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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