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 1  I, 1  |         words, boasting of your gods of wood and stone, hammered
 2  I, 8  |      the images made by men are gods, and do great things; and
 3  I, 9  |         IX. IMMORALITIES OF THE GODS.~And, indeed, the names
 4  I, 9  |      flowing from the so-called gods. And these, indeed, are
 5  I, 10 |         of those who are called gods, far be it from me to utter
 6  I, 10 |         king. For these are not gods, but idols, as we have already
 7  I, 11 |      honour the king [than your gods], not, indeed, worshipping
 8 II, 2  |                         II. THE GODS ARE DESPISED WHEN THEY ARE
 9 II, 2  |          and mould, and prepare gods, who, when they are produced
10 II, 2  |      them; and they reckon them gods, not seeing that they are
11 II, 2  |    genealogies of the so-called gods. For when you read of their
12 II, 2  |        afterwards you call them gods, and worship them, not reflecting
13 II, 3  |          WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE GODS?~And of the gods of former
14 II, 3  |         OF THE GODS?~And of the gods of former times, if indeed
15 II, 3  |    present time there should be gods begotten and born; or at
16 II, 3  |        longer exist. For if the gods were begotten, they ought
17 II, 3  |        more numerous should the gods be than men, as the Sibyl
18 II, 3  |       Sibyl says:--~"For if the gods beget, and each remains~
19 II, 3  |      Immortal, then the race of gods must be~More numerous than
20 II, 3  |    inhabited, how ought not the gods, who, according to your
21 II, 3  |          since you say that the gods were produced by generation?
22 II, 3  |       formerly inhabited by the gods, but now lies deserted?
23 II, 5  |       AND HESIOD CONCERNING THE GODS.~So that the opinion of
24 II, 5  |      the world, but also of the gods, on quite another hypothesis.
25 II, 5  |         somewhere:--~"Father of Gods, Oceanus, and she~Who bare
26 II, 5  |   Oceanus, and she~Who bare the gods, their mother Tethys, too,~
27 II, 5  |         origin, not only of the gods, but also of the world itself.
28 II, 5  |        Neptune, and Pluto, were gods, though we find that they
29 II, 5  |   well-arrayed,~Of the immortal gods may sing the birth;~Who
30 II, 5  |       heaven.~Whence sprang the gods by whom all good is given?~
31 II, 6  |     earth,~And Love, ev'n among gods most beauteous still,~Who
32 II, 6  |       counsel in the breasts of gods and men.~From chaos Erebus
33 II, 6  |     given,~And that the blessed gods might there repose.~The
34 II, 6  |  understand that from these the gods were produced; and from
35 II, 6  |       and from these again [the gods] he declares that certain
36 II, 6  |     giants, and of the Egyptian gods,--or, rather, vain men,
37 II, 7  |     they were born men, and not gods? And the comic poet Aristophanes,
38 II, 8  |     foolish stories about their gods, and did not exhibit them
39 II, 8  |         did not exhibit them as gods, but as men, and men, too,
40 II, 8  |       introduced a multitude of gods, and yet spoke of a Unity;
41 II, 10 |         and name a multitude of gods that do not exist. In order,
42 II, 12 |    lords it over his [Hesiod's] gods and men, his dictum is shown
43 II, 21 |      opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
44 II, 22 |       myths talk of the sons of gods begotten from intercourse [
45 II, 28 |     would call upon a number of gods. And having this prescience,
46 II, 28 |     would introduce a number of gods which had no existence,--
47 II, 28 |      disseminate a multitude of gods, saying, "Ye shall be as
48 II, 28 |         saying, "Ye shall be as gods;"--lest, then, it should
49 II, 33 |      introducing a multitude of gods, who were born so many years
50 II, 34 |         of those who are called gods, are found to be the names
51 II, 36 | eternity."~And regarding those [gods] that axe said to have been
52 II, 36 |    shame worshipping beasts for gods?~And to believe the gods
53 II, 36 |        gods?~And to believe the gods should steal your beasts,~
54 II, 36 |     golden heavens,~Ye see your gods become the prey of worms,~
55 II, 36 |     even to name:~These are the gods who lead vain men astray,~
56 II, 36 |        for ever of your useless gods.~But those who worship the
57 II, 38 |      spoke of a multiplicity of gods came at length to the doctrine
58 III, 1 |     vainglory,--some concerning gods, and wars, and chronology,
59 III, 2 | theogony of those whom he calls gods; or Orpheus, the three hundred
60 III, 2 |    three hundred and sixty-five gods, whom in the end of his
61 III, 3 |       assertions concerning the gods, and afterwards taught that
62 III, 3 |        they proclaim that their gods took the lead in committing
63 III, 3 |    Metis, and preparing for the gods a horrible feast, at which
64 III, 6 |         even of those they call gods they relate similar things?~
65 III, 7 |         DOCTRINE CONCERNING THE GODS.~For after they had said
66 III, 7 |         had said that these are gods, they again made them of
67 III, 7 |    atoms; and they say that the gods have no more power than
68 III, 7 |        though he says these are gods, would have them composed
69 III, 7 |         toil and moil about the gods, and travelled up and down [
70 III, 7 |     spontaneously, and that the gods care nothing for men. And
71 III, 7 |    Abdera say, "For whether the gods exist, I am not able to
72 III, 7 |       assertions concerning the gods, he at last would absolutely
73 III, 7 |        who praise and serve the gods;"~or those whom we have
74 III, 7 |        others who deny that the gods are to be worshipped, and
75 III, 8 |    WICKEDNESS ATTRIBUTED TO THE GODS BY HEATHEN WRITERS.~For,
76 III, 8 |          denying that there are gods, they again acknowledge
77 III, 8 |         so-called mother of the gods, or of Jupiter Latiaris
78 III, 8 |        the others whom you call gods. For when related to sensible
79 III, 8 |       those whom they honour as gods were the first to do these
80 III, 9 |        Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not
81 III, 15|       in the case of men and of gods, whom they celebrate in
82 III, 29|       Jupiter and the so-called gods in his alliance; and on