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2502 VII | an infanticidal religious rite and a banquet thereat, and
2503 VIII | the director of the sacred ritual and to take down the requisite
2504 L | kind of death; for lo, even rivalries of tortures are crowned
2505 XXXV(92) | r Niger and Albinus, rivals of Severus, A.D. 193. Gibbon,
2506 II | every province for tracking robbers; against traitors and public
2507 L | are burned. This is the robe of our victory, this is
2508 XVI | ensigns and banners are the robes of crosses. I praise your
2509 XIX | all these meanwhile the roll of a single prophet surpasses
2510 XXI | earthquake, and the stone was rolled away which closed the sepulchre,
2511 XL | from all enjoyment of life, rolling in sackcloth and ashes,
2512 XXIII | jump from a neighbouring roof; and it is pronounced one
2513 XI | beginning. Nor do I see any room for such aid. For the whole
2514 VIII | Sciapodes! with different rows of teeth, and other nerves
2515 XXV | to confer empire, since royal power was being exercised
2516 XXXVII | those secret enemies who are ruining both your mental and physical
2517 XXVI | ruled and man himself who rules; whether it is not He Who
2518 XXVIII | calculating fear than even Jupiter ruling from Olympus,— and rightly
2519 XLVII | size of this book, I might run on into a proof of this.
2520 XXXIX | violence, nor into groups for running hither and thither, nor
2521 IV | of shame rather than the rush of life-blood 10. How many
2522 XLII | complain about this, the Sabaeans will know that their spices
2523 XIII(33) | confused Semo Sancus, a Sabine deity, (an inscription to
2524 XVI(44) | prefers ONOKOIHTHΣ, asinarius sacerdos. But see Dict. Chr. Ant.,
2525 XL | enjoyment of life, rolling in sackcloth and ashes, put Heaven to
2526 App(135) | e Sacramento : see Lighfoot's note. ~
2527 XVII(46) | grace, especially in the Sacraments. 'Per gratiam . . . eucharistias,
2528 XXX | priests, why the hearts of the sacrificers themselves are not examined
2529 XXV | and profane treasures. The sacrileges of the Romans are as numerous
2530 XXXI(80) | or Dei vox (in litteris sacris nostris) from the sentence
2531 XV | in the very abodes of the sacristans and priests, under the self-same
2532 XLII | other places of resort. We sail and fight with you; we till
2533 XLVII | reception of the spirits of the saints, and separated from the
2534 XXXVI | for we do them for our own sakes, and seek to obtain the
2535 XLVI | rewarded with statues and salaries than sentenced to the beasts.
2536 X | Janus, or Janes, as the Salians prefer it. The mountain
2537 XXV | and the vessels were of Samian ware, and the fumes arose
2538 XXV | loved to the neglect of Samos, to be destroyed, and by
2539 VII | demanded in all mysteries. The Samothracian and Eleusinian mysteries
2540 IX | committed under religious sanctions or out of mere caprice (
2541 XXXVII | their sepulture, from the sanctuary as it were of death, and
2542 XIII(33) | Justin having confused Semo Sancus, a Sabine deity, (an inscription
2543 IV(10) | Suffundere maluit hominis sanguinem quam effundere. ~
2544 L(130) | h Semen est sanguis Christianorum. Comp, ch.
2545 XVII | and enjoys its own proper sanity, names God by this name
2546 XIV | weeping for the death of Sarpedon, and at another foully lusting
2547 XXII | cursing; for they name also Satan 68, the chief of this evil
2548 XXXIX | drunk as becomes the chaste. Satisfaction of appetite is so far indulged
2549 XXV | your impieties. ~I FEEL satisfied that I have offered proof
2550 XLII | bathe on the eve of the Saturnalia, lest I should lose both
2551 X | he inhabited was called Saturnius; the state which he founded
2552 IX | Christians you present to them sausage-skins filled with blood, simply
2553 App(133) | world; and Jesus Christ, our Saviour, on the same day, rose from
2554 XLVIII | and rising again,' thou sayest. If the Lord of all had
2555 XXI | a god in the form of a scaled or horned or feathered lover,
2556 XVI | where water is exceedingly scarce, they availed themselves
2557 XXXIX | Nature; although you are scarcely men, because such bad brethren.
2558 XXI | too, to set forth in a scheme His own Divinity, not as
2559 XLVI(120) | philosophers only frame superficial schemes based upon human expediency.
2560 Int | education in the celebrated schools of his native city. Before
2561 VIII | monstrosities like the Cynopse or Sciapodes! with different rows of
2562 XI | juster and more strict than Scipio? which was more magnanimous
2563 XLVI | inasmuch as they are its scoffers and despisers 119]. The
2564 XIV | too, somewhere or other scoffs at Hercules, and Varro,
2565 XV | delighted: Cybele sighs for her scornful shepherd 35, and you blush
2566 XV | the male Luna;' 'the scourged Diana;' the recital of '
2567 XVIII | addition the document 48 of Scripture, in case any one should
2568 XXXII(82) | g Christians did not scruple to swear by Caesar's safety
2569 XVI | of crosses. I praise your scrupulousness: you would not deify crosses
2570 XLV | are audited by God, the Scrutinizer of all, foreseeing eternal
2571 XIV | worn-out and diseased and scurfy animals; to cut off all
2572 IX | also that among certain Scythian tribes a dead person is
2573 XXI | solemnities of days, nor the seal itself of the body 60, nor
2574 VIII | incest. Thus initiated and sealed, you will live for ever.
2575 IX | to her own worshippers, seals those dedicated to Bellona.
2576 V | Emperor Marcus Aurelius 15 be searched, in which he testifies that
2577 XXV | peoples who came from over the seas their native soil where
2578 XL | God. ~Lastly, when the dry season of summer delays the winter
2579 XII(30) | represented on coins and gems seated on a lion. ~
2580 VII | themselves, since the duty of secrecy is imperatively demanded
2581 IX | be defiled by any blood secreted in the entrails. ~Lastly,
2582 IX | now this accursed crime is secretly continued. It is not the
2583 XXXVII(98) | y Read, divina secta. ~
2584 Int | anything as a handle against a section of society whose purity
2585 App(134) | d secum invicem. ~
2586 VI | and excellently adapted to secure propriety generally. What,
2587 L | Yet they by their words secured not so many disciples as
2588 XXXV(93) | s Popular sedition was excited against Commodus,
2589 XLVIII | and again return: the very seeds, unless they decay and dissolve,
2590 XIII | irreverently towards your gods; seeing that you neglect those whose
2591 XLVI | imitation corrupt it, being seekers after fame: Christians necessarily
2592 XVI | animals would most likely be seeking water after feeding, and
2593 XLVI | the tyranny: a Christian seeks not even the aedileship. ~
2594 III | name: 'A good man, Caius Seius, only he is a Christian.'
2595 XXIII | any Christian you like to select, will as truly confess that
2596 Int | 31) is quoted merely in self-defence on a point of Christian
2597 II | to say anything either in self-exculpation, or in defence of the truth,
2598 XVII(46) | and in His more intimate self-revelation in the kingdom of grace,
2599 XV | sacristans and priests, under the self-same fillets and sacred caps
2600 XXI | sustained by Spirit, the Selfsame Who both was making and
2601 XIII | authority, pawning them, selling them, changing them, — sometimes
2602 XLVI | to have ruled, as Plato sells himself to Dionysius for
2603 XLIX | insults, but some of your own selves also, who aim at popularity
2604 L(130) | h Semen est sanguis Christianorum.
2605 XLVII | understanding their present semi-obscurity; being, as they are, dark
2606 XIII(33) | of Justin having confused Semo Sancus, a Sabine deity, (
2607 VI | moment if it were only for senators, and not for freedmen, or
2608 XL | universally worshipped when the Senones seized the Capitol itself. ~
2609 XLIV | infliction of appropriate sentences. So many culprits under
2610 L | that, at the moment of your sentencing us, we give thanks: and
2611 VI | in style of living, in sentiment, nay in language itself,
2612 XXXVII | from the repose of their sepulture, from the sanctuary as it
2613 XIX | of occurrences, that the sequences of events may be shewn,
2614 XXXIX | At the smoke caused by Serapaean feast the firemen will be
2615 XVIII | seen at this day in the Serapeum with the identical Hebrew
2616 XIII | for these are the marks of serfdom. But gods are the more holy
2617 XIX | antiquities, chronicles, and series of each of your ancient
2618 XVI | from the loins and like serpents from the legs; others winged
2619 XXX | obtain what I ask,—I, His servant, who honour Him Alone, who
2620 VI | not specially fattened, served up; which banished from
2621 XXI | recal the enthralled and servile people to themselves from
2622 X | partaking of Attic hospitality, settled, being received by Janus,
2623 XVIII | allowed by the Jews to employ seventy-two interpreters 52 whom Menedemus
2624 V(16) | contr. Arian, 3; comp. Sulp. Sever., Chron. ii. 30; Lightfoot.
2625 XL | the violence of the waves severed Lucania from Italy, and
2626 XLV(118) | continuously in the flesh, but the severest is present only a very brief
2627 XLVII | of things; for never does shadow precede substance, or the
2628 XXV | allowed his own Crete to be shaken by the Roman fasces, forgetful
2629 XLII | without a market-place, or shambles, nor without baths, shops,
2630 XXXV | propriety nor modesty nor shamefastness would allow, but which the
2631 VI | restraining the vices of shameful and idle superstitions.
2632 VII | bring about through the shamelessness which is occasioned by the
2633 XVI | effigy as a rude stake and shapeless piece of wood. Every wooden
2634 XXI | own presumption under the shelter of a very distinguished,
2635 IX | incised thigh, caught in a shield and given to her own worshippers,
2636 Int | the care with which they shielded the higher mysteries of
2637 XLVIII | The light which dies daily shines again; and the darkness
2638 XXXIX | and infirm old men, or shipwrecked sufferers, and any who may
2639 XLV | contemptible, and severe ones short-lived 118. But we, whose deeds
2640 XIV | Venus wounded by an arrow shot by human hands, because
2641 XXXV | very hour in which they shout ~'May Jupiter increase thy
2642 IX | epilepsy at the gladiatorial show in the arena drink with
2643 XL | from Him, Whose blessings, showered upon them, they experienced
2644 XVI | appropriately than in its own shrine; and the more so, as there
2645 IX | you confidently rely to shrink with horror from the blood
2646 I | good. There is a sense of shrinking or shame instinctively attached
2647 XL | and from Heaven. But we, shrunken with fastings and worn out
2648 I | crave concealment, they shun publicity, they quake when
2649 XL | it off under the name of Sicily. These convulsions at all
2650 XII | originated. You tear the sides of the Christians with claws :
2651 XXII | the water carried in a sieve, the ship drawn forward
2652 XXXV | armed 95, bolder than all Sigerii or Parthenii 96? From amongst
2653 XXXV(96) | v Parthenius and Sigerius were participators in the
2654 XLIV | that the mines perpetually sigh; it is on your own people
2655 XV | you are delighted: Cybele sighs for her scornful shepherd 35,
2656 XVI(39) | The frequent use of the sign of the Cross by Christians
2657 Int | those outside the Church, is significant of their jealous reverence
2658 XXXIX | that which in the Greek signifies 'love j.' However much it
2659 XXXVII | your desolation, at the silence of things, and at the deathlike
2660 I | by the secret agency of a silent writing. ~Christianity pleads
2661 VI | spent upon them 18; and silver mines wrought into dishes,—
2662 XXIV(72) | the introduction of this simile, by which the relation of
2663 XXXIII(83) | imbecillitatis apponetur in similitudinem triumphantium, quibus in
2664 XLV | private indulgence of a sinful glance? Which shews the
2665 XIV | poet (I mean Pindar) who sings that Aesculapius was deservedly
2666 XXXIII(83) | retro comes adhaerebat per singulas acclamationes civium dicens :
2667 VII | found them, like Cyclops and Sirens? Who ever detected in their
2668 XXV | death of Marcus Aurelius at Sirmium on the 17th of March, her
2669 XI | committed incest with parents or sisters, and adulterers, and ravishers
2670 XVIII(50) | Athens. He flourished in the sixth century B.C. Aul. Gell.,
2671 XLVII | not anxious to limit the size of this book, I might run
2672 XIV | and jealously towards the skilful physician. These things,
2673 XII | the capricious freak of skilled handicraft, the very process
2674 XXI | that counterfeit which, skulking under the names and images
2675 XXXVII | we, who are so willingly slaughtered, be ready and prepared,
2676 III | banishes from his sight his slave now faithful: each one,
2677 VI | freedmen, or those still in slavery. I see also theatres, for
2678 XVII | if from intoxication or sleep or any infirmity, and enjoys
2679 XXV | were the messengers, how sleepy the despatches, through
2680 XLI | even if some afflictions do slightly touch us as well, since
2681 XX | this have to be learnt by slow processes and distant proofs;
2682 XLII | matter that some people smell with their hair. We do not
2683 XL | and Go-morrha. The land smells of the conflagration to
2684 VIII | meaning of death, who will smile under your knife; bread
2685 XV | part of Hercules. We have smiled, too, amidst the sportive
2686 XIII(33) | with Simon Magus, see Smith's Dict. Chr. Biogr., iv.
2687 XVII | have applied the word ko&smoj 45 to the world. He is invisible,
2688 XLVIII | made out of a mule, or a snake out of a woman, and by the
2689 XXXV | the Caesars in purity and soberness and modesty? Do we not on
2690 App(138) | suspicion all gilds and secret societies,—has gained for Pliny's
2691 XXIII | medicine, who supplied life to Socordius, Thanatius, and Asclepiodotus,
2692 XL | neighbouring regions of Sodom and Go-morrha. The land
2693 I | She knows that she is a sojourner upon the earth, that amongst
2694 XII | before the application of solder and glue and nails. We are
2695 XXIX | believing it to be in hands soldered with lead. But you are the
2696 L | is in the same way as a soldier desires war. No one endures
2697 IX | on votive crosses; as the soldiery of our own country23 who
2698 V(12) | which Tertullian is the sole authority, is probably groundless.—
2699 II | by directing your efforts solely towards excluding us from
2700 XXI | distinctions of meats, nor the solemnities of days, nor the seal itself
2701 XXXV | about one's rulers. The solicitude inspired by kinship is an
2702 XLVIII | under unity,—of vacuity and solidity, animate and inanimate,
2703 VIII | none? What, in fine, are solitary candidates without relatives
2704 XLVII | of this. What poet, what sophist can you name who did not
2705 XXII | already sensible. They are sorcerers also, truly, in respect
2706 XIV | superfluous parts from the fat and sound beasts,—the heads and hoofs,
2707 III | pronunciation of a name sounds barbarous, or is unlucky
2708 XXXIX | very atmosphere is turned sour with the belchings of so
2709 XXI | the cruelty of Nero they sowed the seed of their Christian
2710 L | own single life should be spared in exchange for many enemies:
2711 XXXV | that Roman tongue of yours spares its own Caesar. There is
2712 IX | naturally persisted in not sparing the children of others;
2713 XLVII | certain laws,—the Theban, Spartan, and Argive for instance.
2714 XXXIV(84) | I Cor. vii. 22, note in Speaker's Commentary. ~
2715 XXI | is nourished, groweth up, speaketh, teacheth, worketh, and
2716 XVI(41) | of the World. Tertullian speaks of the East as a 'figure
2717 XLVI(120) | certain, philosophers only speculate; and while the Christian
2718 XLVI | hear, too, that a certain Speusippus, of the school of Plato,
2719 I | laws, supreme in their own sphere, if she be heard? Will not
2720 XLII | Sabaeans will know that their spices are consumed in greater
2721 XII | which the kites and mice and spiders have an accurate knowledge
2722 XLVI | whereas philosophers, in spite of such misdeeds, continue
2723 XXXVIII | lest the state should be split up into factions, which
2724 XXV | gods as over nations; their spoils in war are to be enumerated
2725 XV | smiled, too, amidst the sportive cruelties of the noon-day
2726 VI | especial finger which her spouse had pledged to himself with
2727 X | himself was both a man and sprung from a man; and that thereafter
2728 VII | even thus ever chanced on a squalling infant? Who ever kept us
2729 IX | cruel method by which you squeeze out their breath under water,
2730 XX | verifications in the two other stages of time?
2731 L | you confessed that a stain upon chastity is accounted
2732 XV | dance over human blood, the stains resulting from penalties
2733 XII | Christians on crosses and stakes : what image does not take
2734 XLVI | Lycurgus chose a death by starvation because the Spartans altered
2735 XXIV(72) | Deity is compared to that of state-officials to the Caesar. ~
2736 V(15) | conjecture that among the state-papers would be found Aurelius'
2737 II | not also acquit? Military stations are appointed by lot throughout
2738 IV | laws? Did not Severus, that steadiest of princes, only the other
2739 XXII | enviously ape a divinity by stealing the divination. Moreover,
2740 XXI | day, His disciples should stealthily remove the body and deceive
2741 XLVII | pilot in the ship which he steers. ~And also concerning the
2742 IV | guardians. ~First, then, how sternly you lay down this decision : '
2743 XL(110) | l Stetit: i.e. gives no rain. ~
2744 XLII | colour; I shall be pale and stiff enough after my last bath
2745 XXIII | them at least refute the stigma of their own disgrace and
2746 III | from the hidden. ~Others stigmatize on the very grounds on which
2747 I | more might Anarcharsis have stigmatized these men,—the inexperienced
2748 Int | only, under the lash of his stinging epigrams and biting irony. ~
2749 XXIII | food of blood and smoke and stinking burnt-offerings of animals,
2750 XIX | of natural philosophers, stirred no doubt by the words of
2751 XXVII | suggestions come, and who stirs up all this animosity against
2752 IX | immediately rejected by man's stomach. You that eat these things,
2753 XXI | suddenly an earthquake, and the stone was rolled away which closed
2754 Int | Disloyalty to the Emperor,— stood on a different base. They
2755 | stop
2756 V | human feelings, he soon stopped the proceedings, and those
2757 XLVII | which is a subterranean store of secret fire for purposes
2758 XIX | be found to be a literary store-house in which are brought together
2759 XVIII | divine mission, remain in the storehouses of literature; nor are they
2760 V(15) | this juncture an opportune storm relieved the wants of his
2761 VII | them to light. Your want of straightforwardness lays you open to the preliminary
2762 II | untruly, and when acquitted, straightway behind your tribunal laugh
2763 VIII | bits of offal to make them strain forward and overturn the
2764 II | ignores while it punishes. How strangely does this judgement overreach
2765 IX | taken up by any passing stranger who may be moved to pity
2766 IX | abstain also from things strangled26, and those that have died
2767 IX | who are in the habit of strangling the children born to them?
2768 XXXV(94) | t The strangulation of Commodus by the wrestler
2769 XXXIX | all.' But each sees the straw in another's eye more readily
2770 XLII | when free, and loose, and straying unarranged : but even if
2771 XXX | victims. So then, as we are stretching forth our hands to God,
2772 XXXIX | parasites amongst you eagerly strive for the glory of enslaving
2773 XXV | permit, the goddess hopes and strives indeed to found.' ~This
2774 XLVI | Zeno at Priene, eagerly striving for the tyranny: a Christian
2775 XLVIII | always burning; and he who is struck from heaven is preserved,
2776 IX | or stag? That boar in the struggle wiped the blood off the
2777 App | confession might imply, that stubbornness and immoveable obstinacy
2778 Pre | be helpful to Theological students who are at work upon the
2779 XIX | of your laws and of your studies in law and divinity. That
2780 Pre | naturally out of my special study of the APOLOGETICUS of Tertullian
2781 XXXVII | things, and at the deathlike stupefaction of the world; you would
2782 XXXII | because we know, that the stupendous shock which impends over
2783 IV | merely unjust; they are stupid too, if they condemn a mere
2784 XXV | avengers who she knew would subdue Greece, the vanquisher of
2785 XXVII | they are seized they are subdued and succumb to their fate,
2786 XIX | Consequently all the subject-matter and historical materials,
2787 XLIX | of philosophers and poets sublime flights of knowledge and
2788 V | that nothing but what was sublimely good was condemned by Nero.
2789 XXV | Sterculius, I suppose, whom they subsequently honoured at Rome along with
2790 XXXIX | patiently let their own wives subserve their friends, according
2791 IV | and a mark of disgrace substituted for capital punishment;
2792 XXXV | of another, by mentally substituting the name of a different
2793 XLVII | threaten gehenna, which is a subterranean store of secret fire for
2794 XXII | aberrations. Their wonderful subtilty and tenuity gives them access
2795 XXXV(93) | the laurel groves in the suburbs of Rome, whither the emperor
2796 XLVIII | the seasons constantly succeed each other: fruits perish
2797 XXII | violently visit the mind with sudden and extraordinary aberrations.
2798 XXXIX | old men, or shipwrecked sufferers, and any who may be in the
2799 XXI | of the persecuting Jews, suffering willingly indeed from their
2800 IV(10) | f Suffundere maluit hominis sanguinem
2801 XVIII | from the Jews also, at the suggestion of Demetrius Phalereus 51,
2802 XXVII | quarter from whence such suggestions come, and who stirs up all
2803 XLVI(122) | z rerum. Neander suggests deorum, which would preserve
2804 XXII | equivocations in the oracles to suit either event, such men as
2805 XI | Pompey, more successful than Sulla, wealthier than Crassus,
2806 V(16) | contr. Arian, 3; comp. Sulp. Sever., Chron. ii. 30;
2807 XIX | Phoenicians; we must likewise summon to our aid the fellow-countrymen
2808 L | It is our battle to be summoned to your tribunals, there
2809 XXVII | existence. Wherefore we meet the summons to sacrifice with opposition,
2810 XXXIX | have is not filled up with sums paid under a sense of obligation,
2811 XVI | move your lips towards the sun-rise. Similarly, if we devote
2812 XV | record of Jupiter to be sung; and Juno, Venus, and Minerva
2813 XIX(58) | supersunt improbata, probata sunt nobis. ~
2814 XLVI(120) | philosophers only frame superficial schemes based upon human
2815 XVIII | whom he had entrusted the superintendence of the collection. They
2816 Int(4) | d See Lightfoot, Supernatural Religion, p. 275, where
2817 XIX(58) | g Read, omnia quae supersunt improbata, probata sunt
2818 XXIV | let one stretch forth his suppliant hands to Heaven, another
2819 XXVII | to their fate, and they supplicate those, when close at hand,
2820 V(15) | and cut off from all water supplies. At this juncture an opportune
2821 IX | promiscuousness of your profligacy supplying the occasions. In the first
2822 XXXIX | repulsive eating-houses, but in supporting and burying the needy, and
2823 I | they are ignorant, even supposing it to deserve their hatred?
2824 XXXI | we ourselves by no means suppress, and which many chances
2825 VI | plate; which immediately suppressed the theatres as they sprang
2826 XX | therefore, we have also a sure confidence in future events,
2827 I | themselves a more consistent surmise; they do not welcome a closer
2828 XIX | roll of a single prophet surpasses in antiquity by centuries;
2829 V(15) | the Quadi, M. Aurelius was surprised near Carnuntum, and cut
2830 Int | brought up amid the pagan surroundings of that provincial metropolis.
2831 II | dealing of yours lead you to suspect the existence of some secret
2832 XXX | dig into us, your crosses suspend us, your fires burn us,
2833 Int | is related to disarm the suspicions of the heathen, but no more.
2834 XXI | the body and deceive the suspicious rulers. But lo, on the third
2835 XXIV | Ocriculani, Hostia of the Sutrini, Juno of the Falisci, in
2836 XX | of before. That the earth swallows up cities, that the sea
2837 XXVIII | With you, in fact, one swears falsely by all the gods
2838 I | not even do those whom it sweeps along dare to defend as
2839 III | accurate), it is formed from 'sweetness' or 'kindness.' In innocent
2840 V | attack with the imperial sword this sect then rising into
2841 XVI(39) | felt for it as the great symbol of man's redemption, finds
2842 XVI(41) | all religions. Its natural symbolism, the east being the quarter
2843 XIII | other a god of the sacred synod;—although your ancient gods
2844 V(15) | the letter. The lack of systematic records of the persecutions
2845 XXIII | through whom both goats and tables are wont to be made instruments
2846 II | read out from the judicial tablet that so and so is a Christian,
2847 XVI(38) | k Tacit., Hist. v. 3, 4. See Merivale,
2848 VII | news is it free from the taint of falsehood,—detracting
2849 VII | by emphatic assertion. A tale which has originated at
2850 VII | because swift? because a talebearer? or because generally false?
2851 XXV | seen. For at that time the talent of the Greeks and Tuscans
2852 XXXV | lighted up their porches with tallest and brightest lamps! how
2853 IV | the whole of that old and tangled forest of laws? Did not
2854 XL | Volsinii from heaven and over Tarpeii from its own mountain. No
2855 XIX | difficult as it would be a vast task; not so laborious as lengthy.
2856 XXXVIII | anything more foreign to our tastes than public life. We recognize
2857 IX | the Gauls. I dismiss the Tauric fables to the theatres where
2858 XXXV | under the disguise of a tavern, to thicken the mud with
2859 XIII | Yet lands burdened with a tax are less valuable, and persons
2860 XVIII | constantly read them publicly,—a taxed liberty 55; and there is
2861 X | then, as far as literature teaches, neither Diodorus the Greek,
2862 XXI | nourished, groweth up, speaketh, teacheth, worketh, and is CHRIST. ~
2863 XXX | incense of trifling value, the tears of an Arabian tree, nor
2864 XXXIX(105) | naturally forbears to use the technical terms of the Christian ministry.
2865 X | nautical, military,—it is tedious enough even to recount their
2866 Int | reflects the typical African temperament,—fervid, impatient, impetuous,
2867 XL | Christians in the world has tempered the violence of God's judgements. ~
2868 XLVIII | evil, incurred during that temporal period of its life, and
2869 Int | us (Common. 18), a severe temptation to the Church, and his later
2870 VI | patrician who possessed ten pounds weight of plate;
2871 XLV | of yours, which seem to tend towards innocence, have
2872 App | made between any one of tender years and adults : whether
2873 XXXVII | exposed to them, an empty tenement for unclean spirits. And
2874 XXII | Their wonderful subtilty and tenuity gives them access to both
2875 XIX | has been called by that term everywhere, before all the
2876 XXXIX(105) | forbears to use the technical terms of the Christian ministry.
2877 XVII | sustained, delighted, and even terrified? will you have it proved
2878 L | be endured for country, territory, empire, or friendship,
2879 XXXIX(104) | 1586 ff. : Lib. Fath., Tert., pp. 377 ff. ~
2880 Int | sect, called after him 'Tertullianists,' lingered in Carthage to
2881 IX | ought to be applied as a test to the Christians in the
2882 IX | incense-box. For they would be tested just as much by their desire
2883 XXIII | their own gain deny. These testimonies of your own gods, moreover,
2884 XVII(47) | his special treatise, ' De Testimonio Animae,' on this subject. ~
2885 IX | and exclaimed, h1laune th_n mhte/ra. Just consider
2886 XXIII | supplied life to Socordius, Thanatius, and Asclepiodotus, men
2887 XXI(62) | is a developement of that theanthropism which was ever latent in
2888 XLVII | banished by certain laws,—the Theban, Spartan, and Argive for
2889 App | purpose, but never to commit theft, or robbery, or adultery,
2890 XXIV | Now all this confession of theirs, by which they deny their
2891 XI | Aristides in justice, some Themistocles in military skill, some
2892 XV(35) | g Atys. Theocritus, x. 40; Arnob., iv. 35;
2893 XIII(33) | Eusebius (H. E. ii. 13), Theodoret (haer. fab. i. 13), and
2894 Pre | translation may be helpful to Theological students who are at work
2895 XLIX | be granted now that our theories are false, and properly
2896 XXIV | For indeed most persons theorize about the distribution of
2897 XLVIII | arguments to establish such a theory, would he not gain assent
2898 VII | religious rite and a banquet thereat, and incest after the feast;—
2899 XXXII(81) | his earliest epistles (2 Thess. ii. 6), regarded the Roman
2900 XXXV | disguise of a tavern, to thicken the mud with wine, and to
2901 XLIV | sacrilegious person or procurer or thief is there amongst them, who
2902 XI | passionate, and murderers, and thieves, and deceivers, and whosoever
2903 IX | home, blood from an incised thigh, caught in a shield and
2904 XIV | Diomede: Mars in chains for thirteen months, well-nigh wasted
2905 IX | commonest crimes. ~FOR a more thorough refutation of these charges
2906 XIX | may be evident. We must thoroughly explore the histories and
2907 XL | to the bottom with many thousands of human beings. Plato also
2908 V | maintained his own opinion, and threatened danger to those who accused
2909 XXXII | itself of this age which threatens terrible woes, is delayed
2910 XXVII | cunning persuasions and harsh threats he labours to dislodge our
2911 XXIII | quite another to cut one's throat. The issue of the phrenzy
2912 IX | fresh blood flowing from the throats of the criminals? ~What
2913 XXXV | practice the athletic art by throttling a Caesar 94? Whence come
2914 II(8) | most usual of these were throwing a few grains of incense
2915 XI | impious are accustomed to be thrust, and such as have committed
2916 XI | have been bright, and the thunder has muttered, and Jupiter
2917 XIV | deservedly punished by a thunderbolt for his covetousness, which
2918 V(15) | refers to the story of the "Thundering Legion" (Legio fulminata),
2919 XLVI | contentment, look at Pythagoras at Thurii, and Zeno at Priene, eagerly
2920 XXI | recent one, being of the Tiberian age, perhaps a further point
2921 IX(22) | r Usque ad proconsulatum Tiberii. This Tiberius was probably
2922 XIII(33) | whom was discovered on the Tiberine island in 1574), with Simon
2923 XVI(42) | Jews on that day. Comp. Tibullus, i. 3. 18; Ovid, Ars Amator.
2924 XII(30) | b Lions and tigers. Caelestis, the national
2925 XIX | Saturn, the king of the Titans, fought with Jupiter, it
2926 XIV | not a third part of the tithe of Hercules on his altar.
2927 XXXIX | calculate the cost of the tithes and sacrificial banquets
2928 XVI | carried a book, and wore a toga. We laughed both at its
2929 XXIV | commit who transfers his toil and expectation from these
2930 XII | tortures must be hailed as tokens of divinity. True, your
2931 Int | know it, may be briefly told. He was born at Carthage
2932 XXV | These captive gods, then, tolerate the worship even of their
2933 VII | propagating channels of tongues and ears. And a flaw in
2934 XXXVII | even one night with a few torches might amply work our revenge,
2935 XXII | brought back word that a tortoise was being cooked with the
2936 I | with Christians the case is totally different. No one is ashamed;
2937 XXIII | to leap from the sacred towers, and quite another kind
2938 App | superstition overrun the towns only, but even the villages
2939 XXXVII | cities, islands, villages, townships, assemblies, your very camp,
2940 II | throughout every province for tracking robbers; against traitors
2941 XLII | be unprofitable to your trades, when we live with you and
2942 XXII | various errors in their train; of which that is the most
2943 XLVI | Diogenes with muddy feet trampling, with a pride of his own,
2944 XXIII | they throw children into trances for the purposes of oracular
2945 XXXI | that all things may be tranquil with you.' For when the
2946 XLVII | and eloquence only, they transcribed according to the bent of
2947 XXI | worshippers, to whom He would transfer His favour, and that, indeed,
2948 XII | handicraft, the very process of transformation being carried out both most
2949 XXI | greatly, notwithstanding they transgressed, puffed up even to madness
2950 XLV | sometimes to set them at naught, transgressing voluntarily or necessarily :
2951 III | this adoption of the name, transmitted with the system from its
2952 XXI | from it many off-shoots transmitting its qualities: so also That
2953 XXIII | objected against that which is transparently and openly displayed? If
2954 XIV | duties of life; and what travesties do I find! gods, engaged
2955 XXV | robbery of sacred and profane treasures. The sacrileges of the Romans
2956 XXVI | gifts, whose nation with treaties you Romans have honoured
2957 IX | for the ratification of a treaty. Some such tasting there
2958 XXX | the tears of an Arabian tree, nor two drops of wine,
2959 XVIII(52) | a Six from each tribe. On this commencement of
2960 XVI | who hired himself out to trick the wild beasts in the arena,
2961 XV | whether in the jokes and tricks it is the actors or your
2962 XXX | few grains of incense of trifling value, the tears of an Arabian
2963 L | our victory, this is our triumphal vestment, in such a chariot
2964 XXXIII(83) | apponetur in similitudinem triumphantium, quibus in curru retro comes
2965 XXXIII | is admonished even when triumphing in his most lofty chariot.
2966 XXV | they can count as many triumphs over gods as over nations;
2967 XIV | one another on account of Trojans and Greeks : Venus wounded
2968 XVI | interiors of the memorial trophies of these. The whole camp -
2969 XXI | Athens, Melampus in Argos, Trophonius in Boeotia, bound men down
2970 IX | of incest. Some, far less troubled, completely withstand the
2971 XLI | worshipped, who are the troublers of mankind, it is you who
2972 XIV | relating in their prologues the troubles or the failings of the family
2973 VII | believe Rumour? A wise man trusts not to the uncertain. Any
2974 XVI(39) | overlooked. A sarcastic tu quoque was quite sufficient
2975 XXV | altars were built casually of turf, and the vessels were of
2976 XXI | privileges of their forefathers, turning aside from their special
2977 XXV | talent of the Greeks and Tuscans in moulding images had not
2978 XL | touched. Moreover neither Tuscany nor Campania lodged any
2979 L | for example Cicero in the 'Tusculan Disputations,' Seneca in
2980 XVI(40) | which the statues of the tutelar deities were preserved and
2981 App | and a few for so long as twenty years 132. All worshipped
2982 XIX | Troy by three hundred and twenty-two years. By the hand of this
2983 Int | have winced, not once nor twice only, under the lash of
2984 XII | they are nothing else but twin substances with vessels
2985 XLVIII | force of eloquence should twist all arguments to establish
2986 XLVIII | stamped it throughout with types of man's resurrection as
2987 Int | His character reflects the typical African temperament,—fervid,
2988 IV | if, when disapproved, it tyrannizes.
2989 XIX | Phoenician Iromus, king of Tyre; their disciples too, Ptolemy
2990 IV | exhibit violence and unjust tyrrany from out of your citadel
2991 App(138) | 13, quoted by Merivale, u.s.) ~
2992 XXXVII(99) | Christians is God, and their ultio is from Him; comp. ad Scap.
2993 VII | their wives any traces of un-chastity? Who ever first found out
2994 XLIX | though vain and fabulous, go unaccused and unpunished, because
2995 XLVII(124) | confronted with the one unalterable Rule of Faith delivered
2996 XLII | and loose, and straying unarranged : but even if made up into
2997 VIII | neophytes. For they might be unaware of any such assertions about
2998 IX | anywhere beget children to you unawares, even from however small
2999 XLVI | manifested to every one, unbelief meantime, although convicted
3000 App | Pliny (a namesake of his uncle, the famous writer on 'Natural
3001 I | of not being altogether unconscious that they are refusing to
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