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2003 VII, 26 | learning, but of censuring and jeering. For a mystery ought to
2004 I, 20 | he flattered Atticus and jested with his friend. For that
2005 II, 4 | his sacrilegious acts by jesting words. For when he had taken
2006 VII, 13 | existed in bodies from the joining together of the vitals,
2007 II, 4 | his custom, testified in joke? Do you see, he said to
2008 IV, 15 | prophet John in the river Jordan, that He might wash away
2009 IV, 14 | the high priest the son of Josedech; to whom none of those things
2010 IV, 5 | years, was succeeded by Joshua, who held the chief place
2011 IV, 15 | wonderful: that wherever He journeyed, by a single word, and in
2012 V, 18 | great, that wherever it journeys, it needs neither arms nor
2013 I, 22 | Acestes might afterwards joyfully and willingly love, increase,
2014 I, 5 | showers into the bosom of his joyous spouse; and great himself,
2015 I, 15 | honoured Isis, the Moors Juba, the Macedonians Cabirus,
2016 VI, 23 | honesta, quae melioribus jucundiora sunt quam prava et inhonesta
2017 IV, 10 | land which they inhabited Judaea. And at first, indeed, they
2018 VII, 26 | THE SECOND AND GREATEST JUDGEMENT,~We have said, a little
2019 II, 17 | the case of oracles, the juggleries of which the profane cannot
2020 VI, 23 | invicem mores duorum, et jugum paribus animis ferant. Nos
2021 VI, 23 | est in corpus unum, pari jure conjungit, ut adulter habeatur,
2022 VI, 23 | server. Non enim, sicut juris publici ratio est, solo
2023 V, 11 | and unjust disputations of jurists are read. Domitius, in his
2024 I, 18 | and live in innocence and jus rice. Shall no one, then,
2025 VI, 23 | si ipsam per se appetunt, justa et legitima frui licet.
2026 VI, 6 | often the better and the juster side has been overcome?
2027 VI, 18 | also from public and civil justice--how much more ought we to
2028 VI, 23 | cogitemus. Nam fere in hoc justitiae summa consistit, ut non
2029 VI, 4 | or entangled with stones jutting out; so that every one must
2030 II, 8 | Latin war at the lake of Juturna washing off the sweat of
2031 III, 29 | is removed from wisdom, Juvenal declares in these verses:--~"
2032 V, 2 | weighty censor and most keen accuser against himself,
2033 I, 5 | Annaeus Seneca, who was the keenest Stoic of the Romans, follow
2034 VI, 4 | battle array, and with minds keenly intent should watch against
2035 VII, 24 | lynxes shall eat grass with kids; boars shall feed with calves,
2036 I, 21 | to receive one of them, killed both. But the unhappy man,
2037 VI, 11 | perishing, if he fails to do so, kills him. But they, because they
2038 VI, 2 | though He were thirsty they kindle lights to Him, as though
2039 V, 10 | not spare them,~"Live fury kindling every vein"~What! can any
2040 VI, 12 | men to be done rightly and kindly. For it is the feeling which
2041 VII, 18 | city of the blest; and a kingsent against him from the gods
2042 VII, 20 | Tartarean chaos; and all kingsshall come to the judgment-seat
2043 II, 2 | supplicate them with bended knee, they adore them, they sit
2044 IV, 17 | said unto Jesus, Make thee knives of flint very sharp, and
2045 IV, 28 | says that He loosens the knots of superstitions. But they
2046 IV, 11 | have rejected me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his
2047 IV, 7 | ancient Greeks used the word kriesthai to express the art of anointing,
2048 I, 11 | ancient Greek characters, "Zan Kronou," which is in Latin. "Jupiter
2049 I, 17 | given to him from eridos and kthonos, that is, from the contest
2050 III, 12 | therefore, this short and laborious life, by the general consent
2051 V, 2 | evident on what account he had laboriously worked out that task, he
2052 VI, 3 | take place without great labour--they say that he will lead
2053 III, 25 | learn; nor by the poor, or labourers, or rustics, who have to
2054 VII, 5 | hardships, and miseries, and labours--by the harshness and unpleasantness
2055 I, 20 | had hastened to plunder Lacedaemon, they were routed and put
2056 V, 12 | profitable to us. Why do you lacerate, why do you afflict us?
2057 VII, 3 | cannot even plough without lacerating the divine body? So that
2058 II, 8 | tiles from the temple of the Lacinian Juno, to cover the temple
2059 VII, 26 | the style and spirit of Lactantius. But all fictions have now
2060 VI, 12 | bloodshed. But you walk about laden with booty, and you bear
2061 VI, 10 | themselves sleeping-places and lairs, was natural even to the
2062 II, 5 | seas with their rivers and lakes and fountains, struck with
2063 II, 4 | effort of voice and of body--lamented about Ceres of Catina, or
2064 I, 6 | mention in the prologue of the Lamia;--the third of Delphi, concerning
2065 I, 22 | are gods: "The terrestrial Lamiae, which Faunus and Numa Pompilius
2066 IV, 27 | how to cure men, into the lane of AEsculapius or Apollo.
2067 V, 18 | weird with~fable,~Licks languid-flowing."~It is impossible, therefore,
2068 IV, 15 | health to the sick and languishing, unless He also raised the
2069 I, 11 | Danae, he poured into her lap a great quantity of golden
2070 I, 22 | were also built to Jupiter Laprius, to Jupiter Molion, to Jupiter
2071 I, 20 | born, and they call her Lara, or Larunda. What advantage
2072 I, 20 | that there was an image of Larentina, and indeed not of her body,
2073 I, 20 | dedicated to her name, and the Larentinalia were instituted. Nor is
2074 I, 20 | the goddess from whom the Lares were born, and they call
2075 II, 3 | this very thing partakes largely of error, under the figure
2076 III, 23 | moon was eighteen times larger than the earth; and, as
2077 III, 17 | covetous man from giving largesses to the people; he prohibits
2078 I, 20 | and they call her Lara, or Larunda. What advantage can she,
2079 II, 16 | the possessed: for, being lashed by their words as though
2080 VII, 3 | mountains, are laid waste by latent and internal fire. And this
2081 VII, 12 | even in death, and with his latest breath discoursing about
2082 I, 21 | this cruelty, since Jupiter Latialis is even now worshipped with
2083 I, 22 | age admits of doubt, since Latinus and Priam reigned during
2084 I, 17 | son; Ceres her daughter; Latona, expelled and driven about
2085 VI, 23 | autem pudicitia in homine laudatur, quia non naturalis est,
2086 VI, 23 | soli homini dedit, ut esset laus et gloria in coercendis
2087 VI, 12 | practice of liberality to lavish expenditure on shows. This
2088 VI, 17 | that he is prodigal who lavishes on undeserving objects,
2089 IV, 17 | evidently announced by the law-giver himself that He was about
2090 VI, 24 | fail to live justly and lawfully. And I have laid down a
2091 V, 9 | rushing from their den,~Whom lawless hunger's sullen growl~Drives
2092 II, 17 | Or if the gods regard the leaders only, and neglect the rest
2093 IV, 10 | thirty years, under the leadership of Moses, through whom the
2094 I, 20 | For when a harlot, by name Leaena, had put to death a tyrant
2095 I, 22 | of their friendship and league could thus be preserved.
2096 I, 21 | Marica; and Ino, when she had leapt into the sea, was called
2097 III, 19 | able to supply talent to learners? It did not occur to Plato
2098 VI, 23 | parietes, sed etiam praescripto lectuli terminat; ut cum quis hobeat
2099 I, 21 | death became Quirinus, and Leda became Nemesis, and Circe
2100 VI, 9 | inflicting injuries according to legal forms, by always desiring
2101 VI, 23 | sit supra omnes leges, qui legem Dei sequitur. Quibus bonis
2102 III, 14 | fountain, according to the legends of the poets. But if he
2103 VI, 23 | esse viventibus, eamque legera his affectibus positam,
2104 VI, 23 | pareat: sed sit supra omnes leges, qui legem Dei sequitur.
2105 VI, 23 | accepimus. Huic divinae legi summa devotione parendum
2106 VI, 23 | mente tueatur; nec tantum legibus publicis pareat: sed sit
2107 I, 11 | either carried him off by a legion, which has an eagle for
2108 I, 3 | many generals as there are legions, cohorts, divisions, and
2109 VI, 23 | per se appetunt, justa et legitima frui licet. Quod si aliqua
2110 VII, 14 | whence the seventh is the legitimate and complete number. For
2111 VI, 23 | cohibeat eos intra praescriptum legitimi tori, ut et illud, quod
2112 I, 15 | Samos Juno, Paphos Venus, Lemnos Vulcan, Naxos Liber, and
2113 VI, 12 | not be kindness, but the lending of a benefit at interest;
2114 VI, 18 | to himself, that which he lends may be reckoned among his
2115 V, 23 | CHRISTIANS.~It would be a lengthened task to draw forth all the
2116 VI, 11 | gives is thrown away, and~It lengthens out the life of the other
2117 VI, 18 | thought. If he shall have lent any money, he will not receive
2118 IV, 26 | truly to be accounted as leprous and unclean, whom either
2119 I, 21 | annually offered in the Leucadian manner: he threw into the
2120 I, 21 | into the sea, was called Leucothea; and the mother Matuta;
2121 II, 9 | by what machines, by what levers, by what contrivance, He
2122 VI, 23 | illudant. Haec tamen apud illos levia, et quasi honesta sunt.
2123 VI, 23 | solutus est. Sed divina lex ira duos in matrimonium,
2124 II, 11 | at some time; and as the liability to decay bespeaks a beginning,
2125 I, 10 | husband; and he made her Libera, and with her ascended into
2126 VI, 23 | uxorem, neque servam, neque liberam habere insuper velit, sed
2127 IV, 3 | he were a slave; and the liberated slave receives the name
2128 VI, 23 | iis, qui abominandam non libidinem, sod insaniam potius exercent!
2129 VI, 23 | peccat; quae immoderata: libidinis fructum cogitatione complectitur;
2130 I, 6 | Macedon;--the second of Libya, and of her Euripides makes
2131 VII, 22 | matter is rejected, as though licentiously and fabulously invented.
2132 V, 3 | cross which you as dogs lick, since that also was predicted
2133 V, 18 | stream weird with~fable,~Licks languid-flowing."~It is
2134 II, 8 | mind. Turullius also, the lieutenant of Mark Antony, when he
2135 V, 19 | man a longer and a better life--and this we learn both from
2136 VI, 9 | heart the divine words and life-giving precepts; he speaks, who,
2137 V, 23 | himself too highly, nor lift up his head with arrogance;
2138 III, 9 | knowledge and virtue. Now this limitation excludes and does away with
2139 VI, 23 | castitatis pudicitiaeque limitibus includere, cum propositum
2140 I, 21 | to whom it is offered. At Lindus, which is a town of Rhodes,
2141 II, 11 | come into contact with a line of the truth; but the things
2142 I, 14 | yet young." This is the lineage of Jupiter and his brothers,
2143 II, 3 | which are not seen from the lineaments of the vessel which contains
2144 II, 9 | faults there are in these ten lines First, that he who in almost
2145 VI, 23 | prosequar? Vincit officium linguae sceleris magnitudo. Cum
2146 III, 2 | together by any connecting link, but, as it were, dispersed
2147 VII, 8 | might escape this common linking together, that the soul
2148 III, 16 | in the heart, but on the lips. It is not therefore utility,
2149 II, 9 | Nor are the poets to be listened to, who say that in the
2150 III, 1 | admiration on account of their literary erudition, should I also
2151 VI, 15 | the gall, of desire in the liver, of fear in the heart, it
2152 I, 20 | whose figure she bears. Livy relates that there was an
2153 V, 9 | sacrifices, these they praise and load with honours, that by their
2154 VI, 23 | Nam etsi corpus nulla sit lobe maculatum, non constat tamen
2155 VII, 17 | one shall reverence hoary locks, nor recognise the duty
2156 II, 2 | which we make use of as a lodging, is but earth. Worship a
2157 III, 17 | Jupiter, but to demand a loftier and more magnificent abode.
2158 II, 4 | of a fig-tree, a useless log, when thecarpenter, at a
2159 I, 8 | to be fashioned from the loins of a man and the womb of
2160 I, 17 | live in woods obscure and lone,~And lose in Virbius' name
2161 VII, 22 | reunite? ~This dreadful longing for the light,~Whence comes
2162 VI, 23 | inquinata non potest, nisi et longo tempore, et multis bonis
2163 III, 22 | assigned to men wool and the loom, and the carrying of infants.
2164 IV, 28 | this name, who says that He loosens the knots of superstitions.
2165 II, 8 | may incur the charge of loquacity.~
2166 VI, 23 | difficilia videntur; sed de eo loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus terrenis,
2167 VI, 23 | est, quia fit. De istis loquor, quorum teterrima libido
2168 I, 17 | she had almost lost her lover, who was torn to pieces
2169 III, 15 | between him and the other lovers of Lais, because he himself
2170 VII, 26 | thou, who defendest and lovest His name, excelling in virtue
2171 VI, 11 | preservation of humanity than the loving a man because he is a man,
2172 I, 21 | changed into joy. Therefore Lucan says, "And Osiris never
2173 I, 9 | relates these things, or Lucian, who spared not men nor
2174 I, 1 | forward are so plain and lucid, that it seems to be more
2175 VI, 23 | mulierum publicavit, ut ludibrio haberet tam eos qui faciunt,
2176 I, 1 | law, by which they might lull the strifes and contentions
2177 VI, 5 | contentions of men will be lulled to rest; no one will plot,
2178 V, 10 | same father, and~"By young Lulus' dawning day,"~he did not
2179 VII, 14 | which do not set, and seven luminaries which are called planets,
2180 I, 21 | the bull is sacrificed to Luna, because he also has horns
2181 III, 23 | this earth. Therefore these lunatics have another moon, to hold
2182 VI, 2 | ears of gods? Is it with lungs and rich intestines?" He
2183 VI, 23 | metu abstineret alieno, lupanaria quoque constituit; et pudorem
2184 III, 10 | prepare for themselves lurking-places standing open in different
2185 VII, 5 | sensibility, and full of lustre; and because these qualities
2186 VI, 11 | abundantly supplied, even to luxuriousness, assist his last extremity.
2187 VII, 24 | lambs on the mountains, and lynxes shall eat grass with kids;
2188 V, 14 | appears to them to rave in his lyrics, when he says,~"Not the
2189 I, 6 | exploits of Alexander of Macedon;--the second of Libya, and
2190 II, 8 | of its own accord. In the Macedonian war the same deities, mounted
2191 I, 15 | Isis, the Moors Juba, the Macedonians Cabirus, the Carthaginians
2192 VI, 23 | contraque institutum Dei machinatus est: sic imbuit homines,
2193 II, 9 | inquire by what hands by what machines, by what levers, by what
2194 VI, 23 | etsi corpus nulla sit lobe maculatum, non constat tamen pudicitiae
2195 I, 17 | was torn to pieces by his madened horses, called in the most
2196 I, 4 | one God, they were either madmen or deceivers. But truly
2197 IV, 15 | greatest miracles, not by magical tricks, which display nothing
2198 VI, 23 | dominus, hunc discipulum magister agnoscet; hic terrain triumphabit,
2199 VI, 23 | Non potest haec res pro magnitudine sceleris enarrari. Nihil
2200 VI, 23 | officium linguae sceleris magnitudo. Cum igitur libido haec
2201 I, 3 | than one? And because those maintainers of many gods are aware of
2202 I, 4 | things necessary for the maintenance of life, they were so far
2203 I, 15 | the king in a form more majestic than that of a man; and
2204 VI, 20 | Cicero says, in the Cato Major: "In truth, debaucheries,
2205 VI, 23 | multitudinem voluit esse majorem, vel quoniam virtutem soli
2206 IV, 16 | offences against the law. He maketh his boast that he has the
2207 IV, 11 | do this, as the prophet Malachi shows, saying: "I have no
2208 IV, 18 | in the midst between two malefactors, who had been condemned
2209 IV, 27 | not deny the existence and malignity of demons, what remains
2210 II, 14 | multiplied exceedingly, since the mall extent of their settlements
2211 VI, 23 | quidam necessitatem dicere maluerunt; eamque a recto et bono,
2212 VI, 23 | eamque a recto et bono, ad malum et pravum transfert. Illicita
2213 VI, 17 | harnessed chariot, in the right management of which the chief duty
2214 VI, 23 | ii animam suam corpori mancipant, ad mortemque condemnant:
2215 I, 10 | wished to give proof of his manliness, lest he should appear too
2216 VII, 15 | strength it began to be manly. For when Carthage was taken
2217 VI, 13 | dominion of sin in a threefold manner--in deeds, in words, and
2218 IV, 18 | themselves for His tunic and mantle. And while all these things
2219 I, 20 | introduced the method of manuring the land; and Tutinus, before
2220 VI, 20 | than with wicked hands to mar the work of God. If, then,
2221 I, 20 | wish? The conduct of Marcus Marcellus concerning the consecration
2222 IV, 10 | two Gemini, on the 23d of March, the Jews crucified Christ.
2223 IV, 30 | Novarians, or Valentinians, or Marcionites, or Anthropians, or Arians,
2224 VI, 23 | profligavit. Idem etiam mares maribus admiscuit; et nefandos
2225 VI, 23 | dixerit, quod suscepto foetu mari repugnat? Quod ideo facit,
2226 I, 21 | became Nemesis, and Circe Marica; and Ino, when she had leapt
2227 VI, 23 | removeatur, adulterum esse, qui a marito dimissam duxerit, et eum
2228 I, 6 | territory, in the village of Marpessus, about the town of Gergithus;
2229 VI, 18 | provoked by injury."~Oh how he marred a simple and true sentiment
2230 III, 22 | their nests, as though their marriage-beds, with harmonious mind, and
2231 V, 9 | their husbands that they may marry adulterers; who either strangle
2232 VII, 3 | and gone into the deep; marshes have inundated fruitful
2233 II, 10 | element is, as it were, masculine; the other, as it were,
2234 I, 21 | chaplets, either wearing a mask or besmeared with mud. What
2235 V, 6 | in war, and destroyed by massacre the race of the Titans,
2236 II, 20 | learning and eloquence, as some massive structure, is opposed to
2237 II, 13 | origin from God, gains the mastery, it is immortal, and lives
2238 I, 5 | removed from all mortal materiality, perceiving and moving all
2239 III, 10 | upon man, or upon their own mates and young. Do they not give
2240 III, 23 | most foolishly believed mathematicians who said that the orb of
2241 VI, 23 | Homo, inquit, neque alieni matrimonii abstinens, neque sui custos,
2242 IV, 3 | as that cannot be called matrimony, in which one woman has
2243 I, 21 | Leucothea; and the mother Matuta; and her son Melicerta was
2244 II, 8 | because a certain Antonius Maximus had severely scourged a
2245 VII, 24 | But the ram himself in the meadows shall change his fleece,~
2246 V, 1 | those whose discourse is meagre and displeasing, who could
2247 III, 17 | be sustained on water and meal. If a man hates his wife,
2248 VII, 5 | as his true Father, who measures the excellence of His majesty
2249 IV, 18 | they gave me gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave
2250 I, 21 | what they will. I do not meddle with a mystery so odious;
2251 VII, 15 | very ancient king of the Medes, from whom also the river
2252 VII, 12 | days. and frequently by medical preparations it remains
2253 III, 15 | whose advertisements contain medicines, but their medicine chests
2254 VI, 16 | then, I pray, will this mediocrity profit us? I ask whether
2255 VII, 16 | relate, and detestable; shall meditate new designs in his breast,
2256 IV, 18 | lamb to the sacrifice; they meditated a plan against me, saying,
2257 II, 14 | not again be a cause of meditating evils, gradually diminished
2258 I, 5 | had come after previous meditation and preparation. Maro was
2259 IV, 16 | torments that we may know his meekness, and prove his patience;
2260 I, 22 | he pretended that he had meetings by night with the goddess
2261 III, 12 | founder of the system of the Megareans, differing from the others,
2262 VI, 18 | sought, than from the most melancholy disaster of the teacher
2263 IV, 14 | ever, after the order of Melchisedec." Also in the first book
2264 I, 21 | mother Matuta; and her son Melicerta was called Palaemon and
2265 VI, 23 | placeant recta et honesta, quae melioribus jucundiora sunt quam prava
2266 I, 22 | Mother are still called Melissae. But the sacred history
2267 VI, 21 | it be a pleasure to hear melodies and songs, let it be pleasant
2268 VII, 26 | and their spirits shall melt through the heat, and their
2269 III, 1 | of itself it vanishes and melts away, unless it is set off
2270 III, 14 | he was a god, most noble Memmius,"--~yet God ought not to
2271 I, 11 | that posterity might have a memorial of his actions. This history
2272 VII, 6 | employed in the production of men--if we are brought forth
2273 III, 12 | of their countrymen, as Menoeceus did at Thebes, Codrus at
2274 VI, 23 | castitatem conscientia et mente tueatur; nec tantum legibus
2275 VI, 23 | concupiscat: adulteram enim fieri mentem, si vel imaginem voluptatis
2276 IV, 14 | most plainly teaches, even mentioning His name: "And the Lord
2277 I, 6 | Cimmerian in Italy, whom Naevius mentions in his books of the Punic
2278 VI, 23 | eximiam incomparabilemque mercedem. Quod continentiae genus
2279 VI, 11 | places that virtue is not mercenary; and you confess in the
2280 VI, 18 | opportunity of doing anything mercifully: nor will he pollute himself
2281 I, 6 | says that there were five Mercuries; and having enumerated four
2282 II, 14 | vineyard, having become merry, he drank even to intoxication,
2283 IV, 25 | which the Greeks call Him Mesites, that He might be able to
2284 I, 11 | who was of the city of Messene, collected the actions of
2285 I, 10 | moreover, that he was a Messenian, but that he spent some
2286 IV, 7 | in Hebrew is called the Messias. Hence in some Greek writings,
2287 VI, 24 | more significantly speak of metanoia, which we may speak of in
2288 IV, 11 | the Lord is with us? The meting out is in vain; the scribes
2289 VI, 23 | quis esset, qui poenarum metu abstineret alieno, lupanaria
2290 IV, 17 | predictions of the prophets. For Micah announced that He would
2291 IV, 19 | gone down while it was yet mid-day; she hath been ashamed and
2292 IV, 19 | temple shall be rent, and at midday there shall bedark vast
2293 V, 5 | his throne~By Jove, his mightier heir,"--~since the people
2294 VII, 26 | inserted in the text by Migne, as found in some important
2295 VII, 12 | who contends that souls migrate from bodies worn out with
2296 III, 18 | introduced into it, and that it migrates from one body to another.
2297 VI, 23 | de sola libidine dicendum mihi puto; qum maxime coercenda
2298 VII, 10 | virtue, on the contrary, is mildness and tranquillity of mind.
2299 VII, 27 | we must ever grind at the mill, we must be beaten, and
2300 | million
2301 I, 21 | that he was thrown from the Milvian bridge into the Tiber. And
2302 I, 20 | then perform the office of mimeplayers, and are detained in the
2303 VI, 20 | I speak of the actors of mimes, who hold forth instruction
2304 II, 19 | religion in images, but a mimicry of religion. That which
2305 VII, 12 | especially to be used, that the mind--not the soul--may not be
2306 I, 17 | the lewdness of Venus, who ministered to the lusts of all, not
2307 IV, 10 | discharged the office of His ministry, He might be delivered into
2308 IV, 13 | before their eyes those mira- cles which the prophets
2309 II, 8 | forth as an example of a miracle. For when, in accordance
2310 III, 14 | in a work of levity and mirth, introduced this sentiment
2311 V, 10 | punishes them with heavy misfortune; who, although they live
2312 II, 4 | heard of the disastrous misfortunes and miserable deaths of
2313 IV, 14 | Superbus. But they were again misled and deceived in the same
2314 III, 22 | vices. For men who have many mistresses can be called nothing else
2315 I, 15 | in an incredible degree mists of falsehoods. And thus
2316 IV, 22 | depraved ingenuity either to misunderstand or to dispute on the opposite
2317 I, 15 | had not his grief been mitigated by reason itself, and the
2318 VI, 18 | to its tranquillity; this mitigates, this restores a man to
2319 III, 28 | of fortune, as a goddess mocking the affairs of then with
2320 V, 9 | hate, unless cruelty also mocks their bodies. But if any
2321 VI, 16 | affections themselves, must be moderated. We must not, they say,
2322 V, 3 | appear to have been more modest, who, though he performed
2323 VI, 8 | nor is it permitted us to modify it, nor can it be entirely
2324 V, 1 | flowing with delightful modulation. These are sweets which
2325 II, 10 | at variance with water, moist vapour produces all things,
2326 VI, 1 | of victims, if they have moistened the hearths with a profusion
2327 V, 13 | religion from injuries and molestation, but always increases and
2328 I, 22 | Jupiter Laprius, to Jupiter Molion, to Jupiter Casius, and
2329 II, 8 | that the statue of Juno Moneta, when, on the capture of
2330 VI, 11 | property, and to preserve their money-chest in safety, rather than to
2331 V, 18 | bow or the darts of the Moor, O my Fuscus ! ~He relies
2332 VI, 23 | discipulos Dei profitebuntur, ita morati et instituti, ut imperare
2333 VI, 23 | sed assuescant invicem mores duorum, et jugum paribus
2334 V, 9 | these verses: "But now from morn to night, on festival and
2335 IV, 11 | I sent them before the morning light; but ye did not hearken,
2336 IV, 14 | same, saying: "Before the morning-star I begat Thee. The Lord hath
2337 VI, 23 | addixerunt, in quod habet mors potestatem. Unusquisque
2338 VII, 13 | natures--the immortal and the mortal--made one nature, that of
2339 VI, 23 | suam corpori mancipant, ad mortemque condemnant: quia se corpori
2340 VI, 17 | which is always still and motionless is unwholesome and more
2341 IV, 23 | precepts for living, and moulds the characters of others,
2342 VI, 4 | years. The desire of others mounts higher, not that they may
2343 I, 15 | his daughter, those who mourn may be pardoned, but those
2344 VII, 16 | tremble and quake at that mournful sound. But then, through
2345 III, 17 | overwhelmed and crushed, the mouse with the praises of the
2346 VI, 14 | impulse of which the soul is moved--desire, joy, fear, sorrow:
2347 VII, 21 | heaven, with a tremulous movement. The same divine fire, therefore,
2348 I, 5 | materiality, perceiving and moving all things." How often,
2349 VII, 15 | will traverse the world, mowing down everything, and laying
2350 VI, 17 | is unwholesome and more muddy, so the soul which is unmoved
2351 V, 7 | shown by Quintilian in "the muffled head." "For what virtue,"
2352 II, 17 | remove to Rome; that Fortuna Muliebris announced the threatening
2353 VI, 23 | voluisset, solam omnium mulierem patientem viri fecit; scilicet
2354 VI, 23 | constituit; et pudorem infelicium mulierum publicavit, ut ludibrio
2355 VI, 23 | eaque ratione propagari et multiplicari genera possent. Quae cupiditas
2356 III, 11 | is, that they fall into a multiplicity of religions, but false
2357 VI, 23 | integritatem retinuerint, multique sint, qui hoc coelesti genere
2358 VI, 23 | nisi et longo tempore, et multis bonis operibus, ab ea quae
2359 VI, 23 | invenitur; vel quia hominum multitudinem voluit esse majorem, vel
2360 I, 10 | free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through
2361 II, 7 | thefts and robberies and murders daily rage, on account of
2362 III, 12 | Athens, Curtius and the two Mures at Rome, would never have
2363 I, 21 | a bright constellation."~Musaeus relates that Jupiter, when
2364 I, 18 | when he perceived that his muscles were disfigured by ulcers,
2365 I, 5 | by the inspiration of the Muses that he poured forth that
2366 VII, 4 | all lands and fields like mushrooms. But Hermes was not ignorant
2367 III, 25 | learned. Geometry also, and music, and astronomy, are necessary,
2368 VII, 13 | sound, and the strain which musicians call harmony, is produced
2369 I, 20 | on hearing of the goddess Muta? They say that she is the
2370 I, 8 | little removed from the mute animals, as to believe that
2371 V, 13 | Romans go and boast in their Mutius or Regulus,--the one of
2372 VI, 23 | se fidem non exhibentibus mutuam charitatem. Denique nulla
2373 VI, 23 | peccare non posset. Nam quis mutum animal pudicum esse dixerit,
2374 I, 22 | death by her husband with myrtle rods. But afterwards, when
2375 IV, 17 | since they are given in a mysterious manner, that under the figure
2376 V, 20 | worship. "Hence rites of mystic awe "~were instituted by
2377 V, 1 | things which he spoke are mystical, and prepared with this
2378 IV, 10 | brought them into bondage to n strangers, until again,
2379 I, 6 | Cimmerian in Italy, whom Naevius mentions in his books of
2380 IV, 13 | under Chaldean judges, with nails and the cross He endured
2381 II, 16 | but even utter their own names--those which are adored in
2382 VII, 4 | man, but of men. For the naming of one individual comprehends
2383 IV, 15 | more wonderful, either in narration or in aclion? But the Sibyl
2384 I, 14 | this manner from the sacred narrative. Also shortly afterwards
2385 II, 5 | more wisely therefore does Naso judge, than they who think
2386 VI, 23 | sui custos, quae inter se natura. connexa sunt. Nam neque
2387 VI, 23 | conturbat et commovet, et naturalem illum incitat atque inflammat
2388 VI, 23 | homine laudatur, quia non naturalis est, sed voluntaria. Servanda
2389 VI, 23 | et nefandos coitus contra naturam contraque institutum Dei
2390 VII, 13 | And the same out of two natures--the immortal and the mortal--
2391 VII, 24 | renounce the sea, nor~shall the naval pine Barter merchandise;
2392 IV, 14 | concerning Jesus the son of Nave, who was the successor of
2393 V, 6 | and collect together the necessaries of life, and to keep them
2394 VI, 23 | frui licet. Quod si aliqua necessitas prohibebit tum vero maxima
2395 IV, 17 | or draw waggons by their neck, or carry burthens on their
2396 II, 17 | are called oracles, and necromancy, and the art of magic, and
2397 V, 5 | of milk, now streams of nectar flowed."~And no wonder,
2398 VI, 23 | mares maribus admiscuit; et nefandos coitus contra naturam contraque
2399 VI, 1 | piety and religion. But men, neglecting justice, though they are
2400 III, 12 | enduring of evils; if it neglects all things which are desired
2401 III, 23 | is done by all. But this negligence is tolerable. What shall
2402 VI, 12 | does good to a relative, or neighbour, or friend, either deserves
2403 I, 21 | Quirinus, and Leda became Nemesis, and Circe Marica; and Ino,
2404 VI, 23 | homines perditi volunt? Nempe honesta opera voluptas sequitur:
2405 IV, 3 | the gods; so that father Neptunus, Liber, father Saturnus,
2406 IV, 21 | after their decease, when Nero had put them to death, Vespasian
2407 VI, 22 | guarded against, as snares or nets, lest, captivated by the
2408 II, 12 | plainly happened, that the newly born animals might have
2409 VI, 20 | is allowed, to strangle newly-born children, which is the greatest
2410 I, 6 | the Persians, and of her Nicanor made mention, who wrote
2411 V, 20 | therefore, do they not call day night--the sun darkness? Moreover,
2412 VI, 23 | magnitudine sceleris enarrari. Nihil amplius istos appellare
2413 III, 21 | possibility. For grant that nil arc wise, and despise money.
2414 III, 8 | know the sources of the Nile, or the vain dreams of the
2415 IV, 18 | transgressions." David also, in the ninety-third Psalm: "They will hunt after
2416 II, 14 | XIV. OF NOAH THE INVENTOR OF WINE, WHO
2417 V, 16 | vigour of the mind, what nobility, I pray, can be so firm,
2418 II, 4 | and the breast imbued with nobleness."~A noble and wise sentiment.
2419 I, 21 | two hundred sons of their nobles: "So great the ills to which
2420 VI, 23 | coercenda est, quia maxime nocet. Cure excogitasset Deus
2421 VII, 1 | they are enslaved to the nod of desire, their mistress,
2422 VI, 10 | made their wishes known by nods; then that they tried the
2423 VI, 23 | quidquid ipse ab altero pati nolis. Haec sunt quae ad continentiam
2424 VI, 23 | corpus et distrahi Deus noluit. Praeterea non tanturn adulterium
2425 VI, 23 | genitalem corporis partem, quod nomen ipsum docet, nulla alia
2426 V, 1 | I. OF THE NON-CONDEMNATION OF ACCUSED PERSONS WITHOUT
2427 VI, 23 | et inhonesta pejoribus. Nondum omnia castitatis officio
2428 IV, 19 | the sun shall go down at noon, and the daylight shall
2429 VI, 23 | Seit ergo adversarius ille noster, quanta sit vis hujus cupiditatis,
2430 VI, 23 | igitur, ne occasionem vitiis nostra intemperantia demus: sed
2431 IV, 8 | breath proceeds from the nostrils, speech from the mouth,
2432 I, 3 | of God it was made out of nothing--a work which could only
2433 II, 11 | would be everlasting, will, notwithstanding their eloquence, be deprived
2434 VII, 6 | forth its increase, and nourish its various productions?
2435 IV, 6 | in these verses:--~"The nourisher and creator of all things,
2436 I, 21 | made them known as the nourishers of Jupiter. How much this
2437 IV, 30 | are called Phrygians, or Novarians, or Valentinians, or Marcionites,
2438 II, 9 | the desire of discovering novelties, that he might found a sect
2439 V, 5 | the black serpents their noxious poison, ~And ordered wolves
2440 IV, 18 | hands and my feet; they numbered all my bones; they themselves
2441 VII, 24 | and the trees, and the numberless flocks of the earth shall
2442 IV, 17 | Also Jesus the son of Nun, his successor, said: "And
2443 VI, 23 | MATRIMONIO ET CONTINENTIA.~Venio nunc ad eam, quae percipitur
2444 VII, 24 | uncultivated brambles,~And hard oaks shall distil the dewy honey.~
2445 III, 14 | yourself are accustomed to oast, and elucidated the subject
2446 VI, 23 | diversa distraxerit. Nec ob aliam cansam Deus, cam caeteras
2447 VI, 23 | propria sine delicto licet. Objicit quippe oculis irritabiles
2448 IV, 28 | because multiplied services oblige rather than offend. For
2449 III, 19 | a river, pour its flame obliquely. The wise man therefore
2450 VI, 23 | coeno immerserit, coeno sit oblitus necesse est; et corpus quidem
2451 VI, 23 | quas pati necesse est. His obscoenitatibus animas, ad sanctitatem genitas,
2452 II, 14 | of the stars, and their obscurations, while in their frequent
2453 III, 1 | truth still lies hidden in obscurity--either through the error
2454 V, 6 | is judged to be a kind of obsequiousness to imitate the customs and
2455 VI, 23 | indulgent, qui libidini obsequuntur, ii animam suam corpori
2456 VI, 18 | and impartial Judge, the observer and witness of all. Let
2457 III, 12 | if they had not preferred obstinately to maintain that which they
2458 VI, 23 | ilia, ut omnis calumnia, et occasio fraudis removeatur, adulterum
2459 VII, 25 | lest weariness should be occasioned to the readers if I should
2460 VI, 23 | vindicari. Cavendum igitur, ne occasionem vitiis nostra intemperantia
2461 VI, 23 | corrumpendas aliorum conjuges occupatus potest vacare domesticae
2462 I, 11 | change and transfer actual occurrences into other representations
2463 I, 11 | saying of Euhemerus, died in Oceania, and was buried in the town
2464 VI, 23 | delicto licet. Objicit quippe oculis irritabiles formas, suggeritque
2465 VI, 23 | Sicut autem dedit nobis oculos Deus, non ut spectemus,
2466 VI, 13 | To this is added, that no ODe can be without fault as
2467 VII, 6 | them corn and wine, and the odour of incense, and the blood
2468 VI, 20 | shown by the example of OEdipus alone, confused with twofold
2469 I, 9 | bones and ashes on Mount OEta, in return for which office
2470 V, 20 | for a slight and ordinary offence; and if any one shall come
2471 IV, 28 | services oblige rather than offend. For those servants do not
2472 VI, 13 | perfect virtue, since he offends neither in deeds nor in
2473 I, 15 | offer empty gifts?~Thou offerest to idols; this error who
2474 VI, 23 | Nondum omnia castitatis officio exsecutus sum: quam Deus
2475 VI, 23 | nefas prosequar? Vincit officium linguae sceleris magnitudo.
2476 I, 21 | in which the priests make offsprings not with the blood of another
2477 IV, 15 | twelve baskets to the hope ofmany."~I ask, therefore, what
2478 III, 20 | fault with the superstitions oft the Egyptians, when Socrates
2479 IV, 18 | crowned Him with a crown ofthorns, and mingled dreadful gall."~
2480 I, 14 | married Ops. Titan, who was older than Saturn, demands the
2481 II, 7 | the senate those who were oldest, and called them Fathers,
2482 II, 4 | robe from the statue of the Olympian Jupiter, he ordered that
2483 VII, 16 | WORLD, AND ITS PROPHETIC OMENS.~But, test any one should
2484 VI, 23 | eo loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus terrenis, iter in coelum
2485 VI, 23 | posse, adduntur ilia, ut omnis calumnia, et occasio fraudis
2486 VI, 23 | repugnare voluisset, solam omnium mulierem patientem viri
2487 VI, 23 | genus quasi fastigium est, omniumque consummatio virtutum. Ad
2488 I, 9 | also to an unchaste woman, Omphale, who used to order him to
2489 I, 3 | commenced and accomplished by one--he will now understand that
2490 V, 7 | frequency with which it is urged onward, is the firmness with which
2491 VI, 5 | condescension has bestowed on us in opening to us the truth. He says
2492 I, 3 | minds may be supposed to operate; and if any one should say
2493 IV, 8 | Him? First of all, divine operations cannot be known or declared
2494 VI, 23 | tempore, et multis bonis operibus, ab ea quae inhaeserit colluvione
2495 III, 13 | he wished to press his opponent by questioning, and thus
2496 I, 6 | others for more befitting opportunities. But since we are defending
2497 V, 6 | them; to injure no one, to oppress no one, not to close his
2498 VI, 1 | same blindness everywhere oppresses the wretched men; for as
2499 VI, 23 | facere, sed referre. Quod optime Quintilianus expressit:
2500 I, 17 | Jupiter had given him the option of asking for whatever reward
2501 VI, 18 | poured forth those noble orations, inscribed with a name derived
2502 V, 15 | settled, but as it were by an oratorical kind of exercise of disputing