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502 VI, 22 | influences and enjoyments it captivates their souls; for it knows
503 IV, 5 | Babylon, and carried into captivity, endured a long servitude,
504 II, 8 | Juno Moneta, when, on the capture of Veii, one of the soldiers,
505 VII, 19 | being slain, subdued, and captured, he shall at length pay
506 V, 19 | is endangered, to be more careful of the life of another than
507 IV, 30 | guarded against, by their carelessness lost the name and worship
508 III, 13 | of the mind and rest from cares is sought, what enjoyment
509 VI, 20 | attacked again, and their caresses to he wasted with blows,
510 VI, 18 | repayment of insult is, and what carnage it is accustomed to produce,
511 IV, 17 | that under the figure of carnal things those which are spiritual
512 VII, 24 | with all flocks; and the carnivorous lion shall eat chaff at
513 II, 17 | placed a beautiful boy on the carriage of Jupiter to guard the
514 VI, 20 | upon the heaven rather than carved works, and to admire this
515 I, 22 | Jupiter Molion, to Jupiter Casius, and others, after the same
516 I, 13 | of Latin writers, Nepos, Cassius, and Varro. For since men
517 VI, 23 | continentia: docenda uxor, ut se caste gerat. Iniquum est enim,
518 VI, 23 | incestus est; nec illibata castitas videri potest, ubi conscientiam
519 VI, 23 | verecundiam, pudorem colat, castitatem conscientia et mente tueatur;
520 IV, 20 | signify the Jews, whom He casts off, but us, who have been
521 III, 19 | Phalaris, whether he be Cato or Catiline? But a man does not perceive
522 II, 4 | lamented about Ceres of Catina, or of Henna: the one of
523 V, 18 | sultry African Syrtes,~Or Caucasian ravines, where no guest
524 VII, 17 | and wonder, he shall be caught up into heaven. But that
525 VI, 23 | adultera, quae non hanc causam vitiis suis praetendat;
526 VII, 6 | we are produced without cause--if no providence is employed
527 V, 9 | art, that they may be able cautiously to deceive, to fight treacherously,
528 I, 22 | concealed himself in the cave of Jupiter, and, after a
529 VI, 23 | se putat, out vindicari. Cavendum igitur, ne occasionem vitiis
530 I, 22 | Egeria. There was a very dark cavern in the grove of Aricia,
531 VII, 20 | heavens, I will open the caverns of the earth; and then I
532 III, 18 | night cast himself into a cavity of the burning AEtna, that
533 III, 17 | beginning to exist, and we are ceasing to exist. Nor is it said
534 III, 25 | been ransomed and taught by Cebes. They also enumerate Plato
535 I, 17 | three virgins born from Cecrops? An evident case of incest,
536 I, 11 | whose memory they used to celebrate with praises, they said
537 VI, 20 | from good works. For the celebrations of the games are festivals
538 III, 17 | his wife, the blessings of celibacy are enumerated to him; to
539 VI, 5 | knew to be right is justly censurable, a depraved will and a vicious
540 VII, 26 | sake of learning, but of censuring and jeering. For a mystery
541 I, 3 | from all quarters would be centred in him alone. But if more
542 VII, 22 | said:_~"All these, when centuries ten times told ~The wheel
543 VI, 23 | consimilis Deo, qui virtutem Dei cepit. Haec quidem difficilia
544 VI, 25 | confessed. Therefore the chief ceremonial in the worship of God is
545 VI, 24 | abstinence. This is the truest ceremony, this is that law of God,
546 III, 15 | systems, and has nothing certain--nothing, in short, respecting
547 VII, 24 | carnivorous lion shall eat chaff at the manger, and serpents
548 IV, 28 | and tied to God by this chain of piety; from which religion
549 VI, 4 | insatiable avarice, that, being chained by their riches as by fetters,
550 IV, 13 | being taken with arms under Chaldean judges, with nails and the
551 VII, 14 | they perhaps followed the Chaldeans, who, as Cicero has related
552 VI, 17 | fortitude of spirit we should challenge all the threats and terrors
553 II, 14 | his sons, whose name was Cham, had seen this, he did not
554 II, 14 | land was called from him Chanaan, and his posterity Chanaanites.
555 II, 14 | Chanaan, and his posterity Chanaanites. This was the first nation
556 III, 19 | gratifications, if any bitterness has chanced to succeed to these, they
557 VI, 6 | be subject to uncertain chances.~"Moreover, to reckon the
558 II, 9 | Geta."~For while simply changing the name, you clearly admit
559 I, 20 | Capitol, and there were the chapels of many gods on that spot,
560 I, 21 | anointed, and crowned with chaplets, either wearing a mask or
561 VI, 11 | soon afterwards, in another chapter, as though moved by repentance,
562 V, 2 | itself; for he expounded some chapters which seemed to be at variance
563 V, 19 | since that beauty is often charged upon it as a fault, and
564 V, 14 | philosophers praise? Seneca, in charging men with inconsistency,
565 VII, 3 | as a pilot the ship, as a charioteer the chariot. Nor, however,
566 VI, 23 | non exhibentibus mutuam charitatem. Denique nulla est tam perditi
567 V, 1 | minds, except that which charms their ears by a more soothing
568 IV, 16 | bruised for our offences; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him,
569 V, 23 | correction. But He often chastises the good whom He loves,
570 IV, 3 | has the greatest power of chastising and punishing. But that
571 VI, 15 | of anger to restrain and check oneself, which they cannot
572 IV, 18 | back to the scourge, and my cheeks to the hand: I turned not
573 I, 22 | Accordingly they were glad, and cheerfully submitted to his command,
574 IV, 3 | incredible beneficence, and cherishes it as with paternal indulgence,
575 VII, 5 | like manner, if you make chessmen all alike, no one will play.
576 III, 17 | attended with gain. If any chieftain of pirates or leader of
577 I, 10 | and recognising all the chieftains of Greece, but as looking
578 VI, 20 | wished should befall the child--namely, that it should be
579 I, 10 | he not, from his earliest childhood, proved to be impious, and
580 I, 10 | that, being delivered to Chiron, he learned the art of medicine.
581 I, 20 | obscure, who was called Chloris, and that, on her marriage
582 III, 19 | lives in a variety of the choicest gratifications, if any bitterness
583 IV, 7 | are accustomed to call Him Chrestus. The Jews had before been
584 IV, 20 | the advent and passion of Christ--that is, the law and the
585 I, 12 | Cronos, which is the same as Chronos, that is, a space of time.
586 VI, 9 | man as we have heard that Cimon was at Athens, who both
587 VI, 23 | sunt. Nam neque maritus circa corrumpendas aliorum conjuges
588 I, 21 | Leda became Nemesis, and Circe Marica; and Ino, when she
589 VII, 14 | revolutions of which in order the circles of years are made up; and
590 VI, 15 | which they aim at, and by a circuitous route, which is long and
591 IV, 17 | part of the body which is circumcised has a kind of resemblance
592 V, 5 | accustomed to give precepts by circumlocutions), they repeat examples of
593 VI, 23 | ne quis divina praecepta circumscribere se putet posse, adduntur
594 VI, 24 | can be so prudent and so circumspect as not at some time to slip;
595 IV, 30 | may not be borne to broken cisterns which hold no water, but
596 VI, 4 | plains, but to the very citadel of the world:--~"The left
597 III, 17 | himself assailed his own citadels and famed temples, and cast
598 I, 5 | demonstration of the truth let us cite as witnesses those very
599 I, 15 | and copiousness of speech, cited in an incredible degree
600 I, 22 | the lyre, it was called Cithaeron. Those sacred rites are
601 VI, 23 | necesse est; et corpus quidem cito ablui potest: mens autem
602 V, 4 | himself says) railing at and clamouring against the truth. Which
603 VII, 18 | recalling the wandering and cleansing wickedness, partly inundating
604 III, 1 | small things by its own clearness: why should I imagine that
605 III, 18 | would neither have driven Cleombrotus nor Cato to a voluntary
606 IV, 13 | before their eyes those mira- cles which the prophets had foretold
607 V, 10 | the part of fraud, but of cleverness? how shall they restrain
608 VI, 11 | bounty on their tribesmen and clients, for they bestow something
609 VI, 3 | overcome the difficulty, has climbed to the summit. they say
610 III, 8 | Peripatetic and Stoic, but of clinical philosophers. For who would
611 I, 20 | consecrated an image of Cloacina, which had been found in
612 I, 10 | and in upbraiding Publius Clodius with incest with his sister,
613 IV, 10 | poet says), that "the wave, closing over him after the appearance
614 IV, 1 | being depressed downwards, clung to goods of the earth, as
615 VI, 6 | will be content with one. Cnoeus Pompeius wished to be the
616 I, 11 | in Crete, in the town of Cnossus, and Vesta is said to have
617 I, 13 | him as a god who feared a co-heir; whereas, if he had possessed
618 IV, 8 | assuredly He did not require the co-operation .s of another for procreation.
619 I, 11 | sea. Thus all the maritime coasts, together with the islands,
620 III, 20 | friends to sacrifice for him a cock which he had vowed to AEsculapius?
621 III, 12 | Menoeceus did at Thebes, Codrus at Athens, Curtius and the
622 VI, 23 | multique sint, qui hoc coelesti genere vitae felicissime
623 VI, 23 | omnibus terrenis, iter in coelum paratur. Nam quia virtus
624 VI, 23 | sanctitatem genitas, velut in coeni gurgite demersit, pudorem
625 VI, 23 | dicendum mihi puto; qum maxime coercenda est, quia maxime nocet.
626 VI, 23 | esset laus et gloria in coercendis voluptatibus, et abstinentia
627 I, 5 | ancient of the poets, and coeval with the gods themselves,--
628 VI, 23 | foeminis repugnantibus, libido cogeret viros aliud appetere, eoque
629 VI, 23 | immoderata: libidinis fructum cogitatione complectitur; in hac crimen
630 VI, 23 | esse vitandum, sed etiam cogitationem; ne quis aspiciat alienam,
631 VI, 23 | ferant. Nos ipsos in altero cogitemus. Nam fere in hoc justitiae
632 VI, 23 | gravia sunt, dum ignores; ubi cognoveris, facilia: per ipsas difficultates
633 III, 17 | without hooks, they cannot cohere. They ought therefore to
634 I, 4 | future, but even to speak coherently? Were they, therefore, who
635 V, 8 | agreeing with one another, coheres and depends upon one and
636 VI, 23 | illos fraenare non potest, cohibeat eos intra praescriptum legitimi
637 I, 3 | generals as there are legions, cohorts, divisions, and squadrons,
638 I, 13 | represented a ship on the coin, bearing testimony to the
639 IV, 11 | observed the tithes of their coining: but my people have not
640 VI, 23 | maribus admiscuit; et nefandos coitus contra naturam contraque
641 VI, 23 | ad verecundiam, pudorem colat, castitatem conscientia
642 VII, 25 | written respecting the times, collecting them from the sacred writings
643 III, 17 | kings. Thus the crafty man collects an assembly from various
644 VI, 23 | operibus, ab ea quae inhaeserit colluvione purgari. Oportet ergo sibi
645 I, 7 | prophetic, giving responses at Colophon,--I suppose because, induced
646 I, 11 | that they may by variously coloured figures add beauty and grace
647 II, 9 | stones, immense blocks, vast columns, the whole work lofty and
648 VI, 6 | powerful both in number and in combination than the good, so that it
649 III, 6 | is, knowledge united and combined with ignorance. Knowledge
650 VI, 20 | contaminating. For the subject of comedies are the dishonouring of
651 VII, 16 | terrors, and the trains of comets, and the darkness of the
652 V, 20 | they were about to derive comfort from the destruction of
653 IV, 15 | relaxed; and ye weak knees, be comforted. Ye who are of a fearful
654 VII, 27 | deserve to have God as their comforter. For our Father and Lord,
655 VII, 2 | in the same mire, as the comic writer says, since their
656 V, 23 | if they should keep His commandments, and yet correct them if
657 I, 1 | disgraceful errors. And we now commence this work under the auspices
658 I, 5 | beautiful fabric, and was commencing this work, than which nature
659 IV, 16 | ways as from filthiness; he commendeth greatly the latter end of
660 I, 22 | Didymus, in the books of his commentary on Pindar, says that Melisseus,
661 VI, 6 | up arms in defence of the commonwealth, in defence of the senate,
662 VII, 10 | other. Because vices are commotions and perturbations of the
663 VI, 23 | stimulos omnes conturbat et commovet, et naturalem illum incitat
664 I, 2 | sentiments by the testimony of communities and tribes, who on this
665 VII, 5 | earthly body, that, being compacted of different and opposing
666 VI, 23 | adulter habeatur, quisquis compagem corporis in diversa distraxerit.
667 I, 15 | gods. And thus within the compass of a few verses he has presented
668 V, 21 | they are doing a service in compelling them to sacrifice against
669 VII, 12 | I never saw any one who complained of his dissolution in death;
670 VI, 23 | libidinis fructum cogitatione complectitur; in hac crimen est, in hac
671 III, 15 | teacher of life and the completer of happiness, that I consider
672 I, 17 | faithful, who had refused compliance with the love of his stepmother.~
673 II, 7 | that they were foolish, who complied with religious institutions
674 VI, 9 | greatest folly to wish to comply with virtues which in vain
675 VII, 4 | naming of one individual comprehends the whole human race. But
676 III, 5 | motions of the stars, and the computation of times, have been discovered,
677 IV, 5 | difficulty in making these computations; for they testified under
678 VI, 19 | are necessary for life; con-cupiscence, for the procreation of
679 I, 14 | scarcely found a place of concealment in Italy.~
680 III, 10 | if it is ignorant of due conceptions of the Deity, does not know
681 II, 9 | himself. But let us make this concession to the custom and practice
682 III, 1 | indeed, are related in a concise and simple manner. For it
683 VI, 23 | matrimonium, exemplo ipso concitara, out imitari se putat, out
684 II, 5 | the gloom of darkness! He concludes the book, in which he briefly
685 III, 25 | wisdom, if it avoids the concourse of men; since, if wisdom
686 VII, 12 | the soul has in it nothing concrete, nothing of earthly weight,
687 VI, 23 | aspiciat alienam, et animo concupiscat: adulteram enim fieri mentem,
688 VI, 23 | mancipant, ad mortemque condemnant: quia se corpori addixerunt,
689 II, 12 | place, that the moisture condensed from the earth might be
690 VI, 5 | appear how much the divine condescension has bestowed on us in opening
691 V, 16 | inferiors; yet if he has conducted himself not only as an equal,
692 III, 16 | mystery, he did not venture confidently to pronounce that which
693 I, 17 | bides,~And to Egeria's care confides,~To live in woods obscure
694 VII, 27 | XXVII. AN ENCOURAGEMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF THE PIOUS.~Since we have
695 I, 2 | providence which governs affairs, confirming the arguments of the Stoics,
696 VI, 24 | himself of madness, and confirms his mind to a better course
697 VII, 15 | neighbouring states will carry on conflicts with each other; and first
698 VII, 16 | prodigies also in heaven shall confound the minds of men with the
699 III, 1 | perverseness of their minds confuse rather than throw light
700 II, 9 | stiffness were becoming congealed, or seethed with fiery heat
701 III, 20 | whose times the wise man congratulates himself as having been born!~
702 VII, 26 | reign, with the highest congratulations of all men. And not undeservedly
703 I, 20 | that the name of gods had conic into such contempt as to
704 III, 4 | Socrates taught, or ought to be conjectured, as Zeno taught, philosophy
705 VI, 23 | circa corrumpendas aliorum conjuges occupatus potest vacare
706 VI, 23 | se invicem appeterent, et conjunctione gauderent. Itaque ardentissimam
707 VI, 23 | proponere, duorum sexuum conjunctionem generandi causa datam esse
708 VI, 23 | in corpus unum, pari jure conjungit, ut adulter habeatur, quisquis
709 VI, 23 | custos, quae inter se natura. connexa sunt. Nam neque maritus
710 III, 3 | although He may seem to connive at their conduct, and He
711 VI, 16 | curb his joy, if by the conquest of enemies, or the overthrow
712 VI, 23 | pudorem colat, castitatem conscientia et mente tueatur; nec tantum
713 VI, 23 | castitas videri potest, ubi conscientiam cupiditas inquinavit. Nec
714 II, 3 | mind, but knowingly and consciously thrusts his foot into the
715 V, 9 | heavenly oath, and have consented to deadly sacrifices, these
716 VI, 23 | illud, quod avide expetat, consequatur, et tamen in peccatum non
717 I, 5 | or subject to no nature; consequently He Himself governs all nature."
718 VII, 25 | reckoned by them differs considerably, yet all expectation does
719 VI, 20 | brought up--he has certainly consigned his own offspring either
720 VI, 23 | terrain triumphabit, hic erit consimilis Deo, qui virtutem Dei cepit.
721 VII, 12 | often change their abodes, consisting of various and dissimilar
722 V, 10 | often suffer. However, they console themselves by accusing fortune;
723 V, 9 | mother, nor priestess; who conspire against their own citizens
724 IV, 18 | sacred Scriptures, they conspired together to condemn their
725 VI, 17 | is virtue; this is true constancy--to be maintained and preserved
726 VI, 23 | sit lobe maculatum, non constat tamen pudicitiae ratio,
727 I, 21 | of her lord by a bright constellation."~Musaeus relates that Jupiter,
728 VI, 23 | alieno, lupanaria quoque constituit; et pudorem infelicium mulierum
729 IV, 24 | of obedience, not by any constraint, but by a sense of shame,
730 VI, 23 | fastigium est, omniumque consummatio virtutum. Ad quam si quis
731 II, 11 | they had never come into contact with a line of the truth;
732 VI, 23 | ablui potest: mens autem contagione impudici corporis inquinata
733 VI, 20 | the stage is still more contaminating. For the subject of comedies
734 II, 15 | to defile themselves with contamination from the earth, and thus
735 VI, 23 | desideria immittit, ut aliena contaminent, quibus habere propria sine
736 II, 2 | he should persevere in contemplating the likeness, and should
737 I, 23 | that Belus, moreover, was contemporary with Saturnus, and that
738 VI, 23 | incomparabilemque mercedem. Quod continentiae genus quasi fastigium est,
739 VI, 23 | nolis. Haec sunt quae ad continentiam praecipiuntur a Deo. Sed
740 III, 12 | because they are of brief continuance, it therefore despises a
741 III, 12 | destruction, so the soul obtains a continuation of its existence; and as
742 I, 21 | Spain; the custom still continuing, that instead of real men,
743 VII, 26 | God alone. Then for seven continuous years the woods shall be
744 VI, 23 | admiscuit; et nefandos coitus contra naturam contraque institutum
745 II, 10 | the ancients that marriage contracts should be ratified by the
746 V, 19 | man, O Laelius, when you contradict yourself, and after a short
747 VII, 7 | are mad with the desire of contradicting, while they defend their
748 V, 2 | understood nothing. For contradiction is as far removed from the
749 III, 15 | effected by its repeated contradictions than general uncertainty?
750 VI, 23 | nefandos coitus contra naturam contraque institutum Dei machinatus
751 VII, 5 | virtue, appointed also their contraries, with which they might contend.
752 V, 20 | men; what the piety of men contributes to them, if they are blessed:
753 VII, 11 | mortal, whatever works it contrives are equally perishable.
754 I, 3 | it easily be governed or controlled, because all would use their
755 III, 8 | to pass an opinion on the controversies of those men. This teaches
756 VI, 20 | But these are without any controversy wicked and unjust. What
757 IV, 9 | this is the subject most controverted, that we may hold forth
758 VI, 23 | visceribus stimulos omnes conturbat et commovet, et naturalem
759 III, 13 | treat of this question more conveniently in the last book, when we
760 II, 11 | spread abroad by various conversations, every one adding something
761 III, 10 | themselves, they seem to converse: they also appear to have
762 III, 1 | effect anything great in convicting them of ignorance, which
763 V, 3 | Thus your own conclusion convicts you of folly, vanity, and
764 III, 13 | evidence by which they might convince. But we shall treat of this
765 I, 11 | by this excuse; for, when convinced of the unity of God, since
766 V, 5 | the king in the place of Cool, since he himself, almost
767 V, 8 | renounced the authority of Coot, the common parent of all.~
768 VI, 6 | taken from the excellent copies made by nature and truth."
769 II, 3 | defended even bad ones with copious-ness and spirit. But truly you
770 V, 17 | supposes that he is selling copper ore when it is gold, or
771 V, 1 | single letter called him Coprianus, as though he were one who
772 VI, 23 | inter se corpora fuerint copulata, unum corpus efficere. Ita
773 I, 23 | and Iasius were sons of Coritus, not of Jupiter. For if
774 III, 16 | duty to those shut up in corners, which precepts are not
775 IV, 26 | in a circle are called a corona. But we, who before that
776 VI, 23 | docetque nos, cum duo inter se corpora fuerint copulata, unum corpus
777 III, 25 | as though to ransom the corpse of Hector, or to have insisted
778 V, 23 | think them worthy of His correction. But He often chastises
779 I, 4 | heralds of His majesty, and correctors of the wickedness of man.
780 VII, 2 | their conclusion does not correspond with their assumptions;
781 VI, 23 | Nam neque maritus circa corrumpendas aliorum conjuges occupatus
782 I, 10 | the Best; to which name corrupters, adulterers, and incestuous
783 VII, 23 | also attempted to speak as corruptly as the poets. For Pythagoras
784 I, 20 | exposed to the gaze of their corruptors, and at that age which,
785 II, 8 | grove of AEsculapius in Cos, and built a fleet, was
786 III, 15 | in indulgence without any cost. And in this the harlot
787 V, 17 | of others, must return to cottages, and lie down in want and
788 IV, 3 | Lucilius laughs at in the council of the gods: "So that there
789 IV, 16 | another fashion. We are counted by him as triflers, he withdraweth
790 VII, 24 | shall the wool learn to counterfeit various colours;~But the
791 II, 19 | name of a true object which counterfeits the truth by deception and
792 I, 18 | But he who has slaughtered countless thousands of men, has inundated
793 VI, 6 | taken lands and enriched his country-men--he is extolled with praises
794 I, 6 | affirms to have been his own country-woman, and that she foretold to
795 V, 14 | effect this, if we have any courage to despise death and pain.
796 III, 17 | distinction is enjoined to pay court to kings; he who cannot
797 I, 17 | not appear unchaste and a courter of men beyond other females.
798 III, 15 | with Lais, the celebrated courtesan; and that grave teacher
799 I, 17 | first instituted the art of courtesanship, as is contained in the
800 VI, 15 | to curb the desire from coveting that which belongs to another,
801 I, 4 | upon whom the suspicion of covetousness and fraud could not possibly
802 I, 20 | protects infants in the cradle, and keeps off witchcraft;
803 VI, 13 | should surpass Croesus or Crassus in riches, is to be esteemed
804 II, 9 | many ages afterwards the crazy Epicurus lived, who alone
805 VII, 14 | during those six days in creating such great works, so His
806 II, 10 | unless they are cherished by creative heat, the moisture cannot
807 VI, 23 | dicere: sed quid his fore credamus, quos non piget facere?
808 II, 17 | true. Thus they delude the credulity of men by lying divination,
809 III, 18 | invented fables as it were for credulous infants. But if he had thought
810 I, 17 | the circumstance itself cries out. For when Vulcan had
811 III, 15 | of the Cyrenaics, had a criminal intimacy with Lais, the
812 VI, 23 | etiam si plures habeat, a crimine adulterii solutus est. Sed
813 III, 19 | that Alcibiades also, and Critias, were constant hearers of
814 VI, 13 | although he should surpass Croesus or Crassus in riches, is
815 I, 12 | Greek? For he is called Cronos, which is the same as Chronos,
816 II, 1 | duty of recalling men from crooked paths, and of bringing them
817 III, 26 | shall presently despise crosses, and fires, and the bull
818 VI, 1 | always walk attended with crowds of slaves through the people
819 IV, 16 | and (that which was the crowning point of their guilt) blinded
820 III, 26 | of anything; or they will crush the desires, moderate the
821 VI, 23 | videntur; sed de eo loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus terrenis,
822 VI, 18 | is unlawful for him who cultivates truth to be deceitful in
823 VI, 15 | thorns. But when the true cultivator has applied himself, immediately
824 III, 5 | of medicine, and by the cultivators of the land the nature of
825 I, 6 | Samians. The seventh was of Cumae, by name Amalthaea, who
826 VI, 23 | ardentissimam cupiditatem cunctorum animantium corporibus admiscuit,
827 I, 20 | betrayal of her brother; and Cunina, who protects infants in
828 V, 1 | out to them. Only let the cup be anointed with the heavenly
829 VI, 23 | gauderent. Itaque ardentissimam cupiditatem cunctorum animantium corporibus
830 VI, 23 | adhibenda virtus erit, ut cupiditati continentia reluctetur.
831 VI, 23 | noster, quanta sit vis hujus cupiditatis, quam quidam necessitatem
832 VI, 19 | show what these limits are. Cupidity is given us for providing
833 I, 20 | consecrating the images of Cupids and Loves in the gymnasia:
834 I, 6 | rebuilding of the Capitol, Caius Curio the consul proposed to the
835 II, 9 | related to a profane and eager curiosity He was silent, that they
836 VII, 20 | the drowsy night, ~No airy current half so light,"~because
837 II, 14 | the worship of God, being cursed by him; and thus he left
838 I, 21 | but with revilings and cursing. And they consider it a
839 III, 12 | Thebes, Codrus at Athens, Curtius and the two Mures at Rome,
840 III, 24 | enclosed in the midst of its curved surface. But if this were
841 II, 9 | in and held as it were in custody by the body, so that it
842 VI, 23 | matrimonii abstinens, neque sui custos, quae inter se natura. connexa
843 II, 11 | weaves it; the third, who cuts and finishes it. But in
844 IV, 13 | Lastly, his father, in the cxxvith Psalm, prophesied in this
845 III, 15 | why should I speak of the Cynics, who practised licentiousness
846 I, 10 | says that he was buried at Cynosurae. What was the conduct of
847 V, 1 | find sufficient renown. Cyprianus, therefore, was above all
848 V, 18 | an injury even to his own damage, which an animal without
849 I, 11 | about to offer violence to Danae, he poured into her lap
850 I, 21 | I mean those who either dance with unbecoming gestures,
851 II, 8 | Circensian games a public dancer had displeased him, because
852 I, 23 | according to some authorities, Dardanus and Iasius were sons of
853 V, 3 | to destroy the truth, he dared to give to his books which
854 V, 1 | read the beginning, would dash it to the ground, cast it
855 VI, 23 | conjunctionem generandi causa datam esse viventibus, eamque
856 VI, 23 | non sufficit sexus a Deo datus, nisi eliare suum profane
857 I, 22 | of sacrifices. He had two daughters, Amalthaea and Melissa,
858 II, 14 | three sons, and as many daughters-in-law, when the water had covered
859 III, 29 | perfect, inasmuch as virtue is dauntless and unconquered patience
860 V, 10 | father, and~"By young Lulus' dawning day,"~he did not spare them,~"
861 IV, 19 | go down at noon, and the daylight shall be darkened; and I
862 II, 7 | brilliancy of these things dazzle their eyes, and they think
863 V, 4 | light, that he might not be dazzled, the whole of its brightness
864 VI, 25 | But in what manner God deals with the justice of man
865 V, 18 | what ought to be better and dearer to man than innocence? And
866 III, 28 | but then, when he lost his dearest daughter, he shamefully
867 V, 13 | endurance, the same contempt of death--they ought to have understood
868 VII, 5 | to sacrifice to dead and death-bearing gods. This is the cause
869 VI, 12 | any one think that he is debarred from intercourse with his
870 II, 9 | difficulty:--~"You pay your debt by borrowing, Geta."~For
871 V, 12 | deserted together with their decaying gods? If, therefore, the
872 IV, 21 | God. And so, after their decease, when Nero had put them
873 I, 15 | reverence the memory of the deceased, that they might appear
874 I, 4 | they were either madmen or deceivers. But truly we see that their
875 II, 9 | bring to light all these deceptions of the pretended deity,
876 III, 28 | unable to determine and decide what their meaning was.
877 II, 4 | make a bench or a Priapus,decided that it should be a god.
878 VI, 23 | irretitum hominem implicatumque decipiat. Ac ne quis esset, qui poenarum
879 V, 2 | make a traffic of their decisions, but also that he might
880 III, 13 | showing himself off by a declamatory style of speaking. "O philosophy,
881 VI, 4 | road is downward and on the decline; but that it is difficult
882 III, 1 | set off and polished with decoration sought from another source;
883 II, 4 | clothing; to these they dedicate gold and silver, of which
884 VI, 20 | their birthdays, or the dedication of new temples. And at first
885 IV, 15 | their eyes blinded in the deepest darkness, He restored them
886 IV, 15 | shall the lame man leap as a deer, and the tongue of the dumb
887 V, 6 | by that king who, having defeated and put to flight a parent,
888 IV, 15 | those afflicted with some defect of the feet, He not only
889 VI, 10 | because He made him naked and defenceless, that He might rather furnish
890 VII, 26 | lie in ruin. But thou, who defendest and lovest His name, excelling
891 III, 1 | truth is so great that it defends itself even in small things
892 III, 8 | therefore he thought that deference should be paid to what in
893 VII, 22 | cleansed the world from all defilement, He may restore the souls
894 I, 5 | But what God Himself is he defines in his Consolation: "Nor
895 VI, 5 | last place."~From these definitions, which the poet briefly
896 III, 11 | avoided on account of their deformity, virtue is therefore to
897 IV, 16 | used these words: "Let us defraud the righteous, for he is
898 IV, 18 | crucified Him with great degradation, therefore hath God brought
899 I, 21 | names of the dead who are deified to be changed, that no one,
900 V, 5 | human life was while it delayed on the earth. And this is
901 VII, 25 | arrangements and decrees can be delayed--lest, sooner than we think
902 III, 23 | among the Stoics who used to deliberate whether he should assign
903 V, 23 | vicious to live in luxury and delicacy, because He does not think
904 VI, 23 | quibus habere propria sine delicto licet. Objicit quippe oculis
905 VI, 23 | crimen est, in hac omne delictum. Nam etsi corpus nulla sit
906 VI, 6 | justice, we have nothing but delineations and sketches; and I wish
907 VI, 2 | teach as though we were delivering the first elements of virtue,
908 I, 15 | Vulcan, Naxos Liber, and Delos Apollo. And thus various
909 I, 18 | Cicero also assented to this delusion. It is so in truth, he said,
910 II, 17 | destroy."~But these are the delusions of those who, concealing
911 VI, 23 | velut in coeni gurgite demersit, pudorem extinxit, pudicitiam
912 II, 15 | called demons, as though demoenes, that is, skilled and acquainted
913 III, 2 | approach may be open to us for demolishing the whole body; if indeed
914 I, 5 | to authors, and for the demonstration of the truth let us cite
915 I, 6 | termed by some Herophile, or Demophile and they say that she brought
916 V, 2 | But if this was so, what Demosthenes will be able to defend from
917 VI, 23 | vitiis nostra intemperantia demus: sed assuescant invicem
918 V, 9 | wolves rushing from their den,~Whom lawless hunger's sullen
919 V, 4 | which consists in defence or denial only, and another thing
920 I, 16 | back to that which they had denied--that they have sexual intercourse,
921 VI, 3 | is the guide of that way, denies immortality to no human
922 VI, 23 | exhibentibus mutuam charitatem. Denique nulla est tam perditi pudoris
923 I, 11 | is too insignificant to denote the magnitude of the benefit
924 I, 11 | successor. But this fear plainly denotes one who is both mortal and
925 V, 20 | he hears what threats God denounces against him: that God, I
926 I, 22 | friendship; and when he was departing from each, he ordered that
927 V, 8 | if they wish? Why do you depict to yourselves justice as
928 VI, 23 | imaginem voluptatis sibi ipsa depinxerit. Mens est enim profecto
929 III, 14 | life taught you, if you are deplorably ignorant of the truth? But
930 VI, 23 | indigentem, libidini suae depopulandam foedandamque substraverint?
931 III, 3 | please, the customs and deportment of the citizens. But when
932 IV, 18 | feared lest he should be deposed from his sovereignty. He
933 IV, 26 | God the giver of life, and depressing their souls from heaven
934 IV, 16 | the detestable design of depriving Him of life, who had come
935 I, 5 | lands, the tracts of sea and depth of heaven; the flocks, the
936 III, 23 | he was in his senses, or deranged. Away, he says, ye evil
937 I, 22 | Lucilius in these verses derides the folly of those who imagine
938 I, 20 | from which also the brothel derives its name. The Romans doubtless
939 II, 4 | though they were capable of deriving any pleasure from these
940 I, 23 | connection with Ganymede, his own descendant. Therefore, if you divide
941 I, 23 | distant by a long series of descents. But according to some authorities,
942 VI, 23 | pudebit eum ad deteriora desciscere: modo placeant recta et
943 V, 9 | the same time a most true describer and a most vehement accuser
944 VI, 6 | it follows that all those descriptions of virtue must be false,
945 IV, 4 | Master against those who are deserters of His majesty and name.
946 VI, 23 | transfert. Illicita enim desideria immittit, ut aliena contaminent,
947 I, 6 | distinguishing mark, so that you may designate each person by his own mark
948 IV, 15 | and generally, without any designation of persons and places, that
949 III, 25 | judges, of its own accord designedly avoiding the multitude."
950 VI, 23 | opera, et haec facinora designer, armandi adversus earn virtute
951 VI, 12 | rather the part of one who is designing and crafty, deceitful and
952 I, 1 | dominion which was salutary and desirable for all, with an excellent
953 VI, 15 | grieved if pestilence has desolated his country, or an enemy
954 II, 11 | pestilence, which often desolates separate cities and countries;
955 I, 20 | was ended, since the Gauls despaired of being able to reduce
956 VI, 17 | should be in want, or of one despairing of being able to recover
957 III, 6 | philosophy, which might despatch it now withering. And Arcesilas
958 V, 9 | fine, commit sacrilege, and despoil the temples of the gods
959 VI, 6 | injures, who hates, who despoils, who puts to death? And
960 II, 4 | reason did Dionysius, the despot of Sicily, when after a
961 VII, 22 | times told ~The wheel of destiny have rolled,~The voice divine
962 V, 20 | since the truth itself detains him. Let them teach in this
963 II, 4 | punish those who have been detected in the act of sacrilege,
964 V, 23 | nor tortures of the vitals deter them. These things have
965 VI, 23 | assueverit, jam pudebit eum ad deteriora desciscere: modo placeant
966 V, 11 | more cruel torturer, who determines to put no one to death.
967 VI, 8 | calls to duty by commanding, deters from wrong by forbidding;
968 IV, 26 | the truth is bitter, and detested by all who, being destitute
969 I, 11 | fiction, that the truth itself detracted nothing from the public
970 I, 11 | was not for the purpose of detraction that they said these things,
971 III, 4 | to the former, and which detracts from it. Between these two
972 II, 13 | earth, the image of which is developed in man, those things which
973 II, 5 | is not permitted them to deviate from their prescribed orbits.
974 III, 30 | philosophers held a course widely deviating from the truth. I perceive,
975 I, 22 | This was a very crafty device on his part, that he might
976 IV, 18 | shall know. Then I saw their devices; I was led as an innocent
977 V, 11 | their virtue. And thus, in devising modes of punishment, they
978 VI, 23 | Huic divinae legi summa devotione parendum est. Sint omnes,
979 IV, 20 | I am become a prey and a devouring to my heirs, who have slain
980 I, 21 | companions, and while he devours the oxen of another man,
981 IV, 15 | pouring forth of the purifying dew. Then a voice from heaven
982 VII, 24 | hard oaks shall distil the dewy honey.~Nor shall the wool
983 II, 9 | is called by the Greeks diabolus: we call him accuser, because
984 VI, 17 | not distinguished by a diadem or purple, or the attendance
985 I, 2 | respecting the gods; or Diagoras afterwards, who excluded
986 I, 6 | gods. For in the Aeolic dialect they used to call the gods
987 III, 13 | which the whole subject of dialectics and the whole method of
988 I, 21 | should be sacrificed to Diana; and this sacrifice was
989 VI, 23 | quasi honesta sunt. Quid dicam de iis, qui abominandam
990 V, 18 | reason and the truth itself dictate. For we see that in all
991 VII, 26 | religion, since thou alone didst exist of all, who mightest
992 I, 16 | they must of necessity die--what must we suppose to
993 II, 3 | indeed, his meaning was different--that nothing was to be worshipped,
994 VI, 23 | verb aliquis existimet, difficile esse fraenos imponere voluptati,
995 VI, 23 | virtutem Dei cepit. Haec quidem difficilia videntur; sed de eo loquimur,
996 VI, 23 | cognoveris, facilia: per ipsas difficultates nobis exeundum est, qui
997 I, 22 | were found by men who were digging, in one of which was the
998 III, 30 | necessary for me to make a digression to this subject, that I
999 I, 1 | if any one should wish to dilate upon and follow up these
1000 III, 14 | receiving wisdom. For he diminishes the praise who praises a
1001 VI, 23 | crimen adulterii uxorem dimiserit, ut alteram ducat; dissociari
1002 VI, 23 | adulterum esse, qui a marito dimissam duxerit, et eum qui praeter