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4010   I,  52|                Damigero, and Dardanus; Velus, Julianus, and Baebulus;
4011 VII,  12|                 For where the giver is venal and mercenary, there it
4012 III,  23|            diseases? The harlot Flora, venerated in lewd sports, sees well
4013  II,  45|           beasts, others perish by the venom of flies; that some might
4014  II,  23|                 or surrounded him with venomous creatures, will he not go
4015 VII,  43|                more cruel methods, and vent his rage indiscriminately,
4016   I,  11|                          11. Would you venture to say that, in this universe,
4017 VII,  31|               god, who, if he were not verbally interdicted, would extend
4018  II,   6|               are skilled in declining verbs and nouns by cases and tenses,
4019  VI,  26|              bodies of women, and huge veretra openly exposed! Would it
4020   V,  28|            ligno pati quod jamdudum in veritate promiserat."
4021  VI,  10|               a lion smeared with pure vermilion, and that it is named Frugifer.
4022   I,  59|                the Epicadi, Caesellii, Verrii, Scauri, and Nisi.
4023   V,  21|                the well-known senarian verse of a Tarentine poet which
4024   V,  36|                that false and spurious versions were thrown about the truth
4025 III,  13|           supported by combinations of vertebrae, and by an osseous foundation?
4026   V,  21|          Proserpine; whom when Jupiter Verveceus saw to be strong, plump,
4027  VI,  21|        despoiled Jupiter of his golden vestment, and put instead of it one
4028  II,  76|           which many fatal misfortunes vex you every day? Why, I say,
4029 III,   6|           Romans, without dreading the vexatiousness of a charge of impiety,
4030  VI     |                                   Book VI. --- --
4031 III,  25|               zone; the most venerable Victa and Potua attend to eating
4032   V,  27|             able to turn their mind to victuals and the taking of food,
4033  IV,  14|            They speak of five Suns and vie Mercuries,-of whom, as they
4034  VI,  13|         ability to portray likenesses, vied in transferring with all
4035 VII,  41|              heaven to behold geldings vieing with each other in speed,
4036   V,  24|      Thesmophoria, in which those holy vigils and solemn watchings were
4037  II,  15|               degrades us; we maintain vigorousy the unremitting practice
4038 VII     |                                   Book VII. --- --
4039   V,  41|           things are at your instance; vilely spoken of, and what is quite
4040   V,  11|        themselves headlong into filthy vileness, making known abroad their
4041   I,  38|          brutish statues formed of the vilest clay, and has caused us
4042  VI,  24|            wicked man in the world, no villany at all, if justice, peace,
4043   I,  21|             changed into disappointing vinegar.
4044  IV,  27|         baseness, do you dare, without violation of modesty, to say either
4045   V,   5|            derived from both sexes. He violently plundered and laid waste;
4046 VII,  23|                 if you should stroke a viper with your hand, or caress
4047  IV,  26|                once to lay aside their virginal title, and to bear a mother'
4048  II,  67|               to the temple of Fortuna Virginalis? Do your matrons work in
4049   V,  13|            only do men lay aside their virile powers, but beasts even
4050   I,  41|            mangled and deprived of his virility? Father Romulus himself,
4051  IV,  23|              adultery by the laws, and visit with the penalty of death
4052   I,   3|               were not sudden in their visitation; and that the plagues did
4053 VII,   3|          immortal, and assist and give vitality to that which it cannot
4054 VII,  50|              the life even failed, the vitals being almost exhausted?
4055 VII,  41|              the cause of the dancer's vitiating the games, for when he might
4056  II,  58|                dim light, those a more vivid and shining brightness?
4057   I,   2|              whose heat all things are vivified, blazed forth with increased
4058   I,  33|       perceptions were able to produce vocal sounds, and to utter articulate
4059 VII,  33|              effeminacy of women, some vociferating uselessly, others running
4060  IV,   7|                effect in suggesting to volt a right understanding of
4061  VI,  14|              and deceive yourselves by voluntary blindness? Dispel the darkness
4062   V,  28|                him, and suffer uxorias voluptates ex se carpi. The god, without
4063 VII,  25|              in themselves a perfectly voracious appetite? O wonderful greatness
4064  II,  67|              ever elect magistrates by vote of the people? Do you know
4065  IV,  34|              not, by bills, by popular votes, by fear of the senate's
4066 III,   3|                for whose existence you vouch, if they are a royal race,
4067   I,  54|               their eyes-the very best vouchers and the most trustworthy
4068   V,  22|              unfaithful to her nuptial vow; Jupiter is said to be the
4069   I,   9|              way, one who is intent on voyaging complains, that now for
4070  VI,   7|              is the sepulchre of Tolus Vulcentanus? Who is there, I say, who
4071 VII,  36|          little children, coarsely and vulgarly educated.
4072 III,  29|               Forts, the son-in-law of Vulturnus, the husband of Juturna;
4073  II,   8|        severity being lessened? Do you wage wars with your enemies,
4074   I,   4|              before us? When were wars waged with wild beasts, and battles
4075   I,  28|             who in old days earned the wages of impurity, and prostituted
4076  IV,  21|             the streams of the breast, wail as an infant, creep about,
4077   V,  16|             with the weeping Acdestis, wailing aloud, followed the boy?
4078  VI,   4|                should foresee, without waiting to be told what every one
4079  II,   7|             very state which is called waking is part of an unbroken slumber?
4080   I,  46|              tempests were lulled; who walked over the deepest pools with
4081  II,  38|                 charioteers, vaulters, walkers on stilts, rope-dancers,
4082 VII,  34|               in slumbers, runs, sits, walks, or is free from such motions
4083  II,  77|                 and burn its roof, its wall, its doors; and strip, overthrow,
4084   I,  54|               relations with you, they wantonly incurred hatred, and were
4085  II,  73|               because we have now been warned by the seers, or because,
4086   I,  28|                 They, too, seem to you wary, wise, most sagacious, and
4087   I,  53|                guess whence and who He was-and naturally so. But when,
4088   I,  49|          abandoned life after they had wasted their days and nights in
4089  IV,  26|              represented him as having watched over Alcmena for nine nights
4090 VII,  34|               anything or not, is ever watchful, or is at times sunk in
4091   I,  43|           grasses, without any anxious watching of sacrifices, of libations,
4092   V,  24|           those holy vigils and solemn watchings were consecrated to the
4093   I,  38|                beasts and robbers, and water-serpents of many heads,-with how
4094 VII,  16|                with them, salamanders, water-snakes, vipers, tarantulae? For
4095  II,  59|               and other mice, leeches, water-spinners? what thorns, briers, wild-oats,
4096   I,  30|            wind? who has contrived the watery clouds? who has discriminated
4097 III,  42|                different ways that you waver, and say nothing with certainty
4098  II,  49|               and their life has never wavered and sunk into sin, yet we
4099   I,  48|              system of conjecture, and wavering in estimating probabilities.
4100  IV,   2|                                 2. For we-but, perhaps, you c rob and
4101  II,   6|              perhaps those seem to you weak-minded and silly, who even now
4102  IV,  28|              births, nurses, arts, and weaknesses; where there are liberty
4103  II,   1|              His own by right all that wealth to have abundance of which
4104   I,  16|            they in the same state made wealthier, ay, very rich, by the high
4105   I,  23|              are worthy to have and to wear the dignity of this name,
4106 III,  21|                 with nice skill, spin, weave cloth for them, and make
4107  II,  38|             goldsmiths, bird-catchers, weavers of winnowing fans and baskets
4108   V,  45|           bread, Minerva when you mean weaving, Venus when you mean filthy
4109  IV,  28|                28. For where there are weddings, marriages, births, nurses,
4110  II,  13|            this indeed we confess that wee say, but maintain that it
4111  II,   5|                 for whom we might well weep and be sad? Are you so void
4112   V,  16|   tower-bearing Mother, along with the weeping Acdestis, wailing aloud,
4113  II,  47|            beetles, and bugs, dormice, weevils, and moths, are made by
4114 VII,  44|            annals, and ascribe to them well-ascertained truth, nothing else, as
4115  II,  55|           except that which is for the well-being of all, which is agreeable,
4116   I,   2|               opposite conditions that well-regulated temperature by which he
4117 VII,   3|               flesh gives forth, still wet with blood, and damp with
4118   V,  23|                 pursuing the flocks of wethers, inspicientem testiculos
4119  VI,   4|                we think that every god whatever-if only he has the power of
4120  II,  23|                you go on to ask what a wheel is, or a sledge, a winnowing-fan,
4121  II,  30|          marshes with miry abysses, or wheels sent whirling through the
4122         | whereby
4123         | wherein
4124   I,  26|                mighty powers of heaven whet against us the stings of
4125  II,  12|                speculative quibblings, which-may I say this without displeasing
4126   I,  15|             resume anger with sportive whim, and always renew their
4127  IV,  34|             treason among you who have whispered any evil about your kings.
4128 VII,  32|         soothed in the same way by the whistling of pipes? and do they become
4129  IV,  22|      countenance, and snowy and marble whiteness of arms? Or did he, not
4130 III,   6|                not refuse to draw near whithersoever you may have summoned us;
4131   I,  26|                to be torn by monsters? Whosoever condemns that in us, or
4132   V,  26|          mystic cist, and put into the wicker-basket; I have received again,
4133  IV,  22|              you say, and Jupiter, who wields the thunderbolt, was born
4134 VII,  16|                the altars, and scatter wild-marjoram, with which oxen are fed,
4135  II,  59|   water-spinners? what thorns, briers, wild-oats, tares? what the seeds of
4136   V,   5|                is a rock of unheard-of wildness in every respect, the name
4137   V,  14|               either girls at the loom wiling away their tedious working
4138  VI,  17|             they do this against their will-that is, do they enter the images
4139  II,  42|                the unwary, forge false wills, prepare poisoned draughts;
4140 III,  18|             say, He has, penetrated by winding paths, through which the
4141 III,  13|       membranes enclosing the viscera; windpipes, stomachs, spleens, lungs,
4142  VI,  16|           imprudent flies while on the wing? Do you not see, finally,
4143  II,  33|         fleshly members, you will find wings with which you may rise
4144 III,  18|             eyes, that He closes them, winks, sees by rays or images,
4145  II,  38|              bird-catchers, weavers of winnowing fans and baskets of rushes?
4146  II,  23|               wheel is, or a sledge, a winnowing-fan, jar, tub, an oil-mill,
4147  II,  37|               there not be summers and winters? would the blasts of the
4148  II,  52|         reverent and scrupulous in his wisdom-when he withdrew the fashioning
4149 VII,   8|            cannot be, it would be much wiser that they should continue
4150   V,   7|                of Pessinus, wishing to withdraw the youth from so disgraceful
4151  II,  35|               there anything which may withstand His will, or does it not
4152   I,  43|               a remote country. Why, O witlings, do you speak of things
4153   I,  54|            these things; yet those who witnessed their occurrence, and who
4154  II,   8|        readiness of belief too, say, O wits, soaked and filled with
4155  II,  65|                 and assail with jocose witticisms? Unless, then, my opponent
4156 VII,   9|             never did you wrong, never wittingly or unwittingly did violence
4157  VI,  12|                its makers. Lo, if some witty and cunning king were to
4158  IV,  37|            their roaring, and bringing woful misery on men, corrupted
4159  II,  52|            Whence lions, horses, dogs, wolves, panthers; and what or whence
4160   V,  28|              this, let him learn, and, wondering at what is so important,
4161 VII,  33|                 start up moved by such wonders, burst into exclamations,
4162   V,   6|                leading him through the wooded glades, and presenting him
4163  II,  38|                that there are fullers, workers in wool, embroiderers, cooks,
4164  VI,  17|               dwell in statues made by workmen. The reasoning is not vicious
4165  IV,  16|           hollow of his head a smith's workshop? were there anvils, hammers,
4166 III,  14|             and smooth heads. Now your workshops show and point out that
4167  II,  29|        naturally, but-and this is much worse-you have also added causes by
4168   I,  29|            Pillar of the universe with worshipful service, are we to be considered-to
4169 VII,  31|          observances, but on which the worshipper imposes conditions, which
4170 III,  38|                are in danger of either worshipping that which does not exist,
4171 III,  11|            think, to believe much more worthily than you with regard to
4172   I,  31|                worthy, Thou art verily worthy-if only mortal tongue may speak
4173   V,   6|                halter formed of hairs, woven together very skilfully;
4174   V,  33|                fear on any account, to wrap those mysteries in dark
4175   V,   7|                first covered them, and wrapped them in the garment of the
4176   V,  14|              with fragrant gums before wrapping and covering them with his
4177   I,  42|                god, then? some raving, wrathful, and excited man will say.
4178   I,  20|                Do they on this account wreak their wrath on you too,
4179   V,   7|          whereby you even now veil and wreath with flowers the sacred
4180 III,  23|              so many cruelly-shattered wrecks? Consus suggests to our
4181 III,  23|               presides over boxing and wrestling matches; and why does he
4182   I,   3|               they were brought to the wretchedness of poverty. Cities shaken
4183  IV,   9|         thousand ways, vile and filthy wretches attempt and practise? Who
4184   V,  44|               we to substitute for the wrigglings into which the lustful heat
4185   V,   5|           being de-rived-as he himself writes and suggests-from learned
4186   I,  50|                a word they checked the writhings of maddening sufferings.
4187   I,  19|           unfair in their dealings, as wrong-doers, and, in fine, as possessing
4188   I,   3|           incensed as they are by your wrong-doings and by your transgressions.
4189  IV,  32|                 For whoever allows the wrongdoer to sin, strengthens his
4190  VI,  24|         myriads from the wickedness of wrongdoers, how is it right to say
4191  VI,  26|               by the ancients to check wrongdoing, and to arouse the fears
4192   V,  31|             very fine appearance, were wrongfully lusted after? was it not
4193   I,  15|            time of plenty they are not wroth, and ill-to-be-appeased;
4194  II,  40|              in reckoning up thousands wrung from the life-blood of wretched
4195   I,   5|                name, that that mad-cap Xerxes let the ocean in upon the
4196  IV,  16|              be charged with folly for yielding to all what should be the
4197   I,  14|                been the most plentiful yields of grain, seasons of cheapness,
4198  VI,  20|                         20. And yet, O you-if it is plain and clear to
4199 VII,   3|                learn this, first. from you-what is the cause, what the reason,
4200   I,  53|             which will bring danger to yourselves-danger, I say, by no means small,
4201   V,  17|                are not so declare, say yourselves-those effeminate and delicate
4202  VI,  13|                beauty. comeliness, and youthful vigour, is said to have
4203   I,   8|           things, and to affirm that a youthfulness, as it were, was secured
4204  II,  13|                You, you I address, who zealously follow Mercury, Plato, and
4205  IV,  22|             pleasures now losing their zest? What say you, profane ones;
4206  IV,  26|          Aethusa, Hypsipyle, Marpessa, Zeuxippe, and Prothoe, Daphne, and