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  1   I,   3|           truth? But pestilences, say my opponents, and droughts,
  2   I,   3|   ancestors? Scarcity of produce, say my opponents, and short
  3   I,   4|           me, with your leave, to say,-In your eagerness to calumniate
  4   I,   7|                        7. But if, say my opponents, no damage
  5   I,   8|           nothing to offer, I may say, What if the primal matter
  6   I,  11|          11. Would you venture to say that, in this universe,
  7   I,  11|     unlawful pleasures, would you say that it is pernicious and
  8   I,  12|           is not in your power to say or to explain for what purpose
  9   I,  13|          Christians, my opponents say, the gods inflict upon us
 10   I,  13|           deities. I ask when you say these things, do you not
 11   I,  15|          successes. What shall we say, then?-that the gods at
 12   I,  18|          18. But if this that you say is true,-if it has been
 13   I,  22|           are but words,-words, I say; nay, matters believed on
 14   I,  25|         You follow, our opponents say, profane religious systems,
 15   I,  28|                          28. What say ye, O interpreters of sacred
 16   I,  31|        For those who think wisely say, that to argue against things
 17   I,  32|         phrase is, let the folly, say I, be averted from us. For
 18   I,  42|    wrathful, and excited man will say. A god, we will reply, and
 19   I,  45|                   45. What do you say again, oh you -? Is He then
 20   I,  46|           46. Was He one of us, I say, who by one act of intervention
 21   I,  49|            Unless, perchance, you say that the gods help the good,
 22   I,  49|      judgment, makes a sinner. To say, moreover, that aid is given
 23   I,  51|                          51. What say ye, O minds incredulous,
 24   I,  51|          god of life? I shall not say, did he impart power to
 25   I,  53|           to yourselves-danger, I say, by no means small, but
 26   I,  54|         such a kind. But shall we say that the men of that time
 27   I,  55|           events is false, as you say, how comes it that in so
 28   I,  55|         have been prevailed upon, say my opponents, by mere assertions,
 29   I,  56|          a basis, that if what we say be admitted to be true,
 30   I,  57| falsehoods concerning Christ, you say; and you put forth baseless
 31   I,  57|          and whatever you seek to say concerning our writers,
 32   I,  57|         But ours is more ancient, say you, therefore most credible
 33   I,  59|    another utres? Do you not also say Coelus and coelum, filus
 34   I,  59|        case it is vain for you to say that our works are disfigured
 35   I,  60|                          60. But, say my opponents, if Christ
 36   I,  61|       were necessary to do as you say, He perhaps would have done
 37   I,  62|                 62. But, you will say, He was cut off by death
 38   I,  62|          tale passing belief, you say, and wrapt in dark obscurity;
 39   I,  62|     responses, was filled, as you say, with Apollo's power, had
 40   I,  62|           inspired, would any one say that those who, speaking
 41   I,  63|        unseen mysteries, you will say, which neither men can know,
 42  II,   1|       question, explain to us and say what is the cause, what
 43  II,   2|         But indeed, some one will say, He deserved our hatred
 44  II,   4|            We do not believe, you say, that what He says is true.
 45  II,   4|           to the things which you say are not true, while, as
 46  II,   5|                           5. What say you, O ignorant ones, for
 47  II,   7|       maker and framer? Can he, I say, know these things, which
 48  II,   7|        what we seem to do when we say that we see a dream? whether
 49  II,   7|           happen that we at times say something which is true,
 50  II,   8|          readiness of belief too, say, O wits, soaked and filled
 51  II,  10|        schools already mentioned, say those very things which
 52  II,  10|         very things which they do say through belief in their
 53  II,  10|            know whether what they say is true, so as to understand
 54  II,  10|      readiness of belief? But you say you believe wise men, well
 55  II,  10|       agree in nothing which they say; who join battle with their
 56  II,  11|        single command, I will not say to restrain, to check the
 57  II,  11|         by definitions; that they say many things about the different
 58  II,  12|           quibblings, which-may I say this without displeasing
 59  II,  12|           would listen? who would say that He decided anything
 60  II,  12|       named. They had seen him, I say, trusting in false gods,
 61  II,  12| deceivers-to those guilty ones, I say, whose interest it is that
 62  II,  13|           jeer at us as though we say foolish and senseless things,
 63  II,  13|         when you too are found to say either these or just such
 64  II,  13|         Him? What does your Plato say in the Theoetetus, to mention
 65  II,  13|           laugh at us, because we say that there will be a resurrection
 66  II,  13|        indeed we confess that wee say, but maintain that it is
 67  II,  13|        the Politicus? Does he not say that, when the world has
 68  II,  14|         end-annihilation: this, I say, is man's real death, when
 69  II,  16|                     16. But, they say, while we are moving swiftly
 70  II,  17|          we have reason, one will say, and excel the whole race
 71  II,  19|       hatchets, ploughs. Never, I say, carried away by pride and
 72  II,  22|           ask, will he be able to say what the sun is, the earth,
 73  II,  24|         refuse credit to what you say,-he is led to do so not
 74  II,  25|                          25. What say you, O men, who assign to
 75  II,  25|       when he goes to school, you say, and is instructed by the
 76  II,  28|          us hear from you how you say that the soul, on being
 77  II,  28|           eighty if you choose to say so, or even more, it either
 78  II,  28|     towards these regions? How, I say, do they know that they
 79  II,  31|      nature of the soul, and some say that it is subject to death,
 80  II,  35|                          35. But, say my opponents, if souls are
 81  II,  35|     become immortal? If we should say that we do not know this,
 82  II,  37|      urine. But, an opponent will say, it was necessary that these
 83  II,  39|           rash thing for a man to say -that they which had been
 84  II,  43|                          43. What say you, O offspring and descendants
 85  II,  44|                      44. But, you say, they came of their own
 86  II,  46|                       46. But, to say the same things again and
 87  II,  47|                      47. But, you say, if God is not the parent
 88  II,  47|        required in consequence to say who made and formed them;
 89  II,  48|  descendants? By what method, you say, in what way? Because it
 90  II,  49|                 49. But, you will say, there are good men also
 91  II,  49|           For what if you were to say that a man, robbed of the
 92  II,  50|                           50. You say that there are good men
 93  II,  51|           not, on the other hand, say in turn from what causes
 94  II,  51|          our case. For you do not say anything which has been
 95  II,  51|       light of truth, because you say that souls descend from
 96  II,  51|          which you affirm can you say that you have ever seen-that
 97  II,  52|          either side. Whence, you say, are men; and what or whence
 98  II,  52|         see that some of the wise say that the earth is mother
 99  II,  52|      breath of air, but that some say that the sun is their framer,
100  II,  53|         corruption. But this, you say, we are stupid in believing.
101  II,  54|   anything be made, some one will say, without God's will? We
102  II,  54|         the contrary, we chose to say that He is privy to and
103  II,  54|          or, a monstrous thing to say, while He knows it not,
104  II,  54|            again, if we choose to say that there are no evils,
105  II,  55|        and want of knowledge than say that without God nothing
106  II,  55|   miseries. Whence then, you will say, are all these evils? From
107  II,  55|         evils? From the elements, say the wise, and from their
108  II,  55|      assertion. What, then, do we say? whence? There is no necessity
109  II,  55|        for whether we are able to say whence evil springs, or
110  II,  56|           immortal, although they say that it was created and
111  II,  56|        third party have chosen to say that it both was created
112  II,  56|          third party of one; some say that it is composed of none
113  II,  56|  establish the truth of what they say, and show that there are
114  II,  56|     existence of the gods; others say that they are lost in doubt
115  II,  56|        anywhere; others, however, say that they do exist, but
116  II,  57|    without something plausible to say, whether in affirming his
117  II,  59|           all, declare to us, and say how and by what means showers
118  II,  59|         run downwards. Explain, I say, and tell what it is which
119  II,  59|         be known or comprehended, say what wheat is,-spelt, barley,
120  II,  59|            From the elements, you say, and from the first beginnings
121  II,  60|          and that you can neither say nor explain what has been
122  II,  63|          63. But if, my opponents say, Christ was sent by God
123  II,  63|           in some way? Can you, I say, know that which could have
124  II,  64|        the Saviour of men, as you say, why does He not, with uniform
125  II,  65|           is just as you yourself say. For, to bring salvation
126  II,  65|   salvation,-this the door, so to say, of life; by Him alone is
127  II,  69|           or after Atlas, as some say, the bearer, supporter,
128  II,  70|         the sacred rites. This we say, in like manner, of Minerva.
129  II,  71|         clear, then, that what we say is true. How many steps
130  II,  72|      years, and is therefore, you say, truer, because it has been
131  II,  72|         cause by so long neglect, say, if it does not annoy you,
132  II,  74|           knew them not? You will say that there was some reason.
133  II,  76|            76. Inasmuch then, you say, as you serve the Almighty
134  II,  76|         vex you every day? Why, I say, do your gods neglect to
135 III,   2|  religions on an equality? We may say for the present: In essaying
136 III,   2|         suffices us,-the Deity, I say, who is supreme, the Creator
137 III,   7|               7. But why should I say that men seek from him subtleties
138 III,   7|       convinced that anything you say regarding your gods is beyond
139 III,   8|        your ceremonies you cannot say the same; for in your prayers
140 III,   8|     prayers you have been wont to say whether thou art god or
141 III,   9|           9. What, then, shall we say? That gods beget and are
142 III,  10|                          10. What say you, ye holy and pure guardians
143 III,  10|        for encounter. It longs, I say, to see goddesses pregnant,
144 III,  11|           if the gods are, as you say, moved by anger, and burn
145 III,  11|           insults and affronts, I say, partly in the vile stories,
146 III,  13|     earthly bodies. What shall we say then? that the gods have
147 III,  14|        marks. We should therefore say that some have big heads,
148 III,  16|            But you will, perhaps, say that the gods have indeed
149 III,  17|                     17. But, they say, if you are not satisfied
150 III,  18|         What, then, some one will say, does the Deity not hear?
151 III,  18|         So we must in like manner say of hearing, and form of
152 III,  18|         ears, these, too, we must say, He has, penetrated by winding
153 III,  19|          themselves. For who will say that God is brave, firm,
154 III,  19|        firm, good, wise? who will say that He has integrity, is
155 III,  19|      foolish, so senseless, as to say that God is great by merely
156 III,  19|   disgraced by vice? Whatever you say, whatever in unspoken thought
157 III,  20|        others are stupid, and can say nothing skilfully, if they
158 III,  22|        men with knowledge, as you say yourselves, or because,
159 III,  22|  mechanical skill, why you should say that they are skilled, one
160 III,  23|            But you will, perhaps, say that the gods are not artificers,
161 III,  23|           will, it is trifling to say that we have, set as guardians
162 III,  26|       their author, we shall then say that the god, to satisfy
163 III,  28|           do the things which you say, they are doubtless no gods
164 III,  29|          was any Janus, who, they say, being sprung from Coelus
165 III,  29|         who is so senseless as to say that time is a god, when
166 III,  30|             30. But what shall we say of Jove himself, whom the
167 III,  30|        have been wont to jest and say, repeating in reversed order
168 III,  31|           learning. Neptune, they say, has received his name and
169 III,  36|         deny their existence, and say that they are not found
170 III,  39|          true, Aelius and Granius say what is false; if what they
171 III,  39|       what is false; if what they say is certain, Varro, with
172 III,  39|           and duties, so, when we say that Novensiles is the name
173 III,  40|          are known. The Etruscans say that these are the Consentes
174 III,  42|          ways that you waver, and say nothing with certainty of
175 III,  42|      assert. But you will perhaps say, Even if we have no personal
176 III,  44|     something ascertained, not to say after the manner of the
177  IV,   3|          no Praestana? And if you say that they existed before
178  IV,   4|           enemies. Whose enemies, say, if it is convenient? Opposing
179  IV,   4|        side. But you will perhaps say, She is goddess of the Romans
180  IV,   5|     beginning. Therefore, when we say, This is the right, and
181  IV,   6|              6. Lateranus, as you say, is the god and genius of
182  IV,   7|          gods of fancy? Puta, you say, presides over the pruning
183  IV,   8|                                8. Say, I pray you,-that Peta,
184  IV,   8|           man will doubt that you say that the gods precede all
185  IV,   9|                 9. What then? you say; do you declare that these
186  IV,   9|         truth itself, and reason, say so, and that common-sense
187  IV,  10|  attention of the gods? Or if you say that these parts, too, act
188  IV,  10|        protect all things, if you say that there are certain things
189  IV,  11|                          11. What say you, O fathers of new religions,
190  IV,  11|          Noduterensis: and do you say that things have sunk into
191  IV,  11|           one of you will perhaps say, do you maintain that it
192  IV,  13|      truthful authors, be able to say; but, lest you should be
193  IV,  14|     authors on unknown antiquity, say that in the universe there
194  IV,  14|          five Minervas also, they say, just as there are five
195  IV,  15|      singly, the same theologians say that there are four Vulcans
196  IV,  16|        whom we spoke will perhaps say: "The name Minerva is mine,
197  IV,  16|          Minerva," the fifth will say, "are you speaking, who,
198  IV,  16|        cry on hearing this: "What say you? Do you, then, bear
199  IV,  16|          Will she indeed cease to say that she is Minerva, who
200  IV,  16|       another's rank, who falsely say that you were born a goddess
201  IV,  17|                        17. We may say the very same things of
202  IV,  17|  excessive loquacity. What do you say, you who, by the fear of
203  IV,  18|  authority you establish what you say.
204  IV,  19|         to be false, and what you say to be true. By what proof,
205  IV,  19|        matters, it is arrogant to say that that is true which
206  IV,  20|           terrible. From Ops, you say, his mother, and from his
207  IV,  20|        conditions? And what do we say about their marriages, too,
208  IV,  20|   marriages, too, when indeed you say that some celebrated their
209  IV,  21|         why do we marvel that you say Jove sprang from a woman'
210  IV,  21|       from a foreign breast? What say you, O men? Did, then, shall
211  IV,  22|     Hyperiona, as his mother, you say, and Jupiter, who wields
212  IV,  22|           losing their zest? What say you, profane ones; or what
213  IV,  24|         miseries by which, as you say, the human race has long
214  IV,  24|       prejudice against us? Do we say that certain gods were produced
215  IV,  24|         storks and pigeons? Do we say that the radiant Cytherean
216  IV,  24|    sovereignty not his own? Do we say that his aged sire, when
217  IV,  24|     protected from his son? Do we say that Jupiter himself incestuously
218  IV,  25|                        25. Did we say that Venus was a courtezan,
219  IV,  25|           writings of your Polemo say that Pallas was slain, covered
220  IV,  25|        the island of Crete? Do we say that the brothers, who were
221  IV,  26|              26. But what shall I say of the desires with which
222  IV,  26|        love of women, do you also say that they lusted after men?
223  IV,  27|          violation of modesty, to say either that we are impious,
224  IV,  28|        fugitive and exile? Who, I say, can believe that the deity
225  IV,  32|        But all these things, they say, are the fictions of poets,
226  IV,  32|        that the poets are, as yon say, the inventors and authors
227  IV,  32|          no man should henceforth say that which tended to the
228  IV,  34|        preferred to his wife; you say that those who have uttered
229  IV,  34|          allow any one liberty to say what he will, to accuse
230  IV,  35|       reverence; and, shameful to say, Venus, the mother of the
231  IV,  37|       imaginings suggest.-for you say that they have often shaken
232   V,   2|       silently, it is not easy to say, nor is it made clear by
233   V,   2|        itself. What, then, do you say, O you -? Are we to believe
234   V,   2|      thunderbolts. For this is to say, By such ceremonies you
235   V,   3|           know that Jupiter would say the head of a man, so as
236   V,   4|           4. But you will perhaps say that the king was a diviner.
237   V,   4|          overreached-was going to say, could the god not know
238   V,   8|       your gods, would he dare to say against them anything more
239   V,   8|  resentment? From the stones, you say, which Deucalion and Pyrrha
240   V,   8|          of the gods. What do you say, O theologians? what, ye
241   V,   9|       peak of Agdus, her son, you say, tried stealthily to surprise
242   V,  10|          10. But you will perhaps say the human race shuns and
243   V,  10|   curiosity to inquire, since you say that the birth occurred
244   V,  12|                 12. Would any one say this about the gods who
245   V,  12|          think it more correct to say so. Did a pomegranate tree,
246   V,  12|            with a dash of yellow? Say further that they are juicy
247   V,  13|         from one emasculated, you say; but it is not easy to guess
248   V,  14|                          14. What say you, O races and nations,
249   V,  14|         ashamed and confounded to say things so indecent? We wish
250   V,  14|       from the blood of the dead. Say, again, did the mother of
251   V,  15|        such things, as well as to say them. But this story is
252   V,  17|         Or if the things which we say are not so declare, say
253   V,  17|           say are not so declare, say yourselves-those effeminate
254   V,  20|            Once upon a time, they say, Diespiter, burning after
255   V,  22|            And yet if you were to say that he had intercourse
256   V,  23|           forth. I should wish, I say,-for it must be said over
257   V,  24|         since what you yourselves say are found to be either just
258   V,  24|      Athenians? Do you wish us, I say, to see what beginnings
259   V,  24|           rest of you? Once, they say, when Proserpine, not yet
260   V,  26|       cyceon with gladness." What say you, O wise sons of Erectheus?
261   V,  29|         causes are those which we say; or if they are ashamed
262   V,  29|         very act of worship? What say you, O peoples? what, ye
263   V,  32|           by father Dis, does not say, as you suppose, that the
264   V,  33|     unwilling to examine what you say, we ask this first of you,
265   V,  34|        but to something else? You say that the falling of rain
266   V,  35|        the earth, so you ought to say what we should understand
267   V,  36|          36. But you will perhaps say that these allegories are
268   V,  36|        you that it is just as you say, how do you know, or whence
269   V,  38|        written allegorically, you say. This seems by no means
270   V,  42|          42. But you will perhaps say, for this only is left which
271   V,  42|        sun, as you reckon him and say, who will that Attis be
272   V,  45|        objects? But language, you say, is contemptible, if defiled
273  VI,   2|          gods in contempt, who we say are not gods, and cannot
274  VI,   3|         to meet what want, do you say that temples have been reared,
275  VI,   3|          Dis. What is this but to say this is the house of Mars,
276  VI,   6|                   6. What can you say as to this, that it is attested
277  VI,   6|          lies near the city. What say you as to the virgin daughters
278  VI,   7|      Vulcentanus? Who is there, I say, who does not know that
279  VI,   8|      their hands. We have next to say something about statues
280  VI,   8|           exist? Do you perchance say, that under these images
281  VI,   9|          We worship the gods, you say, by means of images. What
282  VI,  10|           form you please, and to say that it is an image of a
283  VI,  11|   anything has divine power. What say you, O ye -! Do the gods
284  VI,  15|       without form,-we ask you to say to us, whether you would
285  VI,  15|         to obey. Perhaps you will say, why? Because there is no
286  VI,  15|         ivory, potter's clay, and say that these very things have,
287  VI,  16| preserving them. You would see, I say, at once that they have
288  VI,  16|        with rust? In this case, I say, do yon not see that newts,
289  VI,  21|                          21. They say that Antiochus of Cyzicum
290  VI,  22|          22. But you will perhaps say that the gods do not trouble
291  VI,  23|           23. But perhaps, as you say, the goddesses took the
292  VI,  24|   advocates of images are wont to say this also, that the ancients
293  VI,  24|    wrongdoers, how is it right to say that images have been set
294 VII,   1|         What, then, some one will say, do you think that no sacrifices
295 VII,   2|        Who are the true gods? you say. To answer you in common
296 VII,   4|   half-savage men, nay rather,-to say with more candour what it
297 VII,   4|          truer and more candid to say,-we savages, whom unhappy
298 VII,  10|         But perhaps some one will say, We give to the gods sacrifices
299 VII,  10|      beliefs. Whatever, they will say, has been done in the world,
300 VII,  10|           entertain, so that they say that even the gods themselves
301 VII,  11|        not see that some of them, say the learned, are the seats
302 VII,  12|   disasters. But perhaps they may say something of importance
303 VII,  13|       forms of ceremony. For they say that these sacred rites
304 VII,  13|        them. What if they were to say, in like manner, that they
305 VII,  15|          What then! some one will say, do you think that no honour
306 VII,  15|           we reply. Tell, us, you say, in the first place, what
307 VII,  16|                          16. What say you, O you -! is that foul
308 VII,  17|           more clearly-if dogs, I say, and asses, and along with
309 VII,  17|        inclination,-we ask you to say whether you would consider
310 VII,  22|      basis? To mother Earth, they say, is sacrificed a teeming
311 VII,  22|           Bat if it is madness to say this, or, to speak with
312 VII,  23|         cannot understand. For to say that the gods are most benevolent,
313 VII,  24|        religious affairs? What, I say, is the meaning of these
314 VII,  25|          and perform,-tell us and say what is the cause. what
315 VII,  26|                26. We have now to say a few words about incense
316 VII,  27|       this, some one will perhaps say. But we are not inquiring
317 VII,  28|                  28. Will any one say that incense is given to
318 VII,  28|         them, it is not untrue to say that they live upon what
319 VII,  30|           to be honoured? What, I say, has a god to do with wine,
320 VII,  33|           why do you hesitate, to say that the gods themselves
321 VII,  34|        they would not hesitate to say that they were splenetic,
322 VII,  35|          forward what each has to say, decide by a brief comparison
323 VII,  35|         we laugh when we hear you say such things, as we hold
324 VII,  36|                           36. You say that some of them cause
325 VII,  41|       ridiculous? Who is there, I say, who will believe-to repeat
326 VII,  44|      dwelling beyond the sea, you say, and after temples were
327 VII,  44|           which arose. What gods, say, I beseech? Aesculapius,
328 VII,  44|         beseech? Aesculapius, you say, the god of health, from
329 VII,  44|           recorded. What shall we say then? That Aesculapius,
330 VII,  45|          pretext, that you should say that the god changed himself
331 VII,  45|         what men were. But if you say this, the inconsistency
332 VII,  46|        the earth? Do you declare, say yourselves, what that was,
333 VII,  46|          indeed, what else can we say than that which took place
334 VII,  46|           however, undoubtedly we say was a colubra of very powerful
335 VII,  46|        the name is despicable, we say it was a snake, we call
336 VII,  46|         to bite, what else can we say than that it was of earthly
337 VII,  47|   proposal contemptuously, as you say, changed into the form of
338 VII,  48|         But some one will perhaps say that the care of such a
339 VII,  48|            it is rather stupid to say that mortals of a later
340 VII,  50|                 50. What shall we say then? Was Hannibal, that
341 VII,  50|        Pessinuntine stone? We may say, by the zeal and valour
342 VII,  50|            wisdom, reason; we may say, by fate also, and the alternating
343 VII,  50|     accord. She was not able, you say, to expel the enemy and