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1 I, 6 | respecting the one God:--~1. "One God, who is alone,
2 I, 6 | and decked it with lights.~2. "But there is one only
3 IV, 10 | of the two Gemini, on the 23d of March, the Jews crucified
4 I, 6 | ought to be worshipped:--~3. "Worship Him who is alone
5 I, 23 | is found to have lived 322 years before the Trojan
6 I, 6 | God to men, thus spoke:--~4. "I am the one only God,
7 IV, 30 | many, forgetting them, and abandoning the heavenly road, have
8 V, 16 | exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself
9 III, 10 | the life of the brutes, abdicates the office of man. Therefore
10 VII, 21 | but indestructible, and abiding for ever, that it may be
11 IV, 18 | thirty-fourth Psalm: "The abjects were gathered together against
12 VI, 23 | est; et corpus quidem cito ablui potest: mens autem contagione
13 VI, 7 | source of strength, one abode--is both simple, because
14 IV, 14 | faithfulness, if, when sent to abolish the false gods, and to assert
15 IV, 17 | prophesied concerning the abolition of circumcision: "Thus saith
16 VII, 16 | truth, a detestable and abominable time shall come, in which
17 VI, 23 | Quid dicam de iis, qui abominandam non libidinem, sod insaniam
18 V, 10 | and profane rites are an abomination to the true God, are estranged
19 II, 12 | afterwards, that the earth itself abounded with a kind of moisture
20 VII, 24 | live a most tranquil life, abounding with resources, and will
21 VII, 22 | knowing that this life abounds with all evils, introduced
22 VI, 8 | nor can it be entirely abrogated. Nor, truly, can we be released
23 III, 15 | renders all things uncertain, abrogates law, esteems art as nothing,
24 I, 11 | virgins nor married women, he abstained from Thetis only in consequence
25 VI, 23 | publicis vulgatisque corporibus abstinendum, Deus praecepit; docetque
26 VI, 23 | neque alieni matrimonii abstinens, neque sui custos, quae
27 VI, 23 | coercendis voluptatibus, et abstinentia sui. Seit ergo adversarius
28 VI, 23 | esset, qui poenarum metu abstineret alieno, lupanaria quoque
29 VI, 18 | which they are ignorant, are absurdly and arrogantly foolish.
30 V, 1 | would even assail it with abusive language, and perhaps, having
31 VII, 7 | places, and in dreadful abysses of mire: the prophets show
32 VI, 23 | nisi efficiendae sobolis accepimus. Huic divinae legi summa
33 IV, 11 | the Lord, and I will not accept an offering from your hands;
34 VI, 25 | That this, however, may be accepted by God, there is need of
35 VI, 25 | be offered to God, for He accepts this. His offering is innocency
36 II, 8 | and especially this, that Accius Navius, a consummate augur,
37 II, 15 | therefore they are accustomed to accommodate their answers to ambiguous
38 VI, 6 | warfare, all that discourse is accommodated neither to justice nor to
39 I, 11 | be worshipped without the accompanying worship of his wife and
40 III, 16 | compared with their actions and accomplishments, I fear lest it should seem
41 VII, 14 | subjoin, being collected and accumulated from all quarters.~
42 I, pref| heaping up of riches or the accumulation of honours. For no one can
43 VII, 25 | to know these things more accurately may draw from the fountain
44 III, 15 | the sake of bringing an accusation. Does not Tullius both acknowledge
45 III, 28 | fortune with the most severe accusations; nor is there any disputation
46 I, 23 | descent from Jupiter; and Achilles and Ajax were of the third
47 VI, 9 | everything is contained in the acknowledging and worship of God; all
48 IV, 15 | either in narration or in aclion? But the Sibyl had before
49 III, 13 | some degree to the means of acquiring learning, on account of
50 VII, 20 | passed upon them for their acquittal, are already judged and
51 VI, 23 | in homine vehementior et acrior invenitur; vel quia hominum
52 VI, 18 | injuries." But if he thus acted--a man most widely removed
53 VI, 17 | life; for life is full of activity, but death is quiet. They
54 VI, 18 | judged a man of spirit and activity--aIl honour and reverence
55 VI, 11 | perhaps the poet spoke for the actor.~What does Marcus Tullius
56 VI, 20 | Why should I speak of the actors of mimes, who hold forth
57 VI, 23 | ut videamus propter eos actus, qui pertinent ad vitae
58 VII, 1 | vicious minds, since the acuteness of their mind is blunted
59 III, 15 | abandon good morals, but will adapt them to the occasion; and
60 VI, 23 | condemnant: quia se corpori addixerunt, in quod habet mors potestatem.
61 IV, 20 | book the Most High Father addresses His Son: "I the Lord God
62 I, 5 | subject of laws; and he adduces proof that the universe
63 I, 2 | the Stoics, and himself adducing many new ones; and this
64 VI, 23 | circumscribere se putet posse, adduntur ilia, ut omnis calumnia,
65 VI, 12 | one man. If you are not adequate to the performance of great
66 I, 21 | effect: "And offer heads to Ades, and to the father a man."
67 VI, 24 | infirm health; this one adheres to you, and you can never
68 I, 1 | For many, pertinaciously adhering to vain superstitions, harden
69 VI, 23 | prohibebit tum vero maxima adhibenda virtus erit, ut cupiditati
70 V, 20 | of perception: they bid adieu to reason, while they place
71 II, 8 | when their temple which adjoins the fountain had been open
72 II, 18 | out and put to flight by adjuration of the divine name. But
73 VII, 5 | same. Thus, for the due adjustment of the framework of the
74 VII, 3 | they should take in hand to administer aught?"~And with good reason.
75 IV, 18 | Pilate, who at that time was administering the province of Syria as
76 V, 7 | And this very point is admirably and briefly shown by Quintilian
77 II, 7 | which the desire of men admires. These are the religious
78 II, 14 | scattered over the earth, admiring the elements of the world,
79 VI, 23 | in periculum veniat, si admiserit. Nulla igitur Iaus est,
80 I, 5 | subject? But he shrinks from admitting this, while he dreads the
81 VII, 8 | it has nothing of earthly admixture united with it. But that
82 VI, 18 | at glory from it. For God admonishes us that the doer of justice
83 I, 17 | AEneas; from Butes Eryx; from Adonis she could bring forth no
84 IV, 20 | enlightened by Him, who adopted us by His testament; and
85 IV, 20 | the Gentiles, and have by adoption succeeded to their place,
86 I, 9 | admirable and worthy of adoration--what mystery, in short,
87 II, 14 | while in their frequent adorations they more carefully and
88 II, 2 | else than to refrain from adoring images, because they are
89 I, pref| earthly, and pertain to the adorning of the body only. Those
90 III, 1 | corrupted when embellished with adornings from without, but that falsehood
91 V, 6 | given themselves up to the adulation of a single man? Him they
92 VI, 23 | pari jure conjungit, ut adulter habeatur, quisquis compagem
93 VI, 23 | alienam, et animo concupiscat: adulteram enim fieri mentem, si vel
94 VI, 23 | effecit profecto, ut essent adulteria, foeminis aegre ferentibus
95 VI, 23 | noluit. Praeterea non tanturn adulterium esse vitandum, sed etiam
96 I, 9 | since he was born from an adulterous intercourse with Alcmena.
97 VI, 23 | occasio fraudis removeatur, adulterum esse, qui a marito dimissam
98 VI, 13 | By these steps justice advances to the greatest height.
99 III, 12 | Therefore reflection itself, advancing by regular order, and weighing
100 VI, 15 | they are in excess, can be advantageously regulated by man,--a limit
101 VI, 23 | abstinentia sui. Seit ergo adversarius ille noster, quanta sit
102 III, 17 | good are always subject to adversities, poverty, labours, exile,
103 VI, 23 | facinora designer, armandi adversus earn virtute maxima sumus.
104 III, 15 | than as physicians, whose advertisements contain medicines, but their
105 III, 16 | and since they are the advisers of actions, and do not themselves
106 II, 8 | his physician Artorius, advising him that Caesar should not
107 VII, 22 | and just, either Minos, or AEacus, or Rhadamanthus. Therefore
108 I, 11 | fallen into them, as the Aegean, the Icarian, and the Hellespont.
109 VI, 23 | essent adulteria, foeminis aegre ferentibus praestare se
110 I, 6 | of the gods. For in the Aeolic dialect they used to call
111 VI, 23 | potest esse sanctum iis, qui aetatem imbecillam et praesidio
112 III, 18 | a cavity of the burning AEtna, that when he had suddenly
113 II, 7 | low judged them worthy of affinity?~
114 VII, 14 | circuit of a thousand years affixes its limits. In the same
115 V, 12 | you lacerate, why do you afflict us? We do not envy your
116 V, 23 | discipline by the stripes of affliction. There is also another cause
117 III, 29 | the good; why she plots, afflicts, deceives, exterminates;
118 IV, 19 | She who brings forth is affrighted, and vexed in spirit; her
119 V, 18 | his path be along sultry African Syrtes,~Or Caucasian ravines,
120 IV, 13 | and to Israel His beloved. Afterward He was seen upon earth,
121 I, 23 | inferred by reason itself. For Agamemnon, who carried on the Trojan
122 I, 8 | produce sons without the agency of the female? For if He
123 I, 11 | who had the surname of Agesilaus; because the region of the
124 I, 11 | in Aratus, relates that Aglaosthenes says that when he was setting
125 VI, 23 | Nam quia virtus in Dei agnitione consistit, omnia gravia
126 VI, 23 | hunc discipulum magister agnoscet; hic terrain triumphabit,
127 V, 11 | embattled field."~"Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,~And
128 III, 7 | knowledge; that of Zeno, to live agreeably to nature; that of certain
129 VI, 18 | of spirit and activity--aIl honour and reverence him.
130 IV, 30 | knew and worshipped God aiming at the increase of their
131 III, 8 | virtuous principle, and he who aims at principle must be destitute
132 VII, 20 | of the drowsy night, ~No airy current half so light,"~
133 I, 23 | Jupiter; and Achilles and Ajax were of the third descent
134 VI, 5 | necessary:--~"It is virtue, O Albinus, to pay the proper price,~
135 I, 6 | tenth of Tibur, by name Albunea, who is worshipped at Tibur
136 III, 19 | not occur to Plato that Alcibiades also, and Critias, were
137 I, 9 | adulterous intercourse with Alcmena. What divinity could there
138 VI, 23 | nomen ipsum docet, nulla alia causa nisi efficiendae sobolis
139 VI, 23 | diversa distraxerit. Nec ob aliam cansam Deus, cam caeteras
140 VI, 23 | enim desideria immittit, ut aliena contaminent, quibus habere
141 VI, 23 | cogitationem; ne quis aspiciat alienam, et animo concupiscat: adulteram
142 VI, 23 | expressit: Homo, inquit, neque alieni matrimonii abstinens, neque
143 VI, 23 | reluctetur. Nec tanturn alienis, quae attingere non licet,
144 VI, 23 | poenarum metu abstineret alieno, lupanaria quoque constituit;
145 IV, 11 | people out of those who were aliens by birth. But they, when
146 VI, 23 | maritus circa corrumpendas aliorum conjuges occupatus potest
147 VI, 23 | legitima frui licet. Quod si aliqua necessitas prohibebit tum
148 VI, 23 | cupiditas inquinavit. Nec verb aliquis existimet, difficile esse
149 VI, 23 | repugnantibus, libido cogeret viros aliud appetere, eoque facto, castitatis
150 I, 7 | answered:--~"O all-wise, all-learned, versed in many pursuits,
151 II, 9 | made by God, because He is all-powerful, than that the world was
152 VII, 16 | shall be admitted into alliance by the others, and shall
153 I, 11 | a part of the west was allotted to Pluto, who had the surname
154 II, 3 | disputation. But let us make allowance for timidity, which ought
155 IV, 15 | wilderness; And afterwards taking allthe fragments that remain, He
156 V, 12 | fear lest the wise shall be allured by the foolish?~
157 IV, 25 | slave of pleasures and sweet allurements, and visit it with everlasting
158 V, 1 | sweetness of taste by its allurenment conceals, under the cover
159 VII, 27 | we may obtain these, the alluring pleasures of the present
160 VI, 9 | at Athens, who both gave alms to the needy, and entertained
161 VI, 8 | It is not allowable to alter the provisions of this law,
162 VI, 23 | adulterii uxorem dimiserit, ut alteram ducat; dissociari enim corpus
163 I, 10 | relate that they live and die alternately: so that they are now the
164 V, 20 | places of the heart, who is alway hostile to sins, who requires
165 IV, 17 | leader of the warfare against Amalek, who was the enemy of the
166 I, 21 | goat belonging to the nymph Amalthea, which gave suck to the
167 VI, 19 | They use desire for the amassing of riches: hence frauds,
168 I, 9 | he who subdues a warlike Amazon, than he who subdues lust,
169 III, 18 | Why should I speak of the Ambraciot, who, having read the same
170 VII, 24 | fountain, and the milk of ambrosia will flow for all the just."~
171 VI, 24 | it would be more easy to amend rashness." It is altogether
172 VI, 24 | in the way of him who has amended his life, because the subsequent
173 IV, 19 | which event the prophet Amos testifies: "And it shall
174 V, 9 | with honours, that by their ample they may allure others.
175 I, 5 | gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the
176 VI, 23 | sceleris enarrari. Nihil amplius istos appellare possum,
177 VI, 20 | they think that they are amusing themselves with sport, being
178 III, 25 | the single exception of Anacharsis the Scythian, who never
179 I, 5 | universe. Cleanthes and Anaximenes assert that the air is the
180 I, 17 | from Jupiter Cupid; from Anchines AEneas; from Butes Eryx;
181 I, 15 | whom all adore,~Invoke Anchises' blessed soul."~And he attributes
182 I, 6 | Phrygia, who gave oracles at Ancyra;--the tenth of Tibur, by
183 VII, 20 | and the sting of death; andafterwards I will call them into judgment,
184 VII, 18 | slay all the great kings andchief men: then judgment shall
185 I, 21 | The matter was concealed, andimitations of the ancient deed remain;
186 I, 21 | In what darkness of life andin how great dangers is passed
187 II, 5 | it follows that the sun andmoon cannot be gods, since they
188 II, 3 | prostrate on the ground, andspread the hands before the shrines
189 III, 17 | that they have hooks or angles? For it must be possible
190 IV, 19 | He will not remain in the anguish of His sons: and I will
191 III, 25 | taken captive. A certain Aniceris is said to have ransomed
192 VI, 23 | libidini obsequuntur, ii animam suam corpori mancipant,
193 VI, 23 | cansam Deus, cam caeteras animantes suscepto foetu maribus repugnare
194 VI, 23 | ardentissimam cupiditatem cunctorum animantium corporibus admiscuit, ut
195 VI, 23 | est. His obscoenitatibus animas, ad sanctitatem genitas,
196 VI, 23 | duorum, et jugum paribus animis ferant. Nos ipsos in altero
197 VI, 23 | quis aspiciat alienam, et animo concupiscat: adulteram enim
198 VI, 23 | tamen pudicitiae ratio, si animus incestus est; nec illibata
199 I, 6 | near the banks of the river Anio, in the depths of which
200 I, 5 | How often, also, does Annaeus Seneca, who was the keenest
201 III, 12 | and doctrine to which is annexed the hope of immortality.~
202 II, 13 | is not that it altogether annihilates the souls of the unrighteous,
203 VII, 22 | proclaimed with continual announcements that the Son of God was
204 I, 1 | them, if only they are not annoyed at applying patience in
205 I, 21 | gloomy sacrifices were annually offered in the Leucadian
206 IV, 30 | Valentinians, or Marcionites, or Anthropians, or Arians, or by any other
207 II, 1 | plainly derived the name anthrôpos, because he looks upward.
208 VII, 19 | this is he who is called Antichrist; but he shall falsely call
209 II, 8 | equally to all, we cannot be anticipated in it by those who precede
210 I, 5 | moves by its own power. Antisthenes maintained that the gods
211 II, 8 | displeased him, because a certain Antonius Maximus had severely scourged
212 II, 6 | even frogs, and gnats, and ants appear to be gods, because
213 VI, 12 | fear is a haven against anxieties. Do you not know to how
214 VI, 20 | more corrupted to their apartments; and not boys only, who
215 I, 20 | the Capitol was built, an aperture was left in the roof above
216 IV, 10 | in gold, which they call Apis, that it might go before
217 I, 6 | fifth of Erythraea, whom Apollodorus of Erythraea affirms to
218 V, 4 | treatise which is entitled the Apology, yet, inasmuch as it is
219 I, 1 | worship, to whom can I rather appeal, whom can I address, but
220 I, 15 | persuasion is spread." He appealed, as it is plain, to the
221 II, 1 | poverty, begs for food, he appeals to God alone, and by His
222 V, 23 | task to draw forth all the appearances of virtue, to show respecting
223 V, 18 | religion are foolish in appearing to do such things as he
224 VI, 2 | is no need of flesh for appeasing the majesty of heaven, but
225 VI, 23 | enarrari. Nihil amplius istos appellare possum, quam implos et parricidas,
226 I, 6 | person by his own mark and appellation. But God, because He is
227 VI, 18 | by injury?" that he might append vice as a most disgraceful
228 VI, 23 | possent. Quae cupiditas et appetentia in homine vehementior et
229 VI, 23 | libido cogeret viros aliud appetere, eoque facto, castitatis
230 VI, 23 | attribuit iis, ut se invicem appeterent, et conjunctione gauderent.
231 VI, 23 | sequitur: si ipsam per se appetunt, justa et legitima frui
232 I, 1 | they are not annoyed at applying patience in reading or hearing
233 IV, 11 | men with the Holy Spirit, appointing them as prophets in the
234 VI, 17 | into the right way; and apprehensions are to be taken away, but
235 I, 15 | I will do; and with the approbation of the gods, I will place
236 VI, 12 | men." Therefore it is the appropriate work of the just to support
237 I, 15 | ought undoubtedly to be appropriated to her. And this indeed
238 III, 23 | securely laid out. But who approves of the equality of faults
239 II, 4 | destroyed. For they are often apt to be broken to pieces,
240 VI, 23 | petulanter illudant. Haec tamen apud illos levia, et quasi honesta
241 II, 14 | land which is now called Arabia; and that land was called
242 VII, 27 | the supreme and truthful arbiter will raise him to life and
243 I, 1 | if some skilful men and arbiters of justice composed and
244 VI, 8 | all, even God, the framer, arbitrator, and proposer of this law;
245 II, 5 | successive seasons. Was Archimedes of Sicily able to contrive
246 VI, 16 | lawful object, although it be ardent, yet is without fault. But
247 VI, 23 | conjunctione gauderent. Itaque ardentissimam cupiditatem cunctorum animantium
248 VI, 23 | incitat atque inflammat ardorem, donee irretitum hominem
249 III, 8 | things are by their nature arduous and difficult, whereas evil
250 V, 3 | not have done this if the Areopagites had crucified him. The same
251 I, 5 | governed by Him, when he argues respecting the nature of
252 I, 6 | the fifth was he by whom Argus was slain, and that on this
253 IV, 30 | Marcionites, or Anthropians, or Arians, or by any other name they
254 I, 22 | dark cavern in the grove of Aricia, from which flowed a stream
255 IV, 5 | one, having put together arid examined the times, shall
256 V, 2 | that some Aristophanes or Aristarchus did not devise that subject.~
257 VII, 7 | down man's life to nothing. Aristo asserted that men were born
258 V, 2 | he took it ill that some Aristophanes or Aristarchus did not devise
259 VII, 13 | that it perishes. What of Aristoxenus, who denied that there is
260 VI, 23 | haec facinora designer, armandi adversus earn virtute maxima
261 VI, 23 | sic imbuit homines, et armavit ad nefas omne. Quid enim
262 III, 16 | afraid lest he should be arraigned by the philosophers on a
263 IV, 9 | represents the Logos as the arranger of the established order
264 III, 1 | of man most desirous of arriving at the truth; but I assert
265 II, 2 | highly, they despise the artificers who made them. What is so
266 II, 13 | applied all his deceits and artifices to beguile the man, that
267 II, 8 | itself to his physician Artorius, advising him that Caesar
268 IV, 21 | XXI. OF THE ASCENSION OF JESUS, AND THE FORETELLING
269 I, 18 | in that you imagined the ascent to heaven to be open to
270 VII, 4 | excellently, therefore, does our Asclepiades, in discussing the providence
271 IV, 24 | from men, that no one may ascribe it to necessity that he
272 VII, 3 | abandoned the first outer aspect of the earth, and plunged
273 VI, 23 | etiam cogitationem; ne quis aspiciat alienam, et animo concupiscat:
274 IV, 27 | unable by themselves to aspire to divinity, they took to
275 IV, 30 | their wealth and honour, aspired to the highest sacerdotal
276 VI, 18 | has begun to follow up his assailant with violence, he is overcome.
277 II, 9 | very acute arguments in assailing those who denied the existence
278 VI, 2 | food, although he be an assassin, an adulterer, a sorcerer,
279 IV, 30 | because all the separate assemblies of heretics call themselves
280 V, 18 | they able to confirm their assertions by present examples. For
281 IV, 28 | appear to us hateful who are assiduous and constant in their attendance,
282 I, 5 | first-born god, to whom he assigns and gives the first place.
283 I, 22 | were his entertainers and assistants in war. Temples were also
284 IV, 27 | them believe Homer, who associated the supreme Jupiter with
285 II, 15 | of the earth, by his very association, gradually enticed them
286 VI, 23 | intemperantia demus: sed assuescant invicem mores duorum, et
287 VI, 23 | sequitur. Quibus bonis si assueverit, jam pudebit eum ad deteriora
288 VI, 3 | on the left hand, which assumes the appearance of the better,--
289 II, 17 | names, as though they were assuming some characters. But the
290 IV, 18 | night, and shalt have no assurance of Thy life." And the same
291 II, 7 | they are; but they feel assured of their excellence and
292 VI, 23 | fieri praecepit, tanquam astringat, quia generari homines oportet;
293 III, 25 | Geometry also, and music, and astronomy, are necessary, because
294 II, 7 | city, he established an asylum. To this all the most abandoned
295 III, 6 | the kind of fallacy called asystaton; that some one had dreamt
296 III, 19 | lastly, that he was an Athenian, and that he was born in
297 VII, 27 | hunger; let those who are athirst come, that they may with
298 I, 18 | they despise valour in an athlete, because it produces no
299 I, 11 | speak of the offspring of Atlas, or of the river Inachus,
300 III, 18 | were born for the sake of atoning for their crimes, afterwards
301 II, 17 | astonished by them, may attach to images a belief in their
302 VI, 10 | of conversation, and by attaching names to each object, by
303 I, 20 | begins to wish for this, he attains it. This is the only honour
304 VI, 2 | no night? For He has so attempered this very light, that it
305 III, 29 | succeeded by stratagem, he attempts to cast them down by force
306 VII, 1 | everlasting blessedness attends it? Of which subject we
307 V, 22 | are of this opinion do not attentively consider the power and method
308 I, 11 | Undoubtedly ancient stories attest it. Euhemerus, an ancient
309 I, 11 | Uranus. And Trismegistus attests the truth of this; for when
310 VI, 23 | Nec tanturn alienis, quae attingere non licet, veriun etiam
311 I, 15 | their services, and might attract their successors to a desire
312 III, 17 | any truth, but because the attractive name of pleasure invites
313 VI, 23 | duorum sexuum rationero, attribuit iis, ut se invicem appeterent,
314 VII, 3 | take in hand to administer aught?"~And with good reason.
315 I, 20 | spot, he consulted them by augury whether they would give
316 II, 8 | to which it is said that Augustus Caesar owed his preservation.
317 I, 11 | was buried in the town of Aulatia?~
318 IV, 17 | when he was at first called Auses, Moses, foreseeing the future,
319 I, 1 | commence this work under the auspices of your name, O mighty Emperor
320 I, 23 | in his book written to Autolycus respecting the times, says
321 II, 10 | the southern region, the autumn belongs to the west, and
322 II, 11 | of them which is not as available for the necessity of use
323 II, 4 | gods should be their own avengers. But if any humble person
324 I, 11 | Hellespont. In Latium, also, Aventinus gave his name to the mountain
325 III, 25 | says that philosophy is averse from the multitude. But
326 V, 3 | the name of Hercules, the averter of evil, and is even now
327 II, 15 | gods of the earth, and as averters of those evils which they
328 IV, 26 | efficacious at the present for averting the danger, that it may
329 VI, 23 | tori, ut et illud, quod avide expetat, consequatur, et
330 VI, 23 | admiscuit, ut in hos affectus avidissime ruerent, eaque ratione propagari
331 V, 18 | sum, or he who does not avow that he is offering for
332 V, 20 | Hence rites of mystic awe "~were instituted by crafty
333 V, 6 | by the terror produced by axes and swords, they might,
334 VI, 6 | but that which can be held b the hand; and this alone
335 I, 23 | who is worshipped by the Babylonians and Assyrians, is found
336 IV, 11 | cast Thy law behind their backs, and slew Thy prophets which
337 II, 14 | with their faces turned backwards, and covered their father.
338 VII, 27 | trust m riches, no one in badges of authority, no one even
339 III, 14 | worthy to be sewed up in a bag, who deny that philosophy
340 I, 20 | also to Jupiter Pistor (the baker), because he had admonished
341 II, 7 | to Lucilius: "You know, Balbus, what is the opinion of
342 III, 24 | the world is round like a ball, and they fancied that the
343 II, 15 | explain their natures in his "Banquet;" and Socrates said that
344 IV, 15 | save the Gentiles also by baptism--that is, by the pouring
345 IV, 15 | to reach maturity He was baptized by the prophet John in the
346 I, 21 | To think that men were so barbarous, so savage, that they gave
347 VII, 23 | only prophets, but even bards, and poets, and philosophers,
348 VII, 16 | unseasonable rains, at another by barren drought, now by colds, and
349 VI, 10 | fighting, but by interposing barriers. O minds unworthy of men,
350 IV, 12 | of brass, and shatter the bars of iron; and I will give
351 VII, 24 | nor~shall the naval pine Barter merchandise; all lands shall
352 I, 21 | of her chastity. What is baser, what more disgraceful,
353 I, 15 | and established on a firm basis. And if any living being
354 I, 22 | his wife; who, as Gabius Bassus relates, was called Fatua
355 III, 17 | any part which projects. Bat if they are smooth and without
356 IV, 16 | also thus spoke: "Lord, who bath believed our report? and
357 II, 6 | purpose of drinking and bathing, is not a god, neither are
358 III, 17 | flight and driven from our battle-field. The system of Epicurus
359 VI, 21 | well-composed poem, and a speech be-guiling with its sweetness, captivate
360 VI, 20 | worship of God, and has be-taken himself to those deities
361 II, 4 | indulgence may be granted, but by bearded men. Therefore Seneca deservedly
362 II, 4 | Apollo was yet smooth and beardless, the son should be seen
363 IV, 17 | above the law, and be a bearer of the will of God to men.
364 VI, 23 | etiam vincere, ac plurimi beatam atque incorruptam corporis
365 I, 22 | consulship of Cornelius and Bebius, in a field belonging to
366 VI, 25 | home, and even in his very bed. In short, let him always
367 IV, 19 | and at midday there shall bedark vast night for three hours,"~
368 IV, 17 | themselves with mud: for they do bedaub themselves with mud who
369 VI, 10 | leaves and grass for their beds, and caves and grottos for
370 I, 22 | derived its origin, that bees flew to the child, and filled
371 VII, 9 | they saw that adversity befell the wicked, or prosperity
372 II, 1 | last extremity of poverty, begs for food, he appeals to
373 II, 13 | deceits and artifices to beguile the man, that he might deprive
374 II, 13 | the serpent treacherously beguiled that he might come to the
375 VI, 17 | to be frugal; which name beguiles and deceives under the appearance
376 VI, 20 | who come for the sake of beholding the spectacle now themselves
377 VII, 4 | that is the sun: who so beholds it as to understand why
378 III, 27 | authority. No one therefore believes them, because the hearer
379 IV, 1 | various superstitions, and believing in the existence of many
380 IV, 19 | that He would not remain in bell, but rise again on the third
381 VII, 5 | completed all things which belonged to the condition of the
382 I, 9 | and deprived her of her belt; if he slew savage horses
383 II, 4 | whether he should make a bench or a Priapus,decided that
384 I, 21 | parricide, visit them with bereavements, and deprive them of the
385 I, 21 | sees that men, as though bereft of intelligence, do those
386 I, 20 | escaping the notice of the besiegers, and had hastened to plunder
387 I, 20 | events. For when they were besieging the Messenians, and they (
388 V, 1 | any of the learned have betaken themselves to it, they have
389 I, 20 | immortality through the betrayal of her brother; and Cunina,
390 II, 17 | enemies of the truth, and betrayers of God attempt to claim
391 III, 16 | philosophers on a charge of betraying a mystery, he did not venture
392 III, 6 | for it shows itself, and betrays its plunderer. How much
393 VII, 16 | congratulate the dead, and bewail the living. Through these
394 IV, 18 | the elements of the world, bewailed? But that these things were
395 I, 21 | their shoulders. For Furius Bibaculus is regarded among the chief
396 V, 20 | power of perception: they bid adieu to reason, while they
397 I, 14 | oracle was given to Saturn, bidding him to take heed lest his
398 I, 17 | Trivia kind her favourite bides,~And to Egeria's care confides,~
399 VII, 12 | wild beast, at another in a bird; and that they are immortal
400 I, 11 | of men existed before his birth--those, for instance, who
401 I, 20 | annual proceeds of which her birthday might be celebrated by public
402 I, 17 | adulteries are recorded than births? But not even were those
403 VI, 18 | so as, when attacked, to bite in return. And to show how
404 VII, 26 | respecting those who are holy and blameless, and willingly believe their
405 V, 10 | takes alive, condemned to bleed~To Pallas' shade on Pallas'
406 IV, 15 | cleansed the polluted and the blemished. And He performed all these
407 III, 8 | wished to avoid this common blending together of all, but they
408 VII, 18 | destroy the city of the blest; and a kingsent against
409 I, 20 | gods, as the Romans esteem Blight and Fever. If, therefore,
410 VI, 4 | fast the truth. Thus he has blocked up all the approaches against
411 II, 9 | see large stones, immense blocks, vast columns, the whole
412 VI, 20 | guilty than all those whose blood-shedding they esteem a pleasure.
413 III, 29 | foreseen or guarded against the blow aimed at his vitals.~
414 I, 11 | standard; or the ship on board of which he was placed had
415 VII, 24 | shall eat grass with kids; boars shall feed with calves,
416 IV, 16 | latter end of the just, and boasteth that he has God for his
417 VI, 18 | justice ought not to be boastful, lest he a should appear
418 V, 11 | I myself have heard some boasting that their administration
419 I, 22 | celebrated them on a mountain of Boeotia, very near to Thebes, where
420 III, 17 | his rage in practising his bolt, which often passes the
421 VI, 23 | maluerunt; eamque a recto et bono, ad malum et pravum transfert.
422 VI, 23 | exeundum est, qui ad summum bonum tendimus.~
423 I, 11 | all the islands and places bordering on the sea."~The accounts
424 VII, 12 | which was sent from the borders of ether is carried again
425 VI, 24 | is neither need of sacred boughs, nor of purifications, nor
426 I, 6 | the king was moved, and bought the remaining books for
427 I, 6 | used the word bule, not boule;--and so the Sibyl received
428 V, 5 | divide the plain with a boundary: men sought all things in
429 VII, 14 | this day of ours, which is bounded by the rising and the setting
430 V, 5 | possessions gave liberally and bountifully to those who had not. But
431 V, 18 | need not~ borrow ~Or the bow or the darts of the Moor,
432 VII, 3 | down, and the innermost bowels of the earth are dug out
433 II, 4 | father. He also took away the bowls, and spoils, and some little
434 VII, 15 | were educated; then its boyhood under the other kings, by
435 II, 3 | gaze at all things with boyish minds! They are delighted
436 VII, 24 | hang on the uncultivated brambles,~And hard oaks shall distil
437 VI, 7 | that common one. and to branch off to the right, but yet
438 I, 9 | he is not to be thought braver who overcomes a lion, than
439 I, 9 | anger, is the part of the bravest man; and these things he
440 I, 21 | aroused by the unseasonable braying of the ass on which Silenus
441 III, 24 | Therefore they both constructed brazen orbs, as though after the
442 III, 24 | on account of its immense breadth, they thought that the world
443 V, 11 | the limbs of men, but also breaks their very bones, and rages
444 II, 12 | infused the soul with which we breathe. Whatever we are, it is
445 VII, 6 | subjects. For why should the breathings of the winds put the clouds
446 V, 10 | hapless youths of Sulmo's breed,~And four who Ufens call
447 I, 17 | fashioned in the dress of a bride; and her annual sacred rites
448 I, 20 | and Tutinus, before whom brides sit, as an introduction
449 VI, 11 | or profits only for the briefest time. For they who refuse
450 II, 10 | enlightens all things with the brightest splendour; so God, although
451 VII, 26 | impious people, and showers of brimstone, and hailstones, and drops
452 I, 11 | she was, now covered with bristly hair, and in the shape of
453 VII, 1 | of death, which is very broad, since destruction rules
454 V, 5 | nor did they in solitude brood over the things stored up,
455 V, 14 | doom frowning near in the brows of the tyrant,~Shakes the
456 VI, 6 | desires to trample upon and bruise under foot; nor is it lawful
457 IV, 16 | peace was upon Him, by His bruises we are healed. All we like
458 V, 11 | wretched is it to be of a brutalized mind in the figure of a
459 III, 20 | by a dog and a goose. Oh buffoon (as Zeno the Epicurean says),
460 I, 6 | counsel they used the word bule, not boule;--and so the
461 I, 21 | altogether upon those two bullocks. Hercules, with his usual
462 VII, 24 | ploughman also shall loose the bulls from the yoke.~The plain
463 VII, 17 | of his mouth, and shall bum that man. By these prodigies
464 II, 6 | then also both beasts of burden and cattle, and the other
465 VII, 21 | God this power, that it burns the wicked, and is under
466 I, 22 | account of which they were burnt--that they took away the
467 VII, 3 | woods, the most salubrious bursting forth of fountains, the
468 VI, 18 | before, however, the emotion bursts forth to the infliction
469 I, 17 | from Anchines AEneas; from Butes Eryx; from Adonis she could
470 V, 19 | what benefit does he who buys a slave bestow upon him,
471 VI, 7 | roads, but turnings off and bypaths, which appear indeed to
472 IV, 16 | and of the prophets, they caballed against Him, and conceived
473 I, 15 | Moors Juba, the Macedonians Cabirus, the Carthaginians Uranus,
474 I, 20 | afford to a worshipper? Caca also is worshipped, who
475 I, 15 | this. If the offspring of Cadmus, or Amphitryon, or Tyndarus,
476 I, 15 | Romans consecrated their Caesars, and the Moors their kings.
477 VI, 23 | ob aliam cansam Deus, cam caeteras animantes suscepto foetu
478 III, 23 | of their own accord in a cairn, being resolute not by virtue,
479 VI, 23 | sed de eo loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus terrenis, iter in
480 I, 23 | years are made up. From this calculation of times, it is manifest
481 IV, 16 | knowledge of God; and he calleth himself the Son of God.
482 III, 7 | in pleasure of the body. Callipho and Dinomachus united virtue
483 VI, 5 | calmed by virtue. And this calming of the emotions and affections
484 VI, 17 | course, although he may go calmly and gently, he will either
485 VI, 18 | man, he must bear it with calmness and moderation, and not
486 VI, 23 | adduntur ilia, ut omnis calumnia, et occasio fraudis removeatur,
487 VII, 7 | everything, which is rather to calumniate and mock; but we show that
488 VII, 15 | will be afflicted in all calumnies and in want. All justice
489 VI, 23 | Nec ob aliam cansam Deus, cam caeteras animantes suscepto
490 IV, 25 | cause, therefore, a mediator came--that is, God in the flesh--
491 I, 21 | concerning the two stars of Cancer, which the Greeks call asses?
492 VI, 18 | this, who are, as it were, candidates for immortality?~
493 VI, 18 | he himself practised that canine s eloquence, be wished man
494 II, 17 | was almost destroyed at Cannae. But if Juno feared a second
495 VI, 23 | distraxerit. Nec ob aliam cansam Deus, cam caeteras animantes
496 II, 3 | of man's condition, the capability of this office is assigned
497 II, 9 | sacred than these, and more capacious of a lofty mind, was yet
498 VI, 23 | mulier virtutem pudicitiae caperet, si peccare non posset.
499 VI, 23 | spectemus, voluptatemque capiamus, sed ut videamus propter
500 VI, 20 | their names, as Sisinnius Capita teaches in his book on the
501 VI, 23 | et execrabilis furor ne capiti quidem parcit. Quibus hoc