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3003 V, 11 | that their limbs may be renovated for other tortures, and
3004 VI, 11 | is thrown away; or it is repaid with interest, and thus
3005 I, 1 | the Omnipotent will also repay the reward of their wickedness
3006 VI, 18 | show how pernicious this repayment of insult is, and what carnage
3007 V, 5 | by circumlocutions), they repeat examples of justice from
3008 VII, 21 | God in themselves which repels and rejects the violence
3009 II, 2 | their parent, as though it repented you that you were not born
3010 III, 20 | punishment, and afterwards by a repetition of sacrifice. What can you
3011 VII, 21 | form them again, and will replace as much as it shall consume
3012 II, 9 | him accuser, because he reports to God the faults to which
3013 I, 20 | example of the Athenians in representing her figure. For when a harlot,
3014 VII, 12 | the same souls are always reproduced at one time in a man, at
3015 VI, 24 | grieved for his error; and he reproves himself of madness, and
3016 I, 1 | of the Roman princes to repudiate errors, and to acknowledge
3017 I, 10 | she had been deserted and repudiated by another husband; and
3018 III, 4 | Stoics, then, were right in repudiating conjecture. For to conjecture
3019 VI, 23 | fecit; scilicet ne foeminis repugnantibus, libido cogeret viros aliud
3020 VI, 23 | animantes suscepto foetu maribus repugnare voluisset, solam omnium
3021 VI, 23 | quod suscepto foetu mari repugnat? Quod ideo facit, quia necesse
3022 VII, 5 | according to the nature and requirements of each kind. Then, when
3023 III, 11 | and honourable should be requited with no reward, and be so
3024 VII, 1 | as a conqueror; and, God requiting them, they will suffer all
3025 VI, 23 | substraverint? Non potest haec res pro magnitudine sceleris
3026 VII, 26 | able with true piety to rescind the injurious decrees of
3027 V, 11 | proconsul, has collected wicked rescripts of princes, that he might
3028 II, 16 | fate has any power: for God rescues the pious man from all evil;
3029 II, 11 | should perish. But if he was reserved by the will of divine providence,
3030 IV, 19 | and confounded; and the residue of them will I give to the
3031 VI, 4 | surprise you offering no resistance, your lands will be laid
3032 I, 11 | Olympus; and they used to resort to him thither for the administration
3033 I, 21 | Fasti:--~"Now the lofty Ida resounds with tinklings, that the
3034 III, 15 | precepts in their school respect-modesty and self-restraint, live
3035 I, 19 | benefits, are entitled to their respective worship. First of all, it
3036 II, 4 | much a condemnation as a respite from labour? So that, as
3037 VII, 26 | God raised thee up for the restoration of the house of justice,
3038 I, 13 | plainly in another place:--~"Restorer of the age of gold,~In lands
3039 VI, 18 | tranquillity; this mitigates, this restores a man to himself. Therefore,
3040 I, 1 | excellent beginning, when, restoring justice which had been overthrown
3041 I, 9 | rapacious birds, than he who restrains most covetous desires; or
3042 V, 21 | their gods, and rage without restraint against those who do not
3043 II, 12 | thus that the new earth, retaining the productive seed, brought
3044 VI, 18 | irrational fury, and endeavour to retaliate upon those who injure them.
3045 VI, 23 | incorruptam corporis integritatem retinuerint, multique sint, qui hoc
3046 IV, 15 | also, when He was about to retire to a mountain, as He was
3047 V, 9 | feeling is absent, and they retort upon just men reproaches
3048 VII, 22 | With sluggish clay to reunite? ~This dreadful longing
3049 VI, 6 | the state, to improve the revenues,--all which things are not
3050 I, 16 | of the same weight when reversed. For if they have no lands,
3051 II, 11 | the last book. Now let us revert to the origin of man.~
3052 VI, 18 | is gratuitous. If any one reviles, he must answer him with
3053 IV, 19 | After two days, He will revive us in the third day." And
3054 II, 17 | in God. But they who have revolted from the service of God,
3055 IV, 1 | Emperor Constantine, and often revolve in my mind the original
3056 II, 5 | and that sphere, while it revolved, exhibited not only the
3057 III, 24 | fancied that the heaven revolves in accordance with the motion
3058 VII, 15 | single ruler, as it were revolving to a second infancy. For,
3059 III, 25 | must there be ignorance of rhetoric, that you may be able to
3060 V, 2 | it. When I was teaching rhetorical learning in Bithynia, having
3061 I, 21 | Lindus, which is a town of Rhodes, there are sacred rites
3062 I, 18 | live in innocence and jus rice. Shall no one, then, be
3063 VII, 1 | certain insatiable thirst for riches--because, when they have
3064 I, 21 | on which Silenus used to ride, and that the design of
3065 VI, 2 | Persius therefore deservedly ridicules superstitions of this kind
3066 II, 4 | and wise sentiment. But he ridiculously added this: that there is
3067 IV, 17 | either afford a vehicle for riding, or aid in the cultivation
3068 IV, 15 | multitude, distributed by riffles, should recline an the ground.
3069 VII, 22 | them to be safe? Since the right-eous, then, are so lightly esteemed,
3070 VII, 26 | ignorant of the truth, and who rigorously assail God and His religion
3071 II, 5 | contrived them, that they might rim through their courses in
3072 II, 18 | Prophecies of pious seers~Ring terror in the 'wildered
3073 III, 15 | when the people and his rivals saw him more depraved than
3074 I, 20 | error is altogether de~ rived from their ignorance of
3075 V, 11 | whose command alone~"With rivulets of slaughter reeks~The stern
3076 VII, 6 | lightnings shine forth, thunders roar, or showers fall, that the
3077 VII, 24 | fruits of its own accord; the rocky mountains shall drop with
3078 II, 2 | ground? For you do wretchedly roll yourselves on the ground,
3079 VII, 20 | another place in the same:--~"Rolling along the heavens, I will
3080 II, 13 | Lucretius and Varro among the Romans--determined that there were
3081 I, 20 | aperture was left in the roof above Terminus himself,
3082 VI, 18 | them, have polluted the rostra on which he had formerly
3083 VII, 15 | to any one, if a kingdom rounded with such vastness, and
3084 II, 7 | appeared inadequate to the rounding of the city, he established
3085 VI, 15 | at, and by a circuitous route, which is long and rough,
3086 III, 29 | horn of plenty and with a rudder, as though she both gave
3087 VI, 23 | hos affectus avidissime ruerent, eaque ratione propagari
3088 VII, 26 | human race; for while thou rulest the Roman state, we worshippers
3089 I, 15 | successors to a desire of ruling well. And this Cicero teaches
3090 IV, 15 | of walking, but also of running. Then, also, if any had
3091 VI, 12 | fear thief and robber, nor rust, nor tyrant? He who is rich
3092 III, 25 | the poor, or labourers, or rustics, who have to gain their
3093 IV, 13 | merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabaeans, men of stature, shall come
3094 IV, 17 | that He did not rest on the Sabbath, but laboured for the good
3095 VII, 14 | His works. But this is the Sabbath-day, which in the language of
3096 I, 22 | among the Romans was that Sabine king who especially engaged
3097 I, 15 | the Latins Faunus, the Sabines Sancus, the Romans Quirinus.
3098 IV, 30 | aspired to the highest sacerdotal power; and when overcome
3099 V, 9 | country; who do not fear the sack; who, in fine, commit sacrilege,
3100 I, 9 | with the Argonauts, and sacked Troy, being enraged with
3101 II, 4 | the conscience, and the sacredrecesses of the mind, and the breast
3102 V, 20 | flamens, augurs, and also sacrificing kings, and the priests and
3103 VI, 12 | witness that nothing is safer and nothing more calm than
3104 VII, 24 | blushing purple, now for saffron dye;~Scarlet of its own
3105 VII, 4 | visible, but that men may sail in it. Likewise he who designs
3106 VII, 24 | be subject to God,--~"The sailor himself also shall renounce
3107 VII, 4 | it? this is the sea, who sails upon it? this is fire, who
3108 I, 22 | instituted pontiffs, priests, Salii, and augurs; he arranged
3109 VI, 18 | innocence and patience. But, as Sallustius relates was said by Appius,
3110 VII, 3 | productiveness of the woods, the most salubrious bursting forth of fountains,
3111 IV, 18 | and a crown of thorns, and saluted Him as King, and gave Him
3112 I, 18 | that those rich men despise Samian vessels? There are also
3113 I, 6 | the ancient annals of the Samians. The seventh was of Cumae,
3114 IV, 26 | in itself, gave to us a sample of the future torments which
3115 VI, 23 | obscoenitatibus animas, ad sanctitatem genitas, velut in coeni
3116 VI, 23 | potest vacare domesticae sanctitati; et uxor, cum in tale incidit
3117 I, 11 | temples, and especially in the sanctuary of the Triphylian Jupiter,
3118 VI, 23 | omne. Quid enim potest esse sanctum iis, qui aetatem imbecillam
3119 I, 15 | Latins Faunus, the Sabines Sancus, the Romans Quirinus. In
3120 I, 21 | so impious. profane, and sanguinary? But we will discuss at
3121 I, 20 | indecent gestures, even to the satiating of unchaste eyes. Tatius
3122 III, 11 | and brings a feeling of satiety, and when it is in excess
3123 I, 21 | surpassed in brutality the savageness of all beasts, which--savage
3124 IV, 12 | who in Latin is called Saving, or Saviour, because He
3125 IV, 13 | the God of lsrael, the Savour. They shall all be confounded
3126 III, 16 | into the city together with savoury merchandise. For if it is
3127 VI, 20 | parricides complain of the scantiness of their means, and allege
3128 V, 13 | injury? Who, when he sees the scars on his own sides, would
3129 VI, 23 | mulierem patientem viri fecit; scilicet ne foeminis repugnantibus,
3130 VI, 23 | oportet; sed tanquam sinat. Scit enim, quantam his affectibus
3131 III, 20 | desperate man, if he wished to scoff at religion; madman, if
3132 V, 9 | sins wishes to have free scope for sinning, and thinks
3133 II, 12 | all, since the sun would scorch them or the cold contract
3134 II, 16 | their words as though by scourges, they not only confess themselves
3135 V, 2 | that which is the greatest screen) by his riches; and that
3136 I, 22 | a field belonging to the scribe Petilius, under the Janiculum,
3137 IV, 11 | meting out is in vain; the scribes are deceived and confounded:
3138 III, 26 | a man who is passionate, scurrilous, and unrestrained; with
3139 I, 13 | remains to be explained. The scythe-bearing god came to the Tuscan river
3140 III, 25 | exception of Anacharsis the Scythian, who never would have dreamed
3141 III, 2 | philosopher, that is, a searcher after wisdom. If, therefore,
3142 VII, 3 | forth of fountains, the seasonable over-flowings of rivers,
3143 I, pref| virtues, while vices are seasoned with pleasure, offended
3144 VI, 20 | and to leap from their seats. Therefore all spectacles
3145 IV, 30 | more powerful, preferred to secede with their supporters, than
3146 IV, 26 | smite the Egyptians, to secure the Hebrews from that infliction
3147 V, 20 | heaven with its condition secured. What else shall I call
3148 VII, 15 | also there will be neither security, nor government, nor any
3149 II, 4 | state was disturbed both by seditions and by portents, on its
3150 VI, 2 | long speech in behalf of a seditious man Cornelius. And this
3151 II, 9 | were becoming congealed, or seethed with fiery heat and rendered
3152 VI, 23 | voluptatibus, et abstinentia sui. Seit ergo adversarius ille noster,
3153 III, 15 | of philosophers there has seldom been one who has done anything
3154 V, 19 | highly, and exhibits great self-complacency, that its difficulty being
3155 I, 7 | self-produced," by the Sibyl "self-created," "uncreated," and "unmade."
3156 I, 6 | need a name; for He who is self-existent is without a name." God,
3157 III, 22 | in each sex; he took away self-respect, shame, and modesty, if
3158 IV, 23 | how will he deprive the self-willed of an excuse, unless he
3159 III, 17 | man who is unfeeling and selfish is ordered to give nothing
3160 III, 25 | payment of more money than the seller demanded. Moreover, they
3161 V, 17 | who supposes that he is selling copper ore when it is gold,
3162 VII, 20 | near to the truth. For the semi, when separated from the
3163 V, 10 | very same time when he was sending the men in chains to slaughter,
3164 III, 17 | vigorous health, raved more senselessly than any one diseased. And
3165 V, 12 | reputation. But may this senselessness be absent from us, that
3166 I, 21 | and deprive them of the sensibilities of men? What can be sacred
3167 VI, 23 | ex tactu, voluptatem: qui sensus est quidem totius corporis.
3168 VI, 10 | But he who withdraws and separates himself from the body at
3169 I, 6 | of their year, that is, September, received its name among
3170 V, 1 | altogether to that pursuit. Septimius Tertullianus also was skilled
3171 I, 21 | same whom the people call Serapis. For it is customary for
3172 I, 13 | of gold,~So peacefully, serenely rolled~The years beneath
3173 III, 29 | writer, in a work of great seriousness, in which he was giving
3174 VI, 23 | quis hobeat uxorem, neque servam, neque liberam habere insuper
3175 VI, 23 | naturalis est, sed voluntaria. Servanda igitur fides ab utroque
3176 VI, 23 | velit, sed matrimonio fidem server. Non enim, sicut juris publici
3177 I, 3 | not gods; for that which serves and that which rules cannot
3178 VI, 23 | eluctari potuerit, hunc servum dominus, hunc discipulum
3179 III, 25 | ransomed Plato for eight sesterces. And on this account Seneca
3180 II, 5 | of Jupiter, who was born seventeen hundred years ago; but of
3181 IV, 11 | Gentiles." David also in the seventeenth Psalm says: "Thou wilt make
3182 IV, 5 | servitude, until, in the seventieth year afterwards, the captive
3183 IV, 16 | David thus speaks in the seventy-first Psalm: "He shall descend
3184 VI, 19 | tender age may be formed by a severer discipline to integrity
3185 IV, 26 | held forth hardships and severities in this life to the followers
3186 III, 14 | your judgment worthy to be sewed up in a bag, who deny that
3187 I, 20 | been found in the great sewer; and because he did not
3188 I, 16 | it that he was become a sexagenarian, and was restrained by the
3189 I, 22 | her the Good Goddess. And Sextus Claudius, in that book which
3190 I, 16 | had denied--that they have sexual intercourse, and bring forth.
3191 VI, 23 | parricidas, quibus non sufficit sexus a Deo datus, nisi eliare
3192 II, 19 | origin from heaven, to the shades beneath, and the lowest
3193 VII, 14 | are figures and previous shadowings forth of great things; as
3194 VII, 17 | accomplished, another king shah arise out of Syria, born
3195 V, 14 | the brows of the tyrant,~Shakes the upright and resolute
3196 VII, 20 | mortals, the great judgment shallcome upon men, and the beginning."~
3197 IV, 15 | and with two fishes, He shallsatisfy five thousand men in the
3198 IV, 18 | poisonous spittle; and He shallthen absolutely give His holy
3199 I, 20 | those who worship a rude and shapeless stone under the name of
3200 VI, 20 | become a spectator and a sharer of a homicide which is secretly
3201 IV, 17 | thee knives of flint very sharp, and sit and circumcise
3202 V, 2 | who might vigorously and sharply refute public errors, and
3203 IV, 12 | the gates of brass, and shatter the bars of iron; and I
3204 IV, 18 | and as a lamb before the shearer is dumb, so He opened not
3205 VII, 3 | then he introduced:--~"Is sheer folly. For what advantage
3206 V, 2 | own house. Nevertheless he sheltered his vices by his hair and
3207 I, 21 | he is called by the poets shield-bearer. Thus, whatever was done
3208 VI, 8 | their course is sought by ships over the deep: for unless
3209 II, 8 | conveyed had grounded on a shoal of the river Tiber, and
3210 I, 18 | of the fuller and of the shoemaker. But why is not honour paid
3211 II, 8 | and dashed against the shores near to the temple of the
3212 I, 9 | a lion and a boar; if he shot down birds with arrows;
3213 IV, 15 | in the water,~"With his shoulder rises above the waves."~
3214 I, 15 | who suggested,~That thou shouldst leave the presence of the
3215 V, 9 | themselves forsooth pious, and shrinking from the shedding of human
3216 VI, 23 | institutum Dei machinatus est: sic imbuit homines, et armavit
3217 I, 20 | when this was done, the siege was ended, since the Gauls
3218 II, 13 | moon, which traverses that sign-bearing circle in the space of thirty
3219 IV, 26 | figurative meaning and great significance, as had also those divine
3220 VI, 25 | which is woven of purple and silk: a sacrifice is a victim,
3221 II, 11 | calamity, all may perish simultaneously: either through the unproductiveness
3222 VI, 23 | homines oportet; sed tanquam sinat. Scit enim, quantam his
3223 V, 20 | offer his prayer without sincerity or reverence? But these
3224 VI, 23 | contaminent, quibus habere propria sine delicto licet. Objicit quippe
3225 VII, 5 | and gravity of the body sinking downwards, He determined
3226 VI, 3 | heaven, the other which sinks to hell; and these ways
3227 II, 13 | passed sentence upon the sinner, that he might seek support
3228 I, 6 | received her name as though Siobule. But he says that the Sibyls
3229 I, 6 | call the gods by the word Sioi, not . Theoi; and for counsel
3230 VI, 20 | dedicated to their names, as Sisinnius Capita teaches in his book
3231 IV, 18 | David thus speaks in the sixty-eighth Psalm: "And they gave me
3232 I, 7 | twelve, or three hundred and sixty-five as Orpheus did; but we convict
3233 VII, 22 | leave,~And seek the upper sky, ~With sluggish clay to
3234 I, 18 | the gods. But he who has slaughtered countless thousands of men,
3235 I, 18 | to be open to men through slaughters and bloodshed! And Cicero
3236 VI, 7 | of the gods, in which he slays them all with one sword,
3237 IV, 19 | end to death:--~"And after sleeping three days, He shall put
3238 VI, 10 | preparing for themselves sleeping-places and lairs, was natural even
3239 VII, 20 | spirit, and by its very slighthess incapable of being perceived,
3240 VII, 5 | touched upon it, though slightly, above, yet it must be mentioned
3241 VII, 12 | but the soul, which by its slightness avoids all touch, can be
3242 III, 12 | other hand, because it is slights and subtle, and invisible,
3243 III, 24 | supposed that the heaven itself sloped downwards in every direction,
3244 I, 21 | surrounded with rays, that a slow victim may not be offered
3245 V, 3 | announced it to him in his slumbers. So many robbers have at
3246 VI, 16 | moderately, but even in the smallest degree; and that there is
3247 II, 4 | despised on account of their smallness. For he did not see that
3248 III, 10 | appear to have a kind of smile, when with soothed ears,
3249 I, 7 | imprecation against the Sminthian Apollo, he began with this
3250 I, 18 | AEsculapius, the craft of the smith for Vulcan. Therefore let
3251 VII, 15 | nation only, Egypt only was smitten. But now, because the people
3252 VII, 15 | intolerable yoke of slavery, God smote Egypt with an incurable
3253 VII, 12 | quitting its vesture like a snake,"~I never saw any one who
3254 II, 9 | all the philosophers who snarled around him, refuted him.
3255 VI, 12 | perhaps a single robbery will snatch away from you, or a proscription
3256 VI, 6 | held, because it may be snatched away. Whoever, then, has
3257 V, 3 | disciple of Anaxagoras, to whom snows were as black as ink. But
3258 III, 26 | shall presently see him sober, chaste, and temperate.
3259 VI, 23 | alia causa nisi efficiendae sobolis accepimus. Huic divinae
3260 VI, 17 | deprive man, a mild and sociable animal, of his name; who,
3261 III, 18 | life was an imitator of Socratic ostentation. For Democritus,
3262 VI, 24 | of purifications, nor of sods of turf, which things are
3263 VI, 22 | lest, captivated by the softness of enjoyments, we should
3264 II, 4 | discovered grain in the soil of Henna, and that her virgin
3265 III, 5 | of the land the nature of soils, and signs of future rains
3266 IV, 10 | obtain a supply of corn; and sojourning there a long time, they
3267 II, 10 | appear that it was called Sol, because the stars are obscured,
3268 VI, 23 | ornamentis, aut vestibus, sed de sola libidine dicendum mihi puto;
3269 VI, 23 | maribus repugnare voluisset, solam omnium mulierem patientem
3270 VII, 1 | because, when they have sold or squandered the things
3271 I, 11 | Which is set forth the sole object of religious dread
3272 I, 21 | during the celebration of the solemnities a good word shall have escaped
3273 II, 10 | should be ratified by the solemnity of fire and water, because
3274 I, 11 | exist. He also swears most solemnly by the Stygian marsh: "Which
3275 VI, 23 | majorem, vel quoniam virtutem soli homini dedit, ut esset laus
3276 V, 13 | there is some foundation and solidity, which not only frees that
3277 VII, 17 | the wicked, and flee into solitudes. And when he hears of this,
3278 VI, 23 | juris publici ratio est, solo mulier adultera est, quae
3279 I, 6 | she lived in the times of Solon and Cyrus;--the ninth of
3280 VI, 23 | habeat, a crimine adulterii solutus est. Sed divina lex ira
3281 VI, 5 | Horace therefore speaks somewhat better: "Virtue is the fleeing
3282 IV, 17 | was about to send His own Son-that is, a law alive, anti present
3283 I, 5 | that he poured forth that song on Helicon; but he had come
3284 VI, 2 | assassin, an adulterer, a sorcerer, or a parricide, he will
3285 V, 9 | at the heaven itself by sorceries, as though the earth would
3286 V, 20 | body which is defiled and sordid, is pure enough.~
3287 VI, 14 | moved--desire, joy, fear, sorrow: the two former of which
3288 I, 22 | afterwards, when he was sorry for what he had done, and
3289 VI, 24 | despised Zeno, and his teacher Sotion, if he had obtained a true
3290 VII, 12 | that the mind--not the soul--may not be harassed by any
3291 I, 13 | mighty king,~The widely sounding Zeus."~And also our own
3292 IV, 15 | strength to the feeble, soundness of body to the maimed, health
3293 VI, 21 | words, that is, pleasant sounds of the air and of strings,
3294 VII, 16 | discords will perpetually be sown; nor will there be any rest
3295 I, 12 | course and change of the spaces and seasons, and that he
3296 I, 21 | Hercules when he returned from Spain; the custom still continuing,
3297 V, 2 | himself had never seen even a spark at any time; inasmuch as
3298 IV, 11 | known her time, and the sparrows of the field have observed
3299 I, 10 | she; unconscious that in Sparta they,~Their native land,
3300 I, 20 | and put to flight by the Spartan women. But the Lacedaemonians,
3301 III, 4 | destroyed; and as those fabled sparti of the poets, so these men
3302 IV, 18 | After these things they spat upon His face, and struck
3303 VI, 23 | nobis oculos Deus, non ut spectemus, voluptatemque capiamus,
3304 I, 13 | OPS.~If therefore these speculations of the philosophers are
3305 I, 21 | with feasting. they were spending the night in sport, they
3306 I, 10 | did Mercury, a thief and spendthrift, leave to contribute to
3307 II, 5 | of the heavens, and that sphere, while it revolved, exhibited
3308 III, 3 | also whether the moon be spherical or concave; and whether
3309 II, 4 | of the dead, wrap them in spices and precious garments, and
3310 VI, 21 | speeches or poems, they de spise the simple and common language
3311 IV, 18 | face from the foulness of spitting." In like manner David,
3312 IV, 18 | shall send forth poisonous spittle; and He shallthen absolutely
3313 VI, 15 | joy has its seat in the spleen, that of anger in the gall,
3314 VII, 16 | will contaminate, plunder, spoil, and put to death. And at
3315 II, 4 | this sacrilegious man and spoiler of their worship should
3316 III, 24 | towards the middle, as we see spokes in a wheel; but that the
3317 III, 18 | But, however,~"By his own spontaneous act he offered up his head
3318 II, 8 | being sent to remove it, sportively and in jest asked whether
3319 III, 10 | and with eyes relaxed to sportiveness, they fawn upon man, or
3320 I, 5 | the bosom of his joyous spouse; and great himself, mingling
3321 II, 3 | shrines of the gods, and sprinkle thealtars with much blood
3322 III, 9 | saying was not uttered on the spur of the moment. Let us see
3323 I, 3 | cohorts, divisions, and squadrons, first of all it would not
3324 VII, 1 | when they have sold or squandered the things in which they
3325 VII, 12 | ridiculous and more worthy of a stage-player than of a school of philosophy,
3326 VI, 15 | taking away timidity from stags, or poison from serpents,
3327 I, 21 | strike their shields with stakes,some beat their empty helmets.
3328 IV, 11 | and the ass his master's stall; but Israel hath not known,
3329 IV, 13 | speaks: "There shall arise a star out of Jacob, and a man
3330 IV, 18 | they themselves looked and stared upon me; they divided my
3331 I, 5 | The moon's pale orb, the starry train,~Are nourished by
3332 I, 11 | but painters also, and statuaries, speak falsehoods. For if
3333 IV, 13 | and the Sabaeans, men of stature, shall come over unto Thee,
3334 I, 13 | dispersed,~And gave them statutes to obey,~And willed the
3335 I, 11 | preserved by stealth, and stealthily nourished, was called Zeus,
3336 III, 8 | strength, and to remain stedfast. And thus no good is to
3337 II, 9 | predecessor, who through his stedfastness is acceptable and dear to
3338 V, 6 | whom the unwonted gleam of steel and swords surrounded? Or
3339 I, 17 | compliance with the love of his stepmother.~
3340 I, 20 | keeps off witchcraft; and Stercutus, who first introduced the
3341 V, 11 | rivulets of slaughter reeks~The stern embattled field."~"Dire
3342 II, 9 | benumbed with excessive stiffness were becoming congealed,
3343 VI, 23 | tum intimis visceribus stimulos omnes conturbat et commovet,
3344 I, 20 | stone, but sometimes also a stock. What shall I say of those
3345 I, 20 | all others are stones and stocks?~
3346 IV, 19 | lest, the body having been stolen by the disciples, and removed,
3347 II, 5 | covered with foliage, the stony mountains to rise."~All
3348 III, 8 | nothing more honourable, stopped at the very name of virtue,
3349 I, 7 | summed up and exhausted, it stops, it is at a loss, it fails;
3350 I, 4 | were so far from laying up store for the future, that they
3351 V, 5 | solitude brood over the things stored up, but admitted the poor
3352 V, 5 | And no wonder, since the storehouses of the good liberally lay
3353 I, 13 | another place:--~"That was the storied age of gold,~So peacefully,
3354 III, 23 | should suffer shipwreck in a storm, they plunge headlong of
3355 VI, 12 | means than if they are be stowed upon those men who can in
3356 I, 1 | themselves; who, when they have a straight path, seek devious windings;
3357 VII, 13 | harmonious sound, and the strain which musicians call harmony,
3358 VI, 20 | manner than if they had strangled them? Who can doubt that
3359 VI, 4 | should watch against the stratagems or open attacks of our single
3360 I, 21 | the water Romans made of straw; do you, after the example
3361 VII, 25 | shall have begun to be a street, which the Sibyls say shall
3362 III, 3 | stone, lofty buildings, many streets, magnificent and highly
3363 III, 12 | means of exercising and strengthening virtue; if, in short, we
3364 VI, 24 | light of day,~Then comes the stress of labour."~For when men
3365 VII, 18 | separated from the wicked, will stretch forth their hands to heaven
3366 V, 6 | right of masters, rule them, stricken with fear, and alarmed.
3367 IV, 30 | himself with persevering strife. For the contest is respecting
3368 I, 1 | which they might lull the strifes and contentions of discordant
3369 III, 17 | passes the guilty by, and strikes dead the innocent and unoffending."~
3370 I, 21 | mystery so odious; nor do I strip Priapus of his disguise,
3371 I, 20 | poured forth, women are also stripped of their garments at the
3372 II, 20 | eloquence, as some massive structure, is opposed to me. For as
3373 III, 11 | labour and difficulty and struggling against evils with which
3374 V, 10 | was fired with madness as stubble, and, forgetful of the shade
3375 II, 7 | stones and colours, or cups studded with glittering jewels.
3376 III, 5 | the strength of herbs by students of medicine, and by the
3377 III, 26 | payment, or books, or nightly studies. These results are accomplished
3378 V, 1 | may not at all injure the studious; so that now the knowledge
3379 VI, 12 | hospitable, though you are studying to promote your own advantage?"
3380 VI, 16 | possible even to run without stumbling and danger.~
3381 IV, 19 | who were astonished and stupefied with fear, seeing nothing,
3382 VII, 24 | vineyard the pruning hook;~The sturdy ploughman also shall loose
3383 VII, 1 | unable to live in a simple style--undoubtedly prefer that
3384 I, 10 | the customary prayer is styled Most Excellent and Great?
3385 VI, 23 | praesidio indigentem, libidini suae depopulandam foedandamque
3386 VI, 23 | libidini obsequuntur, ii animam suam corpori mancipant, ad mortemque
3387 I, 11 | as the poet feigned, in subjection to Cupid, but to everlasting
3388 I, 3 | of explaining such great subjects--it is right that we should
3389 VI, 23 | fomenta, et vitiis pabulum subministrat: tum intimis visceribus
3390 IV, 15 | to depart, the dead to be submissive. Why should I say that the
3391 I, 22 | were glad, and cheerfully submitted to his command, and observed
3392 I, 15 | uttering falsehoods, who was suborned by the fathers to announce
3393 IV, 8 | one of whom, who reigned subsequently to the other, preceded the
3394 III, 8 | itself, that is, means of subsistence, glory, pleasure? And these
3395 VI, 15 | something ought to have been substituted in the place of grief, since,
3396 VI, 23 | depopulandam foedandamque substraverint? Non potest haec res pro
3397 V, 17 | civil, the other natural, he subverted both: because the civil
3398 III, 15 | esteems art as nothing, subverts method, distorts rule, entirely
3399 II, 1 | God, God is entreated to suc-cour them. If any one is tossed
3400 III, 3 | audacity to be regarded as more successful because they are not refuted;
3401 VI, 23 | his affectibus positam, ut successionera parent. Sicut autem dedit
3402 VI, 11 | think that he ought to be succoured or not? They are not so
3403 VI, 18 | may be unimpaired t which succours necessity, and that he may
3404 I, 21 | nymph Amalthea, which gave suck to the infant; and of this
3405 IV, 26 | humiliation, and frailty, and suffering--why God thought fit to undergo
3406 VI, 23 | et parricidas, quibus non sufficit sexus a Deo datus, nisi
3407 VI, 23 | oculis irritabiles formas, suggeritque fomenta, et vitiis pabulum
3408 VI, 12 | precepts, as of those who suggest consolation, that if this
3409 I, 15 | to idols; this error who suggested,~That thou shouldst leave
3410 V, 5 | ought so to be taken, not as suggesting the idea that individuals
3411 VI, 23 | quae non hanc causam vitiis suis praetendat; injuriam se
3412 I, pref| that practice in fictitious suits has been of great advantage
3413 V, 9 | den,~Whom lawless hunger's sullen growl~Drives forth into
3414 V, 10 | Four hapless youths of Sulmo's breed,~And four who Ufens
3415 V, 18 | Though his path be along sultry African Syrtes,~Or Caucasian
3416 V, 15 | But I wish first to show, summarily and concisely, what it is,
3417 VI, 23 | nobis exeundum est, qui ad summum bonum tendimus.~
3418 V, 2 | and poverty, be dined less sumptuously in a palace than at his
3419 VI, 23 | adversus earn virtute maxima sumus. Quisquis affectus illos
3420 V, 6 | therefore were ignorant, who sung that she fled to heaven,
3421 VI, 12 | you would have expended on superfluities, turn to better uses. Devote
3422 V, 6 | only did they who had a superfluity fail to bestow a share upon
3423 VII, 4 | made, are plainly not made superfluously, but for some useful purposes.
3424 V, 10 | the unresisting, but even suppliants. Here some one will say:
3425 I, 7 | asked how he wished to be supplicated, he thus answered:--~"O
3426 II, 20 | and the majesty of heaven supplying the power of speaking, we
3427 IV, 30 | preferred to secede with their supporters, than to endure those set
3428 VII, 23 | whom Cicero speaks of as supporting the portico of the Stoics,
3429 V, 17 | should find any one who supposes that he is selling copper
3430 VII, 19 | extinguished and impiety suppressed, the world will be at rest,
3431 VII, 24 | impious religions and the suppression of guilt, the earth shall
3432 VI, 23 | publicis pareat: sed sit supra omnes leges, qui legem Dei
3433 III, 1 | assuredly show by how much surer arguments truth may be defended,
3434 V, 13 | patience itself could not surmount such great tortures without
3435 I, 11 | allotted to Pluto, who had the surname of Agesilaus; because the
3436 VII, 2 | how much the work of God surpasses the works of men. Thus,
3437 II, 7 | or ivory, that they may survey with unwearied contemplation
3438 I, 11 | Having ascended thither, he surveyed the lands far and wide,
3439 II, 11 | that he who was the only survivor should perish. But if he
3440 VII, 5 | opposing materials, he might be susceptible of good and evil; and as
3441 VI, 25 | philosophers and even Cicero suspects. For, discussing the Laws,
3442 II, 10 | production of man, and for the sustaining of his life. One of these
3443 VI, 23 | a Deo datus, nisi eliare suum profane ac petulanter illudant.
3444 IV, 11 | manner: "The turtle and the swallow hath known her time, and
3445 I, 20 | Saturnus is said to have swallowed in the place of Jupiter;
3446 I, 11 | heifer, she is said to have swam over the sea, and to have
3447 V, 11 | Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,~And Death glares grim in
3448 IV, 7 | yet arrived, but that He sways a heavenly and eternal kingdom,
3449 I, 11 | the heaven? Why do they swear by the gods above, when
3450 II, 1 | ignorant of? For both in swearing, and in expressing a wish,
3451 I, 11 | greater can exist. He also swears most solemnly by the Stygian
3452 II, 8 | Juturna washing off the sweat of their horses, when their
3453 VII, 9 | permitted us to enjoy the sweetest pleasures, should we not
3454 VII, 24 | change his fleece,~Now for a sweetly blushing purple, now for
3455 V, 1 | delightful modulation. These are sweets which conceal poison. And
3456 VI, 4 | hate. He causes others to swell with ambitious desires.
3457 VI, 16 | say that we must not run swiftly, but walk quietly. But it
3458 I, 11 | we learn that she did not swim across the sea, but sailed
3459 III, 20 | place. But the same man swore by a dog and a goose. Oh
3460 V, 18 | be along sultry African Syrtes,~Or Caucasian ravines, where
3461 VII, 3 | existed, it can have no systematic arrangement. For what could
3462 IV, 19 | which separated the two tabernacles, was rent into two parts;
3463 IV, 18 | vinegar; thisinhospitable table they will show."~And another
3464 VI, 9 | the framers of the twelve tables, who certainly promoted
3465 VI, 23 | eam, quae percipitur ex tactu, voluptatem: qui sensus
3466 VI, 23 | XXIII. DE TACTUS VOLUPTATE ET LIBIDINE, ATQUE
3467 VI, 18 | vice as a most disgraceful tail to a good man and might
3468 VII, 16 | For the atmosphere will be tainted, and become corrupt and
3469 VI, 23 | sanctitati; et uxor, cum in tale incidit matrimonium, exemplo
3470 VI, 11 | than empty favour and the talk of a few days. Thus every
3471 III, 16 | are to be regarded as mere talkers. But assuredly, because
3472 I, 1 | severity proportioned to its tardiness; for as He is a most indulgent
3473 I, 6 | those which were left; that Tarquinias much more considered the
3474 I, 10 | with lightning by a god. Tarquitius, in a dissertation concerning
3475 V, 5 | how could she settle or tarry in the kingdom of him who
3476 VII, 20 | gaping earth shall show a Tartarean chaos; and all kingsshall
3477 VI, 4 | up to pain,~And leads to Tartarus' guilty reign."~For it belongs
3478 I, 20 | satiating of unchaste eyes. Tatius consecrated an image of
3479 I, 21 | law among the people of Tauris, a fierce and inhuman nation,
3480 I, 21 | jupiter pressed the faithful teats of the Cretan goat, whichattests
3481 V, 18 | defence on no quiver that teems with~Poison-steept arrows.~
3482 I, 22 | foster-child, and his grandmother Tellus, who was the wife of Uranus,
3483 I, 2 | usefulness, beauty, and temperament, that there is some providence,
3484 VI, 16 | joy, but moderately and temperately. This is as though they
3485 II, 1 | the crops, if a violent tempest or hail shall have assailed
3486 II, 16 | which are adored in the temples--which they generally do
3487 VI, 23 | non potest, nisi et longo tempore, et multis bonis operibus,
3488 IV, 18 | they feel remorse; they tempted me, and greatly derided
3489 III, 26 | grasping, covetous, and tenacious; I will presently restore
3490 IV, 17 | was given which they so tenaciously maintain, though they have
3491 II, 3 | spoken many things which tended to the overthrow of religious
3492 V, 4 | unable, on account of the tenderness of its stomach, to receive
3493 VI, 23 | est, qui ad summum bonum tendimus.~
3494 VI, 23 | castitatis gloriam non tenerent. Sed neque mulier virtutem
3495 VII, 8 | is a brief summary of the tenets of Plato, which are widely
3496 VI, 23 | etiam praescripto lectuli terminat; ut cum quis hobeat uxorem,
3497 VII, 15 | and when its youth was terminated by the end of the Punic
3498 I, 10 | that we men are mistaken in terming those who do such things
3499 IV, 17 | give a new law, in these terms: "The law shall go forth
3500 VI, 23 | discipulum magister agnoscet; hic terrain triumphabit, hic erit consimilis
3501 VI, 23 | loquimur, cui calcatis omnibus terrenis, iter in coelum paratur.
3502 I, 22 | that images are gods: "The terrestrial Lamiae, which Faunus and