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1 I, 6 | clear vision. Further, the abandonment of what is bad is the adopting
2 II, 10 | dicebat "coitum" sophista Abderites morbum immedicabilem existimans.
3 II, 10 | aliena. Rursus autem Moyses abducit viros a praegnantibus, quousque
4 II, 10 | adversarios; illa vero a coitu abducta circumaguntur, et tantum
5 I, 6 | testified by the blood of Abel, the righteous interceding
6 III, 12 | be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave
7 I, 7 | guidance is a possession which abides for ever. They say that
8 III, 12 | in Him. He that saith he abideth in Him, ought himself to
9 I, 5 | The king, whose name was Abimelech, appears to me to represent
10 II, 1 | condiments, are they not plainly abject, earth-born, leading an
11 II, 10 | participes, semen non est abjiciendum, neque injuria afficiendum,
12 II, 1 | through various absurd notions abjure moderation of diet, and
13 III, 6 | practice. This is the Word, who abjures luxury, but calls self-help
14 I, 1 | rejoicing exceedingly, and abjuring our old opinions, through
15 II, 8 | let us not unconsciously abominate unguents, like vultures
16 II, 6 | that multiplieth speech abominates his own soul."~
17 II, 10 | feminino concubitu: est enim abominatio." Accedit his, quod "ab
18 III, 12 | the vain oblation is an abomination to me. Your new moons and
19 III, 11 | other superfluous matters abound in their case too, and also
20 II, 2 | cried, "Much wine drunk abounds in irritation and all manner
21 I, 6 | water, in addition to the above-mentioned milk, straightway feel benefit;
22 I, 7 | solicitude for her young, spreads abroad her wings, takes them, and
23 II, 10 | exinanitionis ejusque, quod abscedit, magnitudini ascribuntur? "
24 I, 8 | passions are, as it were, an abscess of the truth, which must
25 I, 6 | veins, and these, in the absence of exhalation, are greatly
26 II, 1 | solicitude, the gluttons seem absolutely to sweep the world with
27 II, 10 | secundum naturam rationes, absque ratione praeternaturalibus
28 II, 1 | locusts and wild honey." Peter abstained from swine; "but a trance
29 II, 8 | aperient, drawing, moistening, abstergent, subtle, antibilious, emollient.
30 II, 10 | quoque arvo feminino esse abstinendum" praeterquam a proprio,
31 II, 10 | corporibus; quorum hi quidem, qui abstinent, in certaminibus superant
32 II, 10 | adulteriis et libidine abstinere, hujus nos aenigmatis adhortata
33 II, 10 | prorumpendum, qui ab hyaena abstinet. Well, I also agree that
34 III, 3 | and softness was in him He abstracted from his side when He formed
35 III, 11 | is burdensome, but by the abstraction of excess. For women's articles
36 II, 10 | per exinanitionem coitus abstrahitur. Dicit enim: "Hoc nunc os
37 II, 8 | and grateful use, but have abused them to the thankless service
38 III, 11 | adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
39 II, 1 | Pelorus, the oysters of Abydos, not omitting the sprats
40 II, 9 | temperance raise us as from the abyss beneath to the enterprises
41 II, 10 | concubitu: est enim abominatio." Accedit his, quod "ab omni quoque
42 II, 10 | penuria satietatis, per quam accensae libidines prosiliunt ad
43 II, 10 | Plato consuluit lege illinc accepta: "Et uxori proximi tui non
44 I, 7 | to him, "I am thy God, be accepted before Me;" and in a way
45 II, 8 | doors, we unconsciously give access into the soul to that excess
46 II, 10 | facient illi, qui Sodomam accesserunt, angeli. Li eos, qui probro
47 II, 1 | alone, and whatever other accessories attend the mode of life.
48 II, 10 | describentes. Quae enim veteribus acciderunt, sicut ante diximus, ad
49 II, 10 | desiderat repleri); verum accidit, ut cure uterum gerunt,
50 I, 6 | meaning we may secondly accommodate the expression, "I have
51 II, 11 | yielded to. And if some accommodation is to be made, they may
52 II, 7 | meet, and meat and drink accompany affection, how should not
53 II, 2 | constantly, with us, always accomplishing its own proper work, the
54 II, 5 | we ought never of our own accord to assume a ludicrous character.
55 III, 12 | heptad of the spirit singing accordant. And the Lord being one,
56 II, 7 | embarrassment, and with accuracy of knowledge. Youth, Wisdom
57 II, 2 | the fluctuation, cannot accurately obtain a perception of the
58 I, 9 | Serpents, brood of vipers."~Accusation is censure of wrong-doers.
59 III, 2 | the ruin of nuptials, and accusations on the part of children? "
60 III, 10 | Our mode of life is not to accustom us to voluptuousness and
61 III, 11 | warm; and the eyes that are accustomed to look impudently at one'
62 II, 1 | public nutriment, which accustoms to everlasting dainties.
63 II, 2 | called by the mathematicians Acephalus (headless), which is numbered
64 III, 2 | Trojans, and the ships of the Achaeans, shake.~ Where, O Homer,
65 III, 11 | strange water, and cross to Acheron." Wherefore thus saith the
66 I, 7 | Phoenix was the instructor of Achilles, and Adrastus of the children
67 I, 8 | to Plato, what is just is acknowledged to be good, fear itself
68 II, 2 | it is well to make our acquaintance with this picture at the
69 II, 10 | existimari, apud quam honestas in acribus illis non probatur certo
70 II, 2 | its warmth, and mixes the acrid and base humours with the
71 II, 2 | skilful in these matters, acrothorakes. It is well, therefore,
72 II, 10 | quiescere, et post gratiarum actionem, quae fit Deo pro bonis
73 I, 13 | is a system of reasonable actions--that is, of those things
74 II, 10 | philosophus, "quoniam nunquam actis radicibus genitalem sit
75 II, 2 | the doer of it who is of Adam, that is, the whole world;
76 II, 11 | follows the Word will not addict himself to any base pleasure;
77 III, 12 | these He suggests, and adduces the Scriptures themselves
78 II, 10 | Hinc nobis manifestum atque adeo in confesso est, vitandos
79 III, 3 | and opened everywhere; and adepts at this meretricious fornication
80 II, 10 | celent, exitialia medicamenta adhibentes, quae prorsus in perniciem
81 II, 10 | abstinere, hujus nos aenigmatis adhortata est prohibitio. Idcirco
82 III, 2 | groves and sacred fields adjoining; the halls are surrounded
83 I, 6 | above. This is the eternal adjustment of the vision, which is
84 I, 8 | with the saving Word, to administer rebuke dictated by solicitude.
85 I, 9 | need the Saviour. And He administers not only mild, but also
86 II, 10 | impura.~Econtra autem pudicos admiratur:--~ Quos desiderium tenuit
87 II, 10 | Verum concedatur quidem et admittatur matrimonium: vult enim Dominus
88 II, 10 | quando tempus sementem admittit. Adversus aliam autem intemperantiam,
89 II, 10 | sicut ante diximus, ad nos admonendos scripta sunt, ne eisdem
90 III, 12 | among yourselves. Now we admonish you, brethren, warn them
91 I, 9 | is the Instructor in His admonitions, as when He says in the
92 II, 10 | recte habet, ut nunquam cure adolescentibus perinde ac cum feminis,
93 I, 6 | abandonment of what is bad is the adopting of what is better. For what
94 II, 8 | foretells in the psalm, "Let us adore at the place where His feet
95 II, 10 | verseris, fide dignum e domo adsit testimonium. Non enim potest
96 II, 8 | But the ointment, which is adulterated oil, is the traitor Judas,
97 I, 6 | separated, and whatever adulteration is in it is drained off.
98 II, 10 | significare autem non esse illi ad adulteria prorumpendum, qui ab hyaena
99 III, 1 | another; and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness, to seductions.~"
100 II, 10 | initibus, puerorumque stupris, adulteriis et libidine abstinere, hujus
101 II, 10 | ipsam. Irrita autem sunt et adulterina concubinarum semina. Ne
102 III, 2 | was away from home."~ O adulterous beauty! Barbarian finery
103 II, 10 | he violates his marriage adulterously who uses it in a meretricious
104 I, 13 | the libidinous and the adulturer is become like to an irrational
105 III, 11 | liberties not to be afraid to advance to greater; since the mistress,
106 III, 2 | she washes herself, she advances,~ She is soaped, she is
107 I, 8 | this mode of treatment is advantageous to the right training of
108 II, 10 | in certaminibus superant adversarios; illa vero a coitu abducta
109 I, 8 | error, and captivity of the adversary, brings them peacefully
110 II, 10 | tempus sementem admittit. Adversus aliam autem intemperantiam,
111 II, 1 | this point, too, we have to advert to what are called things
112 I, 12 | physician, who gives no advice bearing on their restoration
113 I, 2 | the cure with all speed, advising the head to be instantly
114 III, 11 | They say that the wife of AEneas, through excess of propriety,
115 II, 10 | libidine abstinere, hujus nos aenigmatis adhortata est prohibitio.
116 III, pray| all are, whose glory the aeons are; for the All-good, All-lovely,
117 II, 10 | eorum participes, neque eis aequalem gustare libidinem: haec
118 II, 10 | futurum est, polluere est aequum, nec sordido materiae profluvio,
119 III, 11 | firmness; and from what is aerial, free-breathing and equipoise;
120 II, 10 | senectutem, inquam, et puerilem aetatem. His enim nondum concessit,
121 III, 11 | prohibited from conducting affairs in the world decorously
122 I, 6 | a change which does not affect its substance, just as in
123 III, 5 | before their own husbands affecting a plausible pretence of
124 I, 11 | hath entrusted us, as an affectionate father commits his children
125 III, 12 | which is good. Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly
126 II, 10 | apro, meretricis comparavit affectionem. "Mortem" autem dixit "quaesitam,"
127 II, 10 | cognatae innumerabiles augentur affectiones, ex quibus mores intemperantes
128 II, 10 | voluptati. Pudore autem nos afficiat Paedagogus, clamans per
129 I, 6 | milk has a most natural affinity for water, as assuredly
130 II, 3 | not of the goldsmith? I affirm that truckle-beds afford
131 III, 11 | merely by touching the mouth, afflict men with pain? And often
132 II, 8 | love of finery, and the affliction in patience which, on account
133 III, 8 | employing constantly voluntary afflictions as training exercises for
134 II, 11 | agreeableness of the colour afflicts greedy eyes, inflaming them
135 I, 6 | having its pores more open, affords greater facility for diaphoretic
136 II, 10 | example to greater shame." And again--for he wearies not of doing
137 II, 1 | the Lord has not called agapoe. He says accordingly somewhere, "
138 III, 3 | since He is the eternal aged One, He who is older than
139 II, 10 | assidente femina, earn a tergo aggrediens: est enim ex iis, quae retro
140 II, 10 | masculus enim vicissim et agit, et patitur: unde etiam
141 II, 2 | come to men.~ Then will it agitate them, as the north or south
142 II, 2 | the north or south wind agitates the Libyan waves."~And further:--~ "
143 II, 10 | coitus, recte autem cum eo agitur, quem non laeserit." Nam
144 I, 5 | training of children (paidôn agôgê), is clear from the word
145 II, 11 | opprobrium alone. And the agreeableness of the colour afflicts greedy
146 I, 5 | and whatever else He added agreeably thereto. And it is not alone
147 I, 6 | Word with baptism, is the agreement of milk with water; for
148 II, 10 | lubentissime isthinc, tanquam ab agresti et insano domino, profugi."
149 II, 10 | nutrimenti habendi curam gerat; agriculturae autem finis est, fructuum
150 III, 10 | this stroke of economy in agricultural labour would not be ungentleman
151 II, 3 | which is serviceable for agriculture, not what is costly. What
152 I, 9 | medicine, by Isaiah, saying, "Ah, sinful nation, lawless
153 I, 5 | and loves those alone, and aids and fights for them; and
154 III, 10 | a rod of storax," which aimed by its wood to change and
155 I, 8 | individuals with death, aims at good, doing so for the
156 III, 11 | fingers, give themselves airs, scratching their heads
157 III, 3 | the hue being somewhat akin to blood. Both these barbarian
158 II, 8 | to the sacred supper "an alabaster box of ointment," and anointed
159 III, 3 | deeds are the prostitutes. Alas for such wickedness! Besides,
160 I, 7 | check the fornication of Alcibiades; but Zopyrus was a bought
161 III, 2 | Accordingly another comic poet, Alexis, reproves them. For I shall
162 II, 10 | sementem admittit. Adversus aliam autem intemperantiam, optimum
163 II, 10 | existimare, pueros; uxores autem alienas intueri tanquam proprias
164 II, 10 | stolide inhiare, nec a ratione alienis appetitionibus moveri, nec
165 II, 10 | utendum sit; natura enim sicut alimentis, ita etiam legitimis nuptiis,
166 II, 10 | figura carnis, qui in utilem aliquam desinat partem, vel in matricem
167 II, 10 | sapientissimus Moyses infrugiferam aliquando sationem symbolice repulerit: "
168 II, 10 | excogitavit, et ideo est etiam aliquantisper concavum, ut prurientibus
169 II, 10 | testimonium. Non enim potest aliquid honestum ab ea existimari,
170 II, 10 | celebrentur orgia, nec ut aliquis ex ecclesia, verbi gratia,
171 II, 10 | fornicationem vestram." Aliquod tempus ad seminandum opportunum
172 II, 10 | rationis expertia animantia. Aliter autem coire, quam ad liberorum
173 III, 11 | emulates Moses--Plato best of all--approves of that texture
174 I, 1 | arrangement is observed by the all-benignant Word, who first exhorts,
175 III, 12 | an exhortation of life, all-embracing: "As ye would that men should
176 III, pray| glory the aeons are; for the All-good, All-lovely, All-wise, All-just
177 III, pray| All-good, All-lovely, All-wise, All-just One. To whom be glory both
178 III, pray| aeons are; for the All-good, All-lovely, All-wise, All-just One.
179 I, 6 | diffusion, bidden by the all-nourishing and creating God, proceed
180 III, 8 | insane love for boys; the All-seeing Word, whose notice those
181 I, 2 | nature of His creature; the all-sufficient Physician of humanity, the
182 III, pray| Himself, the teaching and all-surveying Word, it were right that,
183 II, 13 | therefore, to do away with this allegation: Who, then, will have the
184 I, 6 | knowledge have calumniously alleged. Straightway, on our regeneration,
185 II, 10 | detestans alimentum, sapienti allegoria reprehendit cultum simulacrorum:
186 III, 7 | rich are travelling, are allegorically called shoes. We must, then,
187 II, 2 | of means are women to be allotted to uncover and exhibit any
188 III, 11 | strictness may relaxed. For allowance must sometimes be made in
189 III, 11 | of safety, He (the Word) allows us a signet for this purpose
190 I, 9 | consolations by Solomon, tacitly alluding to the love for children
191 III, 1 | now into another; and it allures to adulteries, to licentiousness,
192 III, 8 | punishment consequent upon it, alluring while admonishing, planning
193 I, 7 | I sanctified thee." Such allusions prophecy can make to us,
194 I, 13 | the soul's consort and ally. Virtue is a will in conformity
195 III, 7 | for greedy eyes. "But let alms and faith not fail thee,"
196 I, 6 | clearly shown to be both, "the Alpha and Omega, beginning and
197 II, 10 | ut cure uterum gerunt, altera pars matricis desiderio
198 II, 1 | and the Median peafowl. Altering these by means of condiments,
199 II, 10 | tenuit nec turpe cubilis~ Alterius, nec tetra invisaque stupra
200 II, 10 | feminis conjunctionibus, alternisque initibus, puerorumque stupris,
201 II, 10 | animadverterint, quam sit filiorum amans omnium mater et genetrix
202 II, 10 | meretriciae vitiaverint libidines. Amantium enim corda sunt volucria,
203 II, 8 | idols. For the fair crown of amaranth is laid up for those who
204 I, 13 | and is rightly called, (amartêma) sin. Since, then, the first
205 III, 2 | with gold, and silver, and amber, and glitter with parti-coloured
206 III, 3 | his meretriciousness by an ambiguous speech. But for those who
207 II, 10 | enim animal non habet simul ambo pudenda maris et feminae,
208 II, 8 | always be anointed with the ambrosial chrism of modesty, and find
209 II, 13 | chains and set in necklaces, amethysts, cera-unites, jaspers, topaz,
210 II, 13 | the flesh, exhibiting the amiable comeliness of self-control,
211 II, 10 | appetitiones, quae prius in amicis versabantur complexibus,
212 II, 7 | repented of what he has said amiss, or has spoken so as to
213 II, 10 | desiderium, vinolentia et amor in mulieres; luxus quoque,
214 II, 11 | nothing of the linens made of Amorgos and Byssus. Luxury has outstripped
215 II, 10 | enim corda sunt volucria, amorisque irritamenta exstinguuntur
216 II, 10 | exstinguuntur saepe poenitentia; amorque saepe vertitur in odium,
217 I, 5 | account of their very limited amount of understanding from their
218 II, 4 | to lusts, or kindling up amours, or rousing wrath. In their
219 II, 10 | insipientium." Quocirca, "Amove a servis tuis spes inanes,
220 III, 3 | the women's apartments, amphibious and lecherous beasts. For
221 II, 10 | concessit, illos autem non vult amplius uxores ducere. Seal non
222 II, 3 | goatskin coverlet being amply sufficient to spread on
223 III, 11 | And outside they foolishly amuse themselves with impious
224 II, 5 | indulge in pleasantry for our amusement. Nor are we to laugh before
225 III, 11 | if sitting in the stews."~Amusements and Associates.~ And let
226 III, 11 | and a mincing gait," as Anacreon says, are altogether meretricious.~ "
227 I, 7 | What is called by men an ancestral custom passes away in a
228 II, 2 | by reason and time, as by anchors, they stand with greater
229 II, 10 | coalescere non possunt, androgynorum conjunctiones, ipsam naturam
230 II, 10 | qui Sodomam accesserunt, angeli. Li eos, qui probro illos
231 II, 10 | autem falluntur, ut qui non animadverterint, quam sit filiorum amans
232 II, 10 | gustare libidinem: haec enim animalia ad explendum coitum venereum
233 II, 10 | quoque rationis expertia animantia. Aliter autem coire, quam
234 II, 10 | agricola, qui terrain colit animatam: ille enim ed tempus alimentum
235 II, 10 | quae sit lux rationis, in animo est includenda. Nihil enim
236 II, 11 | prohibited to expose the ankle, but because it has also
237 II, 13 | in the Synephebus called ankle-fetters:--~ "Conspicuous garments,
238 III, 3 | they fasten them to their ankles, and hang them from their
239 II, 10 | autem vicissim singulis annis masculinum sexum mutare
240 II, 10 | immedicabilem existimans. Annon enim consequuntur resolutiones,
241 II, 10 | multiplicare anum, pro numero annorum, quos vixit, habentem foramina:
242 I, 9 | His own Son. And He first announced the good righteousness that
243 II, 2 | which appears on corpses, announcing to him death in the Lord.
244 II, 8 | perfume. There are some who, annoyed at the attention bestowed
245 II, 8 | a husband. For excessive anointings with unguents savour of
246 III, 12 | inherit eternal life?" He answered, "Thou knowest the commandments?"
247 I, 7 | teaching him to trip up his antagonist. It is He also who teaches
248 II, 8 | moistening, abstergent, subtle, antibilious, emollient. The Narcissinian
249 I, 6 | For the future of time is anticipated by the power of His volition.
250 II, 2 | danger; and by pouring the antidote to the inflammation, so
251 I, 12 | from, and supplying all the antidotes of salvation to those who
252 II, 3 | with Thericleian cups and Antigonides, and Canthari, and goblets,
253 II, 7 | writing to the brethren at Antioch, and in Syria and Cilicia,
254 I, 6 | not in consequence of any antipathy between them, but in consequence
255 II, 13 | earth and water. Wherefore ants dig, and griffins guard
256 II, 10 | dicunt quotannis multiplicare anum, pro numero annorum, quos
257 I, 10 | with fire, and hammer, and anvil, that is, with threatening,
258 I, 8 | is the time to wound the apathetic soul not mortally, but salutarily,
259 III, 2 | will thus be detected--an ape smeared with white paint.
260 II, 13 | thou hast prepared be? "~ Apelles, the painter, seeing one
261 II, 8 | lilies; and it is warming, aperient, drawing, moistening, abstergent,
262 III, 4 | are fairer in my mind than apes, and capable of uttering
263 I, 6 | hence is derived the word aphrodisia. From all this it is therefore
264 II, 13 | says were thrown around Aphrodite when committing adultery,
265 II, 11 | was white as snow." The Apocalypse says also that the Lord
266 I, 6 | seminal veins. For Diogenes Apollionates will have it, that hence
267 II, 13 | adducing the astounding apology, "Why may I not use what
268 II, 13 | transcendent grace of the apostolic voice. For the colours are
269 II, 10 | memoranda, beatum sequentibus Apostolum, qui aperte dicit: "Fornicatio
270 II, 10 | autem tradidit Deus," ut air Apostolus, "in perturbationes ignominiae:
271 II, 1 | hidden; the carnal ones apparent, to which indeed they have
272 II, 5 | devote ourselves to being and appearing ridiculous in our conversation,
273 II, 10 | puerorum repellens, eum appellate bestiam, quod frenum mordentes,
274 II, 6 | in the members to which appellations not in common use are applied,
275 II, 10 | intestinum autem, quod rectum appellatur, posita, extendit collum
276 II, 11 | whose curious vestments, and appendages of fringes, and elaborate
277 III, 12 | written in the holy Bible appertaining to chosen persons, some
278 II, 10 | Logos itaque per Moysen appertissime praecepit: "Et cure masculo
279 II, 10 | permisit: permisit autem appetere liberorum procreationem.
280 II, 10 | libidinem excludens. Ejus autem appetitiones, quae prius in amicis versabantur
281 II, 8 | second, the rising up to applaud; third, the strewing with
282 I, 7 | him, and kept him as the apple of His eye, as an eagle
283 I, 8 | reproof. Reproach is like the application of medicines, dissolving
284 III, paed| and the day;~ Who didst appoint their courses to the stars,~
285 III, 3 | plucking out, contrary to God's appointment, which has counted them
286 I, 6 | follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended
287 II, 10 | appetitio et coitus ne me apprehendant." Longe ergo sunt arcenda
288 I, 1 | habits are the department appropriated by hortatory discourse the
289 I, 6 | is the symbol of perfect appropriation. For those who are full-grown
290 III, 11 | Moses--Plato best of all--approves of that texture on which
291 II, 10 | Non est quaelibet terra apta ad suscipienda semina: quod
292 II, 1 | others because alone of aquatic animals they were devoid
293 II, 4 | Etruscans use the trumpet, the Arcadians the pipe, the Sicilians
294 II, 10 | apprehendant." Longe ergo sunt arcenda multifaria insidiatorum
295 III, 11 | of God," to dishonour the archetype by assuming a foreign ornament,
296 II, 11 | after the fashion of that Argive courtesan, I mean Eriphyle,--~ "
297 III, 2 | goddesses,~ As the myth of the Argives has it, having come from
298 II, 9 | Moreover, silver-footed couches argue great ostentation; and the
299 II, 5 | a guffaw, and is savage arid insulting laughter. "A fool
300 I, 9 | which set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not
301 II, 2 | wine if it is absent, or Ariousian when it is not at hand.
302 II, 13 | strongest censure, therefore, Aristophanes in the Thesmophoriazousae
303 II, 1 | who "placed the sacred ark in his city in the midst
304 III, 3 | their shaggy hair, but are armed by their hair in the fight;
305 II, 4 | darkness, we should put on the armour of light, walking honestly
306 I, 8 | Furthermore, the general of an army, by inflicting fines and
307 I, 4 | paidarion) is most loving.~Arnes, too, the word for lambs,
308 III, 1 | it with incorruptibility, arraying the flesh in this, the holy
309 II, 6 | the same course with both, arrays those children who are engaged
310 I, 9 | bitter roots of fear then arrest the eating sores of our
311 I, 3 | good Creator, or for man to arrive at the knowledge of God.
312 III, 11 | appearance of hoary hairs, arriving like an instructor, has
313 II, 2 | drink from them alone, as arrogant; counselling women to use
314 II, 8 | delights in the lily, and Artemis in the myrtle. For if the
315 I, 9 | is latent censure, and by artful aid ministers salvation
316 III, 5 | those fond of display, they artfully try to win the admiration
317 II, 10 | malitiosis non tollamus artibus: eae enim, ut fornicatiohem
318 II, 11 | also what is useful in the article of dress is to be preferred.
319 III, 2 | and there is no want of artistic painting; and the temples
320 II, 1 | suiting precisely simple and artless children--as ministering
321 II, 2 | for fear of tripping. One Artorius, in his book On Long Life (
322 II, 10 | his, quod "ab omni quoque arvo feminino esse abstinendum"
323 I, 5 | before, as the Word was to ascend to heaven. Again, therefore,
324 II, 8 | respiration. For the fragrance ascending and exhaling naturally,
325 II, 10 | Instructor, crying, "The man who ascends his bed, who says in his
326 II, 1 | beetroot that grows among the Ascraeans: they seek out the cockles
327 II, 10 | quod abscedit, magnitudini ascribuntur? "homo enim ex homine nascitur
328 III, 4 | Melitaean pup, and look askance at a just old man, who is
329 I, 7 | said, "Why is it that thou askest My name?" For He reserved
330 II, 1 | understanding them as those who are (asôsous) unsaved, excluding the <
331 II, 2 | drunkenness with salvation (to asôston). For if He made water wine
332 II, 2 | excess;" by the term excess (asôtia) intimating the inconsistence
333 II, 1 | first called the abandoned asôtous, and so appear to me to
334 III, 12 | adduced by me with too great asperity, in order to effect the
335 III, 8 | others, self-taught, either aspire after or seek virtue.~"He
336 I, 6 | perfection after which we aspired. For we were illuminated,
337 I, 9 | Wherefore also afterwards He assailed them more roughly; in order,
338 I, 6 | with the sea, which at the assaults of the winds, the poets
339 II, 7 | are not to copy oxen and asses, whose manger and dunghill
340 II, 10 | tempore coit lepus, et salit, assidente femina, earn a tergo aggrediens:
341 III, 12 | period of guidance, and assigning the interpretation of them
342 I, 2 | try with all our might to assimilate our souls. He is wholly
343 I, 6 | is likened to meat, and assimilates to the soul itself nourishment
344 I, 6 | by a natural process of assimilation in the pregnancy of the
345 III, 2 | cannot for shame come to the assistance of women held up to such
346 III, 9 | the bath as to require an assistant, nor are we to bathe constantly
347 III, 4 | beauty. And male and female assistants at the toilet are employed
348 I, 5 | wise sport, laughter also assisted by endurance, and the king
349 II, 10 | them--that is, the Logos--by association with their vices. Those,
350 III, 9 | afterwards into the water, have assuaged their thirst. Unless, then,
351 III, hymn| Wisdom's head and chief;~ Assuagement of all grief;~ Lord of all
352 I, 1 | passions, in consequence of the assuagements of those examples; the Paedagogue
353 I, 10 | salvation. By encouragement He assuages sins, reducing lust, and
354 II, 5 | never of our own accord to assume a ludicrous character. And
355 I, 1 | highest utility,--that which assumes the form of counselling
356 II, 2 | not deliberately? For rest assured, He Himself also partook
357 III, 11 | Sardanapalus, king of the Assyrians, sitting on a couch with
358 I, 9 | by Jeremiah: "Heaven was astonished at this, and the earth shuddered
359 II, 13 | for jewels, adducing the astounding apology, "Why may I not
360 III, 11 | of woman many have gone astray, and at it affection blazes
361 II, 2 | lusts, and has been rent asunder from salvation. So he adds
362 II, 10 | mystically called those Atheists who destroy and pollute,
363 II, 2 | as the myth represents Athene, whoever she was, out of
364 II, 11 | hand, the archons of the Athenians, who affected a polished
365 III, 10 | to many. But let not such athletic contests, as we have allowed,
366 II, 13 | contrary to nature, in order to attach to them ear-rings and ear-drops.
367 II, 8 | pleasure to which no utility attaches, induces the suspicion of
368 I, 6 | to regard the apostle as attaching this sense to the milk of
369 II, 1 | use them, without undue attachment to them, as having command
370 II, 7 | whilst supping. If any one is attacked with sneezing, just as in
371 I, 13 | aspiration after the truth, which attains its destined end through
372 III, 7 | Instructor the fair and grave attendants, Self-help and Simplicity.
373 III, 10 | also previously remarked, attending to one's own wants is an
374 III, 12 | describe, lending to me attentive ears." "And I will give
375 III, 3 | want of shame in public attests their unbridled licentiousness
376 II, 1 | Methymna, the turbots of Attica, and the thrushes of Daphnis,
377 II, 11 | introduces dressed in superfluous attire, brightened up with colour
378 III, 11 | to go to church decently attired, with natural step, embracing
379 III, 11 | lasting beauty, the heat attracting to itself all the moisture
380 II, 8 | who are thus saturated, an attraction and flow take place from
381 III, 11 | causes, is a thing which attracts to itself; and when it does
382 III, 3 | and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood, with shaggy
383 III, 3 | something fearful in it; and its auburn (csanthon) colour threatens
384 II, 10 | coitum propensio: quae cum aucta fuerit, magna simul morborum
385 II, 10 | vero nobis turpe est ad auditorum utilitatem nominare partes,
386 II, 10 | autem cognatae innumerabiles augentur affectiones, ex quibus mores
387 III, hymn| mercy, virtue-sending;~ Life august of those who raise~ Unto
388 II, 10 | sanguis in venas, sordes in aures, mucus in hares defertur:
389 II, 2 | those who have adopted an austere life, and who are fond of
390 II, 5 | harmoniously relaxing the austerity and over-tension of our
391 II, 10 | ecclesia, verbi gratia, aut ex foro mane rediens, galli
392 II, 10 | medicamentum, ratio. Fert etiam auxilium penuria satietatis, per
393 III, 11 | contrary to these things--the avaricious, the liars, the hypocrites,
394 III, 3 | themselves free from adultery. Avenging justice follows their audacious
395 II, 8 | appear to me to be rightly so averse to perfumes on account of
396 II, 10 | excipiat libidinem, quando aversi fuerint meatus, qui in concipiendo
397 I, 8 | own love for man. "I will avert," He says, "My face from
398 II, 10 | indecoras," inquit, "cupiditates averte a me. Ventris appetitio
399 I, 8 | rejoicing; but where it is averted, there is the introduction
400 II, 6 | practise it by stern looks and averting the face, and by what we
401 III, 11 | business, or discharging other avocations in the country, and often
402 I, 10 | of what is good, and the avoidance of what is evil. "For there
403 I, 8 | Word Himself will again avouch: "For He is kind to the
404 III, 7 | distress. For the Scripture avouches, "that the true riches of
405 II, 12 | shoes let John suffice, who avowed that "he was not worthy
406 II, 9 | sleep so as to be easily awaked. For it is said, "Let your
407 II, 3 | what alone cannot be taken away--faith towards god, confession
408 III, 11 | walk about with my neck awry,~ As I see others--lechers
409 III, 11 | listen to divine wisdom, ay, and to frame your life
410 II, 13 | punish her for the days of Baalim, in which they offered sacrifice
411 III, 11 | barbers' shops and taverns, babbling nonsense; and let them give
412 II, 2 | contentions, who has disgusting babblings, who has unavailing remorse?"
413 I, 6 | the Lord, the food of the babes--the Lord who is Spirit and
414 III, 12 | stealthy vocal word to men," as Bacchylidis says, "who shall be the
415 II, 13 | steel;~ Pumice-stone, band, back-band,~ Back-veil, paint, necklaces,~
416 II, 13 | Pumice-stone, band, back-band,~ Back-veil, paint, necklaces,~ Paints
417 III, 3 | stepping out and bending backwards in shameful postures, yet
418 II, 13 | to wear the most manifest badges of the evil one. For as
419 II, 1 | themselves. And both act badly; the one by paining those
420 III, 4 | perfumers, and cooks, and bakers," ruling by the law of war,
421 III, 8 | greedily after the error of Balaam, and perished in the gainsaying
422 I, 6 | sends it, as it were, into banishment; but he applies the name "
423 III, 12 | excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries."
424 I, 6 | perfected by the washing--of baptism--alone, and is sanctified
425 II, 13 | border,~ Long robe, tunic, Barathrum, round tunic."~But I have
426 III, 11 | therefore, spend their time in barbers' shops and taverns, babbling
427 II, 11 | another prophet, was naked and barefooted, and often was clad in sackcloth,
428 III, 7 | food. "It was a cake of barley and a jar of water." Such
429 II, 11 | have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them." "
430 II, 13 | rich man hoarding up in his barns, and saying to himself, "
431 II, 8 | pointed to us, who once were barren, but are placed around Him
432 III, 8 | sinned, He shows us their base-ness, and exhibits the punishment
433 I, 4 | and holy life, which is based on conjugal union, are laid
434 I, 9 | dishonoured her, when they saw her baseness." And He uses the bitter
435 I, 6 | the separation of what is baser, that results from the reminiscence
436 II, 7 | behaviour. For example, before a bashful and silent youth, one might
437 II, 3 | for the fight? What if the basin be of earthenware? will
438 I, 5 | upright in mind, which is the basis of simplicity and truth.
439 I, 10 | a grape-gatherer to his basket." Do you see the goodness
440 III, 3 | men, but lewd wretches (bataloi), and effeminate (gunides),
441 III, 9 | bath is common to all the bathers equally. But most of all
442 III, 2 | war breaks out, and fierce battles are waged, and the plains
443 II, 13 | Resigning, therefore, these baubles to the wicked master of
444 III, 3 | Such the Lord calls us to be--naked of finery, naked of
445 I, 6 | illumination, shedding its beams around the mind, the moment
446 III, 4 | seen, that they purchase bearers, for it were commendable
447 I, 7 | her wings, takes them, and bears them on her back. The Lord
448 II, 4 | immodest and intractable, beat on cymbals and drums, and
449 III, 2 | dead bodies."~Breasts are beaten in lamentations, and grief
450 II, 6 | filthy speaking the apostle beats off, saying, "Let no corrupt
451 II, 10 | ne sunt quidem memoranda, beatum sequentibus Apostolum, qui
452 III, 2 | temperance. But those women who beautify the outside, are unawares
453 II, 7 | the mouth being composed becomingly, and not gaping and yawning
454 II, 9 | account of the softness of the bedding. For they are not convenient
455 II, 11 | the world, and we who are bedewed by the grace of God are
456 III, paed| Thy flocks; like to the bee,~ That skilful worker, which
457 II, 8 | unguents, like vultures or like beetles (for these, they say, when
458 II, 1 | turnip; and furthermore, the beetroot that grows among the Ascraeans:
459 II, 8 | Almighty Lord of the universe began to legislate by the Word,
460 III, 10 | extends her wrist to the beggar."~ She who emulates Sarah
461 II, 2 | fornicator shall come to beggary, and every sluggard shall
462 III, 4 | with fortune-tellers, and begging priests, and disreputable
463 III, 11 | But Joseph was not thus beguiled by another woman. The Egyptian
464 II, 2 | asleep till business is begun. But the Word can never
465 III, 11 | sometimes, when they have been behaving shamefully, the appearance
466 III, paed| is praise to Thee for Thy behests).~ O King, great Giver of
467 III, 2 | Narcissus to have been the beholder of his own image. And if
468 II, 6 | and on the other, from beholding what is forbidden. For the
469 I, 5 | King, then, who is Christ, beholds from above our laughter,
470 I, 2 | rest of the stars for man's behoof, and then busies itself
471 III, 4 | pleasures, because of the belief that they are unable to
472 III, 11 | whatever is deceptive and belies the truth, we may embrace
473 I, 5 | does by the endurance of us believers, who are the members of
474 II, 10 | ejusmodi alia voluptatis bellua. Multa ergo nobis per totam
475 II, 1 | shall not blush to call the Belly-demon, and the worst and most
476 II, 3 | vessels, and everything else belonging to the house, I say comprehensively,
477 | below
478 I, 10 | another form of instruction is benediction. "And blessed is he," He
479 II, 10 | testimonio voluptatibus. Benevolentia autem quae praeceps fertur
480 I, 1 | strengthening our souls, and by His benign commands, as by gentle medicines,
481 III, 11 | the soul--which is wildly bent on pleasures, and vicious
482 II, 8 | made of myrtle and myrtle berries, is a styptic, stopping
483 II, 1 | And how senseless, to besmear their hands with the condiments,
484 III, 2 | herself, decks herself, besmears herself;~ And if aught is
485 II, 2 | the cup at a draught; nor besprinkle the chin, nor splash the
486 II, 10 | repellens, eum appellate bestiam, quod frenum mordentes,
487 II, 13 | wealth, and are free in bestowing it. And on your feet let
488 III, 11 | people shall say that they betake themselves to the spectacles
489 I, 5 | those as foolish who have betaken themselves to God. But if,
490 II, 8 | the dish, the same shall betray Me." You see the treacherous
491 II, 8 | guest, and this same Judas betrayed the Master with a kiss.
492 I, 9 | Judah lied to the LORD."~ Bewailing one's fate is latent censure,
493 II, 1 | when we are not hungry, bewitching the appetite. For is there
494 II, 11 | flaring membranes, we are to bid farewell to, with the art
495 III, 1 | a serpent, a pard, or a big sow."~Love of ornament has
496 II, 13 | mussels, and is about the bigness of a fish's eye of large
497 III, 10 | for himself, and to cut billets of wood which he is to use
498 III, hymn| sea of sin,~ And from the billowy strife,~ Gathering pure
499 III, 3 | that on the head, all but binding their locks with fillets
500 III, 12 | some to presbyters, some to bishops, some to deacons, others