Book, Chapter

  1    I, pref|           pursuit of pleasures, that, being disengaged and without impediment,
  2    I, pref|             that of oratory, in which being long engaged, we trained
  3    I, pref|          power into the minds of men, being both provided with its own
  4    I, 3   |             understand that it is one Being who both created all things
  5    I, 3   |             cannot be governed by one Being, is deceived. For he does
  6    I, 3   |               and subject to no other being; therefore they are not
  7    I, 4   |             declare the one God; for, being filled with the inspiration
  8    I, 5   |             origin and nature of this Being, he said that He was born
  9    I, 5   |             say. He affirms that this Being is the Parent of all the
 10    I, 5   |              have been formed by some being. Who, then, made it except
 11    I, 5   |           Pythagoras thus defined the being of God, "as a soul passing
 12    I, 5   |               his Exhortations: "This Being, when He was laying the
 13    I, 6   |              they were liable to err, being themselves but men. Marcus
 14    I, 7   |             has reached Him, all ways being, as it were, summed up and
 15    I, 7   |               Another brought us into being, another formed us; but
 16    I, 8   |            governs them by His power, being incomprehensible and unspeakable,
 17    I, 9   |               to be thought worthy of being attributed to divine excellence.
 18    I, 9   |           Argonauts, and sacked Troy, being enraged with Laomedon on
 19    I, 10  |             earned the distinction of being struck with lightning by
 20    I, 10  |         nourished by a dog, and that, being delivered to Chiron, he
 21    I, 10  |              twin-brothers. For Idas, being excited with jealousy on
 22    I, 10  |    overpowered by love and lust. For, being conveyed to Crete with his
 23    I, 11  |             names Jupiter and Juno as being derived from giving help;
 24    I, 11  |             argued thus: That Saturn, being a very powerful king, in
 25    I, 13  |             be a matter of fact that, being a man, he suffered mutilation
 26    I, 13  |              banishment by a son. And being in fear of this, it is plain
 27    I, 13  |        another, and not from himself? Being placed in heaven, why did
 28    I, 13  |        overcome his power? Doubtless, being aged, he was easily overcome
 29    I, 15  |              the Greeks, whose levity being furnished with the ability
 30    I, 15  |              basis. And if any living being was worthy of being consecrated,
 31    I, 15  |            living being was worthy of being consecrated, assuredly it
 32    I, 15  |               Tyndarus, was worthy of being extolled by fame to the
 33    I, 16  |               But a difference of sex being admitted, they do not perceive
 34    I, 17  |        confidence was wanting to him, being ignorant of the truth, as
 35    I, 17  |       understand that she was a human being confesses himself a brute.
 36    I, 17  |         excellent and mighty Jupiter, being bound by so great an oath,
 37    I, 18  |              are, and how unworthy of being the causes why men should
 38    I, 19  |            will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and
 39    I, 20  |         religion, and are so far from being avoided, that they are even
 40    I, 20  |          since the Gauls despaired of being able to reduce the Romans
 41    I, 21  |           refinement. than those who, being ignorant and inexperienced,
 42    I, 21  |             and Priapus; and Priapus, being worsted in the contest,
 43   II, 1   |            about on the sea, the wind being furious, it is this God
 44   II, 1   |           bend down the heaven-sprung being to the worship of earthly
 45   II, 1   |            think that the fact of our being upright is assigned to man
 46   II, 2   |           befitting that the heavenly being should make himself equal
 47   II, 2   |               earth. Worship a living being, that you may live; for
 48   II, 4   |               and by portents, on its being discovered in the Sibylline
 49   II, 4   |          civil wars afterwards raged, being removed from all danger
 50   II, 5   |     nevertheless regard them as gods, being ungrateful towards the divine
 51   II, 6   |            that that which produces a being endowed with sense is itself
 52   II, 6   |           comparison between a living being and the world. For because
 53   II, 6   |           world. For because a living being is endowed with sensibility,
 54   II, 6   |               made for the purpose of being inhabited, has no sensibility
 55   II, 8   |            that the name of ancestors being introduced, they think it
 56   II, 8   |            Veii, one of the soldiers, being sent to remove it, sportively
 57   II, 8   |              pestilence, AEsculapius, being called from Epidaurus, is
 58   II, 9   |            book. Then He made another being, in whom the disposition
 59   II, 9   |               to God the Father. This being, who from good became evil
 60   II, 9   |            you gave no reason for its being improbable. Therefore, on
 61   II, 9   |             plainly is so called from being produced, it must have been
 62   II, 9   |          arise from matter, because a being endued with sensibility
 63   II, 9   |            can suffer, an incorporeal being from a corporeal one; but
 64   II, 9   |            body solid, and capable of being handled, admits of an external
 65   II, 9   |                therefore, is the only being who was not made; and therefore
 66   II, 9   |               any other object, which being changed may cause His dissolution.
 67   II, 9   |            while the heaven above was being built, and the foundations
 68   II, 9   |             of the earth beneath were being laid; when humid things,
 69   II, 10  |        assigned to man alone. For we, being a heavenly and immortal
 70   II, 12  |               they had become mature, being rent by the compulsion of
 71   II, 12  |                He who is the only God being the invincible Creator,
 72   II, 13  |            cattle, whose spirits, not being composed of God, but of
 73   II, 13  |        manifestly the body: for this, being earthly, ought to be subject
 74   II, 13  |             their various fruits; and being free from all labours. might
 75   II, 14  |            father the worship of God, being cursed by him; and thus
 76   II, 14  |             the whole earth; and thus being torn away from the stem
 77   II, 15  |     intercourse with women. Then, not being admitted into heaven on
 78   II, 16  |         bodies of the possessed: for, being lashed by their words as
 79   II, 16  |            angels; so far was he from being ignorant that from heavenly
 80   II, 17  |               among all nations. For, being destroyed by their own vices,
 81   II, 18  |            which we have spoken of as being assigned in the distribution
 82   II, 18  |           religious rites themselves, being condemned and cast off by
 83  III, 1   |          degree approaching it; that, being supported as much by the
 84  III, 1   |               even believe falsehood, being captivated by the adornment
 85  III, 1   |        splendour not its own, because being corrupt of itself it vanishes
 86  III, 2   |      philosophy also, that, all error being removed, the truth may be
 87  III, 5   |          things which were capable of being known, and those which were
 88  III, 5   |             nothing, and therefore of being unwise because we know nothing,
 89  III, 6   |          think that that is worthy of being learned, in which either
 90  III, 8   |            learned for the purpose of being put into exercise; but they
 91  III, 8   |            And since it is capable of being oppressed and harassed,
 92  III, 9   |     philosopher. But I think that he, being unprepared with an answer,
 93  III, 9   |               the offices of the body being put aside, the business
 94  III, 9   |              God, who brought us into being for his cause, that we may
 95  III, 9   |    contemplated by the soul: for God, being Himself immortal, willed
 96  III, 11  |              it as to be incapable of being separated or disunited from
 97  III, 11  |         things. Let us not despair of being able to find it, if we turn
 98  III, 12  |              is solid, and capable of being grasped, must contend with
 99  III, 12  |              but then, when, the soul being freed from intercourse with
100  III, 13  |               or prove anything: for, being destitute of divine knowledge,
101  III, 17  |             that the various members, being disposed in a wonderful
102  III, 17  |          dying, by which sensation is being taken from us. For there
103  III, 19  |          upright, and uncontaminated, being also refined by the study
104  III, 19  |              that he was born a human being rather than a dumb animal;
105  III, 19  |              Plato, and not that very being which had been produced.
106  III, 21  |            common. This is capable of being endured, as long as it appears
107  III, 22  |               insolence and injustice being taken from the rich, it
108  III, 23  |          their own accord in a cairn, being resolute not by virtue,
109  III, 23  |            those who, through fear of being slain by the enemy, slay
110  III, 25  |               which is a public good; being as envious as if they should
111  III, 28  |              nature. For they, either being ignorant by whom the world
112  III, 30  |                lest any one by chance being shut out by corrupt superstitions,
113   IV, 1   |            themselves, that the truth being taken away from their eyes,
114   IV, 1   |              heaven; but, their minds being depressed downwards, clung
115   IV, 5   |            new and recently composed, being ignorant from what fountain
116   IV, 6   |               He considered worthy of being called by the divine name,
117   IV, 6   |         called by the divine name, as being pewerful in His Father's
118   IV, 6   |           when He rejoiced, the world being completed." But on this
119   IV, 10  |             else will prevent it from being manifest that true wisdom
120   IV, 10  |              Then, the name of Judges being taken away, the kingly power
121   IV, 10  |             Likewise under the Kings, being oppressed by wars with their
122   IV, 11  |             rejected their words; but being offended because they were
123   IV, 12  |             into her womb. But she, I being filled by the possession
124   IV, 12  |              Whom could this prophet, being himself a king, call his
125   IV, 13  |          account the Milesian Apollo, being asked whether He was God
126   IV, 13  |            was mortal as to His body, being wise with wondrous works;
127   IV, 13  |              with wondrous works; but being taken with arms under Chaldean
128   IV, 13  |               that He was mortal? But being pressed by the truth, he
129   IV, 14  |               pass at some time, that being born with a body of the
130   IV, 15  |              the extremity of danger, being aroused from sleep, He immediately
131   IV, 16  |    condemnation. The Jews, therefore, being often reproved by Christ,
132   IV, 16  |              sins and iniquities, and being almost deserted by the people,
133   IV, 16  |           that He was the Son of God, being ignorant that two advents
134   IV, 17  |               is about to endure. For being desirous of promoting our
135   IV, 18  |    above-mentioned Sibyl said:--~"And being beaten, He shall be silent,
136   IV, 19  |            not to do them? Therefore, being lifted up and nailed to
137   IV, 20  |                the people of the Jews being deprived and disinherited.
138   IV, 21  |             days." But the disciples, being dispersed through the provinces,
139   IV, 21  |              Rome; and this preaching being written for the sake of
140   IV, 24  |              the possibility of their being endured.~
141   IV, 25  |           therefore both God and man, being placed in the middle between
142   IV, 25  |              the desires of the flesh being subdued, He might teach
143   IV, 26  |               and true, and worthy of being performed. He loosed the
144   IV, 26  |            worldly and wandering life being restrained, the path of
145   IV, 26  |              be considered lame, who, being enwrapped in the gloom and
146   IV, 26  |             God and subject to death, being animated by the knowledge
147   IV, 26  |              and detested by all who, being destitute of virtue, give
148   IV, 26  |             with wickedness and lust. Being taken, therefore, from briars
149   IV, 26  |              sacred head of God; for, being called by Himself, and spread
150   IV, 26  |              were done lest His body, being injured and broken, should
151   IV, 26  |              and just, and holy, who, being slain by the same Jews,
152   IV, 27  |             from the man; and his god being adjured and put to flight,
153   IV, 27  |           from the lower regions; and being questioned they will speak,
154    V, 1   |       condemned beforehand, his cause being as yet untried, we do not
155    V, 1   |             And therefore, discussion being taken away,~"Wisdom is driven
156    V, 1   |              is the food of the soul, being overspread with an incredible
157    V, 3   |           brought to us, except that, being a defender of the gods,
158    V, 4   |            presence, and to my grief, being incited both by the arrogant
159    V, 4   |               whole of its brightness being presented to him. For as
160    V, 4   |             milk, until, its strength being confirmed, it can feed on
161    V, 4   |             since he did not do this, being carried away by his distinguished
162    V, 5   |             and they feigned that it, being offended with the vices
163    V, 5   |              instituted, nor any race being as yet set apart in the
164    V, 5   |                For the worship of God being taken away, men lost the
165    V, 6   |              robes, and fasces, that, being supported by the terror
166    V, 6   |         wickedness of the king. Thus, being corrupted by continual imitation,
167    V, 6   |            preceding age; but justice being banished, and drawing with
168    V, 7   |          which it might contend. For, being agitated by evils which
169    V, 8   |              same nature, so all men, being naturally confused among
170    V, 9   |               they call them impious, being themselves forsooth pious,
171    V, 10  |                Than who The breath of being none e'er drew,~More brave,
172    V, 12  |              appear just and prudent, being blind and dull, and ignorant
173    V, 13  |               as a captive; the other being taken by the enemy, when
174    V, 18  |              things. Thus their work, being vain and useless, was neglected:
175    V, 18  |              at enmity with any human being, nor desires anything at
176    V, 18  |               when his surety was now being led to execution, presented
177    V, 19  | self-complacency, that its difficulty being at length set forth, that
178    V, 19  |               considered deserving of being disinherited, and of having
179    V, 22  |               branded and beaten; and being asked who they are, whence
180    V, 22  |              a man, confess it. Thus, being tortured and excruciated
181    V, 23  |             right of brotherhood. But being contented with his own,
182    V, 23  |           government of others, lest, being corrupted by the happiness
183    V, 23  |             which relate to religion, being spread abroad and carefully
184    V, 23  |    experienced. These numerous causes being collected together, wonderfully
185   VI, 2   |           able to give true precepts, being taught and enlightened by
186   VI, 3   |               immortality to no human being. The shape also of the ways
187   VI, 4   |            these earthly goods, that, being lightly equipped and without
188   VI, 4   |               and house, and property being preserved, you may be able
189   VI, 4   |             insatiable avarice, that, being chained by their riches
190   VI, 4   |               others with envy, that, being occupied with their own
191   VI, 6   |        liberty; and yet the same man, being conquered, perished together
192   VI, 6   |              with liberty itself, and being mutilated by Egyptian eunuchs,
193   VI, 6   |             are ignorant of what this being serviceable is, who think
194   VI, 7   |             others, are thought wise, being clothed with the appearance
195   VI, 9   |              the justice of God, yet, being ignorant of the divine law,
196   VI, 10  |            purport, inasmuch as they, being captivated by the appearance
197   VI, 10  |           seen their neighbours torn, being admonished of their own
198   VI, 10  |   conversation and all business, who, being accustomed to the society
199   VI, 11  |             it is the part of a human being, and of a brave man too,
200   VI, 13  |             whether you are worthy of being heard. Examine your own
201   VI, 15  |            regulated by man,--a limit being applied, so that there may
202   VI, 17  |             be vices, are so far from being vices, that they are even
203   VI, 17  |               or of one despairing of being able to recover it, or of
204   VI, 20  |        amusing themselves with sport, being more guilty than all those
205   VI, 20  |            votes for their death, not being satiated with wounds nor
206   VI, 20  |             eyes as soon as possible. Being imbued with this practice,
207   VI, 21  |             they do not believe. For, being accustomed to sweet and
208   VI, 25  |             to be offered to a living being, why did he not see that
209   VI, 25  |           presented to an incorporeal being? How much better and more
210   VI, 25  |              the nature of the Divine Being, a gift is anything which
211   VI, 25  |               thought concerning that being of pre-eminent goodness.
212  VII, 1   |              understand; inasmuch as, being polluted with all sins,
213  VII, 2   |               end; and all wickedness being immediately extinguished,
214  VII, 2   |            the souls of the righteous being recalled to a happy life,
215  VII, 2   |          inasmuch as the mind of man, being bound up with a frail body,
216  VII, 3   |               and man, of which they, being destitute, were able neither
217  VII, 5   |             multitude of souls, which being at first united with frail
218  VII, 5   |           with an earthly body, that, being compacted of different and
219  VII, 5   |               of the Circensian games being taken away. For he who first
220  VII, 5   |               is earth, is capable of being grasped, of temporary duration,
221  VII, 5   |     unpleasantness of which the soul, being offended, might shrink back
222  VII, 6   |       rewarded with immortality, that being made like to the angels,
223  VII, 9   |            which dissolves the living being. If, therefore, virtue both
224  VII, 10  |          slave of pleasure, he truly, being condemned, shall suffer
225  VII, 11  |              the eyes, and capable of being touched by the hand, cannot
226  VII, 12  |              is solid, and capable of being grasped both by the eyes
227  VII, 12  |              false, and is capable of being turned to the opposite direction.
228  VII, 12  |        departs: yes, truly, the body, being dissolved, the soul would
229  VII, 12  |               even to the end, until, being sent forth from the confinement
230  VII, 12  |             in the oil, that material being consumed by the heat of
231  VII, 12  |            dissolution, or that he is being set free from the body,
232  VII, 14  |             sixth day the true man is being formed by the word of God,
233  VII, 14  |            formed a perfect man, that being quickened by God, he may
234  VII, 14  |            the world, I will subjoin, being collected and accumulated
235  VII, 15  |              the sea, when, the waves being cut asunder and parted on
236  VII, 15  |            whom Rome was brought into being, and as it were educated;
237  VII, 15  |               His name in hatred; and being the enemy of righteousness,
238  VII, 16  |               And at length, the name being changed and the seat of
239  VII, 16  |            and the seat of government being transferred, confusion and
240  VII, 17  |            flee to the mountains, or, being seized, will be slain with
241  VII, 18  |               the pious and faithful, being separated from the wicked,
242  VII, 19  |          PROPHET.~The world therefore being oppressed, since the resources
243  VII, 19  |            assistance. Therefore God, being aroused both by the doubtful
244  VII, 19  |           torrent; and all his forces being destroyed, the wicked one
245  VII, 19  |          fight against the truth, and being overcome shall flee; and
246  VII, 19  |         fourth battle, all the wicked being slain, subdued, and captured,
247  VII, 19  |            tortures. Thus, wickedness being extinguished and impiety
248  VII, 19  |            worshipped; but the images being thrust out from their temples
249  VII, 20  |             those who have been just, being pure, and incapable of suffering,
250  VII, 20  |           contagion of the flesh; and being enslaved to its desires
251  VII, 20  |              taint of the body, which being burnt in by means of sins,
252  VII, 20  |               slighthess incapable of being perceived, but only by us
253  VII, 20  |            corporeal i but capable of being perceived by God, since
254  VII, 21  |             only, they are capable of being handled by God alone, whose
255  VII, 21  |             darkness with the wicked, being destined to certain punishment.~
256  VII, 22  |             received; or, the opinion being scattered through different
257  VII, 23  |              and all its actions; and being placed in the possession
258  VII, 24  |               earth, and the judgment being completed, the sacred city
259  VII, 24  |        rejoice, and all nature exult, being rescued and set free from
260  VII, 24  |           which the poets spoke of as being done in the reign of Saturnus.
261  VII, 26  |            will be loosed afresh, and being sent forth from prison,
262  VII, 26  |           wicked from the state, whom being cast down by pre-eminent
263  VII, 27  |             which death is concealed, being covered by the attractions
264  VII, 27  |             who are hungry come, that being fed with heavenly food,