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501 1 | art, again, you employ to describe battles, and the amours
502 20| have composed elaborate descriptions of the earth have given
503 7 | fault, but the just man be deservedly praised for his virtuous
504 3 | investigation of what truly deserves attention? Wherefore be
505 15| of wickedness. But matter desired to exercise lordship over
506 11| he who has very moderate desires, seeking as he does only
507 27| is nothing. Though their despiser Epicurus acts as a torch-bearer,
508 19| like Anaxagoras, but become despisers of death by reason of the
509 5 | who converse do not become destitute of speech (logos) by the
510 11| they live in pleasure or destitution. The rich man sows, and
511 18| away from the sick, and, destroying the disease which they had
512 21| from men, wishing their destruction. Wherefore, looking at your
513 17| the demons works, who have determined for what purpose each of
514 11| decline military command; I detest fornication; I am not impelled
515 39| Phaethon and the flood of Deucalion; in the time of Sthenelus
516 30| HE RESOLVED TO RESIST THE DEVIL.~ Therefore, being initiated
517 33| For their works of art are devoted to worthless objects, while
518 21| delivering himself to the devouring flame. Prometheus, fastened
519 5 | with Him, by Logos-power (dia> logikês dunameôs), the
520 27| formed without examination? Diagoras was an Athenian, but you
521 26| For if you adopt the Attic dialect though not an Athenian,
522 27| deer; but your zeal for dialectics resembles the loquacity
523 9 | amusing themselves with dice. But we are superior to
524 8 | position of the stars, like dice-players, they introduced Fate, a
525 1 | boasting of your elegance of diction; for, while you applaud
526 28| but now there are as many different codes as there are states,
527 12| tendons; and though one part differs from another, there is yet
528 16| shown elsewhere. And it is difficult to conceive that the immortal
529 39| Phoroneus, a check was with difficulty given to their savage and
530 30| treasure," which while we are digging for we are indeed covered
531 9 | from heaven,--these they dignified with celestial honour, in
532 12| are certain differences of dignity in it, and the eye is one
533 18| good. But, just as he who dines with a robber, though he
534 33| pregnant by a whoremonger; and Dinomenes, because Besantis queen
535 2 | free from vain boasting? Diogenes, who made such a parade
536 17| devoured by the horses of Diomedes, so he who boasted of the
537 9 | letter in the name of Zeus (Dios)? For why are not Sardinia
538 10| was an adulterer; and the Dioscuri, living on alternate days,
539 16| representations, that they may be disabled from rising to the path
540 33| ashamed, you who are professed disciples of women yet scoff at those
541 19| everything. But this is a discipline in which your philosophers
542 23| rivalry in violence and discord; and he who excels in giving
543 26| right of discussion, you discourse like the blind man with
544 40| treatise against those who have discoursed of divine things.]~
545 29| sought how I might be able to discover the truth. And, while I
546 31| poet, I mean Homer, and the discrepancies of those who have spoken
547 1 | Ionians. And, since such a discrepancy exists where it ought not
548 35| unfinished, in order to discuss a matter which demanded
549 15| Himself. This question we have discussed more minutely in the treatise
550 26| yourselves the sole right of discussion, you discourse like the
551 12| Scythian Anacharsis, do not disdain to be taught by those who
552 17| the herald of the truth. A diseased affection (pathos) is not
553 28| states, so that things held disgraceful in some are honourable in
554 10| you robbed God? Why do you dishonour His workmanship? You sacrifice
555 13| cognate spirit; but the disobedient, rejecting the minister
556 6 | vaporized matter ; and though dispersed through rivers and seas,
557 16| XVI. VAIN DISPLAY OF POWER BY THE DEMONS.~
558 29| writers, the foreknowledge displayed of future events, the excellent
559 2 | precepts of his teacher in displaying manliness and courage by
560 27| commentaries of Leo, and are displeased with our refutations of
561 8 | incontinence of Apollo, you disproved his power of vaticination;
562 32| CHRISTIANS, IS OPPOSED TO DISSENSIONS, AND FITTED FOR ALL.~ But
563 33| and the maidens at their distaffs sing of divine things more
564 32| licentiousness is kept at a distance. And in speaking we do not
565 35| but I wish to give you a distinct account of what I myself
566 14| what is now their chief distinction, that they do not die like
567 4 | set forth our views more distinctly.~
568 26| of the stars, nor a more distinguished origin, nor a death preferable
569 12| arrangement of the hair and the distribution of the intestines, and the
570 16| Sometimes they themselves disturb the habit of the body by
571 16| are, indeed, diseases and disturbances of the matter that is in
572 5 | Logos-power of the Father, has not divested of the Logos-power Him who
573 26| the Danaids. Why do you divide time, saying that one part
574 19| know not God. For what is divination? and why are ye deceived
575 12| using words of a certain diviner speech, do you who are willing
576 10| RIDICULE OF THE HEATHEN DIVINITIES.~ There are legends of the
577 27| but you punished him for divulging the Athenian mysteries;
578 3 | are no philosophers, who dogmatize one against the other, though
579 32| and, if he had not through doltishness had such an unbridled tongue,
580 14| and you acknowledge the dominion of many rather than the
581 23| grieved, because he was not doomed to be a spectator of wicked
582 39| and Arias, and Cecrops of double nature, and Io; in the time
583 16| possible, they would without doubt pull down heaven itself
584 13| continues solitary, it tends downward towards matter, and dies
585 16| minds, which already incline downwards, by various deceptive scenic
586 41| laws to the Lacedemonians. Draco is found to have lived about
587 20| God. For the world still draws us down, and through weakness
588 21| is envious, and hides the dream from men, wishing their
589 40| without being aware of it, drew his doctrines [as] from
590 19| with you. Some woman by drinking water gets into a frenzy,
591 8 | divided between them the drops of blood; and, while he
592 3 | for, being attacked by dropsy, as he had studied the art
593 20| Even if you be healed by drugs (I grant you that point
594 41| Asbolus the Centaur, Isatis, Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian, Horus
595 5 | Logos-power (dia> logikês dunameôs), the Logos Himself also,
596 30| are indeed covered with dust, but we secure it as our
597 2 | pleasure, quite contrary to his duty as a preceptor flattered
598 15| temple, God is pleased to dwell in it by the spirit, His
599 3 | manifestly be the author of evil, dwelling in sewers and worms, and
600 13| Spirit guides it: for the dwelling-place of the spirit is above,
601 15| those whom the Spirit of God dwells in and fortifies are the
602 14| purposes of wrong-doing, dying continually even while they
603 1 | corrupters of art.~ Yet those who eagerly pursue it shout lustily,
604 12| one thing, and another the ear, and another the arrangement
605 41| Philammon were not much earlier than these. Thus, concerning
606 29| while I was giving my most earnest attention to the matter,
607 8 | manufacturer of buckles and earrings, as is likely, deceived
608 32| renounced the popular and earthly, and obeying the commands
609 29| these by the unpretending east of the language, the inartificial
610 25| mankind? It is not we who eat human flesh--they among
611 25| things have your philosophers effected? They leave uncovered one
612 22| indulging in all sorts of effeminacy; sometimes darting his eyes
613 29| religious rites performed by the effeminate and the pathic, and having
614 38| departure of the Jews from Egypt to the places whither they
615 27| of Apion concerning the Egyptian gods, you denounce us as
616 39| Thyestes, and Agamemnon, in the eighteenth year of whose reign Troy
617 9 | who was put in chains and ejected from his kingdom, is constituted
618 1 | not ever boasting of your elegance of diction; for, while you
619 17| themselves, but are the elemental matter with which the depravity
620 33| Glaucippe brought forth an elephant, was that a reason why she
621 34| productions of Philaenis and Elephantis.~
622 41| reigned after Danaus in the eleventh generation after Inachus.
623 | elsewhere
624 10| transported this adulteress to the Elysian fields! But even the daughter
625 7 | heavenly Logos, a spirit emanating from the Father and a Logos
626 8 | mountains call Cybele, enacted emasculation on account of Attis, of
627 8 | delighted with conjugal embraces. Artemis is a poisoner;
628 17| addressing you as from an eminence, nor in mockery transfer
629 3 | confute the empty boasting of Empedocles, in that, though he was
630 36| years before the Persian empire. But Berosus is a very trustworthy
631 1 | The poetic art, again, you employ to describe battles, and
632 3 | Sicily, moreover, confute the empty boasting of Empedocles,
633 8 | Phrygian mountains call Cybele, enacted emasculation on account
634 8 | of Attis, of whom she was enamoured; but Aphrodite is delighted
635 15| is the soul; that which encloses the soul is the flesh. Such
636 21| consecrate to them sacred enclosures and groves, but parts of
637 7 | of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those who remained good.
638 16| to preserve all that is encompassed by it. There are, indeed,
639 4 | powers, as in a pugilistic encounter, into collision with us?
640 22| see, and the amazement has ended in contempt, to think how
641 11| my soul. Am I a slave, I endure servitude. Am I free, I
642 16| may do harm to them as to enemies, or afford occasions of
643 17| defend himself from his own enemy; being able to assist others,
644 23| partly of that of the men who engage in the combat. And he who
645 12| under one management, and is engaged in doing that which is the
646 23| blood-stained murderers, engaging to maintain them; and these
647 14| receive the immortal with enjoyment, or the painful with immortality,
648 | enough
649 39| and nomadic life, and they entered upon a new order of things.
650 13| with the flesh; but, if it enters into union with the Divine
651 8 | regarded as a theatrical entertainment by those beings of whom
652 21| According to you, Zeus is envious, and hides the dream from
653 32| proceedings are full of envy and abundant stupidity.~
654 33| made one of Mnesiarchis the Ephesian, Selanion one of Corinna,
655 31| Olynthian; after them, by Ephorus of Cumae, and Philochorus
656 41| Demodocus, Phemius, Sibylla, Epimenides of Crete, who came to Sparta,
657 39| Triopas were Prometheus, and Epimetheus, and Arias, and Cecrops
658 1 | method of joining together epistolary tablets:, her name was Atossa.
659 22| accuser of all the gods, an epitome of superstition, a vituperator
660 5 | having no beginning, is of equal power with God ; it is begotten,
661 4 | soul, is not to be honoured equally with the perfect God. Nor
662 34| RIDICULE OF THE STATUES ERECTED BY THE GREEKS.~ Worthy of
663 9 | benefactress to men? The Dog of Erigone is shown in the heavens,
664 33| courtezan, and Naucydes one of Erinna the Lesbian, and Boiscus
665 3 | perpetrators of impiety. The eruptions of fire in Sicily, moreover,
666 27| us to use art in order to escape it? I have not the heart
667 34| statues of Polynices and Eteocles, and that you have not rather
668 17| consummation s as fuel for the eternal fire. And you, if you do
669 34| What care I to know that Euanthe gave birth to an infant
670 41| Centaur, Isatis, Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian, Horus the Samian,
671 33| by Niceratus, the son of Euctemon the Athenian! But, if Glaucippe
672 39| of Proetus was the war of Eumolpus against the Athenians; in
673 25| Pythagoras says that he was Euphorbus, and he is the heir of the
674 39| Acrisius, Perseus, Sthenelaus, Eurystheus, Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamemnon,
675 31| was 140 years after that event; but, according to Philochorus,
676 | everywhere
677 40| what has been said it is evident that Moses was older than
678 16| thought to be something, or as evil-disposed friends may do harm to them
679 23| crowned. These are the lesser evils; as for the greater, who
680 30| for to those who wish to examine our principles I will give
681 29| mysteries, and having everywhere examined the religious rites performed
682 8 | their hearers to copy their example. And are not the demons
683 41| who has been thought to excel in every kind of wisdom,
684 | except
685 22| he is not--giving himself excessive airs of daintiness and indulging
686 19| your getting rich; he who excites to seditions and wars also
687 7 | then the power of the Logos excluded the beginner of the folly
688 16| when, as sometimes, they exhibit themselves to men, either
689 34| sucklings, and accordingly is exhibited by the workmanship of Polystratus
690 23| who misses the murderous exhibition is grieved, because he was
691 23| arena to succour. Do such exhibitions as these redound to your
692 27| say that you despise death exhort us to use art in order to
693 41| wanting, I will give my explanation respecting the men who are
694 12| reject those most divine explanations which in the course of time
695 3 | arrogant, said, "I have explored myself." Nor can I praise
696 27| logomachies, and not a sober exposition of truth. How can it be
697 1 | all, you hold in honour expressions not of native growth, and
698 22| manner. What wonderful or extraordinary thing is performed among
699 12| of dignity in it, and the eye is one thing, and another
700 35| XXXV. TATIAN SPEAKS AS AN EYE-WITNESS.~ The things which I have
701 40| the truth as if it were a fable. But what the learned among
702 34| have his tales kept the fabulist Aesop in everlasting remembrance,
703 22| thither, and raving with his face smeared with mud; sometimes
704 2 | bear or a leopard He in fact obeyed strictly the precepts
705 7 | Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events,
706 7 | VII. CONCERNING THE FALL OF MAN.~ For the heavenly
707 26| contribution to your speech, your fallacies would lose their power.
708 35| like yourselves; I have fallen in with many arts and inventions;
709 20| flutters like a nestling and falls to the ground. Having left
710 32| speaking we do not utter falsehood. It would be an excellent
711 22| I have rejected all his falsehoods, his impiety, his practices,--
712 3 | one vents but the crude fancies of the moment. They have,
713 8 | advantage from his art. Let the far-shooting god tell me how Zephyrus
714 35| seen and felt. So, bidding farewell to the arrogance of Romans
715 13| while seeking for God it fashioned to itself in its wandering
716 21| devouring flame. Prometheus, fastened to Caucasus, suffered punishment
717 12| of laws. Give at least as favourable a reception to our tenets
718 4 | fellow-man; God alone is to be feared,--He who is not visible
719 2 | manliness and courage by feasting, and transfixing with his
720 21| for the sake of Admetus fed the trailing-footed oxen,
721 4 | Man is to be honoured as a fellow-man; God alone is to be feared,--
722 7 | and his adherents from all fellowship with Himself. And so he
723 35| what I myself have seen and felt. So, bidding farewell to
724 33| Sappho is a lewd, love-sick female, and sings her own wantonness;
725 22| with contempt your solemn festivals, which, being held in honour
726 14| their lifetime. And do not fewer kinds of sin break out among
727 22| mendacious poets, who by their fictions beguile their hearers from
728 10| adulteress to the Elysian fields! But even the daughter of
729 26| know not God, but in your fierce contentions destroy one
730 21| died, and he who ravished fifty virgins in one night at
731 27| their teaching, why do you fight against me for choosing
732 13| have shown themselves to be fighters against God, rather than
733 18| when they have taken their fill of the things of this world,
734 35| arts and inventions; and finally, when sojourning in the
735 26| your teaching in corners. Finding you to be such men as these,
736 19| plants! It would surely be a fine thing for you to become
737 20| not infinite, O man, but finite and bounded; and beyond
738 5 | just as from one torch many fires are lighted, but the light
739 7 | regard to his being the first-born, and declared him to be
740 32| OPPOSED TO DISSENSIONS, AND FITTED FOR ALL.~ But with us there
741 38| his AEgyptiaca (there are five books of his), besides many
742 34| art of Callistratus, or to fix my gaze on the Neaera of
743 8 | they introduced Fate, a flagrant injustice. For the judge
744 21| himself to the devouring flame. Prometheus, fastened to
745 3 | to kings unbidden, nor to flatter men at the head of affairs,
746 2 | his duty as a preceptor flattered Alexander, forgetful that
747 10| is Helen, who forsook the flaxen-haired Menelaus, and followed the
748 8 | laughs and is angry, who flees and is wounded, be regarded
749 25| is not we who eat human flesh--they among you who assert
750 6 | potentiality (upostasis) Of fleshly matter, but being born,
751 1 | Isaurians, augury by the flight of birds; the Cyprians,
752 39| burning of Phaethon and the flood of Deucalion; in the time
753 1 | acquired the art of playing the flute from Marsyas and Olympus,--
754 20| this off through sin, it flutters like a nestling and falls
755 18| the things of this world, fly away from the sick, and,
756 30| my former errors as the follies of childhood. For we know
757 25| disciple of Aristotle, and a follower of Democritus rails at you.
758 14| often as they teach their followers to sin. Therefore, what
759 37| of the Phoenicians is as follows. There were among them three
760 19| a bird! He who makes you fond of money also foretells
761 21| concerning Homer, has argued very foolishly, turning everything into
762 21| COMPARED.~ We do not act as fools, O Greeks, nor utter idle
763 7 | to come; it also became a forbidder of wickedness by means of
764 41| Troy by two generations, forbids our collecting further particulars
765 19| to carry off a maiden by force, and you select a divinity
766 29| character of the writers, the foreknowledge displayed of future events,
767 7 | having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated,
768 8 | of vaticination; for, not foreseeing what would occur to you,
769 19| makes you fond of money also foretells your getting rich; he who
770 2 | preceptor flattered Alexander, forgetful that he was but a youth;
771 27| with abuse on a judgment formed without examination? Diagoras
772 | formerly
773 15| Spirit of God dwells in and fortifies are the bodies of the demons
774 41| Olympiad, Solon about the forty-sixth, and Pythagoras about the
775 31| historians, and the other the founder of all barbarian wisdom.
776 40| his doctrines [as] from a fountain. For many of the sophists
777 39| contemporary with Inachus, he is four hundred years older than
778 38| highly esteemed, in the fourth book of his AEgyptiaca (
779 19| her senses by the fumes of frankincense, and you say that she has
780 34| Is it not shameful that fratricide is honoured by you who look
781 12| to are the trickeries of frenzied demons, while the doctrines
782 33| the solemn assemblies they frequent. What a noble infant did
783 8 | girlish ornaments. Poseidon frequents the seas; Ares delights
784 20| heat, and others cold and frozen. We, however, have learned
785 34| from one who bore off the fruits of great incontinence, and
786 17| day of consummation s as fuel for the eternal fire. And
787 32| But your proceedings are full of envy and abundant stupidity.~
788 19| loses her senses by the fumes of frankincense, and you
789 5 | participation, making its choice of function, does not render him deficient
790 9 | doctrine of Fate. Their fundamental principle was the placing
791 9 | conquered, at another time gains the predominance. And the
792 34| in the Peripatus, or to gape with wonder at the art of
793 8 | who says,--~ "Close the gates against the profane!" Aidoneus
794 34| Callistratus, or to fix my gaze on the Neaera of Calliades?
795 21| Agamemnon, and all the Greeks in general, and the Barbarians with
796 1 | magic; to the Egyptians, geometry; to the Phoenicians, instruction
797 22| man when he is winking and gesticulating in an unnatural manner.
798 19| woman by drinking water gets into a frenzy, and loses
799 19| you say that she has the gift of prophecy. Apollo was
800 10| daughter of Tyndarus is not gifted with immortality, and Euripides
801 8 | child and orphan with these girlish ornaments. Poseidon frequents
802 1 | poet says,--~ These are gleaners' grapes and small talk,--~
803 10| Ganymede his cupbearer, glories in a vile affection. How
804 11| lack many things, and are glorious only through the estimation
805 19| the philosophers of being gluttons and cheats. But whom of
806 33| Herodotus made statues of Glycera the courtezan and Argeia
807 6 | although the poor and the godless know not what is stored
808 24| with his mouth wide open goes about sword in hand, and,
809 14| by daring; so the demons, going to great lengths in wickedness,
810 10| followed the turbaned and gold-adorned Paris. A just man also is
811 33| of Myro of Byzantium, and Gomphus one of Praxigoris, and Amphistratus
812 29| Jupiter delighting in human gore and the blood of slaughtered
813 8 | the decapitation of the Gorgon, the beloved of Poseidon,
814 2 | sold by Dionysius for his gormandizing propensities. And Aristotle,
815 3 | there and read it, and, gradually learning it by heart, carefully
816 38| Inachus." After him, Apion the grammarian, a man most highly esteemed,
817 20| you be healed by drugs (I grant you that point by courtesy),
818 36| the Trojan war; let it be granted that he was contemporary
819 1 | These are gleaners' grapes and small talk,--~ Twittering
820 11| avarice? Why are you fated to grasp at things often, and often
821 18| yourself, like the dog with grass, or the stag with a viper,
822 32| the poor enjoy instruction gratuitously; for the things which come
823 28| collect herds of boys like grazing horses, it is honoured with
824 19| your philosophers are so greatly deficient, that some of
825 4 | For what reason, men of Greece, do you wish to bring the
826 12| became intemperate and greedy; some few, indeed, turning
827 19| bad; and we may see those greeted with applause as in a solemn
828 35| of Barbarians." For what grievance is it, that men manifestly
829 23| murderous exhibition is grieved, because he was not doomed
830 21| them sacred enclosures and groves, but parts of nature and
831 21| never pregnant? Has she grown old? or is there no one
832 1 | expressions not of native growth, and by the intermixture
833 3 | accuse, Busiris to murder his guests, and Hercules to repeat
834 9 | as we do not follow the guidance of Fate, we reject its lawgivers.
835 13| regions whither the Spirit guides it: for the dwelling-place
836 31| Olympiad, in the time of Gyges the Lydian, 500 years after
837 16| they themselves disturb the habit of the body by a tempest
838 15| but, if it be not such a habitation, man excels the wild beasts
839 24| aloud, is burned to death, habited in a robe unfit for man?
840 31| of Colophon, Herodotus of Halicarnassus, and Dionysius the Olynthian;
841 3 | learning it by heart, carefully handed down to posterity this darkness
842 26| with the deaf. Why do you handle the builder's tools without
843 17| nor is a maniac cured by hanging little amulets of leather
844 20| heavenly companionship, it hankers after communion with inferior
845 16| us; but, when such things happen, the demons ascribe the
846 14| we, to whom it now easily happens to die, afterwards receive
847 20| but, partaking of every happy temperature, have perpetual
848 3 | with cow-dung, which, as it hardened, contracted the flesh of
849 16| evil-disposed friends may do harm to them as to enemies, or
850 34| image of their offspring Harmonia. Sophron, who committed
851 25| are fighting against the harmonious. One of you asserts that
852 33| courtezan and Argeia the harper. Bryaxis made a statue of
853 26| and why are you in such haste to put them all down? Were
854 12| do you who are willing hasten to learn. And you who do
855 27| XXVII. THE CHRISTIANS ARE HATED UNJUSTLY .~ And if you adhere
856 2 | that he might not incur the hatred of his friends. I could
857 18| persons often endeavour to heal by a union of one of these
858 18| THEY DECEIVE, INSTEAD OF HEALING.~ But medicine and everything
859 8 | Artemis is a poisoner; Apollo heals diseases. And after the
860 17| XVII. THEY FALSELY PROMISE HEALTH TO THEIR VOTARIES.~ Concerning
861 12| these things not from mere hearsay, nor from probable conjectures
862 20| localities are burnt up with heat, and others cold and frozen.
863 33| skill of Myron, who made a heifer and upon it a Victory because
864 25| Euphorbus, and he is the heir of the doctrine of Pherecydes;
865 1 | queen of the Persians, as Hellanicus tells us, the method of
866 9 | heavens, and the Scorpion the helper of Artemis, and Chiron the
867 17| revenged, accept them as helpers. And this is the method
868 13| Spirit, it is no longer helpless, but ascends to the regions
869 | Hence
870 42| now undertake to proclaim. Henceforward, knowing who God is and
871 34| ashamed of the fornication of Hephaestion, even though Philo has represented
872 31| before the return of the Heraclidae, and within 80 years after
873 17| own want of reason to the herald of the truth. A diseased
874 17| them to place confidence in herbs and roots. But God, if He
875 28| who endeavour to collect herds of boys like grazing horses,
876 34| reason do you honour the hermaphrodite Ganymede by Leochares, as
877 22| superstition, a vituperator of heroic deeds, an actor of murders,
878 26| appearance in public, but hide your teaching in corners.
879 21| you, Zeus is envious, and hides the dream from men, wishing
880 3 | Nor can I praise him for hiding his poem in the temple of
881 2 | nor bodily strength, nor high birth, they have no happiness,
882 9 | life on earth. Thus the high-spirited and he who is crushed with
883 33| while they are held in higher estimation by you than even
884 3 | makes them eager for the highest places. It would better
885 38| the grammarian, a man most highly esteemed, in the fourth
886 26| is borne along, that the hills are in motion, so you do
887 41| writers that were before him--older than Linus, Philammon,
888 20| everything that proves a hindrance. The heavens are not infinite,
889 31| the oldest of poets and historians, and the other the founder
890 39| Greeks, they possessed no historical composition; for Cadmus,
891 37| philosophers. Now, in the histories of the aforesaid writers
892 22| sometimes throwing his hands hither and thither, and raving
893 18| stag with a viper, or the hog with river-crabs, or the
894 21| persuaded to pay religious homage to the natural elements,
895 8 | the same blood, became a homicide and the instigator of wars.
896 33| she should enjoy public honours? Praxiteles and Herodotus
897 8 | Poseidon, whence sprang the horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, Athene
898 41| Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian, Horus the Samian, and Pronapis
899 7 | illusions, are become a host of demons, and through their
900 1 | BE not, O Greeks, so very hostilely disposed towards the Barbarians,
901 15| advanced far beyond mere humanity--to God Himself. This question
902 39| with Inachus, he is four hundred years older than the Trojan
903 39| temple in Eleusis, and the husbandry of Triptolemus, and the
904 8 | tell me how Zephyrus slew Hyacinthus. Zephyrus conquered him;
905 37| them three men, Theodotus, Hypsicrates, and Mochus; Chaitus translated
906 23| giving themselves up to idleness for the sake of profligacy,
907 2 | II. THE VICES AND ERRORS OF
908 3 | III. RIDICULE OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.~
909 31| year from the taking of Ilium; Aristarchus, that it was
910 35| Athenians, and all their ill-connected opinions, I embraced our
911 7 | imitated him, that is his illusions, are become a host of demons,
912 39| kings. Hence, if the most illustrious deeds among the Greeks were
913 26| As those who are sailing imagine in their ignorance, as the
914 7 | becomes a demon; and they who imitated him, that is his illusions,
915 1 | then, to miscall these imitations inventions of your own.
916 35| matter which demanded more immediate attention; but now it is
917 42| doctrines, while I adhere immoveably to that mode of life which
918 4 | matter; He is invisible, impalpable, being Himself the Father
919 16| immortal soul, which is impeded by the members of the body,
920 11| detest fornication; I am not impelled by an insatiable love of
921 41| the matter of principal importance is to endeavour with all
922 27| inquiries is the work of one who imposes opinions on himself as if
923 20| is beyond, because Of the impossibility of personal observation,
924 31| not agree together, it is impossible that the history should
925 25| Pherecydes; but Aristotle impugns the immortality of the soul.
926 34| woman with the stain of impurity upon it. It behoved you,
927 29| east of the language, the inartificial character of the writers,
928 17| nothing, my remains, which are incapable of motion or even sense,
929 18| medicine and everything included in it is an invention of
930 7 | immortality, so that, as incorruption is with God, in like manner,
931 34| plastic art of Aristodemus has increased his celebrity. How is it
932 12| while the doctrines we inculcate are far beyond the apprehension
933 2 | himself, that he might not incur the hatred of his friends.
934 22| affected tones, and go through indecent movements; your daughters
935 2 | made such a parade of his independence with his tub, was seized
936 25| body; that the world is indestructible, but I say that it is to
937 17| them cannot of themselves indicate what is meant, but men have
938 22| excessive airs of daintiness and indulging in all sorts of effeminacy;
939 4 | God. Nor even ought the ineffable God to be presented with
940 22| regaled with the utterance of infamous discourses! Admirable, too,
941 22| wicked demons, cover men with infamy? I have often seen a man--
942 7 | been given up to their own infatuation.~
943 25| with one another, you the inharmonious, are fighting against the
944 12| obtained the spirit which inheres in it, became intemperate
945 3 | Pherecydes, and the doctrine inherited from him by Pythagoras,
946 14| were mighty. For, as the inhuman robber is wont to overpower
947 34| Destroy these memorials of iniquity! Why should I contemplate
948 30| DEVIL.~ Therefore, being initiated and instructed in these
949 25| is endowed with it. What injury do we inflict upon you,
950 34| productions are mere trash, and innumerable courtezans, and worthless
951 35| infinite number of philosophic inquirers, has struck out a new path,
952 27| To be occupied in such inquiries is the work of one who imposes
953 26| lose their power. While inquiring what God is, you are ignorant
954 11| I am not impelled by an insatiable love of gain to go to sea;
955 35| the city of the Romans, I inspected the multiplicity of statues
956 1 | the Cyprians, the art of inspecting victims. To the Babylonians
957 16| from it. For the demons, inspired with frenzy against men
958 29| demon here and another there instigating to the perpetration of evil,--
959 31| barbarian wisdom. Let us, then, institute a comparison between them;
960 3 | mystery; and those who take an interest in such things say that
961 1 | native growth, and by the intermixture of barbaric words have made
962 22| think how he is one thing internally, but outwardly counterfeits
963 38| priest of Mendes, is the interpreter of their affairs. This writer,
964 12| the distribution of the intestines, and the compacting together
965 18| punishment on account of his intimacy with him, so he who is not
966 2 | transfixing with his spear his intimate and most beloved friend,
967 13| those who live justly, and intimately combining with the soul,
968 3 | of the conflagration he introduces more wicked than just persons--
969 18| those who are esteemed gods, invading the bodies of certain persons,
970 19| only, was he accustomed to inveigh against? If you say, in
971 31| for those who are able to investigate with accuracy. For it is
972 31| he flourished have been investigated by the most ancient writers,--
973 3 | resemble him, turn to the investigation of what truly deserves attention?
974 39| Cecrops of double nature, and Io; in the time of Crotopas
975 39| Phrygia, and the coming of Ion to Athens, and the second
976 1 | AEolians speak like the Ionians. And, since such a discrepancy
977 8 | the gods~ Rose laughter irrepressible."~But must not those who
978 41| Arimaspia, Asbolus the Centaur, Isatis, Drymon, Euclus the Cyprian,
979 1 | Phrygians and the most ancient Isaurians, augury by the flight of
980 7 | foretold from time to time the issues of things to come; it also
981 4 | IV. THE CHRISTIANS WORSHIP
982 9 | IX. THEY GIVE RISE TO SUPERSTITIONS.~
983 1 | tells us, the method of joining together epistolary tablets:,
984 36| trustworthy man, and of this Juba is a witness, who, writing
985 17| the same punishment as the jugglers. Wherefore, O Greeks, hearken
986 29| the Romans their Latiarian Jupiter delighting in human gore
987 26| yourselves with words, while you keep aloof from deeds, puffed
988 23| rich man buys others to kill him. And for these the witnesses
989 5 | torch is not lessened by the kindling of many torches, so the
990 9 | Fate? How, too, can he give kingdoms who no longer reigns himself?
991 10| slaughter its image. The Kneeler crushes a noxious animal;
992 6 | existing before I was born, I knew not who I was, and only
993 39| Greeks were recorded and made known after Inachus, it is manifest
994 13| not to die. If, indeed, it knows not the truth, it dies,
995 3 | and Hercules to repeat his labours; and in this doctrine of
996 26| is like walking through a labyrinth, and their readers resemble
997 41| of Troy, gave laws to the Lacedemonians. Draco is found to have
998 11| to their life. The rich lack many things, and are glorious
999 34| For she was a courtezan. Lais was a prostitute, and Turnus
1000 21| neighbour. And Metrodorus of Lampsacus, in his treatise concerning