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1003 VI, 2 | darkness would overspread your dimmed eyes, what light, I pray,
1004 V, 2 | parsimony and poverty, be dined less sumptuously in a palace
1005 III, 9 | any one had invited you to dinner, and you had been well entertained,
1006 III, 7 | of the body. Callipho and Dinomachus united virtue with pleasure,
1007 III, 25 | also enumerate Plato and Diogenes: these, however, were not
1008 V, 11 | stern embattled field."~"Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,~
1009 VI, 4 | ensnare us by various arts, directing his rage according to the
1010 VI, 22 | requires us to say that it is dis graceful to a wise and good
1011 VII, 5 | advantageous and things disadvantageous, between things useful and
1012 VI, 19 | their equals in age: hence disagreements, hence banishments, hence
1013 V, 4 | false religions will quickly disappear, and philosophy altogether
1014 I, 18 | occasions widely-spread disasters, they so admire it as to
1015 VII, 9 | consisted of body only, discerning nothing with their mind,
1016 III, 27 | with mind raised aloft he discerns God, and his thoughts are
1017 III, 27 | since it is sufficient for discharging the office of virtue that
1018 VI, 23 | est. Sint omnes, qui se discipulos Dei profitebuntur, ita morati
1019 VI, 23 | hunc servum dominus, hunc discipulum magister agnoscet; hic terrain
1020 II, 14 | which we will presently disclose. But the others, who were
1021 III, 15 | they were making a public disclosure of their own character,
1022 VII, 22 | different mouths and various discourses, changed the truth. For
1023 II, 8 | judgment approve of the discoveries of their ancestors, and
1024 II, 9 | doubtless through the desire of discovering novelties, that he might
1025 IV, 1 | wise. And yet, before the discovery of this philosophy, as it
1026 I, 14 | same things, with a few discrepancies, which do not affect the
1027 VI, 10 | communion and society. The discrepancy between them is not great;
1028 VII, 5 | good from evil--that he may discriminate between things advantageous
1029 V, 11 | Therefore they view with disdain the bodies of beasts, though
1030 VI, 24 | another's, envies no one, disdains no one; who is lowly, merciful,
1031 I, pref| of pleasures, that, being disengaged and without impediment,
1032 II, 9 | everything depends. Let Cotta disentangle himself, if he can, from
1033 I, 10 | his impassioned love, most disgracefully tend the flock of another,
1034 I, 21 | do I strip Priapus of his disguise, lest something deserving
1035 I, 20 | truth is in question, ought disguises of this kind to deceive
1036 I, 5 | remarkable work, without any disguising of the name, admits that
1037 VI, 24 | however, let any one be disheartened, or despair concerning himself,
1038 VI, 5 | which are done unjustly and dishonestly arise from these affections.
1039 VI, 20 | subject of comedies are the dishonouring of virgins, or the loves
1040 V, 20 | mind of the worshipper is disinclined to it, religion is at once
1041 VII, 5 | given to man that he may disitinguish good from evil--that he
1042 IV, 11 | confounded: the wise men are dismayed and taken, for they have
1043 III, 16 | precepts themselves teach disobedience? Moreover, it is a good
1044 VII, 18 | done, and opposing to the disorder His own will, that is, goodness,
1045 II, 14 | of what had been done he disowned and sent away his son. But
1046 III, 14 | there have been some who disparaged it. "Can any one," he says, "
1047 I, 11 | ignorant, but impious, who disparages the excellency of the supreme
1048 I, 14 | Glauca. Pluto in Latin is Dispater; others call him Orcus.
1049 VI, 4 | that we might be able to dispel these errors, and to overcome
1050 II, 3 | advantageous to you than the dispersion of the errors of mankind,
1051 III, 30 | teaching the truth, and displaying to us a light brighter than
1052 V, 9 | one whom his faults may displease. Therefore they endeavour
1053 VI, 6 | victory is placed at the disposal of God, not in your own
1054 III, 17 | the various members, being disposed in a wonderful manner, discharge
1055 IV, 22 | to divine things, let us disprove their error, that they may
1056 III, 6 | could be known. And thus he disproved the judgment of the philosophers,
1057 I, 23 | of great weight for the disproving of false religions; but
1058 III, 3 | which is not the part of a disputant, but of a diviner. It remains
1059 III, 8 | are is a great subject of dispute--common to man with the beasts.
1060 VI, 17 | compels those against whom he disputes to admit those things which
1061 II, 17 | to have happened through disregard of them. Thus they acquire
1062 I, 4 | entrusted to them, that, disregarding all things necessary for
1063 III, 18 | consists; then, if you shall be dissatisfied with life, have recourse
1064 II, 17 | his own form, without any dissembling; if indeed the ambassadors
1065 V, 2 | the other disciples, as disseminators of deceit whom at the same
1066 VI, 11 | ourselves? Therefore discord and dissension are not in accordance with
1067 I, 10 | a god. Tarquitius, in a dissertation concerning illustrious men,
1068 VI, 24 | for falsehood, none for dissimulation; for the eyes of men are
1069 VI, 23 | dimiserit, ut alteram ducat; dissociari enim corpus et distrahi
1070 VII, 12 | still remained in it, would dissolve and perish as quickly as
1071 VII, 9 | lead them to death, which dissolves the living being. If, therefore,
1072 I, 4 | precepts of righteousness are distasteful to the wicked, and to those
1073 I, 15 | gave no indications of a distempered mind, but of constancy and
1074 VII, 24 | bring back home their udders distended with milk; Nor shall the
1075 VII, 24 | brambles,~And hard oaks shall distil the dewy honey.~Nor shall
1076 I, pref| measure discussed, with distinctness and elegance of speech,
1077 VII, 9 | almost the only thing which distinguishes man from the dumb creation.
1078 III, 15 | nothing, subverts method, distorts rule, entirely takes away
1079 VI, 23 | dissociari enim corpus et distrahi Deus noluit. Praeterea non
1080 VI, 23 | compagem corporis in diversa distraxerit. Nec ob aliam cansam Deus,
1081 IV, 15 | and that the multitude, distributed by riffles, should recline
1082 V, 15 | heavenly benefits. For as He distributes to all alike His one light,
1083 II, 18 | as being assigned in the distribution of things to the prince
1084 VII, 3 | levelled with plains. Many districts, and the foundations of
1085 IV, 23 | them out into action, are distrusted; and if they shall be men,
1086 VII, 1 | undertaken in vain; while he distrusts their heavenly reward, which
1087 VI, 23 | quisquis compagem corporis in diversa distraxerit. Nec ob aliam
1088 VI, 3 | the place "where the way divides itself into two parts,'"
1089 VI, 23 | sobolis accepimus. Huic divinae legi summa devotione parendum
1090 VII, 15 | interpretation of a boy who uttered divinations, announcing long before
1091 II, 1 | term of life, yielded to a divinely appointed necessity and
1092 VI, 23 | mutum animal pudicum esse dixerit, quod suscepto foetu mari
1093 VI, 23 | immo exemplo continentia: docenda uxor, ut se caste gerat.
1094 VI, 23 | partem, quod nomen ipsum docet, nulla alia causa nisi efficiendae
1095 VI, 23 | abstinendum, Deus praecepit; docetque nos, cum duo inter se corpora
1096 III, 4 | confirm itself and its own doctrines: nor does it allow wisdom
1097 VI, 18 | God admonishes us that the doer of justice ought not to
1098 VII, 14 | gods by the decrees and dogmas of mortals; either because
1099 I, 15 | funeral, and by the advice of Dolabella the consul, who overthrew
1100 II, 4 | the temples, as there are doll presented to Venus by the
1101 VI, 23 | facit, quia necesse est in dolorem atque in periculum veniat,
1102 VI, 23 | occupatus potest vacare domesticae sanctitati; et uxor, cum
1103 III, 11 | love pleasures, riches, dominions, and honours, and all those
1104 VI, 23 | eluctari potuerit, hunc servum dominus, hunc discipulum magister
1105 V, 3 | to your-description. when Domitian wished to punish him, suddenly
1106 V, 11 | disputations of jurists are read. Domitius, in his seventh book, concerning
1107 VI, 23 | atque inflammat ardorem, donee irretitum hominem implicatumque
1108 V, 14 | commanding things evil;~Not the doom frowning near in the brows
1109 I, 18 | though he himself had been doorkeeper in heaven at the time when
1110 III, 27 | their precepts. since it is doubted whether they are true or
1111 III, 23 | inhabitants; he acted foolishly in doubting. For what injury would he
1112 IV, 15 | the appearance of a white dove. From that time He began
1113 V, 9 | that they may gain their dowries, or their husbands that
1114 VI, 11 | proceeds from our estate, drains the very source of our liberality;
1115 II, 14 | having become merry, he drank even to intoxication, and
1116 I, 1 | and abundant, by copious draughts of which they may appease
1117 III, 17 | future state is not to be dreaded, because souls die after
1118 III, 6 | asystaton; that some one had dreamt that he should not believe
1119 VI, 17 | which the chief duty of the driver is to know the way; and
1120 V, 2 | neighbours, whom he was driving froth their homes and lands,
1121 VI, 14 | nor suffer his spirits to droop through sadness. We shall
1122 VII, 24 | the rocky mountains shall drop with honey; streams of wine
1123 VII, 26 | brimstone, and hailstones, and drops of fire; and their spirits
1124 I, 11 | the river in which he was drowned. No wonder, then, if the
1125 VII, 20 | such as~"No vision of the drowsy night, ~No airy current
1126 I, 21 | helmetsthey strike cymbals, and drums instead of shields; the
1127 VII, 12 | loses its senses through drunkenness, whence it is evidently
1128 VI, 23 | uxorem dimiserit, ut alteram ducat; dissociari enim corpus
1129 IV, 5 | examined the times, shall duly lay the foundation of learning,
1130 VI, 23 | consistit, omnia gravia sunt, dum ignores; ubi cognoveris,
1131 I, 9 | who cleanses a stable from dung, than he who cleanses his
1132 VI, 23 | praecepit; docetque nos, cum duo inter se corpora fuerint
1133 VI, 23 | est. Sed divina lex ira duos in matrimonium, quod est
1134 VI, 23 | esse, qui a marito dimissam duxerit, et eum qui praeter crimen
1135 VI, 24 | courteous: peace perpetually dwells in his mind. That man is
1136 VII, 24 | purple, now for saffron dye;~Scarlet of its own accord
1137 VI, 23 | multis bonis operibus, ab ea quae inhaeserit colluvione
1138 VII, 24 | hunt for prey; hawks and eagles shall not injure; the infant
1139 VI, 23 | CONTINENTIA.~Venio nunc ad eam, quae percipitur ex tactu,
1140 VI, 23 | affectus avidissime ruerent, eaque ratione propagari et multiplicari
1141 V, 5 | poets also, who were much earlier, and were esteemed as wise
1142 I, 10 | more renowned, because he earned the distinction of being
1143 I, 7 | beginning comprehended. When the earnest attention of the human mind
1144 VI, 6 | lawful for a soul which is earnestly fixed on heavenly goods
1145 IV, 2 | sought with the greatest earnestness and labour by so many intellects,
1146 V, 14 | things, but fear and adore an earthen image moulded by their own
1147 VII, 16 | sword, but also by continual earthquakes and overflowings of waters,
1148 VII, 22 | Lethe's river side,~That earthward they may pass once more,~
1149 V, 10 | religiously they honour those earthy images, so much the more
1150 I, 13 | the vulgar, that he has eaten his sons, who has carried
1151 VI, 23 | Cum igitur libido haec edat opera, et haec facinora
1152 III, 17 | cannot be cut asunder by the edge of any weapon, how is it
1153 VII, 1 | we have raised the entire edifice, with great and strong buildings,
1154 VII, 26 | wanting in some mss. and editions, but is inserted in the
1155 VII, 15 | into being, and as it were educated; then its boyhood under
1156 V, 10 | had not received a liberal education--but yours; for, though you
1157 VI, 24 | subsequent righteousness has effaced the stain of his former
1158 VI, 23 | non possis. Quae iniquitas effecit profecto, ut essent adulteria,
1159 VI, 23 | fuerint copulata, unum corpus efficere. Ita qui se coeno immerserit,
1160 VI, 23 | docet, nulla alia causa nisi efficiendae sobolis accepimus. Huic
1161 I, 11 | temples. What meaning have the effigies of women? What the doubtful
1162 VI, 23 | quidem totius corporis. Sed ego non de ornamentis, aut vestibus,
1163 VI, 6 | and being mutilated by Egyptian eunuchs, was cast forth
1164 III, 25 | have ransomed Plato for eight sesterces. And on this account
1165 IV, 12 | Whence David says in the eighty-fourth Psalm, "Truth has sprung
1166 III, 15 | part of those who give most elaborate precepts in their school
1167 I, 11 | celebrating a triumph. This is elegantly pictured by the poet, but
1168 II, 7 | this senate, Propertius the elegiac poet thus speaks:--~"The
1169 IV, 7 | from the Hebrew, the word eleimmenos is found written, from the
1170 I, 21 | the sacred rites of the Eleusinian Ceres are not unlike these.
1171 VII, 9 | and those which are light elevate to life; because life is
1172 VI, 23 | sexus a Deo datus, nisi eliare suum profane ac petulanter
1173 IV, 11 | unto Thee."~The prophet Elias also, in the third book
1174 VII, 8 | therefore, are able to elicit the truth by more certain
1175 II, 4 | accuser, with all the force of eloquence--in short, with every effort
1176 | elsewhere
1177 VI, 23 | quam si quis eniti atque eluctari potuerit, hunc servum dominus,
1178 VII, 12 | the soul is slight, and eluding the touch and sight. The
1179 VI, 4 | as the poets say, to the Elysian plains, but to the very
1180 II, 4 | the dead have? For as they embalm the bodies of the dead,
1181 IV, 16 | performed this office and embassy from God, on account of
1182 V, 11 | slaughter reeks~The stern embattled field."~"Dire agonies, wild
1183 VI, 15 | objects, for the sake of embellishing the style and increasing
1184 III, 1 | truth when adorned with embellishments, since they even believe
1185 IV, 16 | death. Now His humility emboldened them to this deed. For when
1186 IV, 1 | by the folly of one age embracing various superstitions, and
1187 VI, 25 | to God." What then? Are embroidered and costly textures? Nay,
1188 II, 13 | said that it was formed. Empedocles--whom you cannot tell whether
1189 VII, 15 | WORLD AND CHANGE OF THE EMPIRES.~It is contained in the
1190 VII, 20 | the body cold and dead,~E'en then there passes not away~
1191 III, 19 | of those resources which enabled him to receive a liberal
1192 V, 2 | especially the adviser of enacting persecution; and not contented
1193 I, 11 | self-restraint, though he was deeply enamoured of her; but this was not
1194 VI, 23 | pro magnitudine sceleris enarrari. Nihil amplius istos appellare
1195 II, 17 | whom the people truly call enchanters, when they practise their
1196 V, 18 | to show why God wished to enclose justice under the appearance
1197 I, 14 | brother Saturn and Ops, and encloses~them within a wall, and
1198 VI, 2 | imagine, while we are still encompassed with an earthly body, they
1199 I, pref| that these errors should be encountered, that both the learned may
1200 VII, 27 | XXVII. AN ENCOURAGEMENT AND CONFIRMATION OF THE
1201 V, 19 | in a case where life is endangered, to be more careful of the
1202 VI, 11 | retains them in life, who endues them with breath, who vouchsafes
1203 V, 16 | contrary to virtue, and enervate the vigour of the mind,
1204 I, 20 | Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women,
1205 III, 24 | figure of the world, and engraved upon them certain monstrous
1206 VI, 23 | virtutum. Ad quam si quis eniti atque eluctari potuerit,
1207 VII, 26 | in virtue and prosperity, enjoyest thy immortal glories with
1208 III, 7 | It is not necessary to enlarge on every point; let us select
1209 VII, 16 | First, the kingdom will be enlarged, and the chief power, dispersed
1210 II, 10 | fountain of light, and the enlightener, of all things, and because
1211 VI, 12 | What does it profit to enrich men of abandoned wickedness,
1212 VI, 6 | money, has taken lands and enriched his country-men--he is extolled
1213 III, 14 | that this man should be enrolled among the gods?"~From this
1214 IV, 14 | deserted the living God, and, ensared by the deceits of demons,
1215 III, 8 | a bad reputation should ensue? Shall we cast aside virtue
1216 IV, 18 | these verses:--~"For you, entertaining hurtful thoughts, did not
1217 VI, 12 | we should invite to the entertainment those who cannot invite
1218 VI, 6 | living, not to make costly entertainments, not to squander carelessly,
1219 I, 11 | reigned these things. Whoever entertains this opinion is in error.
1220 III, 1 | adornment of speech and the enticement of words; or, at all events,
1221 II, 9 | faults to which he himself entices us. God, therefore, when
1222 IV, 27 | observe future events in the entrails of the victims. And when
1223 III, 3 | the body, that by these entrances knowledge might flow through
1224 VI, 20 | the stroke of death, and entreating mercy, not only suffer them
1225 I, 7 | And so, again, when at the entreaty of some one he uttered an
1226 V, 2 | variance with themselves, enumerating so many and such secret
1227 VII, 18 | Complete Treatise, after an enumeration of the evils concerning
1228 III, 14 | powerful consul, and by your envenomed speeches to render him the
1229 II, 9 | all evils is envy. For he envied his predecessor, who through
1230 II, 13 | evil. Then the accuser, envying the works of God, applied
1231 VII, 17 | studied tortures. He will also enwrap righteous men with the books
1232 VI, 23 | difficilia videntur; sed de eo loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus
1233 VI, 23 | cogeret viros aliud appetere, eoque facto, castitatis gloriam
1234 V, 3 | even now honoured by the Ephesians. He could not therefore
1235 V, 15 | others, which Cicero calls equability. For God, who produces and
1236 VII, 27 | in no way be compared and equalled. Therefore, if we wish to
1237 VI, 19 | employ anger against their equals in age: hence disagreements,
1238 II, 8 | cover the temple of the equestrian Fortuna, which he had built
1239 VI, 12 | fight with beasts, and to equip them for crimes? Transfer
1240 III, 26 | doing its utmost, does not eradicate, but hide vices. But a few
1241 VI, 14 | think that these can be eradicated, if the false notion of
1242 VI, 15 | things good and evil, by the eradication of which they think that
1243 I, 6 | of Samos, respecting whom Eratosthenes writes that he had found
1244 I, 13 | the race to union first,~Erewhile on mountain tops dispersed,~
1245 I, 17 | name was given to him from eridos and kthonos, that is, from
1246 VI, 23 | voluptati, eamque vagam et errantem castitatis pudicitiaeque
1247 II, 17 | Since all these things are erroneous,~Which foolish men search
1248 V, 18 | good, and therefore always errs. For he is as it were, led
1249 III, 1 | account of their literary erudition, should I also yield to
1250 I, 6 | ambassadors should be sent to Erythrae to search out and bring
1251 I, 17 | Anchines AEneas; from Butes Eryx; from Adonis she could bring
1252 IV, 18 | the prophets foretold. In Esdras it is thus written: "And
1253 VII, 25 | own writings, but in an especial manner by the writings of
1254 VI, 23 | iniquitas effecit profecto, ut essent adulteria, foeminis aegre
1255 II, 10 | they believed them to be essential for the production of man,
1256 I, 22 | NATIONS.~The author and establisher of these vanities among
1257 VI, 11 | days. Thus every day the estates of most trifling men are
1258 I, 16 | and their number not to be estimated--though, as they are born,
1259 V, 1 | excite pleasure: no one estimates a subject by its truth,
1260 III, 19 | to its righteousness, or eternally punished according to its
1261 III, 13 | philosophy is contained in the ethical part alone, to which Socrates
1262 IV, 13 | and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabaeans, men of
1263 I, 21 | lighted from the top of Etna, on this account her sacred
1264 VI, 23 | in hac omne delictum. Nam etsi corpus nulla sit lobe maculatum,
1265 III, 12 | good reason, therefore, did Euclid, no obscure philosopher,
1266 VI, 6 | being mutilated by Egyptian eunuchs, was cast forth unburied.
1267 II, 4 | the hand of Polycletus, Euphranor, and Phidias, were nothing
1268 I, 9 | was not only a servant to Eurystheus, a king, which to a certain
1269 III, 6 | destructive of itself. But the evasive man wished to take away
1270 IV, 19 | the ninth hour. Of which event the prophet Amos testifies: "
1271 VII, 27 | water of salvation from an ever-flowing fountain. By this divine
1272 II, 2 | perception. But the image of the ever-living God ought to be living and
1273 V, 3 | true God will punish you everlastingly. If Christ is a magician
1274 | everyone
1275 IV, 15 | else than for deceiving the eves? He also, when He was about
1276 III, 13 | they might overcome, nor evidence by which they might convince.
1277 III, 26 | who is unjust, foolish, an evil-doer; forthwith he shall be just,
1278 VI, 23 | ad eam, quae percipitur ex tactu, voluptatem: qui sensus
1279 I, 21 | therefore antiquity, which exaggerates all things, made them known
1280 V, 11 | For that was no honour, or exaltation of dignity, but the condemnation
1281 V, 16 | divine precepts: "He that exalteth himself shall be abased;
1282 I, 15 | common intercourse led to the exalting to heaven by fame and goodwill
1283 IV, 9 | speech, the relation of which exceeds the measure of man's ability.
1284 VII, 8 | And although all these excelled in eloquence, nevertheless
1285 I, 3 | be in Him. Therefore the excellences and powers of the gods must
1286 VI, 15 | at a loss for a method of exchanging the name. Therefore they
1287 VI, 17 | which is vice. For these excitements of the mind resemble a harnessed
1288 VI, 18 | opposed to injustice often excites great tempests? But if you
1289 VI, 25 | were offered to his father, exclaimed: "Speak words of good omen,
1290 I, 19 | God. The excellent poet exclaims, that all those who refined
1291 I, 2 | Diagoras afterwards, who excluded them; and some others, who
1292 VI, 23 | quia maxime nocet. Cure excogitasset Deus duorum sexuum rationero,
1293 II, 12 | nourishment, and by the excrements of its own body mixed together.
1294 V, 22 | Thus, being tortured and excruciated by the power of the divine
1295 III, 14 | those things, which may be excused under the name of fortune.
1296 VI, 23 | quorum teterrima libido et execrabilis furor ne capiti quidem parcit.
1297 II, 14 | the earth was dry, God, execrating the wickedness of the former
1298 VII, 24 | destroyed unrighteousness, and executed His great judgment, and
1299 I, 9 | clothed with her garments, and executing an appointed task. Detestable
1300 V, 18 | surety was now being led to execution, presented himself, and
1301 III, 16 | in life. We are free and exempt from this calumny, who take
1302 I, 21 | office as proetor gave him an exemption from this duty. He was therefore
1303 VI, 23 | libidinem, sod insaniam potius exercent! Piget dicere: sed quid
1304 III, 8 | adversary with the utmost exertion of strength, that my valour
1305 VI, 23 | ipsas difficultates nobis exeundum est, qui ad summum bonum
1306 VI, 12 | are advised to lessen or exhaust your property; but that
1307 I, 7 | as it were, summed up and exhausted, it stops, it is at a loss,
1308 VI, 23 | ferentibus praestare se fidem non exhibentibus mutuam charitatem. Denique
1309 VI, 11 | popular favour, expend on the exhibition of shows wealth that would
1310 V, 4 | others. And if, through my exhortation, learned and eloquent men
1311 VI, 20 | when they have eloquently exhorted us to despise earthly things,
1312 III, 17 | or leader of robbers were exhorting his men to acts of violence,
1313 VI, 23 | Iniquum est enim, ut id exigas, quod praestare ipse non
1314 V, 5 | had arrived in Latium,--~"Exiled from his throne~By Jove,
1315 II, 10 | body be animated with life. Exiles also were accustomed to
1316 VI, 23 | facere potuerit, habebit eximiam incomparabilemque mercedem.
1317 VI, 23 | inquinavit. Nec verb aliquis existimet, difficile esse fraenos
1318 VII, 25 | differs considerably, yet all expectation does not exceed the limit
1319 VII, 4 | at random, from which he expects no utility, no advantage?
1320 VI, 4 | must undertake military expeditions, must shed our blood to
1321 I, 14 | heed lest his son should expel him from the kingdom; that
1322 III, 13 | investigator of virtue, and expeller of vices; what could not
1323 III, 26 | impulse it once for all expels folly, which is the mother
1324 VI, 11 | and are ungrateful for the expenses incurred by another, or
1325 III, 7 | of the subjects and daily experiments are able to teach what is
1326 VI, 23 | ut et illud, quod avide expetat, consequatur, et tamen in
1327 I, 21 | more diligently offer an expiation, they immolated two hundred
1328 I, 11 | human power? For Cicero explains the names Jupiter and Juno
1329 IV, 2 | since they traversed and explored all parts, but nowhere found
1330 III, 14 | you hold her forth as an explorer? since you often testify
1331 V, 2 | contradictory to itself; for he expounded some chapters which seemed
1332 VI, 5 | Lucilius puts together and expresses in a few verses, which I
1333 VI, 23 | Quod optime Quintilianus expressit: Homo, inquit, neque alieni
1334 V, 6 | change of the age and the expulsion of justice is to be deemed
1335 VI, 23 | omnia castitatis officio exsecutus sum: quam Deus fion modo
1336 VI, 6 | glittered, must be banished and exterminated from thence. This saying
1337 III, 29 | plots, afflicts, deceives, exterminates; who appointed her as the
1338 II, 8 | space of one year became extinct. Likewise the censor Fulvius,
1339 III, 22 | and lusts, for the utter extinction of which virtue is especially
1340 VI, 23 | gurgite demersit, pudorem extinxit, pudicitiam profligavit.
1341 I, 15 | ancient accounts, and to extract from them those things which
1342 V, 2 | avarice than with lusts; so extravagant in his manner of living,
1343 VII, 3 | which they are unable to extricate themselves; but I say this,
1344 IV, 18 | flowing with such copious exuberance, as to lament in a befitting
1345 I, 1 | extent, he would have such an exuberant supply of subjects, that
1346 IV, 21 | lands, because they had exulted over the well-beloved and
1347 III, 4 | destroyed; and as those fabled sparti of the poets, so
1348 I, 5 | was one only; that is, the Fabricator of the whole universe. Cleanthes
1349 VI, 6 | philosophers "Nor," he says, "when Fabricius or Aristides is called just,
1350 VII, 22 | though licentiously and fabulously invented. But when we affirm
1351 II, 14 | garment, entered with their faces turned backwards, and covered
1352 VI, 23 | summa consistit, ut non facias alteri, quidquid ipse ab
1353 VI, 23 | ignores; ubi cognoveris, facilia: per ipsas difficultates
1354 VI, 23 | haec edat opera, et haec facinora designer, armandi adversus
1355 VI, 23 | mari repugnat? Quod ideo facit, quia necesse est in dolorem
1356 VI, 23 | ludibrio haberet tam eos qui faciunt, quam quas pati necesse
1357 VI, 23 | viros aliud appetere, eoque facto, castitatis gloriam non
1358 IV, 8 | mingled with the air, and fade away, yet generally remain
1359 IV, 8 | I caused the light that faileth not to arise in the heavens,
1360 II, 1 | place; but now let us refute fallacies. For since other animals
1361 III, 6 | an example of the kind of fallacy called asystaton; that some
1362 IV, 17 | Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among
1363 III, 17 | assailed his own citadels and famed temples, and cast fires
1364 I, 22 | he arranged the gods in families; and by these means he softened
1365 VII, 16 | frequent diseases and repeated famines. For the atmosphere will
1366 I, 21 | says excellently in his Fanatic: "If a god compels this,
1367 III, 24 | round like a ball, and they fancied that the heaven revolves
1368 II, 4 | they who make the images fancy that they are performing
1369 III, 19 | any time they happen to fare ill. Therefore they condemn
1370 III, 19 | to appear never to have fared well, if at any time they
1371 V, 6 | honours, and purple robes, and fasces, that, being supported by
1372 II, 1 | would they seek the deadly fascinations of their lusts; in short,
1373 VI, 23 | continentiae genus quasi fastigium est, omniumque consummatio
1374 VI, 2 | they sacrifice fine and fat victims to God, as though
1375 I, 5 | or reason, or mind, or a fatal necessity, or a divine law,
1376 VII, 20 | When this shall receive its fated accomplishment, and the
1377 I, 15 | too, by the advice of his father-in-law Piso, and of his relative
1378 II, 4 | sacrifice to these costly and fattened victims, which have a mouth,
1379 I, 20 | Romans worship, but also Faula, who was, as Verrius writes,
1380 I, 22 | consecrated his sister Fatua Fauna, who was also his wife;
1381 I, 20 | For she was the wife of Faustulus, and on account of her prostitution
1382 VII, 5 | instituted the games was a favourer of one colour; but he introduced
1383 I, 17 | healed,~"Trivia kind her favourite bides,~And to Egeria's care
1384 VII, 1 | and unassailable. No one favours virtue but he who is able
1385 III, 10 | relaxed to sportiveness, they fawn upon man, or upon their
1386 VI, 17 | those things which others fear--pain and death. This is
1387 IV, 15 | comforted. Ye who are of a fearful heart, fear not, be not
1388 I, 21 | he said that he had never feasted more pleasantly. Now these
1389 I, 21 | and when, satiated with feasting. they were spending the
1390 V, 11 | belonging to man except the features and the eminent figure.
1391 VI, 9 | proclaiming war through the Fecials, and by inflicting injuries
1392 VI, 23 | mulierem patientem viri fecit; scilicet ne foeminis repugnantibus,
1393 VII, 27 | hungry come, that being fed with heavenly food, they
1394 I, 16 | But a god is not liable to feebleness; therefore there is no female
1395 III, 19 | he might prevent men from feeding on animals, said that souls
1396 VII, 12 | can it be known whether he feels that he is in a state of
1397 VI, 23 | hoc coelesti genere vitae felicissime perfruantur. Quod quidem
1398 VI, 11 | wisely who exhibit to their fellow-citizens more useful and lasting
1399 I, 18 | men to rage against their fellow-men? But they who reckon the
1400 V, 16 | in spirit, in religion as fellow-servants. Riches also do not render
1401 II, 10 | the other, as it were, feminine: the one active, the other
1402 VII, 27 | power weighed the earth and fenced it with mountains, surrounded
1403 I, 6 | celebrated and noble; since Fenestella, a most diligent writer,
1404 VI, 23 | et jugum paribus animis ferant. Nos ipsos in altero cogitemus.
1405 VI, 23 | in altero cogitemus. Nam fere in hoc justitiae summa consistit,
1406 VI, 23 | adulteria, foeminis aegre ferentibus praestare se fidem non exhibentibus
1407 I, 5 | father Aether descends in fertile showers into the bosom of
1408 I, 11 | as they imagine, from the fervor of heavenly fire, or because
1409 I, 21 | of the gods? Pescennius Festus relates in the books of
1410 I, 20 | Romans esteem Blight and Fever. If, therefore, vices are
1411 VII, 12 | consumed by the heat of fevers, the extremities of the
1412 VI, 23 | voluntaria. Servanda igitur fides ab utroque alteri est: immo
1413 V, 12 | inflicted by tyrants of old, who fiercely raged against the innocent;
1414 IV, 15 | the people of the Jews for fifteen hundred years and more,
1415 II, 4 | Formerly I was the trunk of a fig-tree, a useless log, when thecarpenter,
1416 VI, 18 | contests, from what source do fightings and contentions, arise among
1417 IV, 26 | meaning; but they had a figurative meaning and great significance,
1418 IV, 16 | himself from our ways as from filthiness; he commendeth greatly the
1419 VII, 12 | drawn out from heavenly fineness, when any violence has separated
1420 II, 11 | the third, who cuts and finishes it. But in the whole race
1421 II, 9 | should be last made, when the finishing hand had now been applied
1422 VI, 23 | exsecutus sum: quam Deus fion modo intra privatos parietes,
1423 IV, 14 | scorched as a brand with fire--that is, might endure tortures
1424 V, 10 | any virtue in him who was fired with madness as stubble,
1425 VI, 12 | may provide for yourself firmer possessions than these frail
1426 VII, 1 | foundations, which might be firth and suitable for the support
1427 V, 2 | made gain by the craft of fishermen, as though he took it ill
1428 VII, 4 | account of man, who might fitly make use of them.~
1429 V, 1 | mind which was elegant and fitted for better things. But if
1430 III, 17 | wise man, since it can most fittingly be applied to robbers!~
1431 VI, 21 | persuasion, and while it delights fixes itself deeply within the
1432 V, 20 | ones or the greatest; their flamens, augurs, and also sacrificing
1433 V, 10 | designed~For slaughter o'er the flames."~What can be more merciful
1434 I, 20 | gymnasia: it is plain that he flattered Atticus and jested with
1435 V, 2 | raged. O philosopher, a flatterer, and a time-server! But
1436 V, 11 | false appearance of clemency flatters; he is the more severe,
1437 V, 18 | He whose life hath no flaw, pure from guile, need not~
1438 VI, 5 | somewhat better: "Virtue is the fleeing from vice, and the first
1439 II, 8 | AEsculapius in Cos, and built a fleet, was afterwards slain at
1440 IV, 25 | came--that is, God in the flesh--that the flesh might be
1441 VII, 22 | blind propension yearn~To fleshly bodies to return:"~this
1442 IV, 17 | Jesus, Make thee knives of flint very sharp, and sit and
1443 III, 17 | providence; for there are seeds floating through the empty void,
1444 I, 20 | attained even by harlots! Flora, having obtained great wealth
1445 I, 20 | games, which they called Floralia. And because this appeared
1446 VI, 15 | is overgrown with vices flourishing of their own accord, as
1447 III, 17 | untimely death in the first flower of youth; that in wars the
1448 VII, 21 | is pure and liquid, and fluid, after the manner of water.
1449 I, 21 | instead of shields; the flutegives Phrygian strains, as it
1450 III, 14 | found it lying somewhere as flutes at the fountain, according
1451 VII, 21 | compels to leap forth, and to fly upwards to the nature of
1452 VI, 5 | To be the enemy and the foe of bad men and manners,
1453 VI, 23 | libidini suae depopulandam foedandamque substraverint? Non potest
1454 VI, 10 | the record of their own foil),; who, when they saw that
1455 III, 12 | XII. OF THE TWO FOLD CONFLICT OF BODY AND SOUL;
1456 VII, 26 | and the heavens shall be folded together, and the earth
1457 II, 5 | woods to be covered with foliage, the stony mountains to
1458 III, 2 | now called, not a devoted follower of the profession, but an
1459 VI, 23 | irritabiles formas, suggeritque fomenta, et vitiis pabulum subministrat:
1460 II, 7 | possessed with so great a fondness for representations, that
1461 II, 3 | rather to be called more foolish--those who embrace a false
1462 II, 19 | feet, nor dig up from his footprints an object of veneration,
1463 IV, 12 | I make Thine enemies Thy footstool." Whom could this prophet,
1464 IV, 17 | our houses. Therefore He forbade them to use the flesh of
1465 I, 10 | debaucheries and adulteries. I forbear to mention the virgins whom
1466 VII, 9 | stronger than the wind, or more forcible than smell? Yet these, when
1467 VI, 12 | aside from true justice, and forcibly apply it to advantage. Cicero
1468 IV, 26 | the passion, which God, foreknowing the future, delivered by
1469 I, 11 | there was in him a want of foreknowledge not befitting a god; for
1470 VI, 7 | justice. For how could the forerunner of that way, whose strength
1471 V, 23 | of the law. Therefore He foresaw how far He would afford
1472 VI, 4 | that no one is able to foresee the fraud before that he
1473 VII, 15 | power of God, was also a foreshadowing and figure of a greater
1474 IV, 17 | that he should be without a foreskin. But it was a figure of
1475 IV, 17 | your God, and take away the foreskins of your heart, lest my fury
1476 IV, 20 | unto me as a lion in the forest; it hath cried out against
1477 VII, 13 | human eyes, and speak, and foretell future events; and if they
1478 VII, 16 | heaven, which the Sibyl foretells in this manner:--~"The trumpet
1479 II, 15 | to increase, God in His forethought, lest the devil, to whom
1480 V, 9 | who hunt for inheritances, forge wills, either remove or
1481 VII, 12 | of the falling house, and forgets the past, not about to be
1482 VI, 24 | all their error will be forgiven them, if they shall have
1483 VI, 13 | REPENTANCE, OF MERCY, AND THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.~As often, therefore,
1484 VI, 23 | quippe oculis irritabiles formas, suggeritque fomenta, et
1485 VI, 23 | igitur, quantum potest, formet se ad verecundiam, pudorem
1486 I, 20 | occupied with celebrating the Fornacalia? Who can refrain from laughter
1487 I, 20 | not laugh at the goddess Fornax, or rather that learned
1488 IV, 18 | shall say, Because they forsook the Lord their God, and
1489 III, 26 | foolish, an evil-doer; forthwith he shall be just, and wise,
1490 IV, 21 | Him up into heaven, on the fortieth day after His passion, as
1491 II, 4 | old age. Moreover, he was fortunate in this very circumstance,
1492 IV, 18 | Destroy this temple, which was forty-six years in building, and in
1493 VII, 17 | desolate the whole earth for forty-two months. That will be the
1494 I, 22 | namely, the mother of his foster-child, and his grandmother Tellus,
1495 IV, 18 | not away my face from the foulness of spitting." In like manner
1496 I, 15 | people privately honoured the founders of their nation or city
1497 VII, 15 | announcing long before the founding of the Trojan nation, that
1498 VII, 12 | streams are dried up when the fountain-spring fails. It must not, however,
1499 VII, 5 | upright, but at first on all fours, because the nature of his
1500 I, 23 | destruction of the Trojan city fourteen hundred and seventy years
1501 VI, 23 | Quisquis affectus illos fraenare non potest, cohibeat eos
1502 VI, 23 | existimet, difficile esse fraenos imponere voluptati, eamque