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1 20 | the Romans by famine, had abandoned the siege. Tullus Hostilius
2 46 | the xxxivth Psalm: "The abjects were gathered together against
3 52 | hear these things, they abominate them as some inexpiable
4 62 | afterwards live a life to be abominated. But he who is carried away
5 5 | because I was unable to abridge them; but if you wish to
6 71 | He will appoint new laws, abrogate old ones; he will make the
7 69 | truth, as though by some abrupt precipice; nor did he advance
8 72 | God shall supply to all abundant and harmless food. But when
9 31 | away by Socrates and the Academics. Supposition also does not
10 32 | to destruction. Hence the Academy afterwards originated. For
11 48 | the Lord, neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
12 69 | he had found the truth by accident, and not by reason. Therefore
13 65 | frailty is liable to many accidents and inconveniences. Expect
14 72 | destruction of the nations is accomplished, and after the third day
15 5 | fates of the Romans, and are accounted sacred, but that there exist.
16 2 | fire; nor will Ceres claim acquaintance with the arts, nor Minerva
17 31 | cannot be wise, that is, acquainted with divine and human things.
18 59 | being crushed, the power of acting with violence was assumed
19 53 | according to the quality of the action, but according to the feelings
20 29 | evil. Chrysippus, a man of active mind, saw this when discussing
21 50 | instructor may refute him by actual fact. Therefore a system
22 57 | things indeed are said with acuteness; but we are able very readily
23 12 | spoke the truth, they might add something like this of divinity
24 7 | and to have been himself addicted to the vices of his father.
25 59 | themselves presided over the administration of the laws, corrupted by,
26 69 | the heaven? who views with admiration the sun, who the stars,
27 48 | are of the Gentiles, were adopted into their place, is proved
28 48 | DISINHERITING OF THE JEWS, AND THE ADOPTION OF THE GENTILES.~Since,
29 57 | prostrate themselves in the adoration of earthly objects; who
30 26 | things, they admire and adore the works themselves. And
31 25 | foolish and senseless who adores that which he himself has
32 66 | undefiled. For he is equally an adulterer in the sight of God and
33 8 | chain together with the adulteress. Castor and Pollux carried
34 61 | arise unlawful loves, thence adulteries and debaucheries, thence
35 69 | abrupt precipice; nor did he advance further, since he had found
36 20 | Jupiter Pistor, because he had advised them in a dream to make
37 23 | ill which his mother was affected; afterwards the boy is found
38 6 | neither pleasure nor death affects them? Those, therefore,
39 38 | nor relationships, nor affinities, but all things confused
40 4 | define the being of God, and affirmed that the world is ruled
41 45 | suspended Him on the cross, and affixed Him to it, though on the
42 39 | same Cynics were able to afford an example of modesty, who
43 44 | and to Israel His beloved. Afterward He was seen upon earth,
44 8 | husband, though a widow, and aged, was enamoured of a beautiful
45 31 | Supposition also does not agree with the wise man. For every
46 32 | whether philosophers are agreed in this part at any rate,
47 55 | of all, and said that it aimed at no advantages peculiar
48 54 | their gods, with incredible alacrity insolently exult, and rejoice,
49 71 | increase disaster, the night alarm. Thus the world will be
50 70 | neither fears want, nor is alarmed at exile, nor dreads imprisonment,
51 5 | Tiburtine, who has the name of Albunea. Of all these, he says that
52 7 | to have been sprung from Alcmena by adultery, and to have
53 10 | kind of lust? For he made Alemena and Leda, the wives of great
54 50 | practise it, that no one might allege the frailty of the flesh
55 45 | demanded His death. But they alleged against Him as a crime this
56 38 | mutual assistance we might alleviate our weakness; and he who
57 51 | to rise again, it was not allowable that His body should be
58 5 | but the Quindecemviri are allowed to read, bear witness that
59 53 | evil, to which you do not allure me willing, but drag me
60 27 | they tarried among men, allured these also to pleasures,
61 | already
62 23 | they sprinkle the loathsome altars with their own blood. But
63 26 | which they might vary the alternations of days and nights, of summer
64 | am
65 2 | this indeed contains much ambiguity. For not only do individuals
66 28 | lying divination by means of ambiguous issues. They are present
67 45 | vinegar to eat and drink; and amidst these things no word was
68 46 | on me whom they pierced." Amos thus speaks of the obscuring
69 63 | subject of debaucheries and amours, tragedy of incest and parricide?
70 4 | Thales, or by Pythagoras and Anaximenes before him, or afterwards
71 8 | Mercurius, who was the father of Androgynus by his intrigue with Venus,
72 36 | divisible; for hooks and angles project, and can be cut
73 47 | shall not stay long in the anguish of His sons: and I will
74 36 | if they are hooked and angular, then they are divisible;
75 59 | Being who begat us, who animated us with vital breath, who
76 24 | should be built to him, and annual festivals be celebrated
77 25 | this account he is called anthropos, because he looks upward.
78 4 | presides over the world. Antisthenes says that there is one who
79 70 | Since fixed and divinely ap- pointed times have begun
80 47 | CHRIST, THE SENDING OF THE APOSTLES, AND THE ASCENSION OF THE
81 53 | that their distrust is more apparent from this. For he who undertakes
82 42 | and one, and only one, He appeared to Him most excellent, and
83 54 | betake themselves to God, and appease Him with prayers and tears,
84 71 | harass all the earth. He will appoint new laws, abrogate old ones;
85 38 | studied philosophy that he approached nearer to the truth; and
86 38 | OF PLATO, WHOSE DOCTRINE APPROACHES MORE NEARLY TO THE TRUTH.~
87 23 | an ass to Priapus as an appropriate victim. Lindus is a town
88 7 | he both sailed with the Argonauts on their expedition, and
89 55 | regard the affairs of men, or argue that there is no providence
90 29 | Chrysippus, when he was arguing, in his fourth book respecting
91 8 | chance come to Crete, saw Ariadne on the shore, whom Theseus
92 22 | that from thus source have arisen false opinions, and turbulent
93 36 | arose, and are continually arising. If they are neither seen
94 35 | does not consist in the arrangement of speech, but in the heart
95 42 | He is wisdom. With this artificer, as Hermes says, and counsellor,
96 47 | OF THE APOSTLES, AND THE ASCENSION OF THE SAVIOUR INTO HEAVEN.~
97 33 | the chief good which is ascribed to the body. The Peripatetics
98 44 | of Israel. They shall be ashamed and confounded, all of them
99 71 | destroyed three, will obtain Asia, and having reduced and
100 29 | that this should be so. I ask whether virtue is a good
101 23 | people of Lampsacus, offer an ass to Priapus as an appropriate
102 52 | refrain from reproaches, but assail them with the most insulting
103 38 | inhumanity with which also be assails pity as a disease. For he
104 47 | into Galilee, and again assembled His disciples, who had fled
105 54 | overcome by tortures, have assented to detestable sacrifices:
106 32 | all; while they themselves assert nothing except one thing --
107 39 | without laughter. It is asserted as something serious, that
108 38 | life of the beasts. For his assertion that all faults are equal,
109 55 | conferring a benefit, so as to assist as many as possible: as
110 46 | night, and shall have none assurance of thy life." Also in Numbers: "
111 24 | that Belus, the king of the Assyrians, whom the Babylonians worship,
112 46 | that shall pass by shall be astonished, and shall say, Why hath
113 28 | They also brought to light astrology, and augury, and divination;
114 68 | stand forth, such as that atheist Theodorus was, and answer
115 36 | There are, he says, minute atoms, which can neither be seen
116 68 | lower animals, and thus atone for their offences, until
117 28 | assent and command. They attach themselves, therefore, to
118 59 | right, injured another, attacked by frauds, deceived by treachery,
119 2 | scattered abroad, while~"Discord attacks the kings with great commotion."~
120 35 | this; we are born to the attainment of this. Therefore God proposes
121 70 | are preferable which it attains after the dissolution of
122 4 | himself, since all these attempted to define the being of God,
123 53 | under the pressure of evils, attempts to have recourse to death,
124 23 | For first her priests and attendants, having shaved all their
125 55 | wittily? Why are philosophers attended to, who either say that
126 29 | sentiment in his books of Attic Nights; thus saying: "They
127 61 | licentiousness and restrain audacity. But they who are ignorant
128 27 | displayed their majesty by auguries, by dreams, by oracles,
129 28 | to light astrology, and augury, and divination; and though
130 43 | of man, in the reign of Augustus; and in connection with
131 29 | evil is not thus caused. Aulus Gellius has interpreted
132 28 | yet they themselves, the authors of evils, so govern and
133 65 | injury, but not even to avenge it when inflicted on us,
134 53 | foolish thing to wish to be avengers of the gods, except that
135 53 | them, if they are unable to average even their own injuries?
136 28 | honour is paid as to the averters of evils. These from the
137 53 | acted ill towards him, in averting from him the death which
138 33 | the pursuit, others to the avoiding of riches; some to entire
139 57 | right and good, and always avoids that which is perverted
140 57 | men may think. We ought to await the judgment of God, that
141 57 | that eternal punishment awaits those who have worshipped
142 64 | this light, as though we axe commanded to abstain only
143 24 | the Assyrians, whom the Babylonians worship, and who was the
144 57 | wise? But the fool acts badly, because he is ignorant
145 39 | one shall apply impious bands to that work, and shall
146 9 | fungus? Or why did Diana banish Hippolytus either to a retired
147 8 | lived in Phrygia after the banishment and death of her husband,
148 23 | AND SACRED RITES OF THE BARBARIANS.~We have spoken respecting
149 36 | but also by the answers of bards, by the predictions of the
150 66 | what glory we are about to bare in the presence of God,
151 71 | will produce nothing, being barren either through excessive
152 33 | bodily pleasures to be partly base and partly honourable, then
153 33 | honour, or to be united with baseness. Herillus the Pyrrhonist
154 72 | the fourth time engage in battle, in which, being taken,
155 63 | often rise to strifes, and battles, and contentions. Therefore
156 54 | we lay down our life in be-haft of the faith and religion,
157 43 | would send another as the bearer of a new law; and having
158 23 | sacred rites; but cumbals are beaten instead of helmets, and
159 23 | shaved all their limbs, and beating their breasts, howl, lament,
160 | becoming
161 66 | you abstain from another's bed, or from the brothel. Let
162 2 | many kings in a swarm of bees, they will perish or be
163 33 | laughter? But this good befalls even dumb animals, which,
164 1 | that they might be most befittingly adapted, not only to wonderful
165 | beforehand
166 39 | all things, preferred to beg for his support, rather
167 7 | slaughter of beasts as for the begetting of children. And though
168 55 | even of the lowest and of beggars, who is not capable of justice.
169 5 | the maker, the parent, not begotten of any, but sprung from
170 51 | happens to those who are beheaded. Therefore the cross was
171 70 | earth. Man is upright, and beholds the heaven for this purpose,
172 23 | the Great Mother and to Bellona, in which the priests make
173 64 | he covet anything at all belonging to another. He will not
174 24 | writes in his history, that Belus, the king of the Assyrians,
175 25 | Himself, they never would bend and prostrate themselves
176 70 | because they are earthly and bent down to the earth. Man is
177 59 | the destruction of men, beset the ways with the sword,
178 71 | anger, will lead an army and besiege the mountain to which the
179 10 | therefore, is he called best and greatest, since he both
180 64 | God are more plenteously bestowed. He will not steal, nor
181 67 | it takes him as a son and bestows upon him the befitting reward
182 54 | liberty restored, they again betake themselves to God, and appease
183 27 | solace of their ruin, they betook themselves to the ruining
184 71 | blood, partly vitiated by bitterness, so that none of it can
185 39 | who said that snow was black. And not only the sayings,
186 61 | vehement, they cannot incur blame.~
187 55 | thought that justice was to be blamed, but that he might show
188 67 | any one should be without blemish. Therefore the last remedy
189 21 | worshipped, rather than Blight or Fever, which ought not
190 45 | for their own folly hath blinded them, and they do not understand
191 22 | follies, who both instituted bloody sacrifices to his grandfather
192 53 | invite me with evil? why with blows, and not with words? why
193 45 | latter end of the just, and boasteth that he has God for his
194 38 | are lightly punished, the boldness of the wicked will increase,
195 51 | any way mutilated, or a bone broken, which happens to
196 64 | shall compel any one to borrow. He must not be harsh towards
197 11 | and pouring them into her bosom, he corrupted the frailty
198 27 | be temporary, had as its boundary a thousand years, and that
199 70 | adornment, since it would be a boundless task to bring forward the
200 22 | everything in this. As infant boys believe that every statue
201 2 | by another, than he will brandish it himself. If, therefore,
202 25 | worshipping idols of wood, and brass, and stone, a change took
203 20 | make all their corn into bread, and to throw it upon the
204 66 | deceived, inspects it. The breast must be cleared from every
205 25 | say that they live and breathe. And he indeed was the inventor
206 pref| becomes less clear by its very brevity, especially since many arguments
207 11 | her virgin soul by this bribe. Thus also they speak of
208 8 | and Pollux carried off the brides of others, but not with
209 23 | Apollo, were thrown from a bridge into the Tiber. And the
210 66 | be compensated for these brief evils of punishments, and
211 72 | the stars shall be more brilliant, and the brightness of the
212 72 | upon the wicked fire with brimstone and hail, and they shall
213 69 | able to connect together, bringing into one view causes and
214 45 | healing on the Sabbath He broke the law, which He said that
215 66 | another's bed, or from the brothel. Let him who has a wife
216 59 | united by the relationship of brotherhood; and he who does not acknowledge
217 37 | alone separates us from the brutes, which indeed Socrates not
218 22 | introduced these verses:--~"Those bugbears the Lamiae, which Faunus
219 72 | them on the earth, and will build the holy city, and this
220 8 | impunity, to whose death and burial Homer bears witness, not
221 22 | Then at Rome, Numa, who burthened those rude and rustic then
222 pref| nor their copiousness be burthensome; nevertheless you desire,
223 21 | cradles of infants; than Caca, who gave information to
224 38 | But how great will be the calamity of that city, in which women
225 72 | without doing harm, the calf shall feed with the lion,
226 45 | knowledge of God, and he calleth himself the Son of God.
227 33 | wantonness. Dinomachus and Callipho approved of honourable pleasure;
228 45 | immediately there was a calm; all which things we find
229 20 | altar and temple to Venus Calva: also to Jupiter Pistor,
230 21 | may keep the stone of the Capitol immoveable, and preserve
231 62 | this pleasure only, quae capitur ex foeminei corporis copulatione,
232 71 | intestine wars. States will carry on wars among themselves,
233 62 | most true which soothe the cars. Thus they reject the truth,
234 23 | into the Tiber. And the Carthaginians not only offered infants
235 25 | posterity, following him, both carved them out of marble, and
236 11 | javelins. He carried off his catamite upon an eagle. What is the
237 39 | Cleanthes, Democritus, and Cato, imitating these, did not
238 71 | may be wanting to men for causing fear. Comets will frequently
239 63 | they were instituted in celebration of the honours of the gods.
240 12 | who are ignorant of this, censure them as false, but only
241 24 | introduced new rites and ceremonies of sacred things, and was
242 38 | distinction of blood, or certainty of race? Shall there be
243 8 | spectacle, being bound with a chain together with the adulteress.
244 29 | subject of providence, and charges those with folly who think
245 62 | respecting songs, which often so charm the inmost senses that they
246 63 | hurtful pleasures, lest, charmed by pestilential sweetness,
247 59 | suppress crimes, but it checked licentiousness. For laws
248 46 | back to the scourge, and my cheeks to the hand: I turned not
249 58 | brought forth not from the chest but from the heart; not
250 24 | each place he united the chiefs of the people to himself
251 28 | his life from his first childhood and that he could do nothing
252 8 | of a hound, was given to Chiron for instruction. He lived
253 25 | sacrifices to such deities the choicest victims, consecrates gifts,
254 54 | by tortures, shall have chosen to prefer his faith to his
255 5 | Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian, the fifth the Erythraean,
256 63 | to Father Liber; but the Circensian games are supposed to be
257 26 | unerring courses and fixed circuits, by which they might vary
258 63 | representations to vices and sins. The circus, in truth, is considered
259 38 | exempt from fault, many citizens will incur peril, who by
260 47 | destroyed." Also David in the cixth Psalm: "The Lord said unto
261 66 | inspects it. The breast must be cleared from every stain, that it
262 pref| wanting for copiousness, nor clearness for understanding it.~
263 30 | God. And although they are clever and learned, yet, because
264 25 | resemblance, that the novelty and cleverness of the art was a wonder.
265 56 | find some feeble person clinging to a plank; or, his army
266 20 | the name of the goddess Cloacina. The Romans, being besieged
267 47 | stone with which they had closed the sepulchre was removed,
268 65 | us who is naked, let us clothe him; if any one suffers
269 47 | the sepulchre except the clothes in which the body had been
270 47 | being carried up into a cloud. The prophet Daniel had
271 47 | Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the
272 13 | this manner it is handed clown to us in the sacred writing."~
273 7 | to whom he gave up his club and lion's skin; and being
274 12 | because he had the maritime coast, with all the islands. Many
275 37 | to whom he had vowed a cock. Behold the sacrifice of
276 36 | are smooth, they cannot cohere: if they are hooked and
277 11 | of gold? Plainly golden coins, by offering a great quantity
278 12 | islands. Many things are thus coloured by the poets; and they who
279 63 | it more holy, --on which comedy converses on the subject
280 71 | to men for causing fear. Comets will frequently appear.
281 65 | pity, and also to visit and comfort the sick who are in poverty.
282 55 | themselves made the subjects of comics representations? and why
283 2 | mastery. If there are many commanders in an army, the soldiers
284 73 | unless he shall have kept His commandments and law, he will fall into
285 45 | as from filthiness; he commendeth greatly the latter end of
286 5 | that there exist. and are commonly regarded as separate, books
287 2 | his humours. Thus, in this commonwealth of the world, unless there
288 2 | attacks the kings with great commotion."~If there are several leaders
289 34 | interchange of language and in communion of feeling, should spare
290 38 | some way. Shall there be a community of wives also, and of children?
291 65 | be an animal fitted for companionship and society, that we may
292 39 | pasture. Diogenes with his company of dogs, who professes that
293 22 | which opinion ought in comparison with others to be esteemed
294 66 | kind happens. that we are compelled to turn aside from God,
295 66 | blessedness we shall be compensated for these brief evils of
296 22 | the nature of the gods, complains that false and fictitious
297 61 | ought to use them in their completeness. But we say that they ought
298 65 | begins justice, the latter completes it. For since the nature
299 pref| work, such as it is. I will comply with your desire, although
300 62 | mind by certain elaborately composed speeches and harmonious
301 4 | for the perfect cannot be comprehended by the imperfect, nor the
302 70 | because it retains the past, comprehends the present, foresees the
303 68 | of all this he has no comprehension. Finally, he did not explain
304 pref| multitude of subjects is to be compressed within a narrow space; and
305 34 | latter to virtue; and justice comprises both. If, therefore, it
306 26 | than these is the maker and con- trivet Himself, even God.
307 56 | compel him to buy it, will he conceal his knowledge and buy it
308 72 | shall for a little space be concealed under the earth, until the
309 44 | Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and ye
310 55 | justice alone which is neither concerned for itself only, nor hidden,
311 70 | end of the world and the conclusion of the times are innumerable,
312 21 | this kind,--Hope, Faith, Concord, Peace, Chastity, Piety;
313 51 | racked and tormented, and confessing themselves to be demons,
314 70 | IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL IS CONFIRMED.~It may in truth be collected
315 40 | delivered it to us; and let us congratulate ourselves, that through
316 71 | will follow the living, and congratulation the dead. Cities and towns
317 23 | whole rite is finished with congratulations and the throwing about of
318 41 | must speak of them both conjointly, because they are closely
319 69 | spoke the truth were able to connect together, bringing into
320 43 | reign of Augustus; and in connection with this fact is an illustrious
321 54 | also themselves strive to conquer us. They do not put us to
322 65 | connected by the law of consanguinity, we ought on this account
323 63 | present at homicide implies a consciousness of guilt, and the spectator
324 25 | deities the choicest victims, consecrates gifts, offers costly garments,
325 69 | but they did not see the consequence, that He made man himself
326 67 | For how could they see the consequences, who did not hold the main
327 35 | life. For wisdom does not consist in the arrangement of speech,
328 69 | and see whether they are consistent s with each other. God made
329 11 | it may change something consistently with reason. They said that
330 52 | OF THE SALVATION OF MEN CONSISTS IN THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE
331 8 | crown, as the poets say, conspicuously among the stars. The mother
332 45 | their sins and injustice, conspired to put Him to death; and
333 57 | the vigour of our mind and constancy from being preserved unshaken.
334 26 | motions, by which they most constantly preserve the vicissitudes
335 7 | unable to endure the pain, he constructed for himself a funeral pile
336 53 | What folly is it to wish to consult the good of any one against
337 59 | destroyed. Then every one, consulting his own interest, reckoned
338 32 | philosophy itself must altogether consume and put an end to itself
339 70 | filled up, a destruction and consummation of all things must of necessity
340 70 | which is mixed with the contagion of earthly weight. Moreover,
341 10 | greatest, since he both contaminated himself with faults, which
342 24 | worship, and who was the contemporary and friend of Saturnus,
343 39 | and perfect virtue in the contempt of all things, preferred
344 63 | strifes, and battles, and contentions. Therefore all shows are
345 36 | all things arose, and are continually arising. If they are neither
346 pref| subject permits, both to contract that which is diffuse and
347 37 | XXXVII. OF SOCRATES AND HIS CONTRADICTION.~After him Socrates held
348 35 | philosophy of Logic, which contributes nothing to a happy life.
349 61 | of offences, that is, for controlling the discipline of subjects,
350 50 | and if any one shall prove contumacious, and shall say that they
351 1 | the use of men, and the convenience of the other living creatures?
352 63 | holy, --on which comedy converses on the subject of debaucheries
353 11 | Lastly, when she had been conveyed to Egypt, she became Isis,
354 66 | shall not be put away unless convicted of adultery, and that the
355 49 | entertained that there are two Coots, for the Father and the
356 62 | capitur ex foeminei corporis copulatione, but also from the other
357 20 | dream to make all their corn into bread, and to throw
358 62 | quae capitur ex foeminei corporis copulatione, but also from
359 59 | We manifestly speak more correctly, who say that the one is
360 28 | the issues of which may correspond with the truth, that they
361 42 | incorruptible, faithful, corresponding to His Father's excellence
362 27 | through each generation, from corrupting and depraving them; in short,
363 23 | same thing. For because the Corybantes then drowned the cry of
364 25 | consecrates gifts, offers costly garments, as if they who
365 56 | arms, they will return to cottages and a condition of want.
366 42 | artificer, as Hermes says, and counsellor, as the Sibyl says, He contrived
367 45 | another fashion. We are counted by him as triflers; he withdraweth
368 72 | a fiery brightness and a countless host of angels, and all
369 13 | of the other gods, their countries, actions, commands, and
370 4 | Chrysippus and Zeno, or of our countrymen, by Seneca following the
371 9 | invented the practice of courtesanship, and commanded women to
372 48 | Thee, and give Thee for a covenant of my people, for a light
373 11 | the whole, but so that you cover the actions themselves with
374 72 | forth, and see the plains covered with carcases. Then there
375 68 | and having laid aside the covering of their frail bodies, are
376 64 | will not steal, nor will he covet anything at all belonging
377 29 | except by placing beside it cowardice, or the nature of self-control
378 21 | Cumina, who presides over the cradles of infants; than Caca, who
379 57 | wisdom, but cunning and craftiness; so likewise justice ought
380 26 | workmanship of the supreme Creator, who so ordered them that
381 13 | is supported both by the credibility of the facts and by the
382 36 | the foolish man, to gain credit for his saying, said that
383 43 | impious worship of gods crept in through the treachery
384 23 | But the mystery of the Cretan Jupiter represents the manner
385 24 | Melisseus was king of the Cretans, whose daughters were Amalthea
386 23 | Saturnus may not hear the cries of the boy.~
387 7 | in a woman's garment, and crouching at a woman's feet, he received
388 46 | dearly beloved by God, and crucified Him with great degradation,
389 46 | by God on account of that crucifixion of Christ, as He before
390 59 | depredations; and the laws being crushed, the power of acting with
391 23 | Corybantes then drowned the cry of the boy by the tinkling
392 23 | in the sacred rites; but cumbals are beaten instead of helmets,
393 21 | brought forth the Lares; than Cumina, who presides over the cradles
394 57 | interests, it is not wisdom, but cunning and craftiness; so likewise
395 59 | parents, prepared poisoned cups for the destruction of men,
396 65 | in need of shelter. Let cur de-fence not be wanting
397 63 | dangerous age, which ought to be curbed and governed, is trained
398 21 | suppose that he has the custody of the boundaries, and public
399 63 | wars are detestable. Yet custom finds how a man may commit
400 67 | and he who takes away this cuts off from himself the way
401 39 | exist? But perhaps the same Cynics were able to afford an example
402 23 | afterwards the boy is found by Cynocephalus. Thus the mournfuI rites
403 8 | Epidaurus, and was buried at Cynosurae, as Cicero says, when he
404 23 | used to be immolated to the Cyprian Jupiter, as Teucer had appointed.
405 9 | men, when she reigned in Cyprus, invented the practice of
406 28 | to these libations are daily offered as to the Lares,
407 11 | gold, that he might deceive Danae. What is a shower of gold?
408 63 | lusts, which they express by dancing. For the pantomime is a
409 63 | viewed by youths, whose dangerous age, which ought to be curbed
410 47 | into a cloud. The prophet Daniel had long before shown this,
411 53 | ends of all those who have dared to commit this crime. Nor
412 46 | and the clear day shall be dark; and I will turn your feasts
413 11 | a bull. So assuredly the daughter of Inachus was not turned
414 24 | king of the Cretans, whose daughters were Amalthea and Melissa,
415 47 | on the third day, before daybreak, there was an earthquake,
416 25 | the gleam itself, might dazzle the eyes. Thus ensnared
417 65 | need of shelter. Let cur de-fence not be wanting to wards,
418 46 | persecuted their. King, who was dearly beloved by God, and crucified
419 13 | actions, commands, and deaths, and even their sepulchres.
420 9 | Proserpine, except from debauchery? Whence did Latona bring
421 37 | should be detained as a debtor in the lower regions. He
422 64 | perjury. He will speak nothing deceitfully, nothing with dissimulation;
423 28 | by their enticements and deceits, that they believed that
424 27 | out of nothing, and had decked the heaven with lights,
425 44 | He was God, Isaiah thus declares: "They shall fall down unto
426 71 | this is the old age and decline of the world. And when this
427 52 | pernicious persons who have declined to make a stand respecting
428 72 | shall not be subject to decrease. Then the rain of blessing
429 40 | that truth lies sunk in a deep well; and because they nowhere
430 56 | or, his army having been defeated, in his flight he may find
431 65 | or our protection to the defenceless. To ransom captives is a
432 65 | inflicting violence, and with defences for repelling it, He has
433 27 | pleasures, so that they might defile themselves with women. Then,
434 31 | so. Wisdom is, as Cicero defined it, the knowledge of divine
435 45 | using these words: "Let us defraud the righteous, for he is
436 61 | Hence poisoning, hence defraudings, hence false wills, hence
437 46 | crucified Him with great degradation, therefore hath God brought
438 43 | the taw. But they also, by degrees going astray to profane
439 7 | garment sent by his wife Deianyra, when he was perishing through
440 25 | What majesty, therefore, or deity can they have, which were
441 54 | religious (for they are delighted with such sacrifices to
442 8 | which account even now she delights in the Galli as her priests.~
443 71 | and shall send to them a deliverer.~
444 60 | heavenly, the Lord Himself delivering it to us; by which law all
445 5 | the Libyan, the third the Delphian, the fourth the Cimmerian,
446 28 | responses, and oracles, to delude the minds of men with lying
447 27 | of human life even to the deluge. For after the flood the
448 45 | and with impious words demanded His death. But they alleged
449 67 | main point? Therefore, in denying the existence of a providence,
450 13 | ended his life in Crete, and departed to the gods, and that his
451 27 | generation, from corrupting and depraving them; in short, from overwhelm-inn
452 57 | distinguish between good and evil, depravity and rectitude, but he who
453 71 | of robbery, there will be depredation and devastation. Kingly
454 59 | dissensions, and wars, and mutual depredations; and the laws being crushed,
455 27 | any taint, they should be deprived of the honour of angels.
456 72 | sink down to a profound depth, and into this the bodies
457 25 | tyrant of Sicily plunder and deride the gods of Greece when
458 37 | only rejected, but even derided, in swearing by a goose
459 55 | and why is he honoured who derides them most wittily? Why are
460 22 | Therefore Lucilius, in deriding the folly of those who are
461 4 | nature, since all nature derives its origin from Him. Hermes,
462 65 | created by one God, and descended from one man, and are thus
463 72 | LXXII. OF CHRIST DESCENDING FROM HEAVEN TO THE GENERAL
464 6 | be imagined, or its force described. They are foolish, therefore,
465 8 | whom Theseus had forced and deserted. Then, being inflamed by
466 27 | he might according to his deserts undergo difficulties and
467 34 | wretched: he will not be desirous of honours, because they
468 20 | had been done, the Gauls, despairing of being able to reduce
469 57 | more than his own. If death destroys the soul, we must use our
470 37 | lest forsooth he should be detained as a debtor in the lower
471 50 | not practise them, he will detract from the faith due to his
472 46 | vesture." Moses also says in Deuteronomy: " And thy life shall hang
473 71 | will be depredation and devastation. Kingly power will be multiplied,
474 30 | For who can be said to devote himself to the pursuit of
475 71 | occupy, portion out, and devour the world. There will arise
476 70 | Democritus, and Epicurus, and Dicaearchus raved, who alone of all
477 24 | times they were instituted. Didymus, in those books which are
478 39 | to have despised death, died by their own hands? Zeno,
479 27 | according to his deserts undergo difficulties and troubles; and He surrounded
480 33 | attained without the greatest difficulty and labour. But, in truth,
481 pref| to contract that which is diffuse and to shorten that which
482 71 | age will handle arms. The dignity of government will not be
483 54 | further punishment, and apply diligent care to the wounds, that
484 33 | themselves to joy and wantonness. Dinomachus and Callipho approved of
485 33 | be without pain, that of Diodorus to cease to be in pain.
486 39 | become a public pasture. Diogenes with his company of dogs,
487 25 | With reason, then, did Dionysius the tyrant of Sicily plunder
488 2 | and, as it were, one mind direct all the members of the body.
489 28 | demon as the guardian and director of his life from his first
490 35 | point alone they do not disagree, therefore also immortality
491 32 | PHILOSOPHERS, AND THEIR DISAGREEMENT.~To this is added, that
492 71 | day will always increase disaster, the night alarm. Thus the
493 26 | which are eternal cannot be discerned by mortal eyes.~
494 47 | and again assembled His disciples, who had fled through fear;
495 2 | scattered abroad, while~"Discord attacks the kings with great
496 32 | scattered into many and discordant opinions, it has no fixed
497 70 | for reflection, subtle for discovery, easy of perception, adapted
498 30 | religion, we should also discuss the subject of false wisdom,
499 29 | active mind, saw this when discussing the subject of providence,
500 8 | Apollo, his father, did not disdain to take charge of another'
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