Book, Chapter

 1    I, pref|        evils for goods,--I have believed that these errors should
 2    I, 4   |        these prophets are to be believed; for they say that those
 3    I, 5   |     relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention,
 4    I, 5   |      there were other gods, and believed that those things which
 5    I, 6   |      name of the Sibyl they are believed to be the work of one; and
 6    I, 8   |         one will say, were they believed to be gods? Doubtless because
 7    I, 9   |        that the poets are to be believed? Why should I not think
 8    I, 11  |      can he appear a god, or be believed, as the poet says, to be
 9    I, 11  |  reigned those things which are believed to be fabulous, did they
10    I, 15  |        regret they more readily believed Julius Proculus uttering
11    I, 18  |  pre-eminent in Hercules, it is believed to have deserved immortality.
12    I, 18  |      the folly of those who had believed that gods owed their origin
13   II, 1   | deceived, so that at first they believed that they were gods, and
14   II, 7   |        greater majesty are they believed to have: so entirely is
15   II, 7   |       And thus it is everywhere believed as ascertained truth. In
16   II, 8   | punishment of whom the gods are believed to have avenged the injury
17   II, 10  |  elements considered, that they believed them to be essential for
18   II, 17  |      countenance cause it to be believed that they are true. Thus
19  III, 1   |     confess. Since they are not believed in that one point alone
20  III, 1   |         they ought to have been believed, I will endeavour to show
21  III, 8   |       he was not a wise man who believed that pleasure of the mind
22  III, 18  |         disappeared it might be believed that he had departed to
23  III, 18  |        other cause than that he believed Plato?--a doctrine altogether
24  III, 19  |         conflagration." That he believed this most foolish expression
25  III, 19  |      produced. But he evidently believed Pythagoras, who, in order
26  III, 23  |       Xenophanes most foolishly believed mathematicians who said
27  III, 29  |        goddess, as is generally believed, but a god. Sometimes, however,
28  III, 29  |      him, he, I say, altogether believed the opinions of the vulgar
29   IV, 1   |  themselves, than those who had believed that they were wise.~
30   IV, 16  |      wise man would either have believed Him to be a God, or judged
31   IV, 16  |   deserved, and was able, to be believed a God by all nations. Therefore,
32   IV, 16  |         heard His precepts, and believed that He was sent by God,
33   IV, 16  |     thus spoke: "Lord, who bath believed our report? and to whom
34   IV, 22  |     that it could not have been believed that he was God if those
35    V, 3   |        a man? But you perchance believed it from the circumstance
36    V, 3   |        therefore after death be believed to be a god, because it
37    V, 3   |     whom we speak could both be believed to be a god, because he
38    V, 3   |         not a magician, and was believed to be such because he was
39    V, 3   |       account of slight wonders believed that he was a god. It is
40    V, 3   |      sense, that Christ was not believed by us to be God on this
41    V, 3   |       testimony (for who can be believed when he speaks concerning
42    V, 10  |        nature of piety, and you believed that that wicked and detestable
43    V, 10  |        naturally good, they are believed to deserve nothing of that
44  VII, 9   |      happened to the good, they believed that all things were carried
45  VII, 14  |    could not be convicted, they believed that they were at liberty
46  VII, 14  |       and unequal movements are believed to cause the varieties of
47  VII, 22  |         wise man most foolishly believed the poets.~
48  VII, 23  |        of mortals is hard to be believed; but when thejudgment of