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  1   I,   2|           to be worshippers of the deities, and devotees of an antiquated
  2   I,   5|         Did we, forsooth, urge the deities into frenzy, so that the
  3   I,  13|          our crops by the heavenly deities. I ask when you say these
  4   I,  17|     worshippers and priests of the deities, why, as you assert that
  5   I,  17|    frenzies, you attribute to your deities? For, to be angry, what
  6   I,  26|            among the number of the deities, who either fixes the charge
  7   I,  28|     indignation on the part of the deities. Temples have been erected
  8   I,  28|        heifers: -the powers of the deities thus insulted are silent;
  9   I,  28|         rivalry with them. Are the deities inimical to us alone? To
 10   I,  28|          on the one hand, that the deities are created, and on the
 11   I,  32|          they admit that there are deities inferior and more humble.
 12   I,  35|           by the very wrath of the deities.
 13   I,  36|         But, says my opponent, the deities are not inimical to you,
 14   I,  36|        friends, state clearly what deities those are who believe that
 15   I,  36|   beautiful? Is it the bow-bearing deities Diana and Apollo, who were
 16   I,  36|          the Moors, and the Syrian deities, the offspring of eggs?
 17   I,  36|            justice of the heavenly deities? Is this the righteous judgment
 18   I,  37|      worship one and another, aye, deities innumerable? Nay, have you
 19   I,  43|          but by the might of those deities whom they invoke.
 20   I,  49|       compare Christ and the other deities as to the blessings of health
 21  II,  19|           believe themselves to be deities of the first rank, and fellows
 22  II,  36|        that it is so even with the deities, but that their life is
 23  II,  39|        move; address as superhuman deities pieces of wood, brass, and
 24  II,  47|          have usurped the place of deities in men's belief. But are
 25  II,  52|      transferred it to some lesser deities. and when he would not have
 26  II,  62|      animals is offered to certain deities. These are empty delusions,
 27  II,  70|       children to Diespiter; these deities, too, were nowhere in the
 28  II,  73|          of your gods the Egyptian deities named Serapis and Isis,
 29  II,  73|      lately begun to worship those deities whom we mentioned just now,
 30 III,   4|          you affirm, that crowd of deities, let there be numberless
 31 III,   6|         not to submit to the other deities, whoever they are! For we
 32 III,   6|            to the worship of these deities you mention, had you not
 33 III,  16|          is not laughed at by your deities, if they laugh at all? or,
 34 III,  20|       pious writers, offer to your deities. But what is the next, that
 35 III,  24|        supplication to the tutelar deities, and they therefore withhold
 36 III,  24|         associate with the tutelar deities whatever meanness or baseness
 37 III,  26|           silence the unpropitious deities whom you have set up. We
 38 III,  30|             followed by a crowd of deities; some, the ether, blazing
 39 III,  32|         your interpretation, three deities have no existence: neither
 40 III,  33|             you do away with three deities; if indeed the first is
 41 III,  35|            be dispersed in several deities; nor, if the gods are parts
 42 III,  35|            not the proper names of deities; and thus it is brought
 43 III,  36|           almost the whole race of deities with a pretence of cleverness
 44 III,  38| information how to conceive of the deities themselves? For, to take
 45 III,  38|        Cincius declares them to be deities brought from abroad, named
 46 III,  43|   supplication to any one of these deities, saying, Be present, be
 47 III,  44|        there is, that multitude of deities whom you specify, you should
 48  IV,   1|          you classed them with the deities merely for form's sake,
 49  IV,   1|             or tends to bring your deities into contempt, when you
 50  IV,   1|     assurance that these, too, are deities, we pray you to teach us
 51  IV,   3|        these events, then, had the deities never existed? and if Romulus
 52  IV,   5|                    5. The sinister deities preside over the regions
 53  IV,   6|           introduce some pretended deities for this only, not to do
 54  IV,   7|     Perfica, also, of the crowd of deities, who causes those base and
 55  IV,  10|          care of their own tutelar deities, there will begin to be
 56  IV,  10|      certain things over which the deities preside, and for which they
 57  IV,  16|          womb enriched heaven with deities, and multiplied the number
 58  IV,  17|      undertake the service of your deities? We can be easily won, if
 59  IV,  22|        desires on the queen of the deities, although so great excellence
 60  IV,  30|          be thought to worship the deities, or alone discharge the
 61  IV,  34|       insults offered to the other deities? That very Jupiter, whose
 62  IV,  34|       charge of want of regard for deities so infamous, although it
 63  IV,  36|          laughter and jollity, the deities are hit at in jocular quips,
 64  IV,  36|         which evil reports of your deities are daily made public in
 65  IV,  37|      fictions, if the anger of the deities is excited by these causes,
 66   V,   8|            some one, despising the deities, and furious with a savagely
 67   V,   8|            to be parent of all the deities is not their mother, but
 68   V,  12|          men, why did he cause the deities so much terror? But if he
 69   V,  15|           make it plain-that those deities whom you bring for ward,
 70   V,  18|          Then the holy and burning deities poured forth the power of
 71   V,  27|                  27. Are then your deities carried off by force, and
 72   V,  29|           the teaching of the holy deities?
 73   V,  33|            since the insult to the deities consists not in the idea
 74   V,  44|          in the loves of the other deities? what in their circumstances
 75   V,  44|        base things by the names of deities, and again in defaming the
 76   V,  45|           should be offered to the deities as not even we men endure,
 77  VI,   6|           affront is cast upon the deities, whose shrines and temples
 78  VI,   7|           of all, and worships all deities, did not blush in giving
 79  VI,   8|         that under these images of deities there is displayed to you
 80  VI,  11|     opinions as to the form of the deities. But what can we do with
 81  VI,  15|        which statues and images of deities usually consist,-nay, more,
 82  VI,  16|       faces, now the mouths of the deities, the beard, eyes, noses,
 83  VI,  17|         themselves gods and sacred deities; but in them we worship
 84  VI,  20|        guardianship of the highest deities to the care of dogs, and
 85  VI,  24|         appearance, as it were, of deities being presented to them,
 86 VII,   2|         and are reckoned among the deities; but if these exist anywhere,
 87 VII,   3|       reaches the substance of the deities; for either incense is given,
 88 VII,   3|          for this reason, that the deities are nourished by them, and
 89 VII,   6|        spirit which belongs to the deities is disturbed by the offences
 90 VII,   8|          this belongs specially to deities, to be generous in forgiving,
 91 VII,   9|            appease the fury of the deities, were to take a man's voice
 92 VII,   9|         then, viz., that the angry deities may be soothed; since reason
 93 VII,  12|       place, that the power of the deities and the surpassing eminence
 94 VII,  12|         believed that, if only the deities bestow nothing except when
 95 VII,  13|          magnify the powers of the deities by them. What if they were
 96 VII,  16|          to the deity? and are the deities honoured by this, to whose
 97 VII,  18|           the victims, but certain deities with certain animals, according
 98 VII,  19|       female victims to the female deities, males to the male deities,
 99 VII,  19|         deities, males to the male deities, there is a hidden and very
100 VII,  19|          contrary, to the sinister deities, and those who inhabit the
101 VII,  21|            certain kind to certain deities, and that certain forms
102 VII,  21|            certain kind to certain deities, and that certain forms
103 VII,  23|       deserve well of the sinister deities by means of sacrifices,
104 VII,  23|     understood that the propitious deities will show no favour if they
105 VII,  25|     different ingredients? Are the deities affected by splendid dinners
106 VII,  27|      before the very images of the deities, and that, from its being
107 VII,  27|            distinction? For if the deities are honoured by this, and
108 VII,  29|           For do the bodies of the deities feel parching thirst, and
109 VII,  32|       auger and displeasure of the deities be appeased by the immolation
110 VII,  32|           castanets, that when the deities have heard them, they think
111 VII,  32|          rattles, are the almighty deities also soothed in the same
112 VII,  33|         designated by the names of deities? The gods are honoured by
113 VII,  34|  disagreeable, they think that the deities also on joyous occasions
114 VII,  35|      nature. You consider that the deities have sexes, and that some
115 VII,  36|            the dispositions of the deities; or if there are any who
116 VII,  36|           name. You judge that the deities are angry and perturbed,
117 VII,  38|        rage and indignation of the deities are cooled when these things
118 VII,  48|            obtained the aid of the deities on account of their wickedness.
119 VII,  48|           gained the favour of the deities. But if on account of the