | prosperous a voyage the immortal gods themselves give to the sacrilegious?
185 II, 4 | learnt from Plato that the gods have no power. What of Caius
186 II, 4 | carrying away the images of the gods, and the ornaments of the
187 II, 4 | they had now not even any gods in their cities to whom
188 II, 4 | which it appears that those gods have nothing in them more
189 II, 4 | years experienced that those gods had no power. For they would
190 II, 4 | was not punished by the gods, but by the energy of Cicero,
191 II, 4 | So that, as the immortal gods had given a prosperous voyage
192 II, 4 | carrying off the spoils of gods, so also they appear to
193 II, 4 | violated majesty of the gods,--carried him off, satiated
194 II, 4 | end of his accuser; the gods doubtless providing that
195 II, 5 | THE STARS AND PLANETS ARE GODS.~How much better, therefore,
196 II, 5 | and obtuse mind adore as gods the elements, which are
197 II, 5 | nevertheless regard them as gods, being ungrateful towards
198 II, 5 | reckoned in the number of gods; inasmuch as the Stoic Lucilius
199 II, 5 | objects in the number of the gods." And he thus speaks a little
200 II, 5 | uneducated. For they regard as gods only the sun and moon, but
201 II, 5 | perhaps we ought to worship gods so innumerable without any
202 II, 5 | any discrimination, and gods so minute in a mass. Why
203 II, 5 | the heavenly bodies are gods, tends to the opposite conclusion?
204 II, 5 | they imagine that they are gods on this account, because
205 II, 5 | from this that they are not gods, because it is not permitted
206 II, 5 | orbits. But if they were gods, they would be borne hither
207 II, 5 | that the stars should be gods, it follows that the sun
208 II, 5 | the sun andmoon cannot be gods, since they differ from
209 II, 5 | design. And if these are not gods,the same is true of the
210 II, 6 | and mountains will not be gods; and if these are not so,
211 II, 6 | neither are the fountains gods from which the water flows.
212 II, 6 | if the fountains are not gods, neither are the rivers,
213 II, 6 | the rivers also are not gods, it follows that the sea,
214 II, 6 | parts of the world, can be gods, it follows that the world
215 II, 6 | gnats, and ants appear to be gods, because these also have
216 II, 6 | constructed for the sake of gods and men as a common dwelling?
217 II, 6 | elements of the world are gods, they also say that the
218 II, 6 | that out of a great heap of gods one God can be made up?
219 II, 6 | made up? If the stars are gods, it follows that the world
220 II, 6 | but the dwelling-place of gods. But if the world is God,
221 II, 6 | which are in it are not gods, but members of God, which
222 II, 6 | were, a common abode for gods and men. If, therefore,
223 II, 7 | pretence of worshipping the gods, avarice and desire are
224 II, 7 | For they believe that the gods love whatever they themselves
225 II, 7 | spoils and plunder to the gods, who must undoubtedly be
226 II, 7 | condemned? They approach the gods, therefore not so much on
227 II, 7 | religious institutions of the gods are not true: what will
228 II, 8 | whom we have shown to be no gods, have often displayed their
229 II, 8 | immediate punishment of whom the gods are believed to have avenged
230 II, 8 | to show the power of the gods. For it is said that Jupiter
231 II, 9 | discussing the nature of the gods, thus speaks: "First of
232 II, 9 | take away the nature of the gods, respecting which philosophers
233 II, 9 | therefore to take away the gods, for they had no existence.
234 II, 10| perpetual light, and the gods above, and eternal life;
235 II, 11| declares that he was not of the gods. But no one reckoned his
236 II, 11| Iapetus or his uncle Titan as gods, because the high dignity
237 II, 11| modes of worshipping the gods introduced. And thus the
238 II, 14| that the worship of the gods was from the beginning of
239 II, 15| they think that these are gods. They are acquainted, indeed,
240 II, 15| worship the wise demons as gods of the earth, and as averters
241 II, 17| themselves to be called gods: for their one and only
242 II, 17| the name and worship of gods; not that they desire any
243 II, 17| suffer punishment? Or if the gods regard the leaders only,
244 II, 18| the religious rites of the gods are vain in a threefold
245 III, 11| that there cannot be many gods; or they devote themselves
246 III, 12| and make us equal to the gods." But the Stoics also, whom
247 III, 12| either in the worship of the gods or in philosophy; and on
248 III, 14| should be enrolled among the gods?"~From this it appears,
249 III, 14| time the invention, of the gods, he fashions after the manner
250 III, 17| irreligious is told that the gods pay no attention to the
251 III, 17| altogether neglected the gods, or worshipped them in an
252 III, 17| Epicurus says: that the gods take no notice; that they
253 III, 18| that he had departed to the gods; and thus also of the Romans
254 III, 19| take their flight to the gods, that is, to a nature resembling
255 III, 29| then, remains for the other gods? Why is she not said to
256 III, 30| which those worshippers of gods do not cease to upbraid
257 IV, 1 | in the existence of many gods, they suddenly arrived at
258 IV, 1 | these corrupt and frail gods, and devoting themselves
259 IV, 1 | themselves, together with their gods and goods relating to the
260 IV, 3 | ONE.~The worship of the gods, as I have taught in the
261 IV, 3 | religious system of the gods are separated, and far removed
262 IV, 3 | there is no approach to the gods, and that others are priests
263 IV, 3 | religious system of the gods able to give an account
264 IV, 3 | undertake a priesthood of the gods; and when this happens,
265 IV, 3 | only because it relates to gods who are dumb, but also because
266 IV, 3 | that the worship of many gods is not in accordance with
267 IV, 3 | at in the council of the gods: "So that there is none
268 IV, 3 | excellent father of the gods; so that father Neptunus,
269 IV, 3 | therefore the worship of many gods is contrary to nature, and
270 IV, 3 | Therefore the worship of many gods is contrary to reason and
271 IV, 3 | necessary to consider the gods both as fathers and lords.
272 IV, 3 | no true worship of many gods; just as that cannot be
273 IV, 3 | religious system of the gods is unchaste and unholy,
274 IV, 4 | and those who worship many gods, either resemble disinherited
275 IV, 4 | will the worshippers of gods escape the penalty of everlasting
276 IV, 4 | to the worshippers of the gods as well as to the professors
277 IV, 4 | necessary duty. But that the gods cannot be fathers or lords,
278 IV, 4 | reported that man was made by gods, nor is it found that the
279 IV, 4 | nor is it found that the gods themselves preceded the
280 IV, 11| impious worship of false gods, then God filled just and
281 IV, 11| Walk ye not after strange gods, to serve them; and provoke
282 IV, 13| by the confession of the gods themselves? For in that
283 IV, 13| to be a betrayer of the gods and of himself, unless he
284 IV, 14| and the worship of false gods had so prevailed throughout
285 IV, 14| sent to abolish the false gods, and to assert the existence
286 IV, 17| themselves with mud who worship gods, that is, who worship mud
287 IV, 27| they sacrifice to their gods, if any one bearing a marked
288 IV, 27| foreheads, they caused the gods of their masters to flee,
289 IV, 27| engagement. But they say that the gods do this, not through fear,
290 IV, 27| is a difference between gods and demons? Let them therefore
291 IV, 27| the demons do not fear the gods, or that the gods cannot
292 IV, 27| fear the gods, or that the gods cannot put to flight the
293 IV, 27| then, is the power of the gods, if the demons are not subject
294 IV, 27| the multitude esteem to be gods are also demons? Lastly,
295 IV, 27| execration, are the same as the gods to whom they offer supplications.
296 IV, 27| and at another time as gods,--of which names one is
297 IV, 27| falsely say that they are gods; in order that they may
298 IV, 28| respecting the nature of the gods he thus speaks: "For not
299 IV, 28| related to the worship of the gods, were called religious from
300 IV, 28| the worship of the same gods, there is little or rather
301 IV, 28| sufficiently honours the gods; and he, on the contrary,
302 IV, 28| relating to the worship of the gods are called religious from
303 IV, 28| those things by which the gods are worshipped? What, then,
304 IV, 28| because the worshippers of the gods imagine themselves to be
305 IV, 28| their houses as household gods. For those who assumed to
306 IV, 28| might honour the dead as gods, whom they supposed to be
307 IV, 28| worshipped the public and ancient gods they named religious. From
308 IV, 28| and ignorant of ancient gods."~But since we find that
309 IV, 28| we find that the ancient gods also were consecrated in
310 IV, 28| who worship many and false gods. We, on the other hand,
311 V, 2 | is, to the worship of the gods, by whose power and majesty,
312 V, 2 | undertaken the worship of the gods, but also that, having laid
313 V, 2 | the religious rites of the gods; that he had, in short,
314 V, 2 | and might experience the gods propitious to them. But
315 V, 3 | being a defender of the gods, you had at last betrayed
316 V, 3 | last betrayed those very gods? For, having set forth the
317 V, 3 | For you affirm that the gods exist, and yet you subject
318 V, 5 | religious worship of the gods not having yet been instituted,
319 V, 6 | offspring were consecrated as gods, and the worship of many
320 V, 8 | while the worship of false gods continues, which cannot
321 V, 8 | wicked and unjust because gods are worshipped; and that
322 V, 8 | men would live the life of gods." Therefore the unjust and
323 V, 8 | and impious worship of the gods has introduced all the evils
324 V, 9 | despoil the temples of the gods whom they worship; and,
325 V, 9 | who are worshippers of the gods. Amidst these crimes of
326 V, 10| that nothing extends to the gods, and that they are neither
327 V, 10| yet because they worship gods whose impious and profane
328 V, 10| why the worshippers of the gods cannot be good and just.
329 V, 10| herself as it were among the gods? how shall they withhold
330 V, 10| to injustice by the very gods themselves? For, that you
331 V, 11| with the character of their gods, they exercise with violence
332 V, 11| is the discipline of the gods: to these deeds they train
333 V, 12| generally with those who worship gods, let us have your permission
334 V, 12| together with their decaying gods? If, therefore, the worshippers
335 V, 12| therefore, the worshippers of gods are wise, and we are foolish,
336 V, 13| from the worshippers of gods, but is never lessened,
337 V, 13| when they think that the gods are angry with them, nevertheless
338 V, 13| poured a libation to their gods? Unless by chance they think
339 V, 13| would not the more hate the gods, on account of whom he bears
340 V, 15| overthrown the religions of the gods, because they are opposed
341 V, 19| conferred upon it by the gods? "Assuredly it delights
342 V, 20| plunderers, whom they think to be gods? of whom they neither know
343 V, 20| know themselves nor their gods. And would to heaven that
344 V, 20| undertake the defence of their gods, lest, if our affairs should
345 V, 20| undertake the worship of their gods; let them persuade us that
346 V, 20| of their sacred rites and gods were handed down to mortals;
347 V, 20| from books the race of the gods, and their exploits, and
348 V, 20| to imagine that they are gods, whom they cannot deny to
349 V, 20| sacrifice, present to their gods nothing from within, nothing
350 V, 20| is the religion of those gods? what is its power? what
351 V, 21| OF THE WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS AND THE TRUE GOD, AND OF
352 V, 21| As though, if they were gods, they would need the assistance
353 V, 21| that they destroy their gods, whose power they distrust,
354 V, 21| do they do service to the gods? But that is not a sacrifice
355 V, 21| by tortures. If they are gods who are worshipped in this
356 V, 21| they are defenders of their gods, and rage without restraint
357 V, 21| not good to worship their gods, since men ought to have
358 V, 21| and cattle, and adore as gods some things which it is
359 V, 21| say that they worship the gods, yet publicly and shamefully
360 V, 21| who say that there are no gods at all, but that all things
361 V, 21| who admit the existence of gods, but deny that they regard
362 V, 21| that no one should fear the gods. And yet these things are
363 V, 22| this account, because their gods are not worshipped by us,
364 V, 22| that the rites of other gods are true, since their worshippers
365 V, 23| causes the worship of their gods to be regarded as true and
366 V, 23| the worship of the false gods by their hatred of cruelty.
367 V, 23| that the worship of the gods is considered evil by so
368 VI, 1 | OF THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS.~We have completed that
369 VI, 1 | to be pleasing to their gods, not by any reference to
370 VI, 2 | OF THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS AND THE TRUE GOD.~Therefore
371 VI, 2 | has known God. But their gods, because they are of the
372 VI, 2 | do not attribute to the gods a heavenly perception, but
373 VI, 2 | and understood that those gods, since they once lived,
374 VI, 2 | chance they imagine that the gods feed upon that which men
375 VI, 2 | dost thou win the ears of gods? Is it with lungs and rich
376 VI, 7 | or because there are many gods who are worshipped. The
377 VI, 7 | namely, in the worship of the gods, in which he slays them
378 VI, 9 | causes him to serve other gods, and no greater crime than
379 VI, 13| For if the worshippers of gods adore senseless images,
380 VI, 20| festivals in honour of the gods, inasmuch as they were instituted
381 VI, 20| be paid also to the other gods, and separate games were
382 VII, 2 | is known to the immortal gods; but I think that no man
383 VII, 3 | world was not made by the gods, thus spoke:~"To say, again,
384 VII, 3 | denied the existence of gods with this object, that they
385 VII, 5 | to dead and death-bearing gods. This is the cause why God
386 VII, 6 | IS THE WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS.~Now let us mark the whole
387 VII, 6 | in the worship of these gods; for if they are many, if
388 VII, 6 | have they to say why the gods so regularly supply to men
389 VII, 6 | involved in the worship of the gods, or by whom was the world
390 VII, 6 | are renewed? What do the gods obtain from the worship
391 VII, 6 | which is worthy of men or of gods? Or if souls remain after
392 VII, 9 | believe in the existence of gods who, if they exist, are
393 VII, 11| to those who adore false gods and neglect the true God.
394 VII, 11| those who, having despised gods of the earth and frail goods,
395 VII, 13| has been placed among the gods, and honoured by the Egyptians
396 VII, 14| some mortals have become gods by the decrees and dogmas
397 VII, 18| kingsent against him from the gods shall slay all the great
398 VII, 19| slavery. No longer shall gods made by the hands be worshipped;
399 VII, 19| made by the hand of the gods shall be burnt up."~
400 VII, 22| who are supposed to be gods of heaven, but one who was
401 VII, 22| to the impious worship of gods made with hands, not by
402 VII, 22| accord should leave the gods and betake themselves to