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1 31 | Ephesians, the other from Abdera, because he was charged
2 22 | nature, none of these is abiding; but the Deity is immortal,
3 30 | been proved according to my ability, if not according to the
4 35 | same as killing him, have abjured such spectacles. How, then,
5 22 | earth and air, that the abominable intercourse of Zeus with
6 34 | males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest
7 8 | VIII. ABSURDITIES OF POLYTHEISM.~ As regards,
8 21 | impious stuff of this sort in abundance concerning the gods? Ouranos
9 9 | grounds defend us from the abuse cast upon us.~
10 2 | they should be false: they accept with equal satisfaction,
11 20 | the Herculean knot, and accomplished his purpose, of which fact
12 1 | penalty and punishment. And accordingly, with admiration of your
13 6 | you surpass them all in an accurate acquaintance with all learning,
14 23 | Thales, as those Who have accurately examined his opinions report,
15 37 | disposed of the several accusations, and proved that we are
16 20 | described their admirable achievements, as they deem them: how
17 4 | But, since our doctrine acknowledges one God, the Maker of this
18 6 | them all in an accurate acquaintance with all learning, cultivating
19 2 | whether of condemnation or acquittal. What, therefore, is conceded
20 2 | the false charges he is acquitted. Let this equal justice,
21 19 | them, a twofold cause, one active and governing, namely providence,
22 22 | who refer the fables to actual gods, do anything rather
23 | actually
24 22 | do anything rather than add to their divine character;
25 32 | him pleasure,[he sins];" adding, "Therefore the kiss, or
26 37 | may receive increase and addition, all men becoming subject
27 16 | whatever they need, and address themselves to the magnificence
28 22 | the fruits, Isis is thus addressed: We have found, we wish
29 25 | sustain my flocks,"--~and addresses itself to the deserving
30 23 | fully as one might; and he adds at the same time the epithet "
31 3 | can endure shall be deemed adequate to such offences? But, if
32 11 | opinions themselves to which we adhere, as being not human but
33 4 | reason did the Athenians adjudge Diagoras guilty of atheism,
34 16 | the musical contests the adjudicators do not pass by the lute-players
35 25 | say to whom belongs the administration of earthly affairs, which
36 13 | them all by knowledge and administrative skill, we "lift up holy
37 20 | they have described their admirable achievements, as they deem
38 14 | us with atheism for not admitting the same gods as they acknowledge,
39 12 | made us and the world, we adopt a temperate and benovolent
40 30 | But those who came after adopted the worship without examination.~ "
41 14 | his name, and pay their adoration to Hector. The Ceans worship
42 16 | poor and weak elements," adoring in the impassible air (as
43 16 | sovereigns, indeed, rear and adorn your palaces for yourselves;
44 23 | the uncreated One for the adornment of heaven, the planets,
45 1 | to Helen, taking her for Adrasteia. The Lacedaemonian venerates
46 33 | she be dead, is a cloaked adulterer, resisting the hand of God,
47 34 | worthy of the gods. These adulterers and paederasts defame the
48 32 | sisters, and to the more advanced in life we give the honour
49 23 | Zeus, driving a winged car, advances first, ordering and managing
50 37 | And this is also for our advantage, that we may lead a peaceable
51 25 | operations proceeding from the adverse spirit produce these disorderly
52 25 | prosperity."~Prosperity and adversity, contrary to hope and justice,
53 21 | love with human beings:--~ "AEneas, amid Ida's jutting peaks,~
54 21 | well as prophet's art.~(AEschylus is reproaching Apollo for
55 21 | blood and seed, and the affections of anger and sexual desire,
56 18 | CONFESS.~ But, since it is affirmed by some that, although these
57 28 | as He rodotus likewise affirms: "According to the Egyptians,
58 2 | punished, without thereby affixing any stigma on philosophy (
59 7 | their affinity with the afflatus from God, each one by his
60 26 | very strong evidence is afforded by Troas and Parium. The
61 26 | to idols, then, are the aforesaid demons, who are eager for
62 1 | Lacedaemonian venerates Agamemnon as Zeus, and Phylonoe the
63 32 | account, too, according to age, we recognise some as sons
64 24 | among the angels. Some, free agents, you will observe, such
65 1 | celebrate mysteries in honour of Agraulus and Pandrosus, women who
66 14 | they acknowledge, are not agreed among themselves concerning
67 14 | charge against us of not agreeing with them? Then look at
68 17 | existence, did they need the aid of men and art? They are
69 1 | our persecutors does not aim merely at our property,
70 22 | birth of all time (phusis aiônos), from whom all have sprung,
71 22 | are elements--fire, water, air--none of them is a god, neither
72 21 | one who said these things, alas! is he~ Who slew my son."~
73 14 | crimes perpetrated by him; Alcman and Hesiod Medea, and the
74 21 | nor for Semele;~ Nor for Alcmena fair; ...~ No, nor for Ceres,
75 26 | oracles; and to that of Alexander--~"Wretched Paris, though
76 26 | effected when Neryllinus was alive and sick.~
77 4 | regards, first of all, the allegation that we are atheists--for
78 22 | variation according to matter is allied to corruption, are gods?
79 28 | the females, they are not allowed to sacrifice, since they
80 26 | XXVI. THE DEMONS ALLURE MEN TO THE WORSHIP OF IMAGES,~
81 21 | terrible in battle, the ally of Zeus against the Titans,
82 26 | into a different form, as Amasis treated the footpan, as
83 14 | the son of Butacides; the Amathusians Onesilus; the Carthaginians
84 11 | syllogisms, and clear up ambiguities, and explain etymologies,
85 21 | human beings:--~ "AEneas, amid Ida's jutting peaks,~ Immortal
86 30 | or if the births, the amours, the murders, the thefts,
87 29 | to Castor, or Pollux, or Amphiaraus, who, having been born,
88 1 | punishment from following his ancestral usages, however ridiculous
89 21 | peaks,~ Immortal Venus to Anchises bore."~Are they not in love?
90 17 | mysteries; for thus was the ancient image made of the olive-tree
91 17 | other men familiar with the ancients. I assert, then, that it
92 17 | the art of Tectaeus and Angelio; Hera in Samos and in Argos
93 13 | of every kind, who made animals and fashioned man. When,
94 22 | of season, which destroys animate and inanimate things; and
95 31 | we should perish and be annihilated. On these grounds it is
96 dedic| Emperors Marcus Aurelius Anoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus,
97 15 | possible remove from one another--as far asunder as the artist
98 4 | ridiculed for having no answer to give to those who make
99 28 | gods. However, in the times anterior to them it was otherwise;
100 30 | others from revenge. Thus Antinous, through the benevolence
101 25 | in God:--~"Ofttimes this anxious thought has crossed my mind,~
102 28 | temples as their sepulchres. Apollodorus, too, asserts the same thing
103 17 | BUT OF RECENT DATE.~ An apologist must adduce more precise
104 17 | and the Corinthian damsel appeared, when drawing in outline
105 24 | to day, according to the appearing and disappearing of the
106 36 | sin. But if to any one it appears sheer nonsense that the
107 6 | Stoics also, although by the appellations they employ to suit the
108 25 | that is, the angels) to the appetites they have indulged. But
109 7 | subjects so also to this, have applied themselves in the way of
110 22 | and their several parts, applying different names to them
111 16 | passible matter; or, if any one apprehends the several parts of the
112 37 | bend your royal head in approval. For who are more deserving
113 22 | governed, and that which is apt to govern has the dominion;
114 22 | according to Empedocles, has an aptitude to govern, things that are
115 21 | Hath wounded me;"~or by Ares in her soul:--~ "Me, awkward
116 8 | may be acquainted with the argumentative grounds also of our faith.
117 17 | must adduce more precise arguments than I have yet given, both
118 9 | the prophets confirm our arguments--for I think that you also,
119 13 | transgress'd or fail'd~ To do aright, by sacrifice and pray'r,~
120 14 | Hector. The Ceans worship Aristaeus, considering him to be the
121 6 | Then there are Plato and Aristotle--not that I am about to go
122 6 | and containing all the arithmetic and harmonic principles,
123 dedic| Commodus, conquerors of Armenia and Sarmatia, and more than
124 | around
125 12 | described in words, provided we arrive at it pure from all wrong-doing;
126 15 | and the materials of his art--why are we called to account?
127 27 | XXVII. ARTIFICES OF THE DEMONS.~ What then?
128 11 | uneducated persons, and artisans, and old women, who, if
129 6 | be one. For, if God is an artistic fire advancing methodically
130 34 | conscious of themselves, and ascribe to their own gods, boasting
131 29 | burn himself to death. Of Asklepius, Hesiod says:--~"The mighty
132 17 | shadow on a wall as he lay asleep, and her father, being delighted
133 20 | neck downwards, bore the aspect dire~ Of a dread dragon");~
134 1 | crocodiles, and serpents, and asps, and dogs. And to all these
135 2 | multitude, shall cease to be assailed.~
136 23 | again, while withholding his assent on other points, also divides[
137 21 | then we must regard such assertions as nonsensical and ridiculous;
138 28 | sepulchres. Apollodorus, too, asserts the same thing in his treatise
139 21 | them! Even though a god assume flesh in pursuance of a
140 30 | or the rulers themselves[assumed it], obtained the name,
141 20 | Phersephone, in this case also assuming the form of a dragon, and
142 31 | also, although I am well assured that by what has been already
143 10 | Who, then, would not be astonished to hear men who speak of
144 1 | like the multitude, be led astray by hearsay--why is a mere
145 15 | from one another--as far asunder as the artist and the materials
146 6 | therefore, Plato is not an atheist for conceiving of one uncreated
147 4 | the allegation that we are atheists--for I will meet the charges
148 1 | Tenedos worships Tennes. The Athenian sacrifices to Erechtheus
149 18 | females, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos; and males, the hundred-handed
150 18 | us examine into the power attached to their names. And I would
151 9 | knowledge, and your great attainments in learning, cannot be ignorant
152 26 | of bones, and shall not attempt to describe all the kinds
153 23 | necessary for me, however, in attempting to show who they are that
154 24 | being part of it, but as an attendant property co-existing with
155 33 | deeds. For we bestow our attention; not on the study of words,
156 28 | shares with them in the attribute of eternity, and innumerable
157 10 | lay like a nature without attributes, and an inactive earth,
158 23 | reason, and declared His attributes--His real existence, the
159 11 | voice boldly in loud and audible outcry, pleading as I do
160 29 | Leucothea."~And her son:--~"August Palaemon, sailors will invoke."~
161 27 | to lead men into error, avail themselves of these delusive
162 23 | that should be suitable, he availed himself of the popular name,
163 32 | to obtain the kingdom and avenge himself. But we are so far
164 33 | the seed into the ground awaits the harvest, not sowing
165 26 | Proteus (the latter, you are aware, threw himself into the
166 21 | Ares in her soul:--~ "Me, awkward me, she scorns; and yields
167 11 | synonyms, and predicaments and axioms, and what is the subject
168 31 | Heraclitus and Democritus were banished, the one from the city of
169 35 | one of them would be so barefaced as to say that he had. And
170 22 | With Pluto and Nestis, who bathes with tears~ The human founts."~
171 10 | returning back again like a beam of the sun. Who, then, would
172 2 | in our case the name we bear should have more force than
173 28 | brought to them, they show the bearer various models of corpses
174 36 | XXXVI. BEARING OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE RESURRECTION
175 16 | to this view Plato also bears testimony; "for," says he, "
176 28 | immortal; but if people are beaten for them, and their sufferings
177 21 | my soul;~ Not for Ixion's beauteous wife, who bore~ Pirithous,
178 21 | transported on the conscious bed.~ Down rushed the toils."~
179 17 | and the making of images began is so short, that we can
180 23 | impossible to believe that gods beget and are brought forth, since
181 22 | mother of all; and that he begets and devours his offspring;
182 23 | forth, since everything that begins to be is followed by an
183 32 | fathers and mothers. On behalf of those, then, to whom
184 | behind
185 32 | they make mysteries. But it behoved them, if they meant to condemn
186 10 | in order, and is kept in being--I have sufficiently demonstrated. [
187 36 | But that it is not our belief alone that bodies will rise
188 36 | CHRISTIANS.~ Who, then, that believes in a resurrection, would
189 12 | despised method of life, believing that we shall suffer no
190 21 | that fate decrees my best belov'd~ Sarpedon, by Patroclus'
191 21 | divine the slaughter of thy beloved, but didst even kill him
192 37 | and temperate in spirit, bend your royal head in approval.
193 5 | heavens, and the broad earth beneath."~[Euripides is speaking]
194 2 | and cities partake of your beneficence, we also may feel grateful
195 3 | those from whom they receive benefits. If any one, therefore,
196 12 | we adopt a temperate and benovolent and generally despised method
197 11 | their art, and are ever bent on working some ill, making
198 21 | woe! that fate decrees my best belov'd~ Sarpedon, by Patroclus'
199 16 | more than what they were bidden; for, although they are
200 21 | him not;"~who would not blame the folly of those who,
201 24 | co-existing with it, united and blended, just as it is natural for
202 16 | earth has received many blessings from the Father, but yet
203 13 | does behove us to offer a bloodless sacrifice and "the service
204 34 | offer themselves for more blows, nor when defamed not to
205 24 | yellow and the ether dark blue),--to the good that is in
206 34 | ascribe to their own gods, boasting of them as noble deeds,
207 20 | they have described their bodily forms: speaking of Hercules,
208 4 | wooden statue of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly
209 11 | here to lift up my voice boldly in loud and audible outcry,
210 29 | vital breath,~ And by a bolt of fire ensured his doom.'~
211 26 | with knives and scourges of bones, and shall not attempt to
212 9 | when you meet with the books themselves, to examine carefully
213 5 | humid arms,~ Clasps both the boundless ether and the earth?~ Him
214 1 | impiety for opening the box. In short, among every nation
215 21 | He raged, as Mars, when brandishing his spear."~Hush! Homer,
216 14 | festivals they beat their breasts as for the dead, and sacrifice
217 29 | quickly stopp'd his vital breath,~ And by a bolt of fire
218 9 | of them as a flute-player breathes into a flute;--what, then,
219 18 | hundred-handed Cottys, Gyges, Briareus, and the Cyclopes Brontes,
220 29 | by gain.~ The brilliant bribe of gold seen in the hand~
221 10 | by the Son, I will state briefly that He is the first product
222 21 | golden-tressed queen;~ Nor for Latona bright; nor for thyself."~He is
223 29 | is ensnared by gain.~ The brilliant bribe of gold seen in the
224 5 | made the heavens, and the broad earth beneath."~[Euripides
225 18 | Briareus, and the Cyclopes Brontes, and Steropes, and Argos,
226 22 | whose murder by Typhon his brother Isis with her son Orus sought
227 29 | lawless wretch, that man of brutal strength,~ Deaf to Heaven'
228 9 | feet: what house win ye build for Me, or what is the place
229 30 | for they, O king,~ Have built a tomb to thee who art not
230 22 | What have Europa, and the bull, and the swan, and Leda,
231 31 | us as sheep or beasts of burden, a mere by-work, and that
232 28 | Minerva at Sais, is the burial-place of one whom I think it not
233 29 | light the funeral pile and burn himself to death. Of Asklepius,
234 21 | Athena may not be seen~ "Burning with rage and inly wroth
235 14 | themselves when they die, and bury them in temples, and make
236 28 | feast of Isis in the city of Busiris have been already spoken
237 14 | Sicilians Philip the son of Butacides; the Amathusians Onesilus;
238 24 | structure being destroyed by-the power and might of God),
239 31 | beasts of burden, a mere by-work, and that we should perish
240 4 | mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden
241 36 | is no resurrection, but calculate on the soul perishing with
242 30 | Though you believe, O Callimachus, in the nativity of Zeus,
243 22 | them at different times: calling the sowing of the corn,
244 18 | but, by disproving the calumnies vented against us, to offer
245 31 | does the undiscriminating calumny of some persons cast any
246 28 | if clean, and the male calves are used for sacrifice by
247 35 | can accuse us of murder or cannibalism? Who does not reckon among
248 21 | prophet and wise one, and who canst foresee for others the things
249 15 | neither did matter, which is capable of taking all forms, receive,
250 23 | Zeus, driving a winged car, advances first, ordering
251 1 | have not in like manner cared; but although we commit
252 23 | either case. But I have made careful inquiry, both why it is
253 12 | wrong-doing; who, moreover, carry our benevolence to such
254 14 | Amathusians Onesilus; the Carthaginians Hamilcar. Time would fail
255 17 | resemblance (he was a potter), carved out the sketch and filled
256 33 | away from Him, in those cases in which we shun the thoughts,
257 29 | need I say, or refer to Castor, or Pollux, or Amphiaraus,
258 26 | their operations. For some castrate, as Rhea; others wound and
259 30 | murders, the thefts, the castrations, the thunderbolts, are true,
260 22 | which cuts off the seed and casts it into the womb, and generates
261 1 | reckon among their gods even cats, and crocodiles, and serpents,
262 11 | Father who is in heaven, who causes His sun to rise on the evil
263 30 | ignorant; and if you see the cave, you call to mind the childbirth
264 14 | adoration to Hector. The Ceans worship Aristaeus, considering
265 19 | originated, beginning to be and ceasing to exist. In like manner,
266 14 | Athenians have set up as gods Celeus and Metanira: the Lacedaemonians
267 13 | earth in its place like a centre, who gathered the water
268 28 | sufferings mysteries. "The ceremonies at the feast of Isis in
269 21 | Alcmena fair; ...~ No, nor for Ceres, golden-tressed queen;~
270 26 | overlay it with gold, and hang chaplets upon it. But of the statues
271 35 | those who expose them are chargeable with child-murder, and on
272 20 | hurled him down from his chariot, and how he murdered his
273 21 | she scorns; and yields her charms~ To that fair lecher, the
274 34 | their way, and the stronger chases the weaker: and, in fact,
275 34 | The harlot reproves the chaste." For those who have set
276 33 | XXXIII. CHASTITY OF THE CHRISTIANS WITH RESPECT
277 35 | them are chargeable with child-murder, and on the other hand,
278 30 | cave, you call to mind the childbirth of Rhea; but when you see
279 24 | men, who have freedom of choice as to both virtue and vice (
280 4 | Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped up the wooden statue of
281 14 | and Hesiod Medea, and the Cilicians Niobe; the Sicilians Philip
282 16 | both those in the oblique circle and those about the north,
283 28 | of stone. In form it is circular, and in size, as it seemed
284 8 | great, for he exists in a circumscribed space. But if he is neither
285 6 | demonstrate without the citation of names that we are not
286 1 | ridiculous these may be. A citizen of Ilium calls Hector a
287 5 | him who, with humid arms,~ Clasps both the boundless ether
288 3 | charges are true, spare no class: proceed at once against
289 28 | wives. "The male kine, if clean, and the male calves are
290 17 | Crato the Sicyonian, and Cleanthes the Corinthian, and the
291 11 | that reduce syllogisms, and clear up ambiguities, and explain
292 31 | been already said I have cleared myself to you. For as you
293 1 | coat to give likewise our cloak. But, when we have surrendered
294 33 | though she be dead, is a cloaked adulterer, resisting the
295 28 | beat them selves at the close of the sacrifice in honour
296 33 | unmarried, in hope of living in closer communion with God. But
297 18 | with Ge, begat females, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos;
298 17 | Aphrodite the courtezan in Cnidus is the production of Praxiteles;
299 24 | as an attendant property co-existing with it, united and blended,
300 24 | of necessity to Him, and co-exists with Him, as colour with
301 1 | those who take away our coat to give likewise our cloak.
302 30 | Rhea; but when you see the coffin, you throw a shadow over
303 20 | in the shape of a dragon coiled up; of others as hundred-handed;
304 36 | the incorporeal, by the combination with it of the intelligible,
305 34 | outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways,
306 20 | Were hairs: its face was comely; but the rest,~ From the
307 27 | as being immortal, moves comformably to reason, either predicting
308 37 | readily perform all that is commanded us.~
309 28 | make if their business to commend the idols to men's reverence,
310 33 | He, "and marries another, commits adultery;" not permitting
311 34 | males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging
312 dedic| Anoninus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus, conquerors of Armenia and
313 20 | she is called Athela, but commonly Phersephone and Kore, though
314 7 | they have not been found competent fully to apprehend it, because
315 14 | Then, as to the other complaint, that we do not pray to
316 34 | suffice for the hearing of the complaints against those, to whom it
317 6 | if I wished to exhibit a complete summary of their opinions;
318 2 | accusation. For it does not comport with your justice, that
319 12 | who consider life. to be comprised in this, "Let us eat and
320 2 | acquittal. What, therefore, is conceded as the common right of all,
321 19 | divinity is ascribed is conceived of as having existed from
322 13 | have not even the dreamiest conception of what God is, and are
323 17 | than I have yet given, both concering the names of the gods, to
324 25 | far as He that made him is concerned, is well ordered, both by
325 25 | eternal providence of God concerns itself equally with us below,-~"
326 5 | Spirit they are governed, he concluded to be God; and Sophocles
327 7 | they came each to his own conclusion respecting God, and matter,
328 31 | being mad; and the Athenians condemned Socrates to death. But as
329 12 | worth indeed, and who are conducted to the future life by this
330 18 | BEEN CREATED, AS THE POETS CONFESS.~ But, since it is affirmed
331 7 | the unity of the Deity is confessed by almost all, even against
332 6 | that we are not alone in confining the notion of God to unity,
333 22 | elements are destroyed in the conflagration, the names will necessarily
334 31 | XXXI. CONFUTATION OF THE OTHER CHARGES BROUGHT
335 7 | themselves in the way of conjecture, moved, by reason of their
336 3 | persecute us. For we shall then conquer them, unhesitatingly surrendering,
337 dedic| Lucius Aurelius Commodus, conquerors of Armenia and Sarmatia,
338 1 | beseech you to bestow some consideration upon us also, that we may
339 30 | whom they have got to be considered gods, and who have striven
340 6 | zôon), speak of God as consisting of soul and body, thinking
341 21 | Juno's breast~ Could not contain her rage."~And let them
342 6 | being the Tetractys, and containing all the arithmetic and harmonic
343 27 | and is unaccustomed to contemplate truth, and to consider thoughtfully
344 23 | Did, then, he who had contemplated the eternal Intelligence
345 1 | interests. These we hold in contempt, though to the generality
346 36 | these respectively, or by contending that the incorporeal is
347 33 | remain as he was born, or be content with one marriage; for a
348 25 | life, while others still~Continue to enjoy prosperity."~Prosperity
349 24 | they were created by God, continued in those things for which
350 35 | look on, lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can
351 3 | nature to vice, and that contraries war against one another
352 34 | flesh, to do violence in contravention of the very laws which you
353 28 | of them is said to have conversed with the priests at Heliopolis,
354 2 | If, indeed, any one can convict us of a crime, be it small
355 23 | speak without probable or convincing proofs; but as they profess
356 17 | figure is still preserved at Corinth. After these, Daedalus and
357 22 | calling the sowing of the corn, for instance, Osiris (hence
358 28 | bearer various models of corpses made in wood, and painted
359 14 | do not practise a piety corresponding with theirs, then all cities
360 22 | according to matter is allied to corruption, are gods? But to those
361 26 | festivals are held at the public cost, as to a god who can hear.
362 18 | males, the hundred-handed Cottys, Gyges, Briareus, and the
363 21 | bore~ Pirithous, sage in council as the gods;~ Nor the neat-footed
364 18 | to offer a reason for the course of life we follow. May you,
365 17 | by Phidias; Aphrodite the courtezan in Cnidus is the production
366 28 | wall, which it entirely covers. There are also some large
367 28 | woman but with horns like a cow, resembling those of the
368 19 | same state, because it is created--how can the constitution
369 8 | circles of heaven, and the Creator of the world is above the
370 6 | sort of compound living creature (zôon), speak of God as
371 21 | neat-footed maiden Danae,~ A crisius' daughter, her who Perseus
372 1 | their gods even cats, and crocodiles, and serpents, and asps,
373 25 | this anxious thought has crossed my mind,~Whether 'tis chance
374 35 | CHRISTIANS CONDEMN AND DETEST ALL CRUELTY.~ What man of sound mind,
375 30 | a dove: the story is in Ctesias), what wonder if some should
376 17 | stones, and matter, and curious art.~
377 11 | enemies; bless them that curse you; pray for them that
378 1 | different nations have different customs and laws; and no one is
379 22 | male with the female, which cuts off the seed and casts it
380 18 | Gyges, Briareus, and the Cyclopes Brontes, and Steropes, and
381 1 | our reputation, nor the damage they do us at any other
382 21 | Nor the neat-footed maiden Danae,~ A crisius' daughter, her
383 36 | refrain from no deed of daring; but as for those who are
384 24 | be yellow and the ether dark blue),--to the good that
385 17 | IMAGES ARE BUT OF RECENT DATE.~ An apologist must adduce
386 32 | recognise some as sons and daughters, others we regard as brothers
387 29 | man of brutal strength,~ Deaf to Heaven's voice, the social
388 32 | rectitude to consist in dealing with our neighbour as ourselves.
389 36 | the opinions by which we deceive ourselves we injure no one
390 5 | knowledge, he gives his opinion decidedly, and with intelligence,
391 21 | Woe, woe! that fate decrees my best belov'd~ Sarpedon,
392 dedic| DEDICATION.~To the Emperors Marcus
393 36 | it, will refrain from no deed of daring; but as for those
394 12 | and who regard death as a deep sleep and forgetfulness ("
395 34 | adulterers and paederasts defame the eunuchs and the once-married (
396 9 | you may on fitting grounds defend us from the abuse cast upon
397 36 | constructed again. But let us defer the discourse concerning
398 32 | himself; for the latter defiled his daughter in pursuance
399 32 | mixed with it the least defilement of thought, it excludes
400 6 | Lysis and Opsimus thus define God: the one says that He
401 25 | constituted without any definite order, and is driven hither
402 28 | only the names of their deities, things of very trifling
403 17 | Theodorus and Telecles; and the Delian god and Artemis are due
404 29 | neither mother equals in delight,~ Nor children dear"--~for
405 17 | asleep, and her father, being delighted with the exactness of the
406 31 | should wish to do evil, or deliver ourselves over to the great
407 28 | about equal to the lake at Delos called the Hoop. On this
408 27 | avail themselves of these delusive movements of the souls of
409 36 | entombed in himself will not be demanded back. On the contrary, it
410 20 | of his mother Rhea; or of Demeter, as having two eyes in the
411 31 | to death; Heraclitus and Democritus were banished, the one from
412 26 | against nature.~ "But when the demon plots against a man,~ He
413 25 | reason. But because the demoniac movements and operations
414 25 | POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS HAVE DENIED A DIVINE PROVIDENCE.~ These
415 23 | of idols, we are far from denying. None the more, however,
416 24 | have searched into every department of knowledge, to mention
417 17 | since you are versed in all departments of knowledge, and are beyond
418 28 | by the Greeks Apollo. He deposed Typhon, and ruled over Egypt
419 33 | marry again. For he who deprives himself of his first wife,
420 20 | earth and those that are derived from matter), they are not
421 16 | motion of the body, and descend "to the poor and weak elements,"
422 20 | rest, to be gods? Is it the descriptions of their bodies? Why, what
423 18 | considerations; for it is not my design to show the fallacy of idols,
424 23 | himself: not being able to designate Him by another title that
425 32 | brothers and sisters, and other designations of relationship, we exercise
426 36 | of the soul, and to its desires, will be punished along
427 33 | hope of eternal life, we despise the things of this life,
428 12 | benovolent and generally despised method of life, believing
429 2 | sovereigns, to remove by law this despiteful treatment, so that, as throughout
430 23 | is not likely that images destitute of life and motion can of
431 22 | the turn of season, which destroys animate and inanimate things;
432 35 | THE CHRISTIANS CONDEMN AND DETEST ALL CRUELTY.~ What man of
433 2 | convicted of crime--it will devolve on you, illustrious and
434 6 | than even those who have devoted themselves exclusively to
435 22 | and that he begets and devours his offspring; and that
436 28 | the Egyptians, Apollo and Diana are the children of Bacchus
437 21 | the Titans revolt; Styx dies in battle: yea, they even
438 34 | XXXIV. THE VAST DIFFERENCE IN MORALS BETWEEN THE CHRISTIANS
439 24 | own power; and some are diligent in the matters entrusted
440 21 | The haughty son of Tydeus, Diomed,~ Hath wounded me;"~or by
441 20 | downwards, bore the aspect dire~ Of a dread dragon");~or
442 31 | that those whose life is directed towards God as its rule,
443 25 | impelled and moved in this direction or in that, notwithstanding
444 24 | according to the appearing and disappearing of the stars (for even if
445 22 | is changed by seasons and disappears;--to such persons we say,
446 11 | predicate, and who promise their disciples by these and such like instructions
447 23 | from Him that is truth, and discoursed of primal power, and how "
448 19 | originated, yet never is?" Discoursing of the intelligible and
449 18 | before I enter on this discussion, to be indulgent to me while
450 34 | in all sorts of ways, so dishonouring the fair workmanship of
451 25 | adverse spirit produce these disorderly sallies, and moreover move
452 1 | peaceful and benevolent disposition towards every man, individuals
453 15 | putting the things which are dissoluble and perishable on a level
454 33 | one man and one woman, and dissolving the strictest union of flesh
455 23 | peculiar to God, but for distinctness, because it is not possible
456 10 | and Framer of the world distributed and appointed to their several
457 4 | atheism, in that he not only divulged the Orphic doctrine, and
458 1 | serpents, and asps, and dogs. And to all these both you
459 26 | perfectly good, is eternally doing good. That, moreover, those
460 13 | of what God is, and are doltish and utterly unacquainted
461 29 | bolt of fire ensured his doom.'~ Either, therefore, they
462 5 | ignorantly called gods, says doubtingly:--~ "If Zeus indeed does
463 30 | woman was changed into a dove: the story is in Ctesias),
464 30 | Derceto, the Syrians worship doves and Semiramis (for, a thing
465 26 | WORSHIP OF IMAGES,~ They who draw men to idols, then, are
466 17 | Corinthian damsel appeared, when drawing in outline was invented
467 20 | bore the aspect dire~ Of a dread dragon");~or who will admit
468 13 | because they have not even the dreamiest conception of what God is,
469 12 | in this, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die,"
470 25 | any definite order, and is driven hither and thither by an
471 25 | hope~As well as justice, drives to exile some~Stripped of
472 23 | sovereign in heaven, Zeus, driving a winged car, advances first,
473 35 | that those women who use drugs to bring on abortion commit
474 22 | this; Poseidon is what is drunk (water, posis). But these
475 28 | gods for its rulers, who dwelt upon the earth with men,
476 26 | aforesaid demons, who are eager for the blood of the sacrifices,
477 36 | acquainted with the latter earliest, since the corporeal is
478 9 | prophets, who, lifted in ecstasy above the natural operations
479 28 | near them, adorned with an edging of stone. In form it is
480 37 | everything, by nature and by education, upright, and moderate,
481 26 | the image is said now to effect, it effected when Neryllinus
482 26 | is said now to effect, it effected when Neryllinus was alive
483 19 | older than God; for the efficient cause must of necessity
484 27 | produce a diversity of images (eidôla) from time to time: some
485 18 | learnt that he was to be ejected from his government by his
486 15 | there is anything about them elegant in art we praise the artificer,
487 22 | Nestis water, and these are elements--fire, water, air--none of
488 4 | published the mysteries of Eleusis and of the Cabiri, and chopped
489 32 | XXXII. ELEVATED MORALITY OF THE CHRISTIANS.~
490 | else
491 28 | Osiris shown, but also his embalming: "When a body is brought
492 6 | several things in the world, embracing in Himself all the seminal
493 29 | Greeks, also, those who are eminent in poetry and history say
494 34 | is fair and right, have enacted), so that not even the governors
495 21 | Then, nothing loth, th' enamour'd fair he led,~ And sunk
496 28 | large stone obelisks in the enclosure, and there is a lake near
497 10 | only and the reason, who is encompassed by light, and beauty, and
498 17 | same goddess, were made by Endoeus, a pupil of Daedalus; the
499 30 | then the tenth,~ Of men endow'd with speech, since forth
500 30 | them so,~ Because of men endowed with gift of speech~ They