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1 31| Apollodorus says it was 100 years after the Ionian migration,
2 31| says that it was after the 100th year from the taking of
3 31| Ionian migration, which was 140 years after that event;
4 31| of Archippus at Athens, 180 years after the Trojan war;
5 31| Archilochus flourished about the 23d Olympiad, in the time of
6 31| migration, which would be 240 years after the Trojan war.
7 31| Olympiads, which would be 317 years after the taking of
8 41| the Olympiads commenced 407 years after the taking of
9 31| time of Gyges the Lydian, 500 years after Troy. Thus,
10 19| from the king of the Romans 600 aurei yearly, for no useful
11 31| the Heraclidae, and within 80 years after the Trojan war;
12 31| Some say that he lived 90 years before the Olympiads,
13 26| such men as these, we have abandoned you, and no longer concern
14 39| Danaus, Lynceus, Proetus, Abas, Acrisius, Perseus, Sthenelaus,
15 17| common saying, the man of Abdera is Abderiloquent? But, as
16 17| saying, the man of Abdera is Abderiloquent? But, as he who gave the
17 19| all worldly things. Do not abhor us who have made this attainment,
18 4 | of them, why am I to be abhorred as a vile miscreant? Does
19 15| the inferior has not the ability to apprehend the superior.
20 23| of wicked and impious and abominable deeds. You slaughter animals
21 8 | of the tragic poet,--~ "Abreeze is the most honourable chariot
22 5 | by participation, not by abscission; for what is cut off is
23 8 | the cithara; Dionysus is absolute sovereign of the Thebans;
24 15| compared is no other than abstract being; but that which is
25 32| weep hereafter. Is it not absurd that Nestor, who was slow
26 2 | propensities. And Aristotle, who absurdly placed a limit to Providence
27 17| who wishes to be revenged, accept them as helpers. And this
28 19| select a divinity to be your accomplice. You are ill by your own
29 1 | becomes men to be of one accord also in the pronunciation
30 34| devoured sucklings, and accordingly is exhibited by the workmanship
31 21| to compare your mythical accounts with our narrations. Athene,
32 38| Egyptians also there are accurate chronicles. Ptolemy, not
33 3 | instance, Anytus and Miletus to accuse, Busiris to murder his guests,
34 19| philosophers, save you only, was he accustomed to inveigh against? If you
35 14| rather than the rule of one, accustoming yourselves to follow demons
36 17| men aside from the pious acknowledgment of God, leading them to
37 20| along with the soul will acquire a clothing of mortality,
38 1 | learned to write history; you acquired the art of playing the flute
39 13| immortality. But, again, if it acquires the knowledge of God, it
40 39| from whom Attica was called Actaea; and in the time of Triopas
41 39| the time of Phorbas was Actaeus, from whom Attica was called
42 16| be endowed with more of active power. But neither could
43 22| vituperator of heroic deeds, an actor of murders, a chronicler
44 24| with the mythical tales of Acusilaus, and Menander, a versifier
45 41| kind of wisdom, and mental acuteness, and legislative capacity,
46 19| paiderastia), and was strongly addicted to the love of money. Yet
47 17| O Greeks, hearken to me, addressing you as from an eminence,
48 31| with your own weapons, I adduce arguments of which you had
49 7 | beginner of the folly and his adherents from all fellowship with
50 23| of the wickedness of the adjudicator, and partly of that of the
51 23| chaplets are set, while the adjudicators cheer them on, not to deeds
52 9 | its lawgivers. Tell me, I adjure you did Triptolemus sow
53 21| Phoebus for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed
54 34| should I contemplate with admiration the figure of the woman
55 24| class! And why should I admire the mythic piper? Why should
56 32| according to you, to be admired for attempting to rival
57 29| moreover also having been admitted to the mysteries, and having
58 26| according to nature? For if you adopt the Attic dialect though
59 40| curiosity, endeavoured to adulterate whatever they learned from
60 10| Sophron, who transported this adulteress to the Elysian fields! But
61 17| honourable to minister to adulteries? How can it be noble to
62 15| animals, but one who has advanced far beyond mere humanity--
63 27| the universe. Why do you advise me to be false to my principles?
64 38| in the fourth book of his AEgyptiaca (there are five books of
65 1 | inhabitants of Attica, nor do the AEolians speak like the Ionians.
66 34| tales kept the fabulist Aesop in everlasting remembrance,
67 33| that yours are in close affinity with madness. You who say
68 6 | things; not, as the Stoics affirm, according to the return
69 16| to them as to enemies, or afford occasions of doing them
70 19| to despise death, was so afraid of death, that he endeavoured
71 33| carrying off the daughter of Agenor it had borne away the prize
72 7 | place by the choice of free agents, foretold from time to time
73 31| the assigned dates do not agree together, it is impossible
74 19| against? If you say, in agreement with our tenets, that death
75 34| very wonderful man! The Agrigentines dreaded to look on that
76 8 | gates against the profane!" Aidoneus carries off Kore, and his
77 26| along, but that time (o aiôn) remains present as long
78 15| spiritual, like that of fire or air. And only by those whom
79 22| giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging
80 24| acting the matricide of Alcmaeon; who does not even retain
81 1 | has happened not to speak alike even in common intercourse;
82 17| comes it to pass that when alive I was in no wise evil, but
83 21| argument's sake; for it is not allowable even to compare our notion
84 31| because it would not be allowed by you; but the other will
85 26| with words, while you keep aloof from deeds, puffed up with
86 26| you set the letters of the alphabet at war with one another?
87 10| the Dioscuri, living on alternate days, the ravishers of the
88 22| practices,--in short, the man altogether. But you are led captive
89 | always
90 22| seen a man--and have been amazed to see, and the amazement
91 22| been amazed to see, and the amazement has ended in contempt, to
92 32| when you tell us that the Amazons, and Semiramis, and certain
93 34| workmanship of Polystratus the Ambraciot, even to this day, as a
94 1 | describe battles, and the amours of the gods, and the corruption
95 39| Sthenelus was the reign of Amphictyon and the coming of Danaus
96 33| Gomphus one of Praxigoris, and Amphistratus one of Clito. And what shall
97 17| cured by hanging little amulets of leather upon him. There
98 24| XXIV. OF THE OTHER PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.~ What advantage should
99 9 | with them, as if they were amusing themselves with dice. But
100 12| with contempt the Scythian Anacharsis, do not disdain to be taught
101 19| of fame among men, like Anaxagoras, but become despisers of
102 34| adultery with Aphrodite, and Andron made an image of their offspring
103 21| utter idle tales, when we announce that God was born in the
104 24| myself about the Theban Antigenides, like Aristoxenus? We leave
105 31| Stesimbrotus of Thasos and Antimachus of Colophon, Herodotus of
106 10| death? And how was the dead Antinous fixed as a beautiful youth
107 39| the Ptolemaic, and the Antiochian] kings. Hence, if the most
108 36| Alexander, composed for Antiochus, the third after him, the
109 17| by a counter-affection (antipatheia), nor is a maniac cured
110 17| Concerning the sympathies and antipathies of Democritus what can we
111 11| wish to be a king; I am not anxious to be rich; I decline military
112 33| And what shall I say about Anyta, Telesilla, and Mystis?
113 3 | as before; for instance, Anytus and Miletus to accuse, Busiris
114 18| river-crabs, or the lion with apes? Why you deify the objects
115 39| these: Inachus, Phoroneus, Apis, Criasis, Triopas, Argeius,
116 8 | material (upothesis) of their apostasy. For, having shown them
117 20| is naked to obtain this apparel, and to return to its ancient
118 14| themselves by ignorance and false appearances. These! beings do not indeed
119 1 | diction; for, while you applaud yourselves, your own people
120 19| may see those greeted with applause as in a solemn assembly
121 16| and the divine is easily apprehended by us if the power that
122 11| it. Live to God, and by apprehending Him lay aside your old nature.
123 12| inculcate are far beyond the apprehension of the world.~
124 6 | God Himself, becomes the arbiter. And, although you regard
125 18| As noxious preparations arc material compounds, so are
126 31| migration, in the archonship of Archippus at Athens, 180 years after
127 31| Ionian migration, in the archonship of Archippus at Athens,
128 23| any one come down into the arena to succour. Do such exhibitions
129 33| Glycera the courtezan and Argeia the harper. Bryaxis made
130 39| Apis, Criasis, Triopas, Argeius, Phorbas, Crotopas, Sthenelaus,
131 39| KINGS.~ The kings of the Argives were these: Inachus, Phoroneus,
132 9 | Centaur, and the divided Argo, and the Bear of Callisto.
133 32| outward appearance; for we argue that there may be strength
134 21| treatise concerning Homer, has argued very foolishly, turning
135 21| have put forth only for argument's sake; for it is not allowable
136 31| your own weapons, I adduce arguments of which you had no suspicion.
137 39| Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Arias, and Cecrops of double nature,
138 41| Proconnesus, who wrote the Arimaspia, Asbolus the Centaur, Isatis,
139 41| Crete, who came to Sparta, Aristaeus of Proconnesus, who wrote
140 2 | lost his life by gluttony. Aristippus, walking about in a purple
141 34| also the plastic art of Aristodemus has increased his celebrity.
142 33| Niceratus, and of the third Aristodotus; Euthycrates made one of
143 31| grammarians, Zenodotus, Aristophanes, Callimachus, Crates, Eratosthenes,
144 24| Theban Antigenides, like Aristoxenus? We leave you to these worthless
145 16| repudiate matter. Being armed with the breastplate of
146 12| parts, and on the other as arranged in beauty and order after
147 21| parts of nature and certain arrangements of the elements. Hector
148 3 | who, being self-taught and arrogant, said, "I have explored
149 26| nothing worth. While you arrogate to yourselves the sole right
150 15| excels the wild beasts in articulate language only,--in other
151 40| by a certain rhetorical artifice whatever things they did
152 34| merely for the sake of the artist Periclymenus? One ought
153 33| of Zeus on account of his artistic skill. And I ridicule the
154 34| has represented him very artistically? And for what reason do
155 41| who wrote the Arimaspia, Asbolus the Centaur, Isatis, Drymon,
156 10| the gods that kings have ascended into heaven, so some one,
157 13| no longer helpless, but ascends to the regions whither the
158 27| about him has been clearly ascertained, yet we are to be assailed
159 35| ribaldry, saying, "Tatian, aspiring to be above the Greeks,
160 23| sent forth by him, and you assemble at the spectacle to be judges,
161 27| the moon an earth? Such assertions are mere logomachies, and
162 25| the harmonious. One of you asserts that God is body, but I
163 26| according to truth, and assign the names of the several
164 4 | spirit; and this, even when assimilated to the soul, is not to be
165 18| so he who is not bad but associates with the bad, having dealings
166 19| become a divining rod, or to assume the wings of a bird! He
167 25| cry out in public with an assumption of authority, and take upon
168 1 | the Babylonians you owe astronomy; to the Persians, magic;
169 8 | virility by Hephaestos, as Atalanta by Meleaget. This limping
170 1 | epistolary tablets:, her name was Atossa. Wherefore lay aside this
171 39| Sthenelaus, Eurystheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamemnon,
172 7 | remained good. And, when men attached themselves to one who was
173 3 | of this man; for, being attacked by dropsy, as he had studied
174 18| will make use of the bad to attain the good. But, just as he
175 19| abhor us who have made this attainment, but, repudiating the demons,
176 32| to you, to be admired for attempting to rival the young men in
177 8 | emasculation on account of Attis, of whom she was enamoured;
178 13| obedient to wisdom have attracted to themselves the cognate
179 1 | most ancient Isaurians, augury by the flight of birds;
180 19| the king of the Romans 600 aurei yearly, for no useful service
181 17| purpose each of them is available. And, when they see that
182 27| killed by Hercules? And what avails the Attic style, the sorites
183 11| to be sleepless through avarice? Why are you fated to grasp
184 38| says that Amosis destroyed Avaris in the time of the Argive
185 25| authority, and take upon you to avenge your own self; and if you
186 17| constitute himself his own avenger.~
187 17| death be able to assist in avenging any one? If this were possible,
188 40| Greeks, who, without being aware of it, drew his doctrines [
189 6 | us as mere triflers and babblers, it troubles us not, since
190 36| very concise. Berosus, a Babylonian, a priest of their god Belus,
191 32| for being peak-headed and bald. As for those who wish to
192 23| men to supply a cannibal banquet for the soul, nourishing
193 30| make that an occasion of banter? For, if you are willing,
194 23| killed; and the indigent barters himself away, while the
195 22| lecture-rooms, where every base action perpetrated by night
196 18| however, we reject the baser matter, some persons often
197 1 | you employ to describe battles, and the amours of the gods,
198 19| may not even wear a long beard without being paid for it!
199 25| long; they cultivate their beards; their nails are like the
200 27| punished for the name he bears, but only when the truth
201 35| our barbaric philosophy. I began to show how this was more
202 11| The wealthiest die, and beggars have the same limits to
203 | begin
204 7 | of the Logos excluded the beginner of the folly and his adherents
205 22| poets, who by their fictions beguile their hearers from the truth!~
206 33| even your gods; and you behave yourselves unbecomingly
207 24| even retain his natural behaviour, but with his mouth wide
208 34| of impurity upon it. It behoved you, repudiating everything
209 6 | VI. CHRISTIANS' BELIEF IN THE RESURRECTION.~ And
210 19| you hearken, and he who believes will understand.~
211 36| Babylonian, a priest of their god Belus, born in the time of Alexander,
212 13| origin of the soul is from beneath. Now, in the beginning the
213 9 | she lost her daughter, a benefactress to men? The Dog of Erigone
214 10| stars. What is that hair of Berenice? Where were her stars before
215 33| and Dinomenes, because Besantis queen of the Paeonians gave
216 12| all has suffered them to besport themselves, till the world,
217 8 | into mysteries; Demeter bewails her daughter, and some persons
218 34| certainly, was the tyrant Bhalaris, who devoured sucklings,
219 35| have seen and felt. So, bidding farewell to the arrogance
220 33| Paeonians gave birth to a black infant, took pains to preserve
221 14| this instead of death in a blessed immortality. And as we,
222 26| you discourse like the blind man with the deaf. Why do
223 23| you collects a legion of blood-stained murderers, engaging to maintain
224 23| nourishing it by the most impious bloodshedding. The robber commits murder
225 23| he who excels in giving blows is crowned. These are the
226 34| culture now make it their boast that they behold him in
227 17| horses of Diomedes, so he who boasted of the Magian Ostanes will
228 25| XXV. BOASTINGS AND QUARRELS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.~
229 39| them letters, came into Boeotia many generations later.
230 33| Erinna the Lesbian, and Boiscus one of Myrtis, and Cephisodotus
231 15| flesh; but man is flesh. The bond of the flesh is the soul;
232 4 | master command me to act as a bondsman and to serve, I acknowledge
233 38| esteemed, in the fourth book of his AEgyptiaca (there
234 26| yourselves like the daw in borrowed plumes. If each state were
235 19| XIX. DEPRAVITY LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF DEMON-WORSHIP.~ But do
236 20| infinite, O man, but finite and bounded; and beyond them are the
237 14| abundant owing to their boundless existence?~
238 2 | his tub, was seized with a bowel complaint through eating
239 23| take their seats, and the boxers meet in single combat, for
240 26| another? Why do you, as in a boxing match, make their sounds
241 33| and Euthycrates cast a brazen statue of Panteuchis, who
242 14| do not fewer kinds of sin break out among men owing to the
243 16| matter. Being armed with the breastplate of the celestial Spirit,
244 8 | conquered by a slight breeze, Apollo lost his beloved.~
245 14| out among men owing to the brevity of their lives, while on
246 15| rejects the condition which brings death. And what that is,
247 9 | letters of the names of the brothers of Zeus, who shared the
248 33| courtezan and Argeia the harper. Bryaxis made a statue of Pasiphae;
249 8 | limping manufacturer of buckles and earrings, as is likely,
250 26| tools without knowing how to build? Why do you busy yourselves
251 26| deaf. Why do you handle the builder's tools without knowing
252 23| and carrying about the burden of their flesh, before whom
253 8 | Omphalos; but Omphalos is the burial-place of Dionysus. You now I laud,
254 34| that you have not rather buried them with their maker Pythagoras?
255 24| and, screaming aloud, is burned to death, habited in a robe
256 39| time of Crotopas was the burning of Phaethon and the flood
257 20| that some localities are burnt up with heat, and others
258 3 | Anytus and Miletus to accuse, Busiris to murder his guests, and
259 23| away, while the rich man buys others to kill him. And
260 33| Cephisodotus one of Myro of Byzantium, and Gomphus one of Praxigoris,
261 34| my gaze on the Neaera of Calliades? For she was a courtezan.
262 31| Zenodotus, Aristophanes, Callimachus, Crates, Eratosthenes, Aristarchus,
263 9 | divided Argo, and the Bear of Callisto. Yet how, before these performed
264 34| with wonder at the art of Callistratus, or to fix my gaze on the
265 31| who lived in the time of Cambyses, Stesimbrotus of Thasos
266 23| purchase men to supply a cannibal banquet for the soul, nourishing
267 34| countenance of his, because of his cannibalism; but people of culture now
268 41| acuteness, and legislative capacity, lived in the time of Lynceus,
269 22| cynaedi, an instigator of capital sentences;--and yet such
270 22| altogether. But you are led captive by such men, while you revile
271 18| their art make men their captives. And the most admirable
272 18| the practice of some to capture persons and then to restore
273 1 | divining by dreams; the Carians, that of prognosticating
274 8 | against the profane!" Aidoneus carries off Kore, and his deeds
275 26| their readers resemble the cask of the Danaids. Why do you
276 34| celebrated for his skill in casting metals, of which specimens
277 39| XXXIX. CATALOGUE OF THE ARGIVE KINGS.~ The
278 21| Prometheus, fastened to Caucasus, suffered punishment for
279 16| the demons ascribe the causes of them to themselves, and
280 34| and absurdities, was more celebrated for his skill in casting
281 34| Aristodemus has increased his celebrity. How is it then that you,
282 29| government of the universe as centred in one Being. And, my soul
283 6 | obtained through my birth a certainty of my existence; in the
284 9 | that Kronos, who was put in chains and ejected from his kingdom,
285 37| Hypsicrates, and Mochus; Chaitus translated their books into
286 31| Athenian, Megaclides and Chamaeleon the Peripatetics; afterwards
287 20| worlds which have not a change of seasons, by which various,
288 10| sisters of Phaethon are changed into poplars, and Leto into
289 8 | they manifest to men their characters, by these they prompt their
290 8 | Abreeze is the most honourable chariot of the gods," _ conquered
291 33| wantonness; but all our women are chaste, and the maidens at their
292 19| philosophers of being gluttons and cheats. But whom of the philosophers,
293 23| while the adjudicators cheer them on, not to deeds of
294 8 | deceived the motherless child and orphan with these girlish
295 30| errors as the follies of childhood. For we know that the nature
296 9 | the helper of Artemis, and Chiron the Centaur, and the divided
297 33| XXXIII. VINDICATION OF CHRISTIAN WOMEN.~ Therefore I have
298 22| an actor of murders, a chronicler of adultery, a storehouse
299 38| also there are accurate chronicles. Ptolemy, not the king,
300 8 | sprang the horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, Athene and Asclepios divided
301 9 | delineation of the zodiacal circle is the work of gods. And,
302 8 | Apollo is a player on the cithara; Dionysus is absolute sovereign
303 4 | do you wish to bring the civil powers, as in a pugilistic
304 1 | I. THE GREEKS CLAIM, WITHOUT REASON, THE INVENTION
305 25| their nails are like the claws of wild beasts. Though they
306 41| all accuracy to make it clear that Moses is not only older
307 27| truth about him has been clearly ascertained, yet we are
308 33| and Amphistratus one of Clito. And what shall I say about
309 20| the soul will acquire a clothing of mortality, foretold things
310 12| those who follow a barbaric code of laws. Give at least as
311 28| there are as many different codes as there are states, so
312 13| attracted to themselves the cognate spirit; but the disobedient,
313 17| should effect something cognizable by the senses? And how shall
314 20| up with heat, and others cold and frozen. We, however,
315 28| Romans, who endeavour to collect herds of boys like grazing
316 41| generations, forbids our collecting further particulars about
317 23| He who is chief among you collects a legion of blood-stained
318 4 | pugilistic encounter, into collision with us? And, if I am not
319 3 | They have, moreover, many collisions among themselves; each one
320 31| Thasos and Antimachus of Colophon, Herodotus of Halicarnassus,
321 8 | are spectators of single combats and are partisans on one
322 17| knowing by their peculiar combination what the order of the letters
323 13| live justly, and intimately combining with the soul, by prophecies
324 1 | proficient in it; for, as the comic poet says,--~ These are
325 4 | human art. Only when I am commanded to deny Him, will I not
326 32| earthly, and obeying the commands of God, and following the
327 41| shown that the Olympiads commenced 407 years after the taking
328 27| hate us. You possess the commentaries of Leo, and are displeased
329 23| bloodshedding. The robber commits murder for the sake of plunder,
330 20| companionship, it hankers after communion with inferior things. The
331 12| the intestines, and the compacting together of the marrow and
332 13| the spirit was a constant companion of the soul, but the spirit
333 20| Having left the heavenly companionship, it hankers after communion
334 33| find among us, and that, comparing the statues which are before
335 31| Let us, then, institute a comparison between them; and we shall
336 4 | eyes, nor comes within the compass of human art. Only when
337 25| for their gluttony. O man competing with the dog, you know not
338 2 | was seized with a bowel complaint through eating a raw polypus,
339 41| exactness. But, that we may complete. what is still wanting,
340 6 | periods of existence are completed, and in consequence solely
341 4 | if I am not disposed to comply with the usages of some
342 15| and is not simple; it is composite, so as to manifest itself
343 39| possessed no historical composition; for Cadmus, who taught
344 18| preparations arc material compounds, so are curatives of the
345 13| the saying, "The darkness comprehendeth not the light." For the
346 13| preserved by it, and the light comprehends the darkness. The Logos,
347 27| torch-bearer, I do not any the more conceal from the rulers that view
348 1 | Wherefore lay aside this conceit, and be not ever boasting
349 12| to perceive who does not conceitedly reject those most divine
350 16| And it is difficult to conceive that the immortal soul,
351 26| abandoned you, and no longer concern ourselves with your tenets,
352 12| yet all the harmony of a concert of music in their arrangement;--
353 36| narrative of events very concise. Berosus, a Babylonian,
354 42| XLII. CONCLUDING STATEMENT AS TO THE AUTHOR.~
355 33| her memory by his art. I condemn Pythagoras too, who made
356 28| Persian Magi; paederasty is condemned by the Barbarians, but by
357 12| but very remote from right conduct, you, O Greeks, worship.
358 17| God, leading them to place confidence in herbs and roots. But
359 32| be, let our cause remain confirmed by the judgment pronounced
360 3 | the other; they indulge in conflicting opinions, and their arrogance
361 12| obtain as the result of their conflicts a more perfect testimony
362 12| inferior in matter, and conforming their manner of life to
363 5 | trying to reduce to order the confused matter which is kindred
364 3 | fire in Sicily, moreover, confute the empty boasting of Empedocles,
365 12| hearsay, nor from probable conjectures and sophistical reasoning,
366 8 | Aphrodite is delighted with conjugal embraces. Artemis is a poisoner;
367 8 | earth the son born of her connection with Hephaestos, that Athene
368 8 | now I laud, O Daphne!--by conquering the incontinence of Apollo,
369 21| those persons suppose who consecrate to them sacred enclosures
370 17| when they see that men consent to be served by means of
371 6 | existence are completed, and in consequence solely of the constitution
372 28| honourable in others. The Greeks consider intercourse with a mother
373 40| first that they might be considered as having something of their
374 12| course of time have been consigned to writing, and make those
375 2 | Providence and made happiness to consist in the things which give
376 15| with God. The human soul consists of many parts, and is not
377 13| beginning the spirit was a constant companion of the soul, but
378 9 | heaven, and, by placing the constellations there, might make to appear
379 17| others, much more might he constitute himself his own avenger.~
380 9 | ejected from his kingdom, is constituted a manager of Fate? How,
381 1 | these two rustic Phrygians constructed the harmony of the shepherd'
382 19| the knowledge of God. The construction of the world is excellent,
383 11| disease; grief does not consume my soul. Am I a slave, I
384 33| of Praxilla, whose poems contain nothing useful, and Menestratus
385 12| to the power of its Maker containing some things of superior
386 34| of iniquity! Why should I contemplate with admiration the figure
387 11| gain to go to sea; I do not contend for chaplets; I am free
388 31| will surprise you, when, by contending against you with your own
389 26| God, but in your fierce contentions destroy one another. And
390 14| purposes of wrong-doing, dying continually even while they live, will
391 32| excellent thing if your continuance in unbelief should receive
392 13| On this account, if it continues solitary, it tends downward
393 3 | which, as it hardened, contracted the flesh of his whole body,
394 8 | there exists such a great contrariety of opinions? For Rhea, whom
395 26| state were to take away its contribution to your speech, your fallacies
396 1 | many ravens. You have, too, contrived the art of rhetoric to serve
397 9 | they are simply from the controllers of their nativity. For the
398 5 | hear; yet, certainly, I who converse do not become destitute
399 29| XXIX. ACCOUNT OF TATIAN'S CONVERSION.~ Wherefore, having seen
400 19| proclaiming the truth he convicted the philosophers of being
401 25| staff, and the rich, and a cook also for their gluttony.
402 30| I will give a simple and copious account of them.~
403 8 | prompt their hearers to copy their example. And are not
404 33| Ephesian, Selanion one of Corinna, and Euthycrates one of
405 26| but hide your teaching in corners. Finding you to be such
406 1 | Twittering places of swallows, corrupters of art.~ Yet those who eagerly
407 1 | amours of the gods, and the corruption of the soul.~
408 19| Agamemnon wished for ten councillors, so you wish to have gods
409 19| and you take Apollo as a counsellor of slaughter. You want to
410 34| dreaded to look on that countenance of his, because of his cannibalism;
411 17| pathos) is not destroyed by a counter-affection (antipatheia), nor is a
412 22| internally, but outwardly counterfeits what he is not--giving himself
413 2 | displaying manliness and courage by feasting, and transfixing
414 20| grant you that point by courtesy), yet it behoves you to
415 34| mere trash, and innumerable courtezans, and worthless men, are
416 22| honour of wicked demons, cover men with infamy? I have
417 30| digging for we are indeed covered with dust, but we secure
418 40| own, and secondly, that covering up by a certain rhetorical
419 3 | he plastered himself with cow-dung, which, as it hardened,
420 5 | all being, inasmuch as no creature was yet in existence, was
421 40| MOSES MORE ANCIENT AND CREDIBLE THAN THE HEATHEN HEROES.~
422 10| themselves for hire, are credited when they say in ridicule
423 9 | in the heavens. For the creeping things on the earth, and
424 19| without being paid for it! Crescens, who made his nest in the
425 27| though some one says that the Cretans are liars. Your assembly
426 39| Inachus, Phoroneus, Apis, Criasis, Triopas, Argeius, Phorbas,
427 1 | pursue it shout lustily, and croak like so many ravens. You
428 15| soul. Man is not, as the croaking philosophers say, merely
429 23| excels in giving blows is crowned. These are the lesser evils;
430 3 | though each one vents but the crude fancies of the moment. They
431 9 | high-spirited and he who is crushed with toil, the temperate
432 10| slaughter its image. The Kneeler crushes a noxious animal; and the
433 25| an irrational animal. You cry out in public with an assumption
434 25| their hair grow long; they cultivate their beards; their nails
435 34| cannibalism; but people of culture now make it their boast
436 31| after them, by Ephorus of Cumae, and Philochorus the Athenian,
437 10| and, making Ganymede his cupbearer, glories in a vile affection.
438 18| material compounds, so are curatives of the same nature. If,
439 17| antipatheia), nor is a maniac cured by hanging little amulets
440 40| among them, stimulated by curiosity, endeavoured to adulterate
441 25| like Proteus, they need a currier for their wallet, and a
442 35| do not attempt, as is the custom with many, to strengthen
443 32| Nestor, who was slow at cutting his horses' reins owing
444 8 | Phrygian mountains call Cybele, enacted emasculation on
445 6 | to the return of certain cycles, the same things being produced
446 1 | invented the trumpet; the Cyclopes, the smith's art; and a
447 22| of madness, a teacher of cynaedi, an instigator of capital
448 3 | give his approval to the cynogamy of Crates, and not rather,
449 41| Isatis, Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian, Horus the Samian, and Pronapis
450 1 | the flight of birds; the Cyprians, the art of inspecting victims.
451 9 | why are not Sardinia and Cyprus honoured in heaven? And
452 22| himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts
453 33| things more nobly than that damsel of yours. Wherefore be ashamed,
454 26| resemble the cask of the Danaids. Why do you divide time,
455 39| Peloponnesus, and the founding of Dardania by Dardanus, and the return
456 14| overpower those like himself by daring; so the demons, going to
457 22| of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes about; sometimes
458 31| carry it down to a later date, and say that Homer was
459 31| For, where the assigned dates do not agree together, it
460 26| deck yourselves like the daw in borrowed plumes. If each
461 10| Dioscuri, living on alternate days, the ravishers of the daughters
462 26| like the blind man with the deaf. Why do you handle the builder'
463 21| own. We, however, do not deal in folly, but your legends
464 21| though it were only as dealing in legends similar to your
465 18| associates with the bad, having dealings with them for some supposed
466 8 | diseases. And after the decapitation of the Gorgon, the beloved
467 6 | Rhadamanthus, before whose decease not a single soul, according
468 18| XVIII. THEY DECEIVE, INSTEAD OF HEALING.~ But
469 16| incline downwards, by various deceptive scenic representations,
470 26| derived from others, and to deck yourselves like the daw
471 29| of the precepts, and the declaration of the government of the
472 21| origin of the gods, you also declare them to be mortal. For what
473 7 | being the first-born, and declared him to be God, though he
474 3 | cannot listen to Zeno, who declares that at the conflagration
475 11| not anxious to be rich; I decline military command; I detest
476 34| like account, they say, was deemed worthy of a mystic worship.
477 27| have not the heart of a deer; but your zeal for dialectics
478 17| possible, much more might he defend himself from his own enemy;
479 18| lion with apes? Why you deify the objects of nature? And
480 21| they say, took the form of Deiphobus for the sake of Hector,
481 8 | enamoured; but Aphrodite is delighted with conjugal embraces.
482 29| their Latiarian Jupiter delighting in human gore and the blood
483 8 | frequents the seas; Ares delights in wars; Apollo is a player
484 9 | their nativity. For the delineation of the zodiacal circle is
485 17| the Magian Ostanes will be delivered up in the day of consummation
486 21| Thespiae lost his life by delivering himself to the devouring
487 10| whose account what is now Delos was called Ortygia. A god,
488 9 | appear ridiculous that the Deltotum should be placed among the
489 39| whose time was the first deluge; and in the time of Phorbas
490 35| to discuss a matter which demanded more immediate attention;
491 19| DEPRAVITY LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF DEMON-WORSHIP.~ But do you, who have not
492 38| generations. The steps of the demonstration are the following:--~
493 27| concerning the Egyptian gods, you denounce us as most impious. The
494 18| admirable Justin has rightly denounced them as robbers. For, as
495 4 | Only when I am commanded to deny Him, will I not obey, but
496 16| by the word of God, they depart in terror, and the sick
497 38| the kings, says that the departure of the Jews from Egypt to
498 7 | punished, having become depraved through his own fault, but
499 8 | might not be thought to be deprived of her virility by Hephaestos,
500 9 | as they express it, it deprives all the rest of their honour;