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1001 III, 5 | rubbed by them; giving to the crouching menial liberty to lust,
1002 III, 2 | waged, and the plains are crowded with dead: the barbarian
1003 III, 4 | with the effeminate. And crowds of abominable creatures (
1004 I, 9 | learn, if you will, the crowning wisdom of the all-holy Shepherd
1005 II, 8 | disgrace; and Him whom they crucified as a malefactor they crowned
1006 III, 11 | pastime are not wise; for cruel contests for glory which
1007 II, 5 | other infers suspicion of cruelty. We are not to laugh perpetually,
1008 I, 6 | to know that, as bread, crumbled into a mixture of wine and
1009 II, 11 | desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the rich
1010 III, 6 | them skilfully, so as to crush the creature by the charm
1011 II, 10 | voice of the Instructor, crying, "The man who ascends his
1012 II, 3 | bring in silver urinals and crystal vases de nuit, as they usher
1013 III, 3 | fearful in it; and its auburn (csanthon) colour threatens war, the
1014 II, 10 | autem ea resolvamus, cum in cubile venerimus. Si enim honestatem
1015 II, 10 | desiderium tenuit nec turpe cubilis~ Alterius, nec tetra invisaque
1016 III, 11 | parts the hoof and chews the cud is clean." For the parting
1017 II, 10 | lactans: habet enim matricem, cui sunt duo sinus, et non unus
1018 III, paed| present,~ Woven of words culled from the spotless mead,~
1019 II, 3 | For though such of us as cultivate the soil need a mattock
1020 III, 11 | then let coporeal beauty be cultivated too, symmetry of limbs and
1021 II, 10 | sapienti allegoria reprehendit cultum simulacrorum: vere enim
1022 I, 8 | in many ways serviceable culture,--He says, "I am the true
1023 III, 4 | the horses; and a crowd of cup-bearers exert themselves in their
1024 III, 7 | do they collect so many cupbearers, when they might satisfy
1025 II, 10 | immunditia, vel plura habendi cupiditas, ne nominetur quidem in
1026 II, 10 | infirmanda. Malae enim. cupiditati nomen est ubris, "petulantia;"
1027 II, 10 | petulantia;" et equum cupiditatis, "petulantem" vocavit Plato,
1028 II, 10 | omnia tyrannidem obtinet cupidity. His autem cognatae innumerabiles
1029 III, 11 | irrational impulses must be curbed, lest, carrying us away
1030 I, 9 | it were, by many reins, curbing the irrational impulses
1031 I, 6 | immortality. For the milk is curdled by the wine, and separated,
1032 I, 6 | the blood, as the rennet curdles milk, effects the essential
1033 III, 4 | maintaining parrots and curlews, they do not receive the
1034 III, 2 | occupying themselves in curling at their locks, and engaged
1035 II, 11 | artificial hair and wreathed curls; and furthermore, of staining
1036 III, 11 | be shaven, unless it has curly hair. But let the chin have
1037 III, 12 | enemies, bless them that curse us, and pray for them that
1038 I, 7 | impetuosity they hamstrung bulls. Cursed be their anger." Who, then,
1039 III, 11 | regarded not to differ from cursing."~ The Government of the
1040 I, 7 | fugitive. Leonides did not curtail the pride of Alexander,
1041 III, 4 | a show. So, opening the curtain, and looking keenly round
1042 III, 4 | sweetmeats, and honey-cakes, and custards others are occupied with
1043 II, 10 | committitur in meretrice, quae custoditur. "Domum" autem, et "urbem,"
1044 II, 9 | other hand, it savours of cynic vanity for a man to act
1045 II, 8 | words of Aristippus the Cyrenian. Aristippus was a luxurious
1046 II, 1 | by the name of food their dabbling in luxuries, which glides
1047 II, 10 | Et uxori proximi tui non dabis concubitum seminis, ut polluaris
1048 II, 9 | ways, watching at my doors, daily observing the posts of my
1049 II, 10 | nascitur et evellitur." Vide damni magnitudinem: totus homo
1050 I, 5 | unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned, and ye
1051 II, 4 | psalteries, and choirs, and dances, and Egyptian clapping of
1052 III, 11 | with flute-playing, and dancing, and intoxication, and all
1053 II, 11 | and plainly, therefore, Daniel the prophet says, "Thrones
1054 II, 1 | Attica, and the thrushes of Daphnis, and the reddish-brown dried
1055 III, 3 | know not how we could have dared to dishonour. But the using
1056 II, 1 | arising from them being dense, darken the soul. If one partakes
1057 III, 11 | voluptuousness. For luxury, that has dashed on to surfeit, is prone
1058 II, 2 | the haven of truth, till, dashing on the rocks beneath the
1059 I, 9 | in compassions. Wherefore David--that is, the Spirit by him--
1060 III, 2 | what is spurious. At the dawn of day, mangling, racking,
1061 III, 5 | the glitter of gold. For dazzling thus those fond of display,
1062 I, 10 | For the hortatory and the de-hortatory are a form of the persuasive,
1063 III, 12 | some to bishops, some to deacons, others to widows, of whom
1064 I, 10 | receive their sight, the deaf hear, the lepers are cleansed,
1065 II, 1 | according to the Word are not debarred from dainties in the shape
1066 III, 3 | intercourse with a son that has debauched himself, and daughters that
1067 III, 9 | energies, and often induces debility and fainting. For in a way
1068 I, 10 | man, and will restore the debtor's pledge, and will not take
1069 II, 4 | manifested by the element of the decad? And as it is befitting,
1070 III, 12 | Scriptures. We have the Decalogue given by Moses, which, indicating
1071 III, 11 | man are to go to church decently attired, with natural step,
1072 II, 11 | that are employed in such deceptions? May we not very well suspect,
1073 III, 2 | herself,~ Anoints herself, decks herself, besmears herself;~
1074 II, 10 | id versatur, et hoc nobis declaratum est in libro De continentia.
1075 III, 2 | but the soul that is to be decorated with the ornament of goodness;
1076 III, 11 | weaving, except for warlike decorations."~ To men of peace and of
1077 III, 11 | conducting affairs in the world decorously according to God. Let not
1078 II, 4 | drunkenness. For the apostle decrees that, "putting off the works
1079 II, 10 | coitum natos, voluit esse deditos voluptati. Pudore autem
1080 II, 10 | mordentes, qui se voluptatibus dedunt, libidinosi, quadrupedum
1081 III, 11 | their deformed form. I, deem it wrong that servant girls,
1082 I, 12 | confess, therefore, the deepest obligations to Him. For
1083 III, 2 | indicate that the soul is deeply diseased. The divine Instructor
1084 II, 10 | and passion is wont to deface the form, not to cast it
1085 III, 3 | good, it is said. Nay, it defames, say I. No one who entertains
1086 I, 6 | reached this point, we must defend our childhood. And we have
1087 II, 8 | those who form the Church, defends them. This crown is the
1088 II, 10 | in aures, mucus in hares defertur: fini autem recti intestini,
1089 I, 10 | of Israel, and will not defile his neighbour's wife, and
1090 II, 1 | conscience, being weak, is defiled: for meat commendeth us
1091 I, 2 | says that it pollutes by defiling the soul: wherefore He prescribes
1092 I, 13 | philosophers think fit to define the most generic passions
1093 III, 12 | simple and of one kind, defines the designation of sins
1094 I, 6 | incomplete size of stature, nor a definite measure of time, nor additional
1095 I, 5 | and furnishes a kind of definition of children, so to speak,
1096 II, 10 | veneream intemperantiam deflexerit, lagneia, id est "lascivia,"
1097 II, 7 | dangerous, and prone to deflower; And he names "a married
1098 III, 11 | uncover their form"--their deformed form. I, deem it wrong that
1099 II, 13 | soul alone are beauty and deformity shown. Wherefore also only
1100 II, 10 | semen autem generationis degenerat, ineptumque redditur, si
1101 III, 11 | it their aim to allay by degrees the irrational impulses
1102 II, 10 | prohibet, significat se dehortari puerorum amorem. Hyaenam
1103 I, 12 | according to which we have been deified, let us anoint ourselves
1104 II, 10 | fructu autem deposito, deinde semen suscipit. Neque vero
1105 II, 4 | strains they might raise their dejected minds. But let our genial
1106 II, 10 | agricolae seminis quidem dejectionis causa est, quod nutrimenti
1107 I, 8 | shows His love to man, still delaying, and declaring what they
1108 II, 10 | libidinosus, qui posteriori delectatur parte: non dolosa meretrix,
1109 II, 1 | pleasures. Antiphanes, the Delian physician, said that this
1110 II, 11 | admire the Ceian sophist, who delineated like and suitable images
1111 II, 4 | noise on instruments of delusion; for plainly such a banquet,
1112 I, 11 | conformity with the urgent demands of the law. For Paul says
1113 I, 2 | physician's art," according to Democritus, "heals the diseases of
1114 III, 11 | presence indicate, or rather demonstrate, the existence of the result;
1115 I, 10 | the Word. For He has been demonstrated to be just. He sets before
1116 I, 8 | particle "Thou," having a demonstrative emphasis, points out God,
1117 III, 2 | temple, but quite worthy of a den, a hole, or the dirt. The
1118 II, 8 | enlightened, which knew not God, denied the Lord, forfeited the
1119 I, 8 | good," using both names to denote the same power. But "no
1120 II, 1 | Holy Spirit, by Isaiah, denounces as wretched, depriving them
1121 III, 3 | pleasure, and boys, taught to deny their sex, act the part
1122 II, 10 | gratiarum actionem, quae fit Deo pro bonis quae percepimus.
1123 III, 2 | barbaric luxury,~ Loving, departed, carrying away her he loved,~
1124 I, 10 | LORD." And there are three departments of counsel: That which takes
1125 II, 1 | partake temperately, not dependent on them, nor gaping after
1126 II, 1 | the belly," for on them depends this truly carnal and destructive
1127 II, 11 | and her gait and mien are depicted as studiously framed to
1128 I, 6 | is turned into foam, and deposited in the seminal veins. For
1129 II, 10 | purgata fuerit: fructu autem deposito, deinde semen suscipit.
1130 II, 1 | various mischiefs, such as a depraved habit of body and disorders
1131 III, 4 | hold of the ship which is depressed. Whence the Scripture most
1132 II, 1 | the idea that death, which deprives of sensation, is the forgiveness
1133 II, 1 | denounces as wretched, depriving them tacitly of the name
1134 III, 12 | the apostle says, "O the depth of the riches and the wisdom!"
1135 II, 11 | unlawful."~ Accordingly, deriding those who are clothed in
1136 II, 1 | pleasure; since the body derives no advantage from extravagance
1137 III, 3 | delighting in the beard "on which descended" the prophetic, "ointment"
1138 II, 10 | qui est fructus libidinis, describentes. Quae enim veteribus acciderunt,
1139 I, 5 | Scripture celebrates us, and describes us in manifold figures of
1140 III, 3 | is therefore impious to desecrate the symbol of manhood, hairiness.
1141 II, 1 | and delicacies and smoke desecrating that name, they are deceived
1142 II, 8 | mourning Jerusalem, the deserted, for whom the prophetic
1143 II, 8 | that the wretched Cinoedi deserved to perish miserably for
1144 II, 8 | having destroyed the devil, deservedly said in triumph, "O Death,
1145 II, 6 | activity that is shameful, and deserving ignominy, and reproach,
1146 II, 10 | matrimonii; est enim eo desiderabilior conjunctio, quo diuturnior.
1147 II, 10 | appetitionibus moveri, nec desiderare pollui. Ei autem soli, qui
1148 II, 10 | quidquid enim est vacuum, desiderat repleri); verum accidit,
1149 I, 1 | passions within us. Let us then designate this Word appropriately
1150 II, 11 | Resurrection. But hay figuratively designates the vulgar rabble, attached
1151 I, 2 | polluted, and shall be shaved," designating involuntary sin as sudden
1152 II, 1 | insatiability. Appropriate designations of such people as so indulge
1153 II, 10 | carnis, qui in utilem aliquam desinat partem, vel in matricem
1154 I, 9 | says, "Your house is left desolate; for I say unto you, Henceforth
1155 III, 2 | lamentations, and grief desolates the 'land; and all the feet,
1156 II, 8 | feet of the disciples, and despatching them to do good deeds, pointed
1157 II, 1 | inventing a multitude of desserts, hunting after all manner
1158 II, 9 | for burning it up, and so destroying the nutriment. But stretching
1159 II, 1 | depends this truly carnal and destructive life; whence some, speaking
1160 III, 2 | true beast will thus be detected--an ape smeared with white
1161 II, 1 | sufficiency injures a man, deteriorates his spirit, and renders
1162 II, 1 | call us to a feast, and we determine to go" (for it is a good
1163 II, 13 | as necessary; and He has determined that the use should be common.
1164 II, 7 | disagreeable to themselves and detestable to their neighbours. Scratching
1165 II, 10 | mortuis constabat corporibus detestans alimentum, sapienti allegoria
1166 II, 1 | which is holy, and out of detestation of the demons to which they
1167 III, 3 | legislators of the Romans: these detested effeminacy of conduct; and
1168 III, 3 | hair, destitute of hair, detesting the bloom of manliness,
1169 II, 10 | uxoribus congredi, si forte eas detineant purgationes menstruae. Non
1170 II, 10 | Impios "autem tradidit Deus," ut air Apostolus, "in
1171 III, 4 | really I have unwittingly deviated in spirit from the order,
1172 III, 2 | seemingly fair appearance; and, devoting the whole day to their toilet,
1173 II, 9 | that is not very usual. But devotion to activity begets an everlasting
1174 III, 2 | that deceitful serpent, devouring the understanding part of
1175 I, 8 | moment it fastens on its prey devours it. God, then, is good.
1176 III, 6 | inexperienced grasp, are dexterous at adhering and biting;
1177 I, 5 | to give ear to the Attic dialect, from which you may learn
1178 II, 11 | For these superfluous and diaphanous materials are the proof
1179 I, 6 | affords greater facility for diaphoretic action in the case of the
1180 III, 11 | raise a laugh.~ The game of dice is to be prohibited, and
1181 II, 10 | enervata. "Parvam epilepsiam" dicebat "coitum" sophista Abderites
1182 III, 11 | pursuit of gain, especially by dicing, which many keenly follow.
1183 II, 10 | lagneia, id est "lascivia," dicitur; quo nomine significatur
1184 I, 8 | Word, to administer rebuke dictated by solicitude. For this
1185 II, 10 | furore. Ac leporem quidem dicunt quotannis multiplicare anum,
1186 II, 10 | a Penelope telam texente differemus, si interdiu quidem texamus
1187 I, 6 | the heir is a child, he differeth nothing from a servant,
1188 I, 9 | voluntary and spontaneous differs much, nay entirely, from
1189 III, 7 | man, then, can never be in difficulties so long as he keeps intact
1190 I, 6 | passage, and by a natural diffusion, bidden by the all-nourishing
1191 II, 13 | and water. Wherefore ants dig, and griffins guard gold,
1192 II, 9 | natural gymnasium for sleep, digest food more easily, and render
1193 I, 6 | the food, transmuted and digested and changed into blood,
1194 II, 3 | and drank at feasts, not digging metals from the earth, nor
1195 II, 10 | maximi imperii. Si enim ne digitum quidem temere movere permittit
1196 II, 10 | proximis verseris, fide dignum e domo adsit testimonium.
1197 III, 9 | bath (for from that point I digressed in my oration), for which
1198 II, 8 | time. But I have made a digression from the paedagogic style
1199 II, 10 | and is carried through the dilated, though till then obstructed
1200 II, 10 | introducit temporis commoditates, diligenter observare, senectutem, inquam,
1201 III, 8 | latter "apostles;" the one diligently seeking, and the other preaching
1202 II, 7 | to the noises, instead of diminishing them, is the sign of arrogance
1203 III, 2 | for drunkenness and the dimness of the light aid what they
1204 II, 1 | we name rightly suppers, dinners, and banquets, after the
1205 II, 9 | vanity for a man to act as Diomede,--~"And he stretched himself
1206 II, 8 | deceitful is meant: "He that dippeth with Me in the dish, the
1207 II, 2 | blade in the process of dipping, so wine proveth the heart
1208 II, 8 | by day their thoughts are directed to the gratification of
1209 I, 7 | which is of God is the right direction of truth to the contemplation
1210 II, 7 | VII. DIRECTIONS FOR THOSE WHO LIVE TOGETHER.~
1211 II, 2 | feast, to act the part of director (paedagogue) to wine-drinking,
1212 III, 11 | moustache similarly, which is dirtied in eating, is to be cut
1213 III, 11 | gold is polluted by the dirtiness of the sow, which stirs
1214 III, 11 | shows that she does not disapprove of them. And not to be angry
1215 I, 6 | breasts; and the spirit discharged from the neighbouring arteries
1216 III, 11 | engaged in public business, or discharging other avocations in the
1217 III, 8 | marriage. What pertains to disciplane alone is reserved now for
1218 III, 8 | laid down in the form of disciplinary rules. What still remains
1219 I, 7 | old covenant, and the law disciplined the people with fear, and
1220 II, 11 | by the soul (psukê), and disciplines the soul, saying, "Take
1221 III, 12 | of salvation. For I will disclose my ways, and lay before
1222 III, 12 | treasures dispensed; some disclosed by the law, others by the
1223 I, 12 | towards destruction, but discloses them, and cuts off the impulses
1224 II, 2 | crapulousness (kraipalê) is the discomfort and nausea that follow a
1225 III, 2 | poet is a witness; thus discoursing:--~ "He that judged the
1226 III, 11 | But the nobility of truth, discovered in the native beauty which
1227 II, 1 | in his solicitude for us, discriminates in the case of entertainments,
1228 III, 3 | grey hairs. But wisdom, and discriminating judgments that are hoary
1229 II, 1 | Wherefore also there is discrimination to be employed in reference
1230 III, 10 | stand-up wrestling bout, by disentangling of neck, hands, and sides.
1231 II, 13 | their love for ostentation disfigure God's gifts, emulating the
1232 III, 3 | deranged all things; it has disgraced man. A luxurious niceness
1233 III, 2 | true beauty, he will be disgusted, I know well. For he will
1234 II, 8 | that dippeth with Me in the dish, the same shall betray Me."
1235 II, 8 | forgiven our sins. And the dishevelled hair is mourning Jerusalem,
1236 III, 11 | produces an inclination to dishonesty, we require seals.~ But
1237 I, 9 | All that glorified her dishonoured her, when they saw her baseness."
1238 II, 1 | there being people who dislike the truth, and through various
1239 I, 5 | utterance, bidding them dismiss anxious care of the things
1240 III, 10 | postures in gymnastics, be dismissed. We must always aim at moderation.
1241 I, 7 | judge, and judges those who disobey Him; and the loving Word
1242 I, 13 | the first man sinned and disobeyed God, it is said, "And man
1243 III, 11 | assembling are the cause of disorder--men and women assembling
1244 III, 11 | their head, being afraid of disordering their hair. Sleep, too,
1245 II, 7 | the sign of arrogance and disorderliness. Those, too, who scrape
1246 II, 4 | clapping of hands, and such disorderly frivolities, they become
1247 I, 6 | faith in Christ, then it is disparaged as childish and imperfect.
1248 II, 2 | winter, till the numbness is dispelled from those who are subject
1249 III, 12 | let us glorify the blessed dispensation by which man is trained
1250 III, 12 | one God are many treasures dispensed; some disclosed by the law,
1251 I, 10 | sinners, and their easy dispersion, and carrying off by the
1252 II, 1 | in order that He might displace vainglory; and by giving
1253 III, 7 | excellent. Love of wealth displaces a man from the right mode
1254 I, 8 | pain. Great is the wisdom displayed in His instruction, and
1255 II, 7 | of others stumbling, by displaying the dangerous charms of
1256 II, 1 | breaks forth in a voice of displeasure: "So that, my brethren,
1257 I, 1 | the attainment of right dispositions and character, and then
1258 I, 8 | Creator is just, is not disputed: And again he says," My
1259 III, 4 | and begging priests, and disreputable old women; and they keep
1260 II, 10 | vehementi congressus intensione disrumpi. Jam vero offundit etiam
1261 III, 11 | meretriciously, in order to dissemble the truth. And they defame
1262 III, 12 | cheerfulness. Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil;
1263 III, 12 | intention of His law is to dissipate fear, emancipating free-will
1264 II, 7 | the ball of wind will be dissipated in the most seemly way,
1265 III, 11 | But feminine motions, dissoluteness, and luxury, are to be entirely
1266 III, 12 | every band of wickedness. Dissolve the knots of oppressive
1267 II, 2 | juices when duly mixed, dissolves the foul excrementitious
1268 I, 8 | application of medicines, dissolving the callosities of the passions,
1269 III, 8 | admonishing, planning to dissuade us in love from evil, by
1270 III, 8 | licentiousness in silence; but dissuading us from the imitation of
1271 II, 2 | round them, and cannot count distant objects as single. "And,
1272 II, 2 | indecently, as I think; and distending the throat in swallowing,
1273 I, 6 | blood, as is shown by the distension of the veins of the swollen
1274 III, hymn| From fair Reason's breast distilled;~ Let us sucklings join
1275 I, 6 | believed, and received without distinction the earnest of future good,
1276 I, 5 | The prophetic spirit also distinguishes us as children. "Plucking,"
1277 II, 4 | art of music. The Spirit, distinguishing from such revelry the divine
1278 II, 10 | possunt nervi tanquam stamina distrahi, et in vehementi congressus
1279 III, 7 | communicating to those who are in distress. For the Scripture avouches, "
1280 II, 1 | body in a healthful way, distributes something from its resources
1281 II, 7 | the tragic masks. So the disturbance of hiccup may be avoided
1282 II, 10 | desiderabilior conjunctio, quo diuturnior. Neque vero noctu, tanquam
1283 III, 11 | neither are we allowed to diversify our dress. And above all,
1284 III, 2 | belongs to another, and by diverting our inclinations. Love of
1285 III, 5 | drawers; but these women, divesting themselves of their modesty
1286 II, 11 | Lord Himself, therefore, dividing His precepts into what relates
1287 II, 10 | et hominum genus, quod ex divina providentia nascitur, improbis
1288 III, 4 | sacrificing and practising divination day by day, spending their
1289 III, 4 | are promised them by the diviners. They know not that they
1290 II, 10 | legitima. Eis quidem certe, qui divini muneris in producendo opificio
1291 II, 10 | praeterquam a proprio, ex divinis Scripturis colligens praeclarus
1292 II, 8 | speaking of the earth-born divinities; and Sappho crowns the Muses
1293 II, 11 | which belongs to the third division, that of things external,
1294 I, 9 | I gave her a writing of divorcement, and covenant-breaking Judah
1295 II, 10 | veteribus acciderunt, sicut ante diximus, ad nos admonendos scripta
1296 II, 10 | saneros." Recte ergo videtur dixisse quispiam: "Nulli quidem
1297 II, 2 | intoxication, so the brain, dizzied by drunkenness, falls down
1298 III, 3 | themselves. But though they do doctor the hair cleverly, they
1299 I, 9 | worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
1300 II, 2 | filling with His blood the doer of it who is of Adam, that
1301 III, 3 | shameful postures, yet the doers not ashamed of themselves,
1302 I, 9 | him who sins not? "If thou doest evil, be afraid," says the
1303 I, 10 | sinneth shall die; but he that doeth righteousness shall be righteous.
1304 II, 13 | And it is laid down as a dogma, that only the beautiful
1305 II, 10 | interdiu quidem texamus dogmata temperantiae; noctu autem
1306 II, 10 | posteriori delectatur parte: non dolosa meretrix, nec ulla ejusmodi
1307 III, 3 | institution, and luxury is domesticated. O miserable spectacle!
1308 II, 10 | quae sunt infra ventrem, dominari, est maximi imperii. Si
1309 II, 10 | qua coitur, particulam dominatus est obtinendus? Atque hac
1310 II, 10 | tanquam ab agresti et insano domino, profugi." Verum concedatur
1311 II, 10 | admittatur matrimonium: vult enim Dominus humanum genus repleri; seal
1312 II, 10 | verseris, fide dignum e domo adsit testimonium. Non enim
1313 II, 10 | Spelunca hyaenae facta est domus mea," id quod ex mortuis
1314 II, 10 | praecepit: "Et cure masculo non dormies feminino concubitu: est
1315 III, 1 | self. Wherefore he adds, "doth not behave itself unseemly:"
1316 III, 11 | that they should fall into double sins? For they deceive the
1317 II, 11 | added, "Neither be ye of doubtful (or lofty) mind." Now pride
1318 II, 11 | ought to be the true wife, dowered with modesty). But the other,
1319 II, 1 | themselves up for death; looking downwards on the earth, and bending
1320 II, 9 | voluptuousness, sleeping on downy feathers is injurious, when
1321 II, 11 | never fetch a thousand Attic drachms. Buying, as they do, a single
1322 II, 1 | to sweep the world with a drag-net to gratify their luxurious
1323 III, 3 | of enervated men, who are dragged to the women's apartments,
1324 III, 2 | deception, this pander of a dragon has changed women into harlots.
1325 II, 9 | is too much food, which drags the rational part of man
1326 I, 6 | adulteration is in it is drained off. And in the same way,
1327 II, 2 | Be not eager to burst, by draining it down with gaping throat.
1328 III, 5 | going through the contest in drawers; but these women, divesting
1329 II, 7 | utterance from loudness, from drawling, from rapidity, from prolixity.
1330 I, 7 | transgressions, through dread of the threatening, that
1331 II, 11 | opinion, not knowledge, dream of the nature of the beautiful;
1332 II, 2 | the base tippling with the dregs of wine, it says: "Intemperate
1333 III, 2 | braidings, and infinite modes of dressing the hair, and costly specimens
1334 II, 3 | the Samaritan woman, who drew the water from the well
1335 II, 2 | darkness of the tempest, having drifted away from the haven of truth,
1336 I, 6 | distinctly by metaphor the drinkable properties of faith and
1337 II, 2 | names. For the temperate drinker, one wine suffices, the
1338 II, 2 | which the best water for drinking--the Choaspian--was got.
1339 III, 11 | following as we do, peace; nor drinking-cups, being temperate. Many of
1340 III, 11 | of pleasure. "For honey drops from the lips of a woman
1341 III, 5 | clearly; as in the case of dropsical people, the water covered
1342 II, 8 | meretricious habits, and is a drug provocative of the passions.
1343 II, 4 | horn, the Egyptians the drum, and the Arabians the cymbal.
1344 II, 4 | intractable, beat on cymbals and drums, and make a noise on instruments
1345 II, 8 | they use, which are of a drying nature. Wherefore also those
1346 I, 1 | corresponding to the former duality,--the one having for its
1347 II, 10 | continentia. Quod si hoc ipsum, an ducenda sit uxor. veniat in considerationem:
1348 II, 10 | quae prorsus in perniciem ducunt, simul cum fetu omnem humanitatem
1349 II, 7 | ought to receive its just dues; and those who are vociferous
1350 II, 13 | hidden, and jewels, are dug up by those among us who
1351 II, 2 | having sweet juices when duly mixed, dissolves the foul
1352 II, 10 | foramina: et ea ratione dum leporis esum prohibet, significat
1353 II, 11 | dancers, who transfer their dumb shameless profligacy to
1354 II, 10 | enim matricem, cui sunt duo sinus, et non unus solus
1355 II, 12 | slippers or white shoes; dusty-foots the Attics called them,
1356 III, 12 | Of a man of worth and a dutiful wife?"~ Such injunctions
1357 II, 10 | afficiendum, quod quidem dux est et princeps generationis,
1358 II, 10 | Ei autem soli, qui uxorem duxit, ut qui tune sit agricola,
1359 I, 9 | Ezekiel, "Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of scorpions;
1360 I, 10 | of God, thou wouldst have dwelt for ever in peace; " for,
1361 III, 3 | and be renewed (not by dyeings and ornaments), but in the
1362 II, 10 | it warbles no longer a dying melody, but now gives forth
1363 II, 10 | proximis verseris, fide dignum e domo adsit testimonium.
1364 II, 10 | malitiosis non tollamus artibus: eae enim, ut fornicatiohem celent,
1365 II, 10 | sapientiam persequuntur, in eam, qua coitur, particulam
1366 II, 13 | attach to them ear-rings and ear-drops. For it is not right to
1367 II, 13 | principal of them. Then what?~ "Ear-pendants, jewelry, ear-rings;~ Mallow-coloured
1368 III, 11 | may be fulfilled: "As an ear-ring in a swine's nose, so is
1369 II, 10 | salit, assidente femina, earn a tergo aggrediens: est
1370 II, 1 | know that he is not to be earnestly occupied about external
1371 II, 13 | the other parts remain of earthy material. With these symbolically,
1372 II, 10 | uxoribus congredi, si forte eas detineant purgationes menstruae.
1373 II, 1 | simplicity a wholesome variety of eatables? Bulbs, olives, certain
1374 II, 3 | cedar and thyine wood, and ebony, and tripods fashioned of
1375 II, 10 | recedit: quin etiam conturbat ebullitio materiae et compagem corporis
1376 II, 10 | orgia, nec ut aliquis ex ecclesia, verbi gratia, aut ex foro
1377 II, 10 | urbs pessima, plane impura.~Econtra autem pudicos admiratur:--~
1378 II, 10 | colit animatam: ille enim ed tempus alimentum expetens,
1379 III, 9 | were, to temper and give an edge. Nor must we bathe always;
1380 I, 5 | these things in order to the edification of the body of Christ, who
1381 I, 6 | contemptible character of our education, as those who are inflated
1382 I, 1 | it is to teach. But our Educators being practical, first exhorts
1383 II, 1 | the Straits of Sicily, the eels of the Maeander, and the
1384 III, 11 | has been given by God, is effected. But temperance in drinks,
1385 I, 6 | ready prepared; but, by effecting a change in the nutriment,
1386 III, 11 | in articles of food, are effectual in producing beauty according
1387 II, 11 | whom Homer, to show their effeminancy, calls "Long-robed." Those,
1388 III, 11 | not how~ To whisper, nor effeminately,~ To walk about with my
1389 II, 7 | moved to tears; for both effiminacy and violence are discordant
1390 III, 11 | as if they had certain efflorescences, in order to appear comely
1391 I, 6 | sympathy of parental affection, effloresces and grows old, in order
1392 II, 8 | in the nerves. And the effluvia of roses and violets being
1393 II, 8 | nux emits a stupefying effluvium, as the etymology shows.
1394 III, 3 | impossible to get beyond such effrontery. If nothing is left undone
1395 II, 10 | suscipiendum, sed ad id effundendum fecerit. Jeremias autem,
1396 II, 10 | respondit: "Bona verba, quaeso: ego vero lubentissime isthinc,
1397 II, 7 | seemly way, by managing its egress so as also to conceal anything
1398 II, 10 | sit quaelibet, non tamen eidem agricolae. Neque veto seminandum
1399 III, 8 | the crown, imitating the eider one? Such images of divine
1400 III, 2 | so with three hundred and eighteen servants of his own he subdued
1401 II, 10 | admonendos scripta sunt, ne eisdem teneamur vitiis, et caveamus,
1402 II, 5 | If, then, wags are to be ejected from our society, we ourselves
1403 II, 10 | jam libidinem excludens. Ejus autem appetitiones, quae
1404 II, 10 | dolosa meretrix, nec ulla ejusmodi alia voluptatis bellua.
1405 II, 8 | mystically thus: the oil (elaion) is the Lord Himself, from
1406 I, 13 | reason; pleasure, as an elation of the spirit disobedient
1407 II, 7 | and recline not on the elbow with her; " that is, do
1408 II, 7 | without moving on their elbows, be present with their ears
1409 III, 2 | king, and on seeing the eldest of his sons to be fair and
1410 II, 11 | conspicuous as gold, and the elect are the golden tassels.
1411 III, 11 | adopted not for the sake of elegance, but on account of the necessity
1412 I, 6 | When I was a child," may be elegantly expounded thus: that is,
1413 III, 12 | and have matter in the elements. I dwell with what I have
1414 II, 8 | from whom comes the mercy (eleos) which reaches us. But the
1415 II, 2 | lust and anger. For just as Elpenor broke his neck through intoxication,
1416 III, 3 | wrinkles, nor will they elude death by tricking time.
1417 I, 6 | perfect, because he has been emancipated from his former life, and
1418 III, 12 | law is to dissipate fear, emancipating free-will in order to faith. "
1419 II, 1 | fire. More than that, they emasculate plain food, namely bread,
1420 II, 7 | to you. But speak without embarrassment, and with accuracy of knowledge.
1421 III, 3 | III. AGAINST MEN WHO EMBELLISH THEMSELVES.~ To such an
1422 III, 2 | II. AGAINST EMBELLISHING THE BODY.~ It is not, then,
1423 I, 9 | the people that understood embraced a harlot." He shows their
1424 II, 11 | weaving; bidding farewell to embroidery of gold and Indian silks
1425 I, 6 | warm spirit by which the embryo is fashioned, it becomes
1426 III, 4 | into pearls and Indian emeralds. And they squander and throw
1427 II, 9 | render themselves fitter for emergencies. Moreover, silver-footed
1428 II, 2 | as to produce hiccup, be emitted silently. But by no manner
1429 II, 10 | excaecatur concavitas: non fuit emm res fabricata ad generationem.
1430 II, 8 | abstergent, subtle, antibilious, emollient. The Narcissinian is made
1431 I, 8 | man, God condescending to emotion on man's account; for whose
1432 I, 8 | having a demonstrative emphasis, points out God, who alone
1433 III, 12 | among men,~ Not gold, not empire, or luxury of wealth,~ Conferred
1434 III, 8 | involuntary labours, by employing constantly voluntary afflictions
1435 III, 10 | dragging a man away from better employments, it is pleasant, and not
1436 III, 1 | of the Lord, "Because He emptied Himself, taking the form
1437 II, 13 | The women seem to me to emulate these rich prisoners. For
1438 II, 13 | ostentation disfigure God's gifts, emulating the art of the evil one.
1439 III, 10 | men, and produce exertion--emulation to aim at not only a healthy
1440 III, 11 | also in the law, the law enacted by Moses about leprousy
1441 I, 9 | graceful harlot skilled in enchanted potions." With consummate
1442 II, 8 | and intoxication. Do not encircle my head with a crown, for
1443 II, 8 | and when once they are encircled with flowers, at last they
1444 I, 6 | prevents the escape of the heat enclosed within, the food, transmuted
1445 III, 2 | enter the penetralia of the enclosure, and, in haste to behold
1446 III, 12 | and the glory of God shall encompass thee." What, then, is the
1447 I, 6 | We have ample means of encountering those who are given to carping.
1448 III, 10 | But they are not to be encouraged to engage in wrestling or
1449 I, 10 | humanity to salvation. By encouragement He assuages sins, reducing
1450 II, 2 | against those that are called Encratites. But women, making a profession,
1451 III, 3 | house sufficient, and less encumbered than the waggon, he takes
1452 III, 4 | fornication to provoke lust, endeavouring to please by lewd words
1453 I, 8 | scourge. Again in turn He endeavours to exhort the same persons.
1454 II, 8 | plant); but when the Word ended the giving of the law and
1455 II, 5 | most precious of all human endowments? It is therefore disgraceful
1456 I, 6 | ignorance disappear, and endows us with clear vision. Further,
1457 III, 9 | and relaxes the physical energies, and often induces debility
1458 II, 10 | caliginem sensibus, et vires enervat. Patet hoc et in animantibus
1459 II, 10 | omni impetu tandem quasi enervata. "Parvam epilepsiam" dicebat "
1460 II, 9 | not to be for the total enervation of the body, but for its
1461 II, 1 | different varieties, which engender various mischiefs, such
1462 I, 1 | whole of piety is hortatory, engendering in the kindred faculty of
1463 II, 4 | the superstitious who are engrossed in idolatry. For, in truth,
1464 II, 7 | For a joke such as this enhances the youth's modesty, by
1465 I, 6 | plainly indicating by this enigma the abundant unction of
1466 III, 12 | speaking. Many things spoken in enigmas, many in parables, may benefit
1467 II, 7 | life. For Wisdom appears to enjoin well: "Sit not at all with
1468 I, 1 | practice of our duties, enjoining on us pure commandments,
1469 II, 4 | give thanks to God, having enjoyed His grace and love, and
1470 II, 9 | our participation in our enjoyments, and for the [happy] passing
1471 III, 11 | cries the apostle.~ But we enkindle the passions, and are not
1472 II, 7 | strifes and contentions and enmities burst forth. Insult, we
1473 II, 8 | catarrhs, and colds, and ennui, as the comic poet says:--~ "
1474 III, 3 | on men perpetrating such enormities? Rather we ought not to
1475 II, 13 | hands of the manly shall be enriched." Manly He calls those who
1476 I, 6 | hide Him within; and that, enshrining the Saviour in our souls,
1477 II, 2 | the intestinal appetites, enslaved to lust and anger. For just
1478 III, 11 | purity is a habit which ensures pure conduct unmixed with
1479 I, 6 | sins, and are no longer entangled in evil. This is the one
1480 II, 9 | the abyss beneath to the enterprises of wakefulness. For the
1481 III, 11 | righteousness, the word, which enters from without, like food,
1482 I, 6 | becoming a man, I no longer entertain the sentiments of a child,
1483 III, 3 | defames, say I. No one who entertains right sentiments would wish
1484 I, 10 | admonishing (nouthetêsis) is (nou enthematismos) putting of understanding
1485 I, 10 | ways; and go not, if they entice thee, saying, Come with
1486 II, 9 | observing the posts of my entrances." "Let us not then sleep,
1487 I, 11 | Instructor; to whom God hath entrusted us, as an affectionate father
1488 II, 13 | I am weary and vexed at enumerating the multitude of ornaments;
1489 I, 9 | wishes to save my flesh by enveloping it in the robe of immortality,
1490 III, 1 | suffers long, and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not itself,
1491 III, 12 | provoking one another, envying one another. Bear ye one
1492 III, 3 | of effeminate desire they enwreath their latches and fringes
1493 II, 10 | accesserunt, angeli. Li eos, qui probro illos afficere
1494 II, 11 | peploi, and xystides, and ephaptides, and "cloaks," and tunics,
1495 I, 5 | alone. And writing to the Ephesians, he has unfolded in the
1496 II, 1 | in its stomach. This fish Epicharmus the comic poet calls "monster-paunch."~
1497 II, 1 | luxury. There is no limit to epicurism among men. For it has driven
1498 II, 10 | quasi enervata. "Parvam epilepsiam" dicebat "coitum" sophista
1499 I, 5 | Christ, we were gentle (êpioi) among you, as a nurse cherisheth
1500 I, 6 | have given you to drink" (epotisa), is the symbol of perfect