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Alphabetical [« »] bearing 1 bears 1 beast 1 beasts 12 beaten 1 beatings 1 beautiful 4 | Frequency [« »] 13 wish 12 alone 12 aut 12 beasts 12 breast 12 case 12 could | Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius On the workmanship of God IntraText - Concordances beasts |
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1 2 | OF THE PRODUCTION OF THE BEASTS AND OF MAN.~For our Creator 2 2 | supplied from them to the beasts which are nourished by blood, 3 2 | to man the teeth of wild beasts, or horns, or claws, or 4 3 | OF THE CONDITION OF THE BEASTS AND MAN.~They complain that 5 3 | prefer the condition of the beasts to their own, what they 6 3 | or the strength of the beasts together with their nature? 7 3 | are not so much like the beasts as not to prefer even a 8 3 | that they had been born beasts! For if God should happen 9 5 | For in cattle and wild beasts they are feet like the hinder 10 6 | not made to fly, nor wild beasts to rage, nor fishes to swim, 11 10| food. It also assists the beasts in drinking: for with the 12 14| all, or less than the wild beasts; the more timid ones would