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1 6 | therefore, who imagine that the gods were born of marriage, since
2 6 | therefore, who are reckoned as gods, since it is evident that
3 6 | they were believed to be gods, because, when they were
4 7 | persuaded that they are gods, yet their actions, as related
5 8 | stars. The mother of the gods herself, while she lived
6 9 | DISGRACEFUL DEEDS OF THE GODS.~Whence did Ceres bring
7 9 | subject to the lusts of gods and men, when she reigned
8 12| THINGS WHICH RELATE TO THE GODS.~You see, then, that the
9 12| to those whom they called gods; as they did also respecting
10 12| fashion the images of the gods, that when they make them
11 13| the parents of the other gods, their countries, actions,
12 13| Crete, and departed to the gods, and that his sepulchre
13 20| XX. OF THE GODS PECULIAR TO THE ROMANS.~
14 20| I will now speak of the gods which the Romans have peculiar
15 20| Hostilius made Fear and Pallor gods. Mind is also worshipped;
16 21| SACRED RITES OF THE ROMAN GODS.~But the senate also instituted
17 21| also instituted other false gods of this kind,--Hope, Faith,
18 22| wife and sister among the gods, and named her the good
19 22| priesthoods, and distributed the gods into families and nations,
20 22| writing of the nature of the gods, complains that false and
21 22| that false and fictitious gods have been introduced, and
22 23| XXIII. OF THE GODS AND SACRED RITES OF THE
23 23| have spoken respecting the gods: now we will speak of the
24 23| rites of the mother of the gods also show the same thing.
25 24| are the mysteries of the gods. Now let us inquire also
26 24| first who sacrificed to gods, that is, to Vesta, who
27 24| And the first of the gods,~Tellus,"--~and afterwards
28 24| afterwards to the mother of the gods. But Euhemerus, in his sacred
29 25| changed. For at that time no gods were worshipped, but they
30 25| their souls with fear of the gods, and weigh and press them
31 25| Sicily plunder and deride the gods of Greece when he had taken
32 25| age: nor were the injured gods able to punish him. How
33 26| elements of the world as gods, that is, the heaven, the
34 26| among the number of the gods, since they all have fixed
35 27| read in histories, that the gods appear to have displayed
36 28| believed that the same were gods. In fine, Socrates used
37 28| superstitions and worship of gods. These taught that the memory
38 30| that the honours paid to gods are not only, impious, but
39 31| because they are neither gods. nor taught by God. cannot
40 36| not deny the existence of gods. In both respects he acts
41 36| reason. For if there are gods, it follows that there is
42 41| is in the worship of the gods, and false wisdom, which
43 43| accursed and impious worship of gods crept in through the treachery
44 43| undertook the worship of strange gods, and, leaving the worship
45 51| when they see that their gods, whom they do not deny to
46 53| for the defence of their gods. In the first place, if
47 53| first place, if they are gods, and have any power and
48 53| wish to be avengers of the gods, except that their distrust
49 53| those defenders of false gods, who are rebellious against
50 53| offering. If it is made to the gods, that is not worship, nor
51 53| wish me to worship your gods, which I consider deadly
52 54| spirit to sacrifice to their gods, with incredible alacrity
53 54| such sacrifices to their gods), but they term the others
54 55| as deities? Why are the gods themselves made the subjects
55 55| either say that there are no gods, or that, if there are any,
56 57| rather than to sacrifice to gods, and to escape without harm,
57 58| presented in temples and to gods of earth; but as corporeal
58 59| time when a multitude of gods began to be consecrated
59 63| celebration of the honours of the gods. For the exhibitions of
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