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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
The divine institutes

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1 I, 15| And thus various sacred rites have been undertaken among 2 I, 15| first undertook their sacred rites, and handed them down to 3 I, 17| this account her sacred rites are now celebrated by the 4 I, 17| bride; and her annual sacred rites are celebrated after the 5 I, 20| ROMANS, AND THEIR SACRED RITES.~I now come to the superstitions 6 I, 20| never have undertaken sacred rites of this kind. Cicero says 7 I, 20| a derision of religions rites is this! I were a defender 8 I, 20| introduction to the marriage rites; and a thousand other fictions, 9 I, 21| BARBARIANS, AND THEIR SACRED RITES; AND IN LIKE MANNER CONCERNING 10 I, 21| inhuman by these sacrilegious rites? For these ought rather 11 I, 21| sacrifices those public rites are to be judged signs of 12 I, 21| In Egypt there are sacred rites in honour of Isis, since 13 I, 21| Therefore in the sacred rites there is a representation 14 I, 21| Portumnus. And the sacred rites of the Eleusinian Ceres 15 I, 21| this account her sacred rites are celebrated with the 16 I, 21| Rhodes, there are sacred rites in honour of Hercules, the 17 I, 21| differs widely from all other rites; for they are not celebrated 18 I, 21| violation of the sacred rites, if at any tithe during 19 I, 21| What, moreover, do the rites of the Cretan Jupiter himself 20 I, 21| representation in the sacred rites. Moreover, the mystery of 21 I, 21| the gods and in religious rites, if no gods were worshipped 22 I, 21| literature pertaining to sacred rites: he will perhaps find more 23 I, 22| the people those sacred rites which were most acceptable 24 I, 22| only annulled the religious rites which he himself had instituted, 25 I, 22| both established impious rites to his grandfather Saturnus, 26 I, 22| is placed at her sacred rites. Therefore Faunus also left 27 I, 22| first who introduced the rites of father Liber into Greece; 28 I, 22| Cithaeron. Those sacred rites are even now called Orphic, 29 I, 22| gods, and introduced new rites and parades of sacrifices. 30 I, 22| command, and observed annual rites and festivals for the sake 31 I, 23| antiquity of their sacred rites, since both their origin 32 II, 1 | undertook various and dissimilar rites were mortals, and when they 33 II, 5 | that we may know with what rites and on what day to worship 34 II, 7 | OF GOD, AND THE RELIGIOUS RITES OF THE FOOLISH; OF AVARICE, 35 II, 7 | the truth of those sacred rites which he himself delivered. 36 II, 8 | transferred the sacred rites of Hercules to the public 37 II, 18| shown that the religious rites of the gods are vain in 38 II, 18| preside over the religious rites themselves, being condemned 39 II, 18| appears that these religious rites are vain in so many ways 40 II, 18| have undertaken inexpiable rites, and violated every sacred 41 IV, 2 | acquainted with their religious rites and institutions (for they 42 IV, 3 | unemployed amidst sacred rites, and religion will be unemployed 43 IV, 3 | that system of religious rites is dumb, not only because 44 IV, 3 | must, amidst the solemn rites and prayers, be invoked 45 IV, 10| their minds to the profane rites of the Egyptians. For when 46 IV, 10| undertaken corrupt religious rites; and God, offended by them, 47 IV, 28| assumed to themselves new rites, that they might honour 48 V, 2 | defending the religious rites of the gods; that he had, 49 V, 2 | leisure for lawful sacred rites, and might experience the 50 V, 10| whose impious and profane rites are an abomination to the 51 V, 11| worshippers; these are the sacred rites which they require. Moreover, 52 V, 20| turn men aside to deadly rites, and strive with the greatest 53 V, 20| beginnings of their sacred rites and gods were handed down 54 V, 20| they may also know that the rites themselves, in which they 55 V, 20| beginnings of the sacred rites will convict them. They 56 V, 20| object of worship. "Hence rites of mystic awe "~were instituted 57 V, 20| But, they say, the public rites of religion must be defended. 58 V, 20| an innocent life: those rites are frequented by unchaste 59 V, 22| and they imagine that the rites of other gods are true, 60 VI, 2 | earth even by the religious rites to which they are devoted.


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