Chapter

 1 1intro|       understand assuredly what I say. For I do not charge you
 2 1intro|            but the things which I say are to be referred to the
 3 1intro|          Prometheus, as the poets say, but by that supreme Creator
 4 2     | fortuitous meetings of which they say that all things are and
 5 3     |           of time. Therefore they say that Nature is not the mother
 6 3     |         many ills."~And when they say these things they are believed
 7 3     |       more foolish than when they say these things. For when I
 8 3     |      otherwise than it is--not to say could have been otherwise,
 9 3     |      which are wanting? But, they say, the bringing up of man
10 3     |           affection. Why should I say that the offspring of birds
11 4     |           gods. By no means, they say; but we show from this,
12 6     |       mind, but, as he is wont to say, by chance, said that in
13 6     |            O mischievous one!) to say that there had been animals
14 6     |          reservoirs,--he first, I say, foresees these things,
15 6     |           too clever. What do you say, Epicurus? Were not the
16 6     |            For what if you should say, that birds were not made
17 10    |          the elbows. What shall I say of the hands, the ministers
18 16    |          highest place. Then they say, that the organs which are
19 17    |         most plainly false. For I say that the nature of things
20 17    |           true. If any one should say to me that the heaven is
21 17    |         true. We cannot, however, say that they who held these
22 18    |         either side. For they who say that they are one faculty
23 18    |       indifferently. But they who say that they are different
24 19    |         fate. It is sufficient to say this, that even if the stars