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1001 42| for you. I was born in the land of the Assyrians, having
1002 35| hand. I have visited many lands; I have followed rhetoric,
1003 | last
1004 29| found among the Romans their Latiarian Jupiter delighting in human
1005 8 | burial-place of Dionysus. You now I laud, O Daphne!--by conquering
1006 8 | paederast and an adulterer, who laughs and is angry, who flees
1007 9 | guidance of Fate, we reject its lawgivers. Tell me, I adjure you did
1008 16| approach a man whenever disease lays hold of him. Sometimes they
1009 29| former class of writings lead to condemnation, but that
1010 38| of king Amosis, under the leadership of Moses. He thus speaks: "
1011 17| pious acknowledgment of God, leading them to place confidence
1012 16| rising to the path that leads to heaven. But from us the
1013 33| and Menestratus one of Learchis, and Selanion one of Sappho
1014 | least
1015 17| hanging little amulets of leather upon him. There are visitations
1016 22| places, forsooth, are your lecture-rooms, where every base action
1017 23| chief among you collects a legion of blood-stained murderers,
1018 41| and mental acuteness, and legislative capacity, lived in the time
1019 14| the demons, going to great lengths in wickedness, have utterly
1020 27| possess the commentaries of Leo, and are displeased with
1021 34| hermaphrodite Ganymede by Leochares, as if you possessed something
1022 2 | him about like a bear or a leopard He in fact obeyed strictly
1023 33| Naucydes one of Erinna the Lesbian, and Boiscus one of Myrtis,
1024 5 | of the first torch is not lessened by the kindling of many
1025 23| is crowned. These are the lesser evils; as for the greater,
1026 9 | on account of the first letter in the name of Zeus (Dios)?
1027 10| ravishers of the daughters of Leucippus, are also noble! Better
1028 33| philosophy. This Sappho is a lewd, love-sick female, and sings
1029 27| says that the Cretans are liars. Your assembly of many gods
1030 32| respect, but every kind of licentiousness is kept at a distance. And
1031 19| XIX. DEPRAVITY LIES AT THE BOTTOM OF DEMON-WORSHIP.~
1032 14| prescribed to them during their lifetime. And do not fewer kinds
1033 25| and a disciple of Epicurus lifts up his voice to oppose you.
1034 5 | one torch many fires are lighted, but the light of the first
1035 | likely
1036 2 | Aristotle, who absurdly placed a limit to Providence and made happiness
1037 8 | Atalanta by Meleaget. This limping manufacturer of buckles
1038 17| alphabetic letters and the lines composed of them cannot
1039 3 | thus died. Then, one cannot listen to Zeno, who declares that
1040 20| with mud; and that some localities are burnt up with heat,
1041 5 | Him, by Logos-power (dia> logikês dunameôs), the Logos Himself
1042 27| Such assertions are mere logomachies, and not a sober exposition
1043 21| destruction. Wherefore, looking at your own memorials, vouchsafe
1044 32| do not test them by their looks, nor do we judge of those
1045 27| dialectics resembles the loquacity of Thersites. How can I
1046 15| matter desired to exercise lordship over the soul; and according
1047 26| speech, your fallacies would lose their power. While inquiring
1048 19| gets into a frenzy, and loses her senses by the fumes
1049 11| the things suited to his lot, more easily obtains his
1050 33| This Sappho is a lewd, love-sick female, and sings her own
1051 12| those who study them great lovers of God. Therefore the demons,
1052 13| darkness, and there is nothing luminous in it. And this is the meaning
1053 1 | eagerly pursue it shout lustily, and croak like so many
1054 19| minister to thee of worldly lusts. You wish make war, and
1055 41| generation after Inachus. Lycurgus, who was born long after
1056 31| in the time of Gyges the Lydian, 500 years after Troy. Thus,
1057 33| what relates to woman. For Lysippus cast a statue of Praxilla,
1058 33| woman, and for that reason Lysistratus made her statue. But, forsooth,
1059 39| of the Attic, [and of the Macedonian, the Ptolemaic, and the
1060 21| merely for the sake of the machinery of the poem, not one of
1061 28| becoming by the Persian Magi; paederasty is condemned
1062 17| so he who boasted of the Magian Ostanes will be delivered
1063 1 | astronomy; to the Persians, magic; to the Egyptians, geometry;
1064 32| believed to have been very magnanimous; and Neoptolemus was younger,
1065 19| You want to carry off a maiden by force, and you select
1066 23| blood-stained murderers, engaging to maintain them; and these ruffians
1067 22| infamy? I have often seen a man--and have been amazed to
1068 10| the eagle that devours the man-maker Prometheus is honoured.
1069 12| of the body is under one management, and is engaged in doing
1070 9 | kingdom, is constituted a manager of Fate? How, too, can he
1071 11| to Fate, when I see such managers of Fate? I do not wish to
1072 17| antipatheia), nor is a maniac cured by hanging little
1073 2 | his teacher in displaying manliness and courage by feasting,
1074 25| and a weaver for their mantle, and a wood-cutter for their
1075 8 | by Meleaget. This limping manufacturer of buckles and earrings,
1076 33| that our institutions are marked by sobermindedness, but
1077 37| who gave his daughter in marriage to Solomon the king of the
1078 8 | or the other, and he who marries and is a paederast and an
1079 12| compacting together of the marrow and the bones and the tendons;
1080 1 | of playing the flute from Marsyas and Olympus,--these two
1081 27| that the sun is a red-hot mass and the moon an earth? Such
1082 26| Why do you, as in a boxing match, make their sounds clash
1083 24| raving mad, and acting the matricide of Alcmaeon; who does not
1084 13| luminous in it. And this is the meaning of the saying, "The darkness
1085 17| themselves indicate what is meant, but men have invented for
1086 27| plausibilities of syllogisms, the measurements of the earth, the positions
1087 1 | have made your language a medley. On this account we have
1088 31| Philochorus the Athenian, Megaclides and Chamaeleon the Peripatetics;
1089 33| should be like her. A certain Melanippe was a wise woman, and for
1090 8 | Hephaestos, as Atalanta by Meleaget. This limping manufacturer
1091 16| which is impeded by the members of the body, should become
1092 33| Pasiphae; and, by having a memorial of her lewdness, it seems
1093 33| took pains to preserve her memory by his art. I condemn Pythagoras
1094 22| Admirable, too, are your mendacious poets, who by their fictions
1095 38| the king, but a priest of Mendes, is the interpreter of their
1096 38| the Argive Inachus, as the Mendesian Ptolemy wrote in his annals.
1097 33| contain nothing useful, and Menestratus one of Learchis, and Selanion
1098 41| every kind of wisdom, and mental acuteness, and legislative
1099 36| the acts of the kings, he mentions one of them, Nabuchodonosor
1100 34| for his skill in casting metals, of which specimens exist
1101 10| with you the gods also are metamorphosed. Rhea becomes a tree; Zeus
1102 10| There are legends of the metamorphosis of men: with you the gods
1103 25| children, and Zeus swallows Metis.~
1104 21| persuade my neighbour. And Metrodorus of Lampsacus, in his treatise
1105 30| to find out the cause of mews not being able to understand
1106 14| follow demons as if they were mighty. For, as the inhuman robber
1107 16| intelligent when it has migrated from it. For the demons,
1108 3 | for instance, Anytus and Miletus to accuse, Busiris to murder
1109 11| anxious to be rich; I decline military command; I detest fornication;
1110 26| clash together with your mincing Attic way of speaking, whereas
1111 15| question we have discussed more minutely in the treatise concerning
1112 1 | writing. Cease, then, to miscall these imitations inventions
1113 4 | to be abhorred as a vile miscreant? Does the sovereign order
1114 17| who has died by the most miserable death be able to assist
1115 26| praise, but cast down by misfortunes? Your modes of acting are
1116 40| not understand, they might misrepresent the truth as if it were
1117 4 | of nothing is not to be misrepresented by us as though He were
1118 23| in the combat. And he who misses the murderous exhibition
1119 33| Euthycrates made one of Mnesiarchis the Ephesian, Selanion one
1120 37| Theodotus, Hypsicrates, and Mochus; Chaitus translated their
1121 17| from an eminence, nor in mockery transfer your own want of
1122 11| man and he who has very moderate desires, seeking as he does
1123 26| down by misfortunes? Your modes of acting are contrary to
1124 3 | the crude fancies of the moment. They have, moreover, many
1125 34| prostitute, and Turnus made her a monument of prostitution. Why are
1126 20| will acquire a clothing of mortality, foretold things which other
1127 8 | wounded, be regarded as mortals? For, by whatever actions
1128 28| consider intercourse with a mother as unlawful, but this practice
1129 8 | is likely, deceived the motherless child and orphan with these
1130 24| behaviour, but with his mouth wide open goes about sword
1131 22| and go through indecent movements; your daughters and your
1132 8 | Fate; the murderers and the murdered, the wealthy and the needy,
1133 23| combat. And he who misses the murderous exhibition is grieved, because
1134 22| heroic deeds, an actor of murders, a chronicler of adultery,
1135 12| harmony of a concert of music in their arrangement;--in
1136 17| various kinds of roots and the mutual relation of the sinews and
1137 33| and Cephisodotus one of Myro of Byzantium, and Gomphus
1138 33| I ridicule the skill of Myron, who made a heifer and upon
1139 33| Lesbian, and Boiscus one of Myrtis, and Cephisodotus one of
1140 3 | published afterwards as a mystery; and those who take an interest
1141 33| about Anyta, Telesilla, and Mystis? Of the first Euthycrates
1142 21| and do not resolve your myths and gods into allegory.
1143 36| he mentions one of them, Nabuchodonosor by name, who made war against
1144 25| cultivate their beards; their nails are like the claws of wild
1145 20| possible for every one who is naked to obtain this apparel,
1146 21| mythical accounts with our narrations. Athene, as they say, took
1147 36| his hearers to make his narrative of events very concise.
1148 1 | honour expressions not of native growth, and by the intermixture
1149 33| Sappho the courtezan, and Naucydes one of Erinna the Lesbian,
1150 34| or to fix my gaze on the Neaera of Calliades? For she was
1151 2 | Providence; and so, being nearer the earth than the moon,
1152 15| XV. NECESSITY OF A UNION WITH THE HOLY
1153 8 | murdered, the wealthy and the needy, are the offspring of the
1154 32| been very magnanimous; and Neoptolemus was younger, but strong;
1155 19| Crescens, who made his nest in the great city, surpassed
1156 20| sin, it flutters like a nestling and falls to the ground.
1157 32| hereafter. Is it not absurd that Nestor, who was slow at cutting
1158 | never
1159 33| sing of divine things more nobly than that damsel of yours.
1160 39| given to their savage and nomadic life, and they entered upon
1161 | none
1162 33| You who say that we talk nonsense among women and boys, among
1163 22| counterfeits what he is not--giving himself excessive
1164 6 | after a former state of nothingness, I have obtained through
1165 21| allowable even to compare our notion of God with those who are
1166 23| cannibal banquet for the soul, nourishing it by the most impious bloodshedding.
1167 3 | bad will be found far more numerous than the good. And according
1168 13| And the souls that are obedient to wisdom have attracted
1169 2 | or a leopard He in fact obeyed strictly the precepts of
1170 32| popular and earthly, and obeying the commands of God, and
1171 20| impossibility of personal observation, they have assigned as the
1172 39| person will most carefully observe that, according to the tradition
1173 11| to his lot, more easily obtains his purpose. How is it that
1174 30| Barbarians to make that an occasion of banter? For, if you are
1175 16| as to enemies, or afford occasions of doing them honour to
1176 27| course of the sun? To be occupied in such inquiries is the
1177 38| Inachus to the taking of Troy occupies twenty generations. The
1178 32| struggle against old age and occupy themselves with the things
1179 8 | not foreseeing what would occur to you, he derived no advantage
1180 38| places whither they went occurred in the time of king Amosis,
1181 35| concerning its doctrines. Be not offended with our teaching, nor undertake
1182 39| who was after Inachus, Ogygus is mentioned among the Athenians,
1183 27| most impious. The tomb of Olympian Zeus is shown among you,
1184 1 | the flute from Marsyas and Olympus,--these two rustic Phrygians
1185 3 | but to wait till the great ones come to them.~
1186 41| to him were composed by Onomacritus the Athenian, who lived
1187 24| but with his mouth wide open goes about sword in hand,
1188 17| this is the method of their operation: just as the forms of alphabetic
1189 32| everything which rests upon human opinion. Not only do the rich among
1190 25| Epicurus lifts up his voice to oppose you. Again, you wish to
1191 32| DOCTRINE OF THE CHRISTIANS, IS OPPOSED TO DISSENSIONS, AND FITTED
1192 2 | the moon, and below its orbit, they themselves look after
1193 7 | angels. And each of these two orders of creatures was made free
1194 10| woman as put to death by Orestes.~
1195 5 | off is separated from the original substance, but that which
1196 8 | orphan with these girlish ornaments. Poseidon frequents the
1197 8 | the motherless child and orphan with these girlish ornaments.
1198 10| is now Delos was called Ortygia. A god, forsooth, becomes
1199 17| who boasted of the Magian Ostanes will be delivered up in
1200 32| who come to us by their outward appearance; for we argue
1201 22| one thing internally, but outwardly counterfeits what he is
1202 14| inhuman robber is wont to overpower those like himself by daring;
1203 8 | subjected to Fate, being overpowered by the same passions as
1204 21| nature as held by you is overthrown by your own selves; for,
1205 1 | To the Babylonians you owe astronomy; to the Persians,
1206 21| fed the trailing-footed oxen, and the spouse us came
1207 8 | he who marries and is a paederast and an adulterer, who laughs
1208 28| becoming by the Persian Magi; paederasty is condemned by the Barbarians,
1209 33| because Besantis queen of the Paeonians gave birth to a black infant,
1210 19| long beard without being paid for it! Crescens, who made
1211 19| all men in unnatural love (paiderastia), and was strongly addicted
1212 14| immortal with enjoyment, or the painful with immortality, so the
1213 33| to a black infant, took pains to preserve her memory by
1214 33| cast a brazen statue of Panteuchis, who was pregnant by a whoremonger;
1215 26| this idle talk; and you who parcel out wisdom are cut off from
1216 31| the poetry of Homer, his parentage, and the time in which he
1217 20| diseases are produced, but, partaking of every happy temperature,
1218 26| of the several parts to particular men; and you know not God,
1219 41| forbids our collecting further particulars about him for those who
1220 8 | of single combats and are partisans on one side or the other,
1221 18| punished by God the Judge for partnership in the same object. Why
1222 33| Bryaxis made a statue of Pasiphae; and, by having a memorial
1223 6 | Nor is sentence upon us passed by Minos or Rhadamanthus,
1224 26| saying that one part is past, and another present, and
1225 29| by the effeminate and the pathic, and having found among
1226 17| truth. A diseased affection (pathos) is not destroyed by a counter-affection (
1227 4 | the sovereign order the payment of tribute, I am ready to
1228 32| been reproached for being peak-headed and bald. As for those who
1229 17| thoughts, knowing by their peculiar combination what the order
1230 8 | whence sprang the horse Pegasus and Chrysaor, Athene and
1231 39| the coming of Danaus into Peloponnesus, and the founding of Dardania
1232 12| it is possible for him to perceive who does not conceitedly
1233 19| do you, who have not the perception of these things, be instructed
1234 10| carried him thither: unless perchance, as men, perjuring themselves
1235 7 | alone, but is brought to perfection in men through their freedom
1236 41| concerning their several performances in each kind, and their
1237 15| mean by man, not one who performs actions similar to those
1238 37| the temple. Menander of Pergamus composed a history concerning
1239 34| for the sake of the artist Periclymenus? One ought to turn away
1240 6 | resurrection once for all, when our periods of existence are completed,
1241 31| Megaclides and Chamaeleon the Peripatetics; afterwards by the grammarians,
1242 34| birth to an infant in the Peripatus, or to gape with wonder
1243 10| unless perchance, as men, perjuring themselves for hire, are
1244 22| where every base action perpetrated by night is proclaimed aloud,
1245 29| there instigating to the perpetration of evil,--retiring by myself,
1246 3 | sewers and worms, and in the perpetrators of impiety. The eruptions
1247 20| happy temperature, have perpetual day, and light unapproachable
1248 10| a dragon, on account of Persephone; the sisters of Phaethon
1249 39| taken. And every intelligent person will most carefully observe
1250 21| the poem, not one of these personages having really existed. But
1251 20| Of the impossibility of personal observation, they have assigned
1252 22| smeared with mud; sometimes personating Aphrodite, sometimes Apollo;
1253 3 | introduces more wicked than just persons--one Socrates and a Hercules,
1254 32| themselves with the things pertaining to God? Who would not laugh
1255 4 | gods? For the Spirit that pervades matter is inferior to the
1256 4 | things. God is a Spirit, not pervading matter, but the Maker of
1257 16| of their own wickedness, pervert their minds, which already
1258 41| and the other with the Phaeacians. Thamyris and Philammon
1259 34| shameful productions of Philaenis and Elephantis.~
1260 34| Hephaestion, even though Philo has represented him very
1261 32| was younger, but strong; Philoctetes was weak, but the divinity
1262 2 | professed opinions. Plato, a philosopher, was sold by Dionysius for
1263 35| above the infinite number of philosophic inquirers, has struck out
1264 2 | Aristotle. Let such men philosophize, for me!~
1265 40| and from those who have philosophized like him, first that they
1266 21| Hector, and the unshorn Phoebus for the sake of Admetus
1267 39| coming over of Pelops from Phrygia, and the coming of Ion to
1268 33| and Herodotus made for you Phryne the courtezan, and Euthycrates
1269 17| turn men aside from the pious acknowledgment of God, leading
1270 1 | harmony of the shepherd's pipe. The Tyrrhenians invented
1271 24| should I admire the mythic piper? Why should I busy myself
1272 41| during the reign of the Pisistratids, about the fiftieth Olympiad.
1273 26| the sky, you stumble into pitfalls. The reading of your books
1274 8 | For, having shown them a plan of the position of the stars,
1275 9 | and instead of wandering (planêtôn) demons, we have learned
1276 9 | predominance. And the seven planets are well pleased with them,
1277 3 | as well as philosophy, he plastered himself with cow-dung, which,
1278 27| sorites of philosophers, the plausibilities of syllogisms, the measurements
1279 8 | delights in wars; Apollo is a player on the cithara; Dionysus
1280 1 | you acquired the art of playing the flute from Marsyas and
1281 26| more rugged, the other more pleasant for intercourse?~
1282 6 | God the Sovereign, when He pleases, will restore the substance
1283 26| like the daw in borrowed plumes. If each state were to take
1284 23| commits murder for the sake of plunder, but the rich man purchases
1285 33| statue of Praxilla, whose poems contain nothing useful,
1286 34| that you, who have so many poetesses whose productions are mere
1287 1 | another time as not good. The poetic art, again, you employ to
1288 19| thing was made." If there is poison in natural productions,
1289 8 | conjugal embraces. Artemis is a poisoner; Apollo heals diseases.
1290 34| who look on the statues of Polynices and Eteocles, and that you
1291 2 | complaint through eating a raw polypus, and so lost his life by
1292 34| exhibited by the workmanship of Polystratus the Ambraciot, even to this
1293 26| to reaSon, for you make a pompons appearance in public, but
1294 10| Phaethon are changed into poplars, and Leto into a bird of
1295 32| For having renounced the popular and earthly, and obeying
1296 8 | shown them a plan of the position of the stars, like dice-players,
1297 27| measurements of the earth, the positions of the stars, and the course
1298 30| we secure it as our fixed possession. He who receives the whole
1299 3 | carefully handed down to posterity this darkness of Heraclitus.
1300 6 | and only existed in the potentiality (upostasis) Of fleshly matter,
1301 22| falsehoods, his impiety, his practices,--in short, the man altogether.
1302 14| flesh; but while living they practise the ways of death, and die
1303 33| Byzantium, and Gomphus one of Praxigoris, and Amphistratus one of
1304 33| Lysippus cast a statue of Praxilla, whose poems contain nothing
1305 26| though not an Athenian, pray why do you not speak like
1306 2 | contrary to his duty as a preceptor flattered Alexander, forgetful
1307 8 | by the Athenians. In the precincts of the temple of the son
1308 30| obtained command of the most precious wealth. Let these things,
1309 25| You who receive from your predecessors doctrines which clash with
1310 19| seditions and wars also predicts victory in war. If you are
1311 9 | at another time gains the predominance. And the seven planets are
1312 9 | the light of one of them predominates, as they express it, it
1313 26| distinguished origin, nor a death preferable to that of other men? The
1314 8 | own daughter, who becomes pregant by him. I may instance,
1315 18| power of God. As noxious preparations arc material compounds,
1316 19| oracular, and birds utter presages! And so you are inferior
1317 14| performed what the demons prescribed to them during their lifetime.
1318 18| producing a sense of their presence by dreams, command them
1319 4 | the ineffable God to be presented with gifts; for He who is
1320 10| reverence gods who are eager for presents, and angry if they do not
1321 13| preserve the spirit, but is preserved by it, and the light comprehends
1322 33| you, hear what silliness prevails among the Greeks. For their
1323 29| we had received but were prevented by error from retaining.~
1324 28| is honoured with certain privileges.~
1325 33| Agenor it had borne away the prize for adultery and lewdness.
1326 12| from mere hearsay, nor from probable conjectures and sophistical
1327 32| be weak in body. But your proceedings are full of envy and abundant
1328 42| which I now undertake to proclaim. Henceforward, knowing who
1329 22| perpetrated by night is proclaimed aloud, and the hearers are
1330 19| being an evil, because by proclaiming the truth he convicted the
1331 41| to Sparta, Aristaeus of Proconnesus, who wrote the Arimaspia,
1332 33| you, who brought forth a prodigy, as is shown by her statue
1333 17| what men wish, would be a Producer of evil things; whereas
1334 18| of certain persons, and producing a sense of their presence
1335 8 | Close the gates against the profane!" Aidoneus carries off Kore,
1336 19| know them: though you do profess to despise death, and to
1337 36| For it behoves one who professes to persuade his hearers
1338 1 | though I was once a great proficient in it; for, as the comic
1339 2 | in a purple robe, led a profligate life, in accordance with
1340 14| are you also, O Greeks,--profuse in words, but with minds
1341 1 | dreams; the Carians, that of prognosticating by the stars; the Phrygians
1342 12| tenets as you would to the prognostications of the Babylonians. Hearken
1343 19| of prophecy. Apollo was a prognosticator and a teacher of soothsayers:
1344 7 | of wickedness by means of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those
1345 17| XVII. THEY FALSELY PROMISE HEALTH TO THEIR VOTARIES.~
1346 8 | characters, by these they prompt their hearers to copy their
1347 41| Cyprian, Horus the Samian, and Pronapis the Athenian. Now, Linus
1348 32| confirmed by the judgment pronounced by God. Laugh, if you please;
1349 1 | of one accord also in the pronunciation of their language. But,
1350 2 | Dionysius for his gormandizing propensities. And Aristotle, who absurdly
1351 31| GREEKS.~ But now it seems proper for me to demonstrate that
1352 13| combining with the soul, by prophecies it announced hidden things
1353 19| that she has the gift of prophecy. Apollo was a prognosticator
1354 34| a courtezan. Lais was a prostitute, and Turnus made her a monument
1355 34| Turnus made her a monument of prostitution. Why are you not ashamed
1356 25| want nothing, yet, like Proteus, they need a currier for
1357 20| put aside everything that proves a hindrance. The heavens
1358 12| which is called the soul (psukê), but the other is greater
1359 39| and of the Macedonian, the Ptolemaic, and the Antiochian] kings.
1360 3 | in order that it might be published afterwards as a mystery;
1361 26| you keep aloof from deeds, puffed up with praise, but cast
1362 4 | the civil powers, as in a pugilistic encounter, into collision
1363 23| XXIII. OF THE PUGILISTS AND GLADIATORS,~ I have
1364 16| they would without doubt pull down heaven itself with
1365 3 | whole body, so that he was pulled in pieces, and thus died.
1366 23| eating their flesh, and you purchase men to supply a cannibal
1367 23| plunder, but the rich man purchases gladiators for the sake
1368 12| indeed, turning to what was purer, but others choosing what
1369 2 | Aristippus, walking about in a purple robe, led a profligate life,
1370 2 | have you produced by your pursuit of philosophy? Who of your
1371 22| not take a part in your pursuits. I have no mind to stand
1372 9 | swim in the waters, and the quadrupeds on the mountains, with which
1373 17| everything which has good qualities, but the profligacy of the
1374 29| future events, the excellent quality of the precepts, and the
1375 25| XXV. BOASTINGS AND QUARRELS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS.~ What
1376 15| humanity--to God Himself. This question we have discussed more minutely
1377 2 | things which give pleasure, quite contrary to his duty as
1378 30| except to request you not to rail at those who are better
1379 25| a follower of Democritus rails at you. Pythagoras says
1380 18| them to their friends for a ransom, so those who are esteemed
1381 1 | and croak like so many ravens. You have, too, contrived
1382 21| Asclepios died, and he who ravished fifty virgins in one night
1383 10| living on alternate days, the ravishers of the daughters of Leucippus,
1384 2 | complaint through eating a raw polypus, and so lost his
1385 26| through a labyrinth, and their readers resemble the cask of the
1386 26| stumble into pitfalls. The reading of your books is like walking
1387 4 | payment of tribute, I am ready to render it. Does my master
1388 21| these personages having really existed. But these things
1389 35| manifestly ignorant should be reasoned with by a man of like nature
1390 12| conjectures and sophistical reasoning, but using words of a certain
1391 12| at least as favourable a reception to our tenets as you would
1392 12| TWO KINDS OF SPIRITS.~ We recognise two varieties of spirit,
1393 10| among the gods, and been recompensed with honour and reward?
1394 41| and their times and the record of them, we have written
1395 39| deeds among the Greeks were recorded and made known after Inachus,
1396 27| tells me that the sun is a red-hot mass and the moon an earth?
1397 23| such exhibitions as these redound to your credit? He who is
1398 7 | constitution of things in reference to angels and men. And the
1399 12| And yet the things just referred to are the trickeries of
1400 33| the Argive. My object in referring to these women is, that
1401 15| repentance; for they are the reflection of matter and of wickedness.
1402 7 | exercise of his free choice he refrained from transgressing the will
1403 4 | invisible power by His works. I refuse to adore that workman ship
1404 27| are displeased with our refutations of them; and having in your
1405 22| aloud, and the hearers are regaled with the utterance of infamous
1406 41| the time of Lynceus, who reigned after Danaus in the eleventh
1407 9 | give kingdoms who no longer reigns himself? Reject, then, these
1408 22| praised by all. But I have rejected all his falsehoods, his
1409 13| spirit; but the disobedient, rejecting the minister of the suffering
1410 15| again to conquer, if he rejects the condition which brings
1411 33| yourselves unbecomingly in what relates to woman. For Lysippus cast
1412 17| to ascribe to matter the relief of the insane, and not to
1413 7 | the encomiast of those who remained good. And, when men attached
1414 41| demonstrated, we shall briefly remark concerning the age of the
1415 34| fabulist Aesop in everlasting remembrance, but also the plastic art
1416 12| produced from matter, but very remote from right conduct, you,
1417 3 | guests, and Hercules to repeat his labours; and in this
1418 35| nor undertake an elaborate reply filled with trifling and
1419 16| various deceptive scenic representations, that they may be disabled
1420 15| in it by the spirit, His representative; but, if it be not such
1421 1 | speech for hire, and often representing the same thing at one time
1422 21| a man. I call on you who reproach us to compare your mythical
1423 32| he would not have been reproached for being peak-headed and
1424 32| existed, while you cast reproaches on our maidens? Achilles
1425 16| to conquer them, let him repudiate matter. Being armed with
1426 30| what can I say, except to request you not to rail at those
1427 32| come from God surpass the requital of worldly gifts. Thus we
1428 29| that is in the world, and rescue us from a multiplicity of
1429 27| your zeal for dialectics resembles the loquacity of Thersites.
1430 41| Trojan war; for the one resided with the suitors, and the
1431 30| XXX. HOW HE RESOLVED TO RESIST THE DEVIL.~ Therefore, being
1432 7 | to be God, though he was resisting' the law of God, then the
1433 21| now, O Greeks, and do not resolve your myths and gods into
1434 30| XXX. HOW HE RESOLVED TO RESIST THE DEVIL.~ Therefore,
1435 32| age are treated by us with respect, but every kind of licentiousness
1436 15| language only,--in other respects his manner of life is like
1437 32| reject everything which rests upon human opinion. Not
1438 12| perfect God obtain as the result of their conflicts a more
1439 29| the perpetration of evil,--retiring by myself, I sought how
1440 17| and he who wishes to be revenged, accept them as helpers.
1441 10| vile affection. How can I reverence gods who are eager for presents,
1442 22| captive by such men, while you revile those who do not take a
1443 10| recompensed with honour and reward? Why have you robbed God?
1444 23| their flesh, before whom rewards and chaplets are set, while
1445 31| writers,--by Theagenes of Rhegium, who lived in the time of
1446 40| covering up by a certain rhetorical artifice whatever things
1447 9 | whom will it not appear ridiculous that the Deltotum should
1448 18| most admirable Justin has rightly denounced them as robbers.
1449 13| dissolved with the body, but rises again at last at the end
1450 16| they may be disabled from rising to the path that leads to
1451 26| not another sun, nor other risings of the stars, nor a more
1452 29| everywhere examined the religious rites performed by the effeminate
1453 32| admired for attempting to rival the young men in fighting,
1454 23| deeds of virtue, but to rivalry in violence and discord;
1455 18| a viper, or the hog with river-crabs, or the lion with apes?
1456 6 | though dispersed through rivers and seas, or torn in pieces
1457 10| and reward? Why have you robbed God? Why do you dishonour
1458 19| you to become a divining rod, or to assume the wings
1459 8 | says,--~ "Among the gods~ Rose laughter irrepressible."~
1460 12| hand it may be regarded as rude and unformed before it was
1461 23| maintain them; and these ruffians are sent forth by him, and
1462 26| one appears to you more rugged, the other more pleasant
1463 1 | and Olympus,--these two rustic Phrygians constructed the
1464 21| suppose who consecrate to them sacred enclosures and groves, but
1465 10| dishonour His workmanship? You sacrifice a sheep, and you adore the
1466 26| exists? As those who are sailing imagine in their ignorance,
1467 4 | which He has made for our sakes. The sun and moon were made
1468 41| Euclus the Cyprian, Horus the Samian, and Pronapis the Athenian.
1469 29| far from the great city sanctioning acts of the same kind, and
1470 9 | Dios)? For why are not Sardinia and Cyprus honoured in heaven?
1471 39| difficulty given to their savage and nomadic life, and they
1472 19| whom of the philosophers, save you only, was he accustomed
1473 8 | of blood; and, while he saved men's lives by means of
1474 26| Cease to make a parade of sayings which you have derived from
1475 30| words of God and do not scatter ourselves. For He has become
1476 16| downwards, by various deceptive scenic representations, that they
1477 33| not treat the women with scorn who among us pursue philosophy.
1478 9 | in the heavens, and the Scorpion the helper of Artemis, and
1479 24| about sword in hand, and, screaming aloud, is burned to death,
1480 12| reject with contempt the Scythian Anacharsis, do not disdain
1481 20| which have not a change of seasons, by which various, diseases
1482 23| the witnesses take their seats, and the boxers meet in
1483 40| something of their own, and secondly, that covering up by a certain
1484 30| covered with dust, but we secure it as our fixed possession.
1485 19| rich; he who excites to seditions and wars also predicts victory
1486 30| like that of the smallest seeds; since it has waxed strong
1487 2 | independence with his tub, was seized with a bowel complaint through
1488 19| maiden by force, and you select a divinity to be your accomplice.
1489 25| upon you to avenge your own self; and if you receive nothing,
1490 3 | of Heraclitus, who, being self-taught and arrogant, said, "I have
1491 23| the sake of profligacy, sell themselves to be killed;
1492 1 | serve injustice and slander, selling the free power of your speech
1493 21| is overthrown by your own selves; for, if the demons with
1494 2 | friend, and then, under a semblance of grief, weeping and starving
1495 21| came as an old woman to Semele. But, while you treat seriously
1496 32| us that the Amazons, and Semiramis, and certain other warlike
1497 4 | Himself the Father of both sensible and invisible things. Him
1498 23| and these ruffians are sent forth by him, and you assemble
1499 6 | judgment upon them. Nor is sentence upon us passed by Minos
1500 22| an instigator of capital sentences;--and yet such a man is