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Alphabetical [« »] viciously 1 vicissitudes 1 victim 9 victims 16 victor 2 victories 2 victorious 6 | Frequency [« »] 16 thinks 16 trifling 16 vanity 16 victims 16 victory 16 wars 16 wishes | Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius The divine institutes IntraText - Concordances victims |
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1 I, 20| what purport to immolate victims? To what purport to bestow 2 I, 21| rite of immolating human victims is ancient, since Saturn 3 I, 21| accustomed to immolate human victims to Saturn; and when they 4 II, 2 | contributions, they slay victims; and while they value these 5 II, 4 | these costly and fattened victims, which have a mouth, but 6 II, 14| practice of honouring them with victims and odours; and thus wandering 7 II, 17| images consecrated; herds of victims are slain; and when all 8 II, 17| race even devised human victims, to devour as many lives 9 IV, 27| events in the entrails of the victims. And when the soothsayers 10 IV, 28| propitious, it is plain that many victims must render him more propitious, 11 V, 10| merciful than to immolate human victims to the dead, and to feed 12 V, 11| nothing else but that the victims may not die under the torture: 13 V, 21| enemies, they appease with victims their robbers and murderers, 14 VI, 1 | altars with the blood of victims, if they have moistened 15 VI, 2 | they sacrifice fine and fat victims to God, as though He were 16 VI, 25| worshipped with the immolation of victims and with much blood--for