Chapter

 1 1 |            however ridiculous these may be. A citizen of Ilium calls
 2 1 |      through fear of the deity, men may be kept from wrong-doing.
 3 1 | consideration upon us also, that we may cease at length to be slaughtered
 4 2 |           your beneficence, we also may feel grateful to you, exulting
 5 2 |          you for trial, though they may be arraigned on the gravest
 6 2 |          tried on any charges which may be brought against us, and
 7 4 |         charges one by one, that we may not be ridiculed for having
 8 8 |           it in this wise, that you may be acquainted with the argumentative
 9 9 |         contained in them, that you may on fitting grounds defend
10 11|        surprise you. It is that you may not be carried away by the
11 11|             irrational opinion, but may have the truth clearly before
12 11|         that persecute you; that ye may be the sons of your Father
13 12|             a life as this, that we may escape condemnation at last,
14 12|           things from many, that we may not further trespass on
15 13|      Libations and burnt-offerings, may be soothed."~ And what have
16 18|           course of life we follow. May you, by considering yourselves,
17 21|        wrath and anger, that Athena may not be seen~ "Burning with
18 22|        Kronos. But to the Stoics it may be said, If you acknowledge
19 23|           OF THALES AND PLATO.~ You may say, however, since you
20 24|         ordered by Him; so that God may have the universal and general
21 25|            the prince of matter, as may be seen merely from what
22 26|            the images, were men, as may be learned from their history.
23 26|           brass do of itself, which may be made again into a different
24 31|           the sexes, both that they may appear to themselves to
25 31|           so that each one among us may be blameless and irreproachable
26 37|           your government, that you may, as is most equitable, receive
27 37|        father, and that your empire may receive increase and addition,
28 37|          for our advantage, that we may lead a peaceable and quiet
29 37|       peaceable and quiet life, and may ourselves readily perform