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 1 Praise|      whose deity recreates both gods and men, even this is a
 2 Praise|         me no less than Homer’s gods drunk with nectar and nepenthe;
 3 Praise|    celebrate the praises of the gods and valiant men. And the
 4 Praise|         a man of nothing to the gods and proposes him as an absolute
 5 Praise|    think themselves in a manner gods if like horse leeches they
 6 Praise|         those threadbare, musty gods were my father, but Plutus,
 7 Praise|      hominum rex, the father of gods and men, at whose single
 8 Praise|     whose help all that herd of gods of the poets’ making, and
 9 Praise|      one of the banquets of the gods, taken a dose extraordinary.~
10 Praise|  Wantonness; and, as to the two gods that you see with them,
11 Praise|       it I have brought both to gods and men. For, if it was
12 Praise|   deservedly enrolled among the gods that first brought in corn
13 Praise|     alpha, or first, of all the gods? who being but one, yet
14 Praise|       he himself, the father of gods and king of men at whose
15 Praise|       frightens the rest of the gods, and like a common stage
16 Praise| conceive themselves next to the gods, yet show me one of them,
17 Praise|       that rabble of the poets’ gods, with which heaven is so
18 Praise|     with it, and, as the poets’ gods were wont to assist such
19 Praise|        the metamorphoses of the gods, of whom I shall not mention
20 Praise|       if he find any one of the gods that were not stinking and
21 Praise|     most sour and morose of the gods out of Homer and the rest
22 Praise|       run over any of the other gods’ tricks when you know enough
23 Praise|      From whence it is that the gods play the fool with the greater
24 Praise|       sport for the rest of the gods? As also that old Silenus
25 Praise|     should I mention what these gods do when they are half drunk?
26 Praise|       it high time to leave the gods to themselves, and look
27 Praise|      themselves to the infernal gods, or Q. Curtius to leap into
28 Praise|     Alcibiades’ Sileni or rural gods, carry a double face, but
29 Praise|       in that world.~But, O you gods, “shall I speak or hold
30 Praise|      makes no doubt to make the gods stoop to him, and condemns
31 Praise|        as to affect the life of gods; and after the example of
32 Praise|        And now, by the immortal gods! I think nothing more happy
33 Praise|  special privilege it seems the gods have given them to refresh
34 Praise|      they are consecrate to the gods, and therefore and not without
35 Praise|      offense; which faculty the gods have given only to fools.
36 Praise|         special blessing of the gods, Cicero, writing to his
37 Praise|    these beasts as if they were gods.~But what do I speak of
38 Praise|      believed it a dish for the gods, what difference is there
39 Praise|        whereas the gifts of the gods are scrambled, some to one
40 Praise|    nothing of those mischievous gods, Plutoes, Ates, punishments,
41 Praise|       favors, and the like, not gods but executioners. I am that
42 Praise|        if, when the rest of the gods are invited, I am passed
43 Praise| sacrifices. For the rest of the gods are so curious in this point
44 Praise|     should envy the rest of the gods if in particular places
45 Praise|     pastime they daily make the gods; for though they set aside
46 Praise|        sit among those poetical gods.~Here’s one desperately
47 Praise|     them; both which afford the gods most excellent pastime,
48 Praise|       nothing more hated of the gods, did not I allay the troubles
49 Praise|     foolish toys, yet, you good gods! what Palemon, what Donatus,
50 Praise|          which, by the immortal gods! what are they but mere
51 Praise|         from the council of the gods; while in the meantime Nature
52 Praise| understanding, they believe the gods more than ordinarily pleased
53 Praise|      leave all this care to the gods and are only taken up with
54 Praise|   herself so much nearer to the gods by how much the longer train
55 Praise|        those golden and diamond gods, what is more unprofitable
56 Praise|   inscription was thus: “To the Gods of Asia, Europe, and Africa;
57 Praise|         the unknown and strange Gods.” And according to his example