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3503 II, 15 | health, hasten diseases, terrify their souls with dreams,
3504 V, 1 | that pursuit. Septimius Tertullianus also was skilled in literature
3505 V, 4 | be presented with human testimonies--that is, of philosophers
3506 VI, 23 | De istis loquor, quorum teterrima libido et execrabilis furor
3507 IV, 18 | instigation of Herod the tetrarch, who feared lest he should
3508 IV, 10 | edict. Afterwards they had tetrarchs until the time of Herod,
3509 I, 21 | Among the people of Cyprus, Teucer sacrificed a human victim
3510 I, 21 | used to appease Hesus and Teutas with human blood. Nor, indeed,
3511 VII, 26 | but is inserted in the text by Migne, as found in some
3512 VI, 25 | Are embroidered and costly textures? Nay, rather nothing is
3513 II, 3 | of the gods, and sprinkle thealtars with much blood of beasts,
3514 VII, 19 | darkness in the midst of theblack night."~This is the night
3515 VI, 20 | AND THEIR PLEASURES IN THEBRUTES AND IN MAN; AND OF PLEASURES
3516 II, 4 | fig-tree, a useless log, when thecarpenter, at a loss whether he should
3517 I, 21 | This is the employment of theCuretes, this of the Corybantes.
3518 I, 20 | informed Hercules of the theft of his oxen, having obtained
3519 VII, 23 | to be believed; but when thejudgment of the world and of mortals
3520 VI, 6 | as they themselves call them--that is, who by the overthrow
3521 I, 11 | befitting a god; for had not Themis related to him future events,
3522 III, 25 | study philosophy, except Themiste only, within the whole memory
3523 IV, 17 | you shall be accomplished, thenall the law is fulfilled with
3524 | thence
3525 I, 6 | by the word Sioi, not . Theoi; and for counsel they used
3526 I, 11 | Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was
3527 I, 23 | memory is honoured lived. Theophilus, in his book written to
3528 VI, 12 | Hospitality was rightly praised by Theophrastus. For (as it appears to me)
3529 I, 12 | productive organs. Now this theory might have been suitable
3530 I, 11 | women, he abstained from Thetis only in consequence of an
3531 IV, 18 | any one should know what theWord is, or whence it came, that
3532 II, 10 | though these are full of thick moisture, unless they are
3533 III, 3 | swiftness; how great is the thickness of the earth, or on what
3534 III, 26 | are open and the breast thirsts for wisdom. Let no one fear:
3535 IV, 18 | like manner David, in the thirty-fourth Psalm: "The abjects were
3536 IV, 8 | hymns, thus speaks in the thirty-second Psalm: "By the word of God
3537 IV, 18 | and for my thirst vinegar; thisinhospitable table they will show."~And
3538 IV, 26 | knew God were unjust, were thorns--that is, evil and guilty,
3539 I, 6 | The Egyptians call him Thoth; and from him the first
3540 V, 19 | spirits; and this He Himself threatens by His prophets to the impious
3541 I, 7 | I say that Mercury, that thrice greatest, of whom I have
3542 III, 17 | father thundering on high, throned in the lofty Olympus, himself
3543 I, 21 | cutting their shoulders, and thrusting forth drawn swords in each
3544 II, 3 | knowingly and consciously thrusts his foot into the snare,
3545 III, 17 | Lucretius:--~"For the father thundering on high, throned in the
3546 VII, 6 | lightnings shine forth, thunders roar, or showers fall, that
3547 I, 11 | which he was buried; and Tiberinus, or Tiber, gave his name
3548 V, 6 | he is bound to him by the tie of brotherhood, since God
3549 I, 16 | the minds of men from the ties of superstitions," as Lucretius
3550 IV, 18 | speak with mortals; and tieshall wear the crown of thorns." ~
3551 VII, 13 | harmony, is produced by the tightening of the strings, so he thought
3552 VI, 24 | Therefore He who is at once tile Lord and most indulgent
3553 II, 8 | had taken away the marble tiles from the temple of the Lacinian
3554 II, 9 | these things, then, and not till then, will I admit that
3555 VII, 5 | not exist for ever, when tim space of his temporal life
3556 VII, 26 | be untouched, nor shall timber be cut from the mountains,
3557 II, 11 | comprised in three periods of time--the past, the present, and
3558 V, 2 | philosopher, a flatterer, and a time-server! But this man was despised,
3559 I, 8 | and majesty Plato in the Timoeus asserts to be so great,
3560 I, 21 | lofty Ida resounds with tinklings, that the boy may cry in
3561 I, 20 | worship with incense and the tips of their fingers those things
3562 III, 17 | neither think that any good tiring ought to be done, since
3563 I, 21 | in his Fasti: "Until the Tirynthian came into these lands, gloomy
3564 I, 21 | sacred rites, if at any tithe during the celebration of
3565 IV, 11 | field have observed the tithes of their coining: but my
3566 VII, 21 | transferred to the vulture of Tityus. Thus, without any wasting
3567 IV, 15 | heard: " Thou art my Son, to-day have I begotten Thee." Which
3568 III, 23 | But this negligence is tolerable. What shall I say of him
3569 V, 17 | Then, leaving general topics, he came to particulars. "
3570 I, 13 | first,~Erewhile on mountain tops dispersed,~And gave them
3571 VI, 23 | intra praescriptum legitimi tori, ut et illud, quod avide
3572 VI, 17 | through the world, in the tormenting of whom new and unusual
3573 VII, 19 | blood shall flow like a torrent; and all his forces being
3574 VI, 3 | deep waters or violent with torrents, so that they must be in
3575 V, 11 | severe, he the more cruel torturer, who determines to put no
3576 IV, 16 | putting Him to death, and torturing Him: of which the prophets
3577 VI, 23 | voluptatem: qui sensus est quidem totius corporis. Sed ego non de
3578 VI, 2 | that which men shrink from touching. And whoever shall have
3579 V, 13 | account of whom he bears the traces of lasting punishment, and
3580 VII, 3 | other which affords itself tractable for action. They say that
3581 I, 5 | pervades all lands, the tracts of sea and depth of heaven;
3582 VII, 25 | tyrant should come who will trader-take so great a deed, and dig
3583 V, 2 | only that he might make a traffic of their decisions, but
3584 VI, 20 | manner, the stories of the tragedians place before the eyes the
3585 VI, 20 | wicked kings, and represent tragic crimes. And what other effect
3586 VII, 16 | greatest terrors, and the trains of comets, and the darkness
3587 II, 9 | providence, now himself, as a traitor or deserter, endeavoured
3588 V, 1 | sacrilegious persons, and to traitors and sorcerers, and if it
3589 II, 4 | in which he might with tranquility enjoy the fruits of his
3590 I, 11 | punish the pirates, and tranquillize the whole sea. Thus all
3591 III, 19 | necessarily be an evil, since it transfers men, as I have said, to
3592 VI, 23 | bono, ad malum et pravum transfert. Illicita enim desideria
3593 I, 10 | on account of the injury, transfixed one of the brothers with
3594 VII, 26 | be changed, and God shall transform men into the similitude
3595 I, 11 | representations by oblique transformations. But to feign the whole
3596 II, 13 | persuaded the man himself to transgress the law of God. Therefore,
3597 II, 13 | continue immortal; or if he transgressed them, be punished with death.
3598 III, 29 | punishment at the original transgression, that by his malice he may
3599 IV, 18 | and was reckoned among the transgressors; and He bore the sins of
3600 II, 15 | genii; for by this word they translate demons in the Latin language.
3601 VI, 14 | inflamed with desire, nor be transported with joy, nor be alarmed
3602 VI, 24 | withdrawn from you by foreign travel, another by death, another
3603 VI, 18 | Therefore the true and just traveller will not use the saying
3604 III, 24 | the courses of the stars travelling towards the west; they saw
3605 VII, 15 | river. Then the sword will traverse the world, mowing down everything,
3606 II, 13 | year, but the moon, which traverses that sign-bearing circle
3607 II, 6 | if the land on which we tread, and which we subdue and
3608 IV, 15 | calm the~sea ~As it rages, treading with feet of peace and in
3609 VII, 6 | need is there to them of a treasure-house of souls? From what source
3610 II, 2 | rightly says in his moral treatises: They worship the images
3611 I, 17 | physician AEsculapius for the treatment of the youth; and when he
3612 I, 22 | instituted; at and these he trembles, he places everything in
3613 VII, 21 | nature of heaven, with a tremulous movement. The same divine
3614 VI, 11 | bestow their bounty on their tribesmen and clients, for they bestow
3615 VII, 17 | there will be distress and tribulation? such as there never has
3616 VI, 10 | which produced these foolish trifles! O wretched and pitiable
3617 I, 11 | in the sanctuary of the Triphylian Jupiter, where an inscription
3618 VI, 23 | magister agnoscet; hic terrain triumphabit, hic erit consimilis Deo,
3619 VII, 27 | know, that victorious and triumphant over our conquered adversary,
3620 I, 10 | all, except Jupiter, who triumphed, led an army, and subdued
3621 II, 4 | the proscription of the triumvirs,-- that very proscription,
3622 I, 17 | and when he was healed,~"Trivia kind her favourite bides,~
3623 II, 18 | purpose, that it may be trodden. upon, and not adored by
3624 I, 22 | Argonauts to the coast of the Trojans. Let us therefore advance
3625 III, 4 | things can be known, this troop of recruits will perish;
3626 VII, 5 | will be subjected to all troubles and labours as long as he
3627 II, 4 | Horace:~"Formerly I was the trunk of a fig-tree, a useless
3628 I, 15 | thus rebukes them:--~"Why trustest thou, O Greece, to princely
3629 V, 3 | enemies of God the title of "truth-loving." O blind breast! O mind
3630 VII, 27 | Cleansed men's breasts with truth-telling precepts, and fixed a limit
3631 VII, 27 | the earth, the supreme and truthful arbiter will raise him to
3632 III, 23 | the madness and fury of Tuditanus; scatter abroad your property
3633 VI, 23 | castitatem conscientia et mente tueatur; nec tantum legibus publicis
3634 I, 20 | it a name from the place. Tullus Hostilius fashioned and
3635 VII, 15 | earth will be in a state of tumult; wars will everywhere rage;
3636 IV, 18 | among themselves for His tunic and mantle. And while all
3637 VI, 24 | purifications, nor of sods of turf, which things are plainly
3638 II, 9 | silent. Here, then, is the turning-point; on this everything depends.
3639 VI, 7 | not different roads, but turnings off and bypaths, which appear
3640 IV, 11 | says, in like manner: "The turtle and the swallow hath known
3641 II, 8 | greatest grief of mind. Turullius also, the lieutenant of
3642 I, 13 | scythe-bearing god came to the Tuscan river in a ship, having
3643 I, 11 | which he was placed had its tutelary deity in the shape of an
3644 I, 20 | of manuring the land; and Tutinus, before whom brides sit,
3645 IV, 18 | pierced." Also David in the twenty-first Psalm: "They pierced my
3646 I, 7 | God was at all, replied in twenty-one verses, of which this is
3647 IV, 5 | who held the chief place twenty-seven years. After this they were
3648 IV, 13 | the other prophets, in the twenty-seventh Psalm thus condemns them: "
3649 I, 15 | was the murderer of his twin brother, the other the destroyer
3650 I, 10 | of others, ceased to be twin-brothers. For Idas, being excited
3651 II, 10 | glittering signs of the twinkling stars; but He placed on
3652 VI, 6 | overcome? From this cause harsh tyrannies have always broken out against
3653 VII, 24 | shall bring back home their udders distended with milk; Nor
3654 V, 10 | Sulmo's breed,~And four who Ufens call their sire,~He takes
3655 I, 18 | muscles were disfigured by ulcers, neither wished to be healed
3656 I, 23 | third descent from him; and Ulysses was related in the same
3657 IV, 6 | is shown not only by the unanimous utterances of the prophets,
3658 IV, 29 | Son and the Father, who unanimously inhabit the world, are one
3659 VII, 4 | He formed him naked and unarmed, that wisdom might be both
3660 I, 5 | confused mass of rude and unarranged matter; whereas he ought
3661 VII, 1 | chiefly necessary, true and unassailable. No one favours virtue but
3662 II, 3 | worship of the gods is an unavailing office:--~"Nor is it any
3663 III, 19 | IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL, BUT IN AN UNBELIEVING MANNER; AND THAT A GOOD
3664 II, 12 | while the animals were yet unborn, it is plain that some one
3665 IV, 15 | raised the dead, as it were unbound from sleep, and recalled
3666 I, 20 | bloodshed; no chastity when unbridled lusts contaminate each sex,
3667 IV, 26 | pierced His side. Thus His unbroken body was taken down from
3668 VI, 4 | shall continue his patience unceasingly to that last step and end,
3669 VI, 8 | nature, diffused among all, unchanging, everlasting, which calls
3670 V, 20 | her husband, or that her unchastity may be concealed? what the
3671 VII, 4 | either so senseless or so unconcerned as to attempt to do anything
3672 I, 16 | deities, and worship them, are unconciously brought back to that which
3673 VI, 21 | all those things which are unconnected with words, that is, pleasant
3674 I, 10 | this kind:--~"Thus she; unconscious that in Sparta they,~Their
3675 III, 19 | chaste, pure, upright, and uncontaminated, being also refined by the
3676 VI, 2 | worshipper presents itself as an undefiled offering to God. But how
3677 I, 11 | need of a name. But it is undeniable that he is Jupiter who was
3678 I, 20 | is the honour paid to him underservedly. For when Tarquinius wished
3679 VI, 9 | also be foolish, since he undertakes the greatest labours in
3680 IV, 26 | For whatever sufferings He underwent were not without meaning;
3681 VII, 26 | congratulations of all men. And not undeservedly has the Lord and Ruler of
3682 III, 1 | the case, that simple and undisguised truth should be more clear,
3683 IV, 4 | know his Master; and an undutiful son, who either hates or
3684 I, 11 | admire, or those who have unexpectedly arrived, have fallen from
3685 III, 29 | favourable to the wicked and more unfavourable to the good; why she plots,
3686 III, 17 | conduct of men; the man who is unfeeling and selfish is ordered to
3687 II, 9 | been given to him by God unfettered, he acquired for himself
3688 VII, 12 | the body, but gradually unfolds itself from all the members,
3689 I, 17 | please, the hardships of the unfortunate gods. Isis lost her son;
3690 III, 29 | and crafty spirit who is unfriendly to the good, and the enemy
3691 VI, 22 | walks along besmeared with unguents and crowned with flowers:
3692 V, 17 | has a runaway slave, or an unhealthy and infected house, and
3693 V, 1 | proved to be such, than unheard. But, as I said, they are
3694 VI, 9 | has set forth to all as uniform and simple: and he who is
3695 IV, 14 | when He had faithfully and uniformly fulfilled the will of His
3696 VI, 18 | that the benefit may be unimpaired t which succours necessity,
3697 IV, 6 | made the regions, and the uninhabitable boundaries under the heaven.
3698 III, 24 | be no part of the earth uninhabited by men and the other animals.
3699 II, 16 | does not protect, who are uninitiated in the mystery of truth.
3700 II, 5 | during all eternity, are unintelligible to me with out the exercise
3701 VII, 10 | inhabits. Therefore the uninterrupted duration of virtue itself
3702 VI, 7 | one issue. For that guide unites them all, where it was necessary
3703 II, 20 | multitude, and almost by the universal agreement of all nations,
3704 II, 5 | things, would act not only unlearnedly, but also impiously, if
3705 I, 20 | who worship such objects, unless--that they above all others
3706 I, 11 | his kingdom resembled that unlimited authority possessed by Mark
3707 I, 7 | self-created," "uncreated," and "unmade." And Seneca, an acute man,
3708 V, 13 | imagine our God to be so unmerciful and implacable, that it
3709 VI, 17 | muddy, so the soul which is unmoved and torpid is useless even
3710 IV, 26 | that His body might be kept unmutilated, since He must rise again
3711 III, 17 | children is proclaimed; against unnatural parents it is said that
3712 VII, 16 | the sea will be rendered unnavigable. And that nothing may be
3713 III, 17 | strikes dead the innocent and unoffending."~But if he had been able
3714 III, 20 | those who wish to pry into unpermitted things? Truly they are much
3715 VII, 5 | labours--by the harshness and unpleasantness of which the soul, being
3716 II, 2 | would be either rough and unpolished stone, or rude and unshapen
3717 III, 9 | But I think that he, being unprepared with an answer, uttered
3718 III, 11 | with no reward, and be so unproductive as to procure no advantage
3719 II, 11 | simultaneously: either through the unproductiveness of the earth, which sometimes
3720 VII, 19 | there shall go before Him an unquenchable fire, and the power of the
3721 VI, 18 | if any one should wish to unravel this indistinct conception
3722 V, 22 | they act with a blind and unreasonable fury, which we see, but
3723 II, 7 | the desire of men is not unreservedly condemned? They approach
3724 V, 10 | pious who not only slew the unresisting, but even suppliants. Here
3725 VII, 1 | comparison of solitary and unrewarded virtue. Let us satisfy this
3726 V, 9 | reproved. For why should any be unseasonably good, who, when the public
3727 VII, 16 | appear stars unknown and unseen by the eyes; the sun will
3728 II, 2 | unpolished stone, or rude and unshapen wood, had they not been
3729 V, 20 | may be affected. Let them unsheath the weapon of their intellect;
3730 VII, 15 | downfall. Seneca therefore not unskilfully divided the times of the
3731 III, 20 | he was wise is himself of unsound mind. Behold one in whose
3732 III, 6 | philosophy which we may call unstable or inconstant. For, that
3733 I, 4 | the day, content with the unstored food which God had supplied;
3734 V, 13 | they retain their patience unsubdued while the executioners are
3735 VII, 5 | because it is from heaven, is unsubstantial, everlasting, endued with
3736 VII, 2 | foundation or firmness which are unsupported by any utterances of divine
3737 I, 7 | beginning:--~"Self-produced, untaught, without a mother, unshaken,~
3738 III, 17 | others were cut off by an untimely death in the first flower
3739 VII, 26 | years the woods shall be untouched, nor shall timber be cut
3740 V, 1 | his cause being as yet untried, we do not appear to ask
3741 II, 11 | that which is altogether untrue, but to wrap up in figures
3742 VI, 23 | quod habet mors potestatem. Unusquisque igitur, quantum potest,
3743 V, 9 | to slavery! But this is unutterable which is done towards those
3744 III, 12 | the chief good which was unvarying and always the same. He
3745 IV, 20 | God could not have been unveiled and understood. But all
3746 V, 9 | they would deserve to be unvisited by justice, who had no other
3747 V, 1 | are easily able to ensnare unwary souls by the sweetness of
3748 VI, 17 | still and motionless is unwholesome and more muddy, so the soul
3749 V, 6 | about with arms, whom the unwonted gleam of steel and swords
3750 VI, 20 | that it should be brought up--he has certainly consigned
3751 IV, 16 | is unpleasant to us, and upbraideth us with our offences against
3752 III, 10 | is distinct from living uprightly, and from everything connected
3753 VI, 19 | When the Stoics attempt to uproot the affections from man
3754 V, 14 | followers of vain religions urge this with the same folly
3755 I, 6 | the same names which we use-God and Father. And that no
3756 I, 17 | which have been well and usefully found out, to the existence
3757 I, 2 | arrangement, constancy, usefulness, beauty, and temperament,
3758 VII, 5 | things useful and things useless--that he may have judgment
3759 VI, 23 | Servanda igitur fides ab utroque alteri est: immo exemplo
3760 VI, 23 | conjuges occupatus potest vacare domesticae sanctitati; et
3761 VI, 23 | imponere voluptati, eamque vagam et errantem castitatis pudicitiaeque
3762 III, 28 | either most foolish or most vainglorious, since they thought that
3763 VI, 10 | idle and foolish old men vainly say, that we may refute
3764 IV, 30 | Phrygians, or Novarians, or Valentinians, or Marcionites, or Anthropians,
3765 I, 6 | Marcus Otacilius, and Lucius Valerius were sent, who conveyed
3766 III, 28 | overpowered by him when he had valiantly beaten back the attacks
3767 II, 5 | to extend themselves, the valleys to sink down, the woods
3768 VII, 12 | dissolved, the soul would vanish, as moisture poured forth
3769 VII, 12 | the mind if the sight has vanished, if the tongue has become
3770 III, 1 | being corrupt of itself it vanishes and melts away, unless it
3771 I, 9 | he who subdues lust, the vanquisher of modesty and fame; or
3772 II, 10 | variance with water, moist vapour produces all things, and
3773 VI, 8 | OF PHILOSOPHERS, AND THE VARIABLENESS OF LAW.~This is the way
3774 II, 5 | order, to accomplish the variations of the successive seasons.
3775 VII, 14 | are believed to cause the varieties of circumstances and times.
3776 I, 11 | worship, but that they may by variously coloured figures add beauty
3777 VII, 25 | world. And although they vary, and the amount of the number
3778 V, 8 | be no need of so many and varying laws to rule men, since
3779 VII, 15 | kingdom rounded with such vastness, and so long increased by
3780 II, 8 | presented themselves to Publius Vatienus as he went to Rome at night,
3781 V, 14 | is true virtue, which the vaunting philosophers also boast
3782 VI, 23 | et appetentia in homine vehementior et acrior invenitur; vel
3783 IV, 17 | do, which either afford a vehicle for riding, or aid in the
3784 V, 10 | Live fury kindling every vein"~What! can any one imagine
3785 VI, 23 | neque liberam habere insuper velit, sed matrimonio fidem server.
3786 VI, 23 | ad sanctitatem genitas, velut in coeni gurgite demersit,
3787 I, 15 | testifies that he worships and venerates the same gods. And thus
3788 VI, 23 | dolorem atque in periculum veniat, si admiserit. Nulla igitur
3789 VI, 23 | MATRIMONIO ET CONTINENTIA.~Venio nunc ad eam, quae percipitur
3790 III, 3 | seen it. No one therefore ventures to say this, because he
3791 VI, 23 | cupiditas inquinavit. Nec verb aliquis existimet, difficile
3792 VI, 23 | quidem parcit. Quibus hoc verbis, aut qua indignatione tantum
3793 VII, 3 | heapings up of mountains, the verdure and productiveness of the
3794 VI, 23 | quantum potest, formet se ad verecundiam, pudorem colat, castitatem
3795 II, 9 | something more in God, whom you verily reduce to the weakness of
3796 VI, 23 | quae attingere non licet, veriun etiam publicis vulgatisque
3797 VI, 23 | necessitas prohibebit tum vero maxima adhibenda virtus
3798 I, 20 | also Faula, who was, as Verrius writes, the paramour of
3799 I, 7 | O all-wise, all-learned, versed in many pursuits, hear,
3800 IV, 21 | Nero had put them to death, Vespasian destroyed the name and nation
3801 I, 21 | images of human bodies." The Vestal virgins make these sacred
3802 I, 21 | animal was crowned at the Vestalia (festival of Vesta) with
3803 VI, 23 | ego non de ornamentis, aut vestibus, sed de sola libidine dicendum
3804 IV, 23 | perfect wise man has as vet existed, that is, in whom
3805 IV, 16 | was in pain and grief, and vexation. But He was wounded for
3806 III, 19 | but an evil if it is spent viciously, so also death is to be
3807 II, 5 | But that there might be vicissitudes of day and night, it was
3808 VI, 23 | voluptatemque capiamus, sed ut videamus propter eos actus, qui pertinent
3809 VI, 23 | Haec quidem difficilia videntur; sed de eo loquimur, cui
3810 VI, 23 | est; nec illibata castitas videri potest, ubi conscientiam
3811 VI, 1 | Whatever is rarely to be viewed, whatever is precious in
3812 I, 6 | Trojan territory, in the village of Marpessus, about the
3813 VI, 23 | propositum sit hominibus etiam vincere, ac plurimi beatam atque
3814 VI, 23 | tantum nefas prosequar? Vincit officium linguae sceleris
3815 VI, 23 | out imitari se putat, out vindicari. Cavendum igitur, ne occasionem
3816 I, 20 | together with the trees or vines, might produce a good and
3817 VI, 10 | of protection, either to violate or not to preserve that
3818 I, 9 | stable; if he conquered a virago, and deprived her of her
3819 I, 17 | obscure and lone,~And lose in Virbius' name his own."~What is
3820 I, 12 | loves the attendants of virginity." This also might have been
3821 VI, 23 | omnium mulierem patientem viri fecit; scilicet ne foeminis
3822 VI, 23 | repugnantibus, libido cogeret viros aliud appetere, eoque facto,
3823 III, 19 | is a good if it is passed virtuously, but an evil if it is spent
3824 VI, 23 | designer, armandi adversus earn virtute maxima sumus. Quisquis affectus
3825 VI, 23 | est, omniumque consummatio virtutum. Ad quam si quis eniti atque
3826 VI, 23 | ille noster, quanta sit vis hujus cupiditatis, quam
3827 VI, 23 | subministrat: tum intimis visceribus stimulos omnes conturbat
3828 IV, 13 | esteemed as foolish, and visionary, and senseless, who follow
3829 VII, 24 | already accomplished. For visions were brought before their
3830 VII, 12 | extinguish and destroy, but visits with eternal torments. For
3831 VI, 23 | tanturn adulterium esse vitandum, sed etiam cogitationem;
3832 VII, 12 | violence of disease has vitiated that part, it is moved from
3833 VI, 23 | generandi causa datam esse viventibus, eamque legera his affectibus
3834 IV, 8 | His majesty, enclosed the vocal spirit proceeding from His
3835 VI, 23 | foetu maribus repugnare voluisset, solam omnium mulierem patientem
3836 VI, 23 | quia hominum multitudinem voluit esse majorem, vel quoniam
3837 V, 11 | world. For what number of volumes will contain so infinite,
3838 VI, 23 | quid sibi homines perditi volunt? Nempe honesta opera voluptas
3839 VI, 23 | quia non naturalis est, sed voluntaria. Servanda igitur fides ab
3840 VI, 23 | volunt? Nempe honesta opera voluptas sequitur: si ipsam per se
3841 VI, 23 | XXIII. DE TACTUS VOLUPTATE ET LIBIDINE, ATQUE DE MATRIMONIO
3842 VI, 23 | quae percipitur ex tactu, voluptatem: qui sensus est quidem totius
3843 VI, 23 | Deus, non ut spectemus, voluptatemque capiamus, sed ut videamus
3844 VI, 23 | difficile esse fraenos imponere voluptati, eamque vagam et errantem
3845 VI, 23 | mentem, si vel imaginem voluptatis sibi ipsa depinxerit. Mens
3846 V, 2 | were impiously assailed, vomited forth three books against
3847 V, 24 | unavenged. Those ravenous and voracious wolves who have tormented
3848 VI, 20 | and give cruel and inhuman votes for their death, not being
3849 VI, 11 | endues them with breath, who vouchsafes to them the light. Cherish
3850 II, 4 | things, had he a prosperous voyage--as he himself, according
3851 VI, 23 | licet, veriun etiam publicis vulgatisque corporibus abstinendum,
3852 VII, 21 | poets transferred to the vulture of Tityus. Thus, without
3853 IV, 17 | cultivation of the fields, or draw waggons by their neck, or carry
3854 IV, 13 | city, the watchman hath waked but in vain."~
3855 IV, 16 | is the man who hath not walked in the way of the ungodly;"
3856 II, 18 | condemned and cast off by God, wallow over the earth, who not
3857 III, 8 | filthy dog, or the swine wallowing in the mire. For it is on
3858 IV, 17 | lusts, as the sow, which wallows in the mire; of that they
3859 I, 13 | into exile; and after long wanderings came into Italy in a ship,
3860 IV, 3 | directions to many objects, wanders to and fro, hither and thither.
3861 II, 5 | sun, or the increase and waning of the moon, but also the
3862 VI, 9 | the greatest importance is wanting--the acknowledgment of God--
3863 III, 15 | covetous, lustful, arrogant, wanton, and, concealing their vices
3864 I, 20 | are celebrated with all wantonness, as is suitable to the memory
3865 II, 6 | which is adapted to the wants of living creatures for
3866 I, 13 | Ops, is said to have been warned by an oracle not to bring
3867 II, 8 | consummate augur, when he was warning Tarquinius Priscus to undertake
3868 VI, 20 | the public laws, but He warns us against the commission
3869 II, 11 | are three Parcae: one who warps the web of life for men;
3870 IV, 7 | shows,~"But the attendants washed, and anointed them with
3871 II, 8 | war at the lake of Juturna washing off the sweat of their horses,
3872 III, 20 | body abandoned by the soul wastes away. Much less can we suppose
3873 II, 2 | though standing on a lofty watch-tower, from which all may hear,
3874 VII, 27 | let us keep our posts and watches, let us boldly engage with
3875 IV, 13 | Lord keep the city, the watchman hath waked but in vain."~
3876 VII, 9 | to one another--fire and water--of which the one is assigned
3877 IV, 30 | abundant fountain of God, watered by which he may enjoy perpetual
3878 IV, 10 | the poet says), that "the wave, closing over him after
3879 V, 1 | roots. For many of them waver, and especially those who
3880 VI, 7 | them into death. But this way--which is that of truth,
3881 I, 14 | that he, for the sake of weakening the oracle and avoiding
3882 VII, 1 | lightly equipped. For those wealthy men, who are loaded with
3883 II, 11 | for men; the second, who weaves it; the third, who cuts
3884 II, 11 | Parcae: one who warps the web of life for men; the second,
3885 I, 20 | received from her husband as a wedding gift the control over all
3886 VII, 18 | their hands to heaven with weeping and mourning, and will implore
3887 III, 17 | especially visited with weightier evils, whereas he saw that
3888 V, 18 | which Hydaspes, the stream weird with~fable,~Licks languid-flowing."~
3889 IV, 21 | they had exulted over the well-beloved and most approved Son of
3890 II, 9 | had been brought up in a well-built and ornamented house, and
3891 VI, 21 | cannot be written. But a well-composed poem, and a speech be-guiling
3892 III, 1 | follow their honest and well-directed will, because they neither
3893 II, 7 | aloft and shines with the well-robed senate, receivedthe Fathers
3894 V, 9 | like the jaws of beasts, is wet with the blood of the innocent.
3895 | whenever
3896 | wherein
3897 V, 5 | serpents fierce, and to have whetted the spirit of wolves.~"Then
3898 I, 21 | savageness of all beasts, which--savage as they are--still
3899 I, 21 | teats of the Cretan goat, whichattests the gratitude of her lord
3900 II, 7 | senate. The senate-house, whichnow is raised aloft and shines
3901 V, 1 | without any annoyance, whilst the first sweetness of taste
3902 | whither
3903 I, 18 | king, because it occasions widely-spread disasters, they so admire
3904 VI, 12 | than these frail ones, I wiIl free you from fear. All
3905 II, 18 | seers~Ring terror in the 'wildered ears."~But now He suffers
3906 VI, 13 | glide into sin; he who sins wilfully has no pardon. Nor, however,
3907 I, 23 | who shall approach with willingness and preparation to the knowledge
3908 II, 4 | thieves and birds with his willow scythe, preserve them."~
3909 III, 28 | were not wise. They sought wis-dom, indeed; but because they
3910 II, 8 | heart. Wherefore, since wisdom--that is, the inquiry after
3911 I, 20 | the cradle, and keeps off witchcraft; and Stercutus, who first
3912 IV, 16 | counted by him as triflers, he withdraweth himself from our ways as
3913 III, 17 | throw down his temples, and withdrawing into the deserts, there
3914 II, 5 | only the approaches and withdrawings of the sun, or the increase
3915 III, 6 | which might despatch it now withering. And Arcesilas rightly saw
3916 IV, 18 | blows with impure hands, and withpolluted mouths they shall send forth
3917 II, 4 | crushed his defenders or withstood his influence. Why should
3918 V, 13 | persons sometimes call it a womanish and anile superstition),
3919 V, 9 | Nor is it greatly to be wondered at if these things are done
3920 I, 21 | accustomed to cast from the wooden bridge the images of ancient
3921 I, 18 | taught men to set up the woof? What place does he hold
3922 I, 3 | both in perception and in words--for neither does the human
3923 VI, 1 | and greatest part of this work--to teach in what manner
3924 II, 2 | in the work than in the workman. Seneca, therefore, rightly
3925 II, 9 | house, and had never seen a workshop, would you have supposed
3926 II, 9 | which you now ask about the world--by what hands, with what
3927 IV, 26 | this, that the errors of a worldly and wandering life being
3928 VII, 7 | forth from the earth like worms, without any author or plan.
3929 V, 11 | found to be. But that is the worst kind of persecutors whom
3930 I, 21 | Priapus; and Priapus, being worsted in the contest, was enraged,
3931 VI, 13 | to abstain also from evil worsts; the third, to abstain even
3932 I, 12 | opinion of the Stoics: "The worthlessness of these things any one
3933 VII, 1 | precepts about self-restraint wound their ears, which restrain
3934 VI, 25 | likewise anything which is woven of purple and silk: a sacrifice
3935 III, 8 | leave raving and obstinate wranglers, and come to the judge,
3936 IV, 19 | which they haft enclosed and wrapt His body. Now, that He would
3937 II, 2 | upon the ground? For you do wretchedly roll yourselves on the ground,
3938 VI, 3 | property, he will live in all wretchedness and ignominy. Therefore
3939 I, 1 | their religions, which they wrongly maintain, as they deserve
3940 V, 21 | For how can He avenge the wrongs of His worshippers, if He
3941 III, 23 | when the sun was shining. Xenophanes most foolishly believed
3942 VII, 22 | with a blind propension yearn~To fleshly bodies to return:"~
3943 VII, 24 | plain shall by degrees grow yellow with soft ears of corn,~
3944 VII, 13 | corruptible sufferings, it yields to mortal pains; but when,
3945 I, 21 | oxen; and at this altar two yoked oxen were sacrificed, like
3946 I, 11 | up the supreme power to a younger brother. But Jupiter himself
3947 V, 3 | Apollonius, who, according to your-description. when Domitian wished to
3948 VII, 10 | In fine, Cicero, in his Yusculan Disputations, perceived,
3949 I, 11 | ancient Greek characters, "Zan Kronou," which is in Latin. "
3950 IV, 5 | years, until the reign of Zedekiah, the Jews having been besieged
3951 I, 11 | nourished, was called Zeus, or Zen, not, as they imagine, from
3952 I, 20 | that, on her marriage with Zephyrus, she received from her husband
3953 II, 13 | the twelve signs of the zodiac does not make a year, but