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1001 3 | their own kind; and they pair by a law of nature, and
1002 16 | the magnificence of your palace; but, if they chance to
1003 16 | indeed, rear and adorn your palaces for yourselves; but the
1004 29 | And her son:--~"August Palaemon, sailors will invoke."~
1005 1 | in honour of Agraulus and Pandrosus, women who were deemed guilty
1006 27 | soul especially when it par takes of the material spirit
1007 26 | of Alexander--~"Wretched Paris, though in form so fair,~
1008 2 | both individuals and cities partake of your beneficence, we
1009 16 | from the Father, but yet partakes of body; hence it cannot
1010 10 | inactive earth, the grosser particles being mixed up with the
1011 11 | If I go minutely into the particulars of our doctrine, let it
1012 35 | s care, and when it has passed into life, to kill it; and
1013 16 | impassible air (as they term it), passible matter; or, if any one apprehends
1014 19 | namely providence, the other passive and changeable, namely matter,
1015 34 | incumbent on us to be good and patient of evil.~
1016 21 | best belov'd~ Sarpedon, by Patroclus' hand to fall;"~and is not
1017 8 | created things are like their patterns; but the uncreated are unlike,
1018 1 | calls Hector a god, and pays divine honours to Helen,
1019 1 | intelligent sway, enjoys profound peace. But for us who are called
1020 37 | advantage, that we may lead a peaceable and quiet life, and may
1021 1 | and gentleness, and your peaceful and benevolent disposition
1022 21 | AEneas, amid Ida's jutting peaks,~ Immortal Venus to Anchises
1023 1 | unjust act that calls for penalty and punishment. And accordingly,
1024 15 | understanding and that which is perceived by the senses, and who give
1025 21 | mourns to rescue him from his peril:--~"The son of Jove, yet
1026 16 | essence and body, as the Peripatetics affirm, we do not neglect
1027 36 | but calculate on the soul perishing with the body, and being
1028 6 | matter, which they say is permeated by the Spirit of God, they
1029 1 | both you and the laws give permission so to act, deeming, on the
1030 33 | commits adultery;" not permitting a man to send her away whose
1031 14 | slaughters and all the crimes perpetrated by him; Alcman and Hesiod
1032 1 | the fine imposed by our persecutors does not aim merely at our
1033 11 | God, we shall be able to persuade you not to think of us as
1034 11 | benefit arising from their persuasion of its truth: they do not
1035 22 | be the wisdom (phronêsis) pervading all things; and concerning
1036 29 | seen in the hand~ Ev'n him perverted: therefore Kronos' son~
1037 6 | PHILOSOPHERS AS TO THE ONE GOD.~ Philolaus, too, when he says that
1038 11 | pleading as I do before philosophic princes. For who of those
1039 21 | observ'd of all; nor noble Phoenix child;~ ...... nor for Semele;~
1040 23 | and Tethys; and of these Phorcus, Kronos, and Rhea, and the
1041 22 | affirm to be the wisdom (phronêsis) pervading all things; and
1042 22 | call the birth of all time (phusis aiônos), from whom all have
1043 1 | venerates Agamemnon as Zeus, and Phylonoe the daughter of Tyndarus;
1044 21 | god of arms."~ "The weapon pierced the flesh."~He who was terrible
1045 4 | have such incentives to piety--in the established order,
1046 29 | did he light the funeral pile and burn himself to death.
1047 29 | son--such was his ire."~And Pindar:--~"But even wisdom is ensnared
1048 22 | the heavenly place), they pine away among the forms of
1049 1 | discourse, are of all men most piously and righteously disposed
1050 21 | beauteous wife, who bore~ Pirithous, sage in council as the
1051 23 | a mover. That in various places, cities, and nations, certain
1052 6 | the etherial space and the planetary stars and the sphere of
1053 23 | adornment of heaven, the planets, and the fixed stars, and
1054 24 | each other as truth and plausibility: the one is of heaven and
1055 11 | loud and audible outcry, pleading as I do before philosophic
1056 13 | same gods as the cities, be pleased to attend to the following
1057 33 | of this life, even to the pleasures of the soul, each of us
1058 26 | nature.~ "But when the demon plots against a man,~ He first
1059 1 | go to law with those who plunder and rob us, but to those
1060 1 | allow us to be harassed, plundered, and persecuted, the multitude
1061 22 | Juno source of life,~ With Pluto and Nestis, who bathes with
1062 22 | perhaps these things are poetic vagary, and there is some
1063 29 | those who are eminent in poetry and history say the same
1064 35 | should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?
1065 29 | or refer to Castor, or Pollux, or Amphiaraus, who, having
1066 8 | VIII. ABSURDITIES OF POLYTHEISM.~ As regards, then, the
1067 16 | body, and descend "to the poor and weak elements," adoring
1068 22 | is what is drunk (water, posis). But these things are by
1069 16 | of body; hence it cannot possibly be free from' change." If,
1070 10 | appointed to their several posts by His Logos, to occupy
1071 15 | And as we do not hold the pottery of more worth than him who
1072 21 | the toils."~Do they not pour forth impious stuff of this
1073 1 | our very bodies and souls, pouring upon us wholesale charges
1074 18 | becoming full, was, by the powerful friction of its generator,
1075 32 | But we are so far from practising promiscuous intercourse,
1076 1 | which belong to these idle praters themselves, and to the whole
1077 17 | Cnidus is the production of Praxiteles; Asclepius in Epidaurus
1078 17 | is that Hesiod and Homer preceded me by four hundred years,
1079 36 | and that the intelligible precedes the sensible, although we
1080 28 | Here, too, in this same precinct of Minerva at Sais, is the
1081 17 | apologist must adduce more precise arguments than I have yet
1082 5 | who, according to popular preconception, are ignorantly called gods,
1083 11 | homonyms and synonyms, and predicaments and axioms, and what is
1084 11 | the subject and what the predicate, and who promise their disciples
1085 27 | comformably to reason, either predicting the future or healing the
1086 1 | man to worship the gods he prefers, in order that through fear
1087 22 | earth, and that she becomes pregnant by Kronos, and brings forth,
1088 2 | common irrational talk and prejudge the case, but to apply your
1089 2 | from punishment, but are prepared to undergo the sharpest
1090 25 | not transgress the order prescribed to them; and that man himself,
1091 18 | hard for man~ To meet in presence visible a God;"~and whereas,
1092 18 | supplications and sacrifices presented to the images are to be
1093 11 | clearly before you. For presenting the opinions themselves
1094 21 | The son of Jove, yet Jove preserv'd him not;"~who would not
1095 17 | clay: this figure is still preserved at Corinth. After these,
1096 28 | is their nurse and their preserver." These beings of heavenly
1097 13 | Framer of all things, who preserves them in being and superintends
1098 22 | XXII. PRETENDED SYMBOLICAL EXPLANATIONS.~
1099 14 | Then look at the practices prevailing among the Egyptians: are
1100 2 | inquire respecting their previous life, and not be influenced
1101 28 | father, received not only the priesthood, but also the history? For
1102 23 | truth, and discoursed of primal power, and how "all things
1103 11 | I do before philosophic princes. For who of those that reduce
1104 29 | gold--~"O gold, the fairest prize to mortal men,~ Which neither
1105 23 | though they speak without probable or convincing proofs; but
1106 30 | obscure the truth, you in fact proclaim him dead, even to those
1107 30 | men, of Ouranos and Gaia~ Proclaimed the noblest sons, and named
1108 33 | more upon it, so to us the procreation of children is the measure
1109 21 | desire and appetite, nor procreative seed, in gods. Let them,
1110 11 | deeds their business and profession. But among us you will find
1111 1 | intelligent sway, enjoys profound peace. But for us who are
1112 11 | what the predicate, and who promise their disciples by these
1113 7 | prophets, men who have pronounced concerning God and the things
1114 9 | to examine carefully the prophecies contained in them, that
1115 6 | of your rule, in the same proportion do you surpass them all
1116 11 | they are unable in words to prove the benefit of our doctrine,
1117 34 | us are an example of the proverb, "The harlot reproves the
1118 34 | even the governors of the provinces sent by you suffice for
1119 23 | beings possessed of Soul (psukikai); and by heroes the separated
1120 4 | the Orphic doctrine, and published the mysteries of Eleusis
1121 12 | over the human race, thus purge ourselves from evil? Most
1122 11 | happy: who of them have so purged their souls as, instead
1123 6 | number according to the Pythagoreans, being the Tetractys, and
1124 17 | a pupil of Daedalus; the Pythian god was the work of Theodorus
1125 12 | and whey, judge by a small quantity whether the whole is good.~
1126 21 | for Ceres, golden-tressed queen;~ Nor for Latona bright;
1127 36 | body, and being as it were quenched in it, will refrain from
1128 29 | Kronos' son~ With both hands quickly stopp'd his vital breath,~
1129 37 | may lead a peaceable and quiet life, and may ourselves
1130 13 | aright, by sacrifice and pray'r,~ Libations and burnt-offerings,
1131 21 | weaker than Diomedes:--~ "He raged, as Mars, when brandishing
1132 21 | Hush! Homer, a god never rages. But you describe the god
1133 11 | and the good, and sends rain on the just and the unjust."
1134 1 | cities, according to their rank, share in equal honour;
1135 31 | appear to themselves to have rational grounds of hatred, and because
1136 37 | life, and may ourselves readily perform all that is commanded
1137 27 | blood of victims, and ever ready to lead men into error,
1138 5 | any names were given to realities which actually do exist (
1139 6 | the Deity in name, yet in reality they consider God to be
1140 24 | God: not that anything is really opposed to God, like strife
1141 15 | artificer, and it is he who reaps the glory of the vessels:
1142 16 | You sovereigns, indeed, rear and adorn your palaces for
1143 35 | other hand, when it has been reared to destroy it. But we are
1144 1 | contrary to all law and reason--and we beseech you to bestow
1145 30 | XXX. REASONS WHY DIVINITY HAS BEEN ASCRIBED
1146 2 | name in and by itself is reckoned either good or bad; names
1147 33 | of the soul, each of us reckoning her his wife whom he has
1148 6 | again, and his followers, recognising the existence of one whom
1149 36 | reduced to nothing, should be reconstructed, we certainly cannot with
1150 18 | invent their names, and recounted their births, and narrated
1151 23 | they are not gods, to have recourse to some witnesses from among
1152 11 | princes. For who of those that reduce syllogisms, and clear up
1153 36 | and been dissolved, and reduced to nothing, should be reconstructed,
1154 18 | to the images are to be referred to the gods, and are in
1155 20 | what man of judgment and reflection will believe that a viper
1156 20 | his mother Rhea when she refused to wed him, and, she becoming
1157 2 | blameless), while if he refutes the false charges he is
1158 15 | then certainly, in not regarding stocks and stones, gold
1159 8 | that the other fills the regions which are above the world?
1160 3 | nature, and only at the regular season, not from simple
1161 11 | of its truth: they do not rehearse speeches, but exhibit good
1162 5 | If Zeus indeed does reign in heaven above,~ He ought
1163 30 | Kronos, Japetus, and Titan reigned,~ Whom men, of Ouranos and
1164 33 | thoughts, much more do we reject the deeds. For we bestow
1165 32 | and other designations of relationship, we exercise the greatest
1166 2 | against us, and either be released on our disproving them,
1167 17 | art of making figures in relief (koroplathikê) was invented
1168 28 | told me concerning their religion it is not my intention to
1169 31 | persuaded that when we are removed from the present life we
1170 31 | from our way of life, or to render the rulers harsh and inexorable
1171 28 | it is not my intention to repeat, except only the names of
1172 11 | TEACHING OF THE CHRISTIANS REPELS THE CHARGE BROUGHT AGAINST
1173 28 | from mentioning, and this representation they call their mysteries."
1174 28 | were, they said, the beings represented by these images, they were
1175 21 | prophet's art.~(AEschylus is reproaching Apollo for being a false
1176 34 | the proverb, "The harlot reproves the chaste." For those who
1177 31 | with God we stand in good repute. Nevertheless, I will meet
1178 21 | able while he mourns to rescue him from his peril:--~"The
1179 17 | with the exactness of the resemblance (he was a potter), carved
1180 28 | wood, and painted so as to resemble nature. The most perfect
1181 20 | suppliants, when their origin resembles that of cattle, and they
1182 28 | but with horns like a cow, resembling those of the Greek representations
1183 16 | chance to come upon the royal residence, they bestow a passing glance
1184 33 | is a cloaked adulterer, resisting the hand of God, because
1185 22 | by each of those who have resolved these things into nature,
1186 34 | and established infamous resorts for the young for every
1187 36 | and the nature of these respectively, or by contending that the
1188 4 | treated unreasonably in both respects, in that we are both defamed
1189 10 | God, flowing from Him, and returning back again like a beam of
1190 30 | some from fear, others from revenge. Thus Antinous, through
1191 34 | God),--these men, I say, revile us for the very things which
1192 11 | speaking ill of those who have reviled them (to abstain from which
1193 21 | to Tartarus; the Titans revolt; Styx dies in battle: yea,
1194 12 | them that lend to you, what reward will ye have?"),--shall
1195 4 | one, that we may not be ridiculed for having no answer to
1196 5 | above,~ He ought not on the righteous ills to send."~But speaking
1197 1 | all men most piously and righteously disposed towards the Deity
1198 18 | Ouranos,~ Majestic, glitt'ring with his starry crown."~
1199 29 | Heaven's voice, the social rite transgressed."~Such being
1200 1 | Athenians also perform religious rites and celebrate mysteries
1201 1 | with those who plunder and rob us, but to those who smite
1202 11 | do not strike again; when robbed, they do not go to law;
1203 20 | purpose, of which fact the rod of Hermes is a symbol; and
1204 28 | Dionysus and Isis, as He rodotus likewise affirms: "According
1205 28 | individually,[declare the same], no room is left even for doubt that
1206 3 | against our crimes; destroy us root and branch, with our wives
1207 22 | the forms of matter, and rooted to the earth, deify the
1208 21 | grieves."~For I call even men rude and stupid who give way
1209 22 | which would be brought to ruin by strife: how then can
1210 28 | He deposed Typhon, and ruled over Egypt as its last god-king.
1211 24 | entrusted to them: namely, this ruler of matter and its various
1212 25 | tis chance or deity that rules~The small affairs of men;
1213 2 | out of the undiscerning rumour of the multitude, shall
1214 21 | the conscious bed.~ Down rushed the toils."~Do they not
1215 27 | about matter, greedy of sacrificial odours and the blood of
1216 13 | And first, as to our not sacrificing: the Framer and Father of
1217 21 | wife, who bore~ Pirithous, sage in council as the gods;~
1218 22 | God. For the ship will not sail of itself; and the elements
1219 22 | one should put the ship he sailed in the place of the steersman.
1220 29 | son:--~"August Palaemon, sailors will invoke."~
1221 28 | same precinct of Minerva at Sais, is the burial-place of
1222 25 | produce these disorderly sallies, and moreover move men,
1223 32 | the kiss, or rather the salutation, should be given with the
1224 17 | common until Saurias the Samian, and Crato the Sicyonian,
1225 14 | at the Olympic games; the Samians Lysander, notwithstanding
1226 17 | Tectaeus and Angelio; Hera in Samos and in Argos came from the
1227 dedic| conquerors of Armenia and Sarmatia, and more than all, philosophers.~
1228 21 | decrees my best belov'd~ Sarpedon, by Patroclus' hand to fall;"~
1229 2 | they accept with equal satisfaction, as regards its fairness,
1230 9 | OF THE PROPHETS.~ If we satisfied ourselves with advancing
1231 3 | one, therefore, is more savage than the brutes, what punishment
1232 5 | so-called gods, he neither saw any real existences, to
1233 23 | descendants of gods, as they say--and surely they must be
1234 21 | Me, awkward me, she scorns; and yields her charms~
1235 26 | lacerate with knives and scourges of bones, and shall not
1236 28 | god whose name a religious scruple forbids me to mention."
1237 36 | nothing will escape the scrutiny of God, but that even the
1238 29 | have become a goddess?~"Sea-rovers will her name Leucothea."~
1239 11 | cease with evil intent to search out skilfully the secrets
1240 24 | speaking to you who have searched into every department of
1241 13 | gathered the water into seas and divided the light from
1242 22 | time, which is changed by seasons and disappears;--to such
1243 23 | second moving about the seconds, and the third about the
1244 11 | search out skilfully the secrets of their art, and are ever
1245 | seem
1246 | seemed
1247 31 | He, being Himself light, sees all things in our heart,
1248 5 | intelligence, thus:--~ "Seest thou on high him who, with
1249 22 | uncreated, and eternal, and ever self-accordant God. Zeus is, according
1250 32 | that such persons practise self-control? For our account lies not
1251 19 | gods remain, who are not self-existent, but have been originated?
1252 34 | for beauty on earth is not self-made, but sent hither by the
1253 28 | thousands in number, beat them selves at the close of the sacrifice
1254 6 | embracing in Himself all the seminal principles by which each
1255 11 | the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just and the
1256 15 | which is perceived by the senses, and who give the fitting
1257 2 | regards its fairness, the sentence whether of condemnation
1258 4 | name of atheism? If our sentiments were like those of Diagoras,
1259 15 | who do distinguish and separate the uncreated and the created,
1260 28 | and the temples as their sepulchres. Apollodorus, too, asserts
1261 1 | nay, as will appear in the sequel of this discourse, are of
1262 1 | cats, and crocodiles, and serpents, and asps, and dogs. And
1263 21 | they are even the hired servants of men:--~ "Admetus' halls,
1264 31 | intercourse between the sexes, both that they may appear
1265 31 | of some persons cast any shade upon us as regards rectitude
1266 32 | if they meant to condemn shameless and promiscuous intercourse,
1267 1 | according to their rank, share in equal honour; and the
1268 28 | surnamed Trismegistus, who shares with them in the attribute
1269 2 | prepared to undergo the sharpest and most merciless inflictions.
1270 14 | the brutes as gods, and shave themselves when they die,
1271 20 | him, and, she becoming a she-dragon, and he himself being changed
1272 31 | for God has not made us as sheep or beasts of burden, a mere
1273 36 | if to any one it appears sheer nonsense that the body which
1274 22 | Deity neither changes nor shifts about. But why should I
1275 34 | males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging
1276 33 | those cases in which we shun the thoughts, much more
1277 30 | rule and sovereignty (the Sibyl, of whom Plato also makes
1278 14 | the Cilicians Niobe; the Sicilians Philip the son of Butacides;
1279 17 | the Samian, and Crato the Sicyonian, and Cleanthes the Corinthian,
1280 22 | it be joined to itself, signifying this; Poseidon is what is
1281 14 | cities, it is an exceedingly silly one. Why, the very men who
1282 15 | stocks and stones, gold and silver, as gods, we are guilty
1283 25 | the world, perform actions similar, the one (that is, the demons)
1284 23 | His real existence, the simplicity of His nature, the good
1285 28 | XXVIII. THE HEATHEN GODS WERE SIMPLY MEN.~ But it is perhaps
1286 16 | and strikes its notes, and sings the accordant strain, and
1287 31 | we might be suspected of sinning, through being enslaved
1288 32 | has given him pleasure,[he sins];" adding, "Therefore the
1289 18 | speaks of~ "Old Oceanus,~ The sire of gods, and Tethys;"~and
1290 17 | olive-tree called), and the sitting figure of the same goddess,
1291 17 | potter), carved out the sketch and filled it up with clay:
1292 17 | invented by Saurias, who sketched a horse in the sun, and
1293 11 | evil intent to search out skilfully the secrets of their art,
1294 13 | knowledge and administrative skill, we "lift up holy hands"
1295 13 | darkness, who adorned the sky with stars and made the
1296 3 | only idle tales and empty slanders, originating in the fact
1297 1 | may cease at length to be slaughtered at the instigation of false
1298 14 | notwithstanding all the slaughters and all the crimes perpetrated
1299 35 | he had. And yet we have slaves, some more and some fewer,
1300 31 | even the thought of the slightest sin. For if we believed
1301 21 | prophet:)--~ "The very one who slugs while at the feast,~ The
1302 36 | they will commit even the smallest sin. But if to any one it
1303 17 | Argos came from the hands of Smilis, and the other statues were
1304 1 | rob us, but to those who smite us on one side of the face
1305 5 | as God."~For, as to these so-called gods, he neither saw any
1306 29 | Deaf to Heaven's voice, the social rite transgressed."~Such
1307 8 | from the beginning, and the sole Maker of the world.~
1308 14 | in the temples at their solemn festivals they beat their
1309 | something
1310 29 | slew~ Latona's well-lov'd son--such was his ire."~And Pindar:--~"
1311 13 | burnt-offerings, may be soothed."~ And what have I to do
1312 5 | concluded to be God; and Sophocles agrees with him, when he
1313 34 | comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonouring
1314 22 | brother Isis with her son Orus sought after his limbs, and finding
1315 27 | knowledge or experience of sounder doctrines, and is unaccustomed
1316 22 | Let Jove be fire, and Juno source of life,~ With Pluto and
1317 30 | ground of their rule and sovereignty (the Sibyl, of whom Plato
1318 3 | these charges are true, spare no class: proceed at once
1319 21 | Mars, when brandishing his spear."~Hush! Homer, a god never
1320 33 | second marriage is only a specious adultery. "For whosoever
1321 35 | killing him, have abjured such spectacles. How, then, when we do not
1322 11 | truth: they do not rehearse speeches, but exhibit good works;
1323 36 | present life, ill or well spent, and that there is no resurrection,
1324 6 | planetary stars and the sphere of the fixed stars, moving
1325 25 | small affairs of men; and, spite of hope~As well as justice,
1326 28 | said that the Egyptians spoke in their histories of the
1327 21 | Mars, the bane of mortals, stained with blood;"~and you tell
1328 18 | Majestic, glitt'ring with his starry crown."~
1329 1 | venture, therefore, to lay a statement of our case before you--
1330 18 | the Cyclopes Brontes, and Steropes, and Argos, whom also he
1331 2 | without thereby affixing any stigma on philosophy (for he is
1332 15 | certainly, in not regarding stocks and stones, gold and silver,
1333 23 | younger than the Cretans, who stole him away, that he might
1334 29 | With both hands quickly stopp'd his vital breath,~ And
1335 30 | changed into a dove: the story is in Ctesias), what wonder
1336 16 | and sings the accordant strain, and not the instrument.
1337 26 | Tauric goddess puts all strangers to death. I pass over those
1338 13 | Him is for us to know who stretched out and vaulted the heavens,
1339 33 | woman, and dissolving the strictest union of flesh with flesh,
1340 11 | when struck, they do not strike again; when robbed, they
1341 16 | who gave its harmony, and strikes its notes, and sings the
1342 25 | justice, drives to exile some~Stripped of all means of life, while
1343 30 | considered gods, and who have striven to represent their deeds
1344 34 | fails in their way, and the stronger chases the weaker: and,
1345 6 | included in God as in a stronghold, teaches that He is one,
1346 33 | our attention; not on the study of words, but on the exhibition
1347 21 | they not pour forth impious stuff of this sort in abundance
1348 21 | I call even men rude and stupid who give way to anger and
1349 17 | those who speak more in the style of the mysteries; for thus
1350 21 | Tartarus; the Titans revolt; Styx dies in battle: yea, they
1351 18 | things are in like manner subjected. This then especially I
1352 24 | love of virgins, and were subjugated by the flesh, and he became
1353 35 | always alike and the same, submitting ourselves to reason, and
1354 6 | several branch with more success than even those who have
1355 28 | than those who in family succession son from father, received
1356 23 | others, on the contrary, suffered harm, shall we deem those
1357 31 | free from all change or suffering in the soul, not as flesh,
1358 10 | is kept in being--I have sufficiently demonstrated. [I say "His
1359 6 | appellations they employ to suit the changes of matter, which
1360 23 | another title that should be suitable, he availed himself of the
1361 6 | wished to exhibit a complete summary of their opinions; for I
1362 21 | enamour'd fair he led,~ And sunk transported on the conscious
1363 30 | reverence shown them is superfluous (for those do not exist,
1364 13 | preserves them in being and superintends them all by knowledge and
1365 7 | VII. SUPERIORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
1366 20 | can we approach them as suppliants, when their origin resembles
1367 18 | they are made; and that the supplications and sacrifices presented
1368 36 | contrary, it is reasonable to suppose, that those who think they
1369 26 | these; but one of them is supposed to utter oracles and to
1370 28 | as Alexander and Hermes surnamed Trismegistus, who shares
1371 6 | the same proportion do you surpass them all in an accurate
1372 10 | of God. But if, in your surpassing intelligence, it occurs
1373 11 | our doctrine, let it not surprise you. It is that you may
1374 24 | about the giants, be not surprised at this: worldly Wisdom
1375 1 | cloak. But, when we have surrendered our property, they plot
1376 3 | conquer them, unhesitatingly surrendering, as we now do, our very
1377 8 | the world (for all that surrounds it is occupied by this one),
1378 27 | When, too, a tender and susceptible soul, which has no knowledge
1379 31 | present life, then we might be suspected of sinning, through being
1380 25 | herbs produce, and thus sustain my flocks,"--~and addresses
1381 22 | Europa, and the bull, and the swan, and Leda, to do with the
1382 11 | who of those that reduce syllogisms, and clear up ambiguities,
1383 20 | fact the rod of Hermes is a symbol; and again, how he violated
1384 22 | XXII. PRETENDED SYMBOLICAL EXPLANATIONS.~ But perhaps
1385 11 | those who teach homonyms and synonyms, and predicaments and axioms,
1386 30 | blood-stained woman, was esteemed a Syria goddess; and if, on account
1387 30 | account of Derceto, the Syrians worship doves and Semiramis (
1388 21 | endured~ To praise the menial table, though a god."~And they
1389 17 | painted in oil on a whitened tablet the outlines of a man and
1390 1 | side also, and to those who take away our coat to give likewise
1391 23 | earth and heaven, was a task transcending his powers?
1392 11 | not human but uttered and taught by God, we shall be able
1393 26 | slaughter, as Artemis; the Tauric goddess puts all strangers
1394 11 | atheists. What, then, are those teachings in which we are brought
1395 1 | before you--and you will team from this discourse that
1396 22 | Nestis, who bathes with tears~ The human founts."~If,
1397 17 | Artemis are due to the art of Tectaeus and Angelio; Hera in Samos
1398 17 | the work of Theodorus and Telecles; and the Delian god and
1399 28 | connection. It stands behind the temple against the back wall, which
1400 6 | nearest to it. So that since ten is the greatest number according
1401 21 | though a god."~And they tend cattle:--~ "And coming to
1402 25 | in accordance with the tendency of matter on the one hand,
1403 27 | set on idols. When, too, a tender and susceptible soul, which
1404 1 | Tyndarus; and the man of Tenedos worships Tennes. The Athenian
1405 1 | man of Tenedos worships Tennes. The Athenian sacrifices
1406 30 | the generation then the tenth,~ Of men endow'd with speech,
1407 16 | impassible air (as they term it), passible matter; or,
1408 25 | imposed upon it, and by the termination of his life, which remains
1409 21 | pierced the flesh."~He who was terrible in battle, the ally of Zeus
1410 12 | patience; for those who test honey and whey, judge by
1411 28 | learned of the Egyptians also testify, who, while saying that
1412 6 | Pythagoreans, being the Tetractys, and containing all the
1413 14 | as Zeus and Apollo; the Thasians Theagenes, a man who committed
1414 14 | and Apollo; the Thasians Theagenes, a man who committed murder
1415 28 | Heliopolis, and Memphis, and Thebes), affirm that they learnt
1416 30 | amours, the murders, the thefts, the castrations, the thunderbolts,
1417 7 | towards the true God (to ontôs theion), that it would be irrational
1418 20 | not give her the breast (thêlê), whence mystically she
1419 4 | to give to those who make them--with reason did the Athenians
1420 17 | it was they who framed a theogony for the Greeks, and gave
1421 20 | If the absurdity of their theology were confined to saying
1422 | thereby
1423 | thine
1424 23 | fit to speak himself, he thinks that those ought to be listened
1425 23 | about the seconds, and the third about the thirds;"--did
1426 23 | and the third about the thirds;"--did this man think, that
1427 25 | and is driven hither and thither by an irrational chance.
1428 17 | yourselves, however, are thoroughly acquainted with these matters,
1429 27 | contemplate truth, and to consider thoughtfully the Father and Maker of
1430 28 | both of men and women, many thousands in number, beat them selves
1431 26 | the latter, you are aware, threw himself into the fire near
1432 9 | greatness: "Heaven is My throne, and the earth is the footstool
1433 | throughout
1434 30 | you see the coffin, you throw a shadow over his death,
1435 33 | children. For as the husbandman throwing the seed into the ground
1436 21 | mutilated; Kronos is bound, and thrust down to Tartarus; the Titans
1437 30 | thefts, the castrations, the thunderbolts, are true, they no longer
1438 | thy
1439 3 | alleged against us: atheism, Thyestean feasts, OEdipodean intercourse.
1440 32 | unholy and detestable than Thyestes himself; for the latter
1441 21 | for Latona bright; nor for thyself."~He is created, he is perishable,
1442 30 | And Kronos, Japetus, and Titan reigned,~ Whom men, of Ouranos
1443 23 | designate Him by another title that should be suitable,
1444 12 | Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die," and who regard
1445 21 | conscious bed.~ Down rushed the toils."~Do they not pour forth
1446 36 | be thought to introduce topics irrelevant to the matter
1447 21 | he is perishable, with no trace of a god in him. Nay, they
1448 17 | being in love with a person, traced his shadow on a wall as
1449 23 | earth and heaven, was a task transcending his powers? It is not to
1450 29 | s voice, the social rite transgressed."~Such being his nature,
1451 25 | be seen merely from what transpires, exercises a control and
1452 21 | d fair he led,~ And sunk transported on the conscious bed.~ Down
1453 28 | asserts the same thing in his treatise concerning the gods. But
1454 2 | remove by law this despiteful treatment, so that, as throughout
1455 1 | themselves, and to the whole tribe of those who are like them.~
1456 2 | being bad men?), but be tried on any charges which may
1457 28 | deities, things of very trifling importance," it would behove
1458 28 | Alexander and Hermes surnamed Trismegistus, who shares with them in
1459 26 | account the people of the Troad offer sacrifices to this
1460 26 | evidence is afforded by Troas and Parium. The one has
1461 24 | speak lies that look like troths."~
1462 7 | one by his own soul, to try whether he could find out
1463 16 | world is an instrument in tune, and moving in well-measured
1464 4 | of Hercules to boil his turnips, but openly declared that
1465 12 | forgetfulness ("sleep and death, twin-brothers"), to be accounted pious;
1466 21 | The haughty son of Tydeus, Diomed,~ Hath wounded me;"~
1467 1 | Phylonoe the daughter of Tyndarus; and the man of Tenedos
1468 20 | form of brutes, and are ugly to behold?~
1469 27 | sounder doctrines, and is unaccustomed to contemplate truth, and
1470 13 | are doltish and utterly unacquainted with natural and divine
1471 22 | immortal, and immoveable, and unalterable: so that neither is Kronos
1472 16 | everything to Himself,--light unapproachable, a perfect world, spirit,
1473 22 | and the same, we shall be, unawares to ourselves putting perishable
1474 30 | not considering that the unbegotten God alone is eternal. For
1475 32 | should remain undefiled and uncorrupted; for the Logos again says
1476 32 | their bodies should remain undefiled and uncorrupted; for the
1477 2 | merely to our name--and it is undeniable, that up to the present
1478 2 | punishment, but are prepared to undergo the sharpest and most merciless
1479 25 | chance. But they do not understand, that of those things which
1480 23 | the world; by demons he understands beings possessed of Soul (
1481 2 | charges arising out of the undiscerning rumour of the multitude,
1482 11 | But among us you will find uneducated persons, and artisans, and
1483 34 | should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things
1484 3 | shall then conquer them, unhesitatingly surrendering, as we now
1485 32 | tales, which made Zeus more unholy and detestable than Thyestes
1486 6 | stands next to it, God is a unit--that is, one. For the greatest
1487 28 | sacrifice by the Egyptians universally; but the females, they are
1488 1 | discourse that we suffer unjustly, and contrary to all law
1489 17 | painting, and sculpture were unknown; nor did they become common
1490 33 | men and women, growing old unmarried, in hope of living in closer
1491 19 | is, the intelligible, is unoriginated, but that which is not,
1492 4 | from Him, we are treated unreasonably in both respects, in that
1493 5 | considering with an eye to things unseen the things which are manifest
1494 | until
1495 | unto
1496 30 | tales concerning whom are untrue); or if the births, the
1497 30 | poets about the gods are unworthy of credit, and the reverence
1498 37 | nature and by education, upright, and moderate, and benevolent,
1499 1 | following his ancestral usages, however ridiculous these
1500 | used