Phaedrus
    Part
501 Intro|          steeds. The steeds of the gods are immortal, but ours are
502 Intro|           chariot; and an array of gods and demi-gods and of human
503 Intro|           seen at the feast of the gods, when they ascend the heights
504 Intro|         house. The chariots of the gods glide readily upwards and
505 Intro|            This is the life of the gods; the human soul tries to
506 Intro|         when in the company of the Gods. And men in general recall
507 Intro|           good masters who are the gods. Rhetoric has a fair beginning
508 Intro|           to describe the souls of gods as well as men under the
509 Intro|        division of the soul to the gods? Or is this merely assigned
510 Intro|    probable; for the horses of the gods are both white, i.e. their
511 Text |       honoured in the eyes both of gods and men. Consider this,
512 Text |       price of sinning against the gods.’ Now I recognize my error.~
513 Text |            love is not sent by the gods for any good to lover or
514 Text |         and the charioteers of the gods are all of them noble and
515 Text |           is the habitation of the gods. The divine is beauty, wisdom,
516 Text |           follows him the array of gods and demi-gods, marshalled
517 Text |            along which the blessed gods are passing, every one doing
518 Text |        heaven. The chariots of the gods in even poise, obeying the
519 Text |            Such is the life of the gods; but of other souls, that
520 Text |       others in company with other gods; and then we beheld the
521 Text |         called love, and among the gods has a name at which you,
522 Text |        which they receive from the gods that they may impart them
523 Text |        poetic, erotic, having four gods presiding over them; the
524 Text |         This is the message of the gods dwelling in this place,
525 Text |      Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give


Philebus
    Part
526 Intro|       speaks at one time of God or Gods, and at another time of
527 Intro|          better men and nearer the gods than we are, have handed
528 Intro|            all, as there are other gods who have other noble attributes.
529 Intro|         moreover, the state of the gods, who cannot, without indecency,
530 Intro|         who are the friends of the gods, see true pictures of the
531 Intro|   expresses about the names of the gods, which may be not unaptly
532 Text |             about the names of the gods is more than human—it exceeds
533 Text |          which, as I conceive, the gods tossed among men by the
534 Text |         our betters and nearer the gods than we are, handed down
535 Text |    teaching one another, which the gods have handed down to us.
536 Text |            of the cause? And other gods have other attributes, by
537 Text |             PROTARCHUS: If so, the gods, at any rate, cannot be
538 Text |       alternative. But whether the gods are or are not indifferent
539 Text |           man is the friend of the gods; is he not?~PROTARCHUS:
540 Text |         good, being friends of the gods, have generally true pictures
541 Text |            Yes.~PROTARCHUS: By the gods, I wish that you would repeat
542 Text |          and more honourable among gods and men.~PROTARCHUS: Clearly,
543 Text |          perjury is excused by the gods; for pleasures, like children,


Protagoras
    Part
544 Intro|            of the existence of the gods in a well-known fragment
545 Text |           his arrival?~Yes, by the gods, he said; but not until
546 Text |            a Sophist of me.~By the gods, I said, and are you not
547 Text |        Once upon a time there were gods only, and no mortal creatures.
548 Text |        also should be created, the gods fashioned them out of earth
549 Text |            the animals who had any gods, because he alone was of
550 Text |           man become good, For the gods have made virtue the reward
551 Text |          the longest time whom the gods love.’~All this relates
552 Text |      praise and love;—not even the gods war against necessity.’~


The Republic
    Book
553 1    |         about offerings due to the gods or debts which he owes to
554 1    |         friend, I said, surely the gods are just? ~Granted that
555 1    |           will be the enemy of the gods, and the just will be their
556 2    |          and dedicate gifts to the gods abundantly and magnificently,
557 2    |   magnificently, and can honor the gods or any man whom he wants
558 2    |        dearer than they are to the gods. And thus, Socrates, gods
559 2    |          gods. And thus, Socrates, gods and men are said to unite
560 2    |            the good opinion of the gods, and will tell you of a
561 2    |        first of whom says that the gods make the oaks of the just - ~"
562 2    |      speaking about virtue and the gods: they say that the gods
563 2    |            gods: they say that the gods apportion calamity and misery
564 2    |           committed to them by the gods of making an atonement for
565 2    |        near. But before virtue the gods have set toil," ~and a tedious
566 2    |        Homer as a witness that the gods may be influenced by men;
567 2    |            for he also says: ~"The gods, too, may be turned from
568 2    |         vice, and the way in which gods and men regard them, how
569 2    |            a voice saying that the gods cannot be deceived, neither
570 2    |           But what if there are no gods? or, suppose them to have
571 2    | concealment? And even if there are gods, and they do care about
572 2    |           praying and sinning, the gods will be propitiated, and
573 2    |            and the children of the gods, who were their poets and
574 2    |         fare to our mind both with gods and men, in life and after
575 2    |          whether seen or unseen by gods and men. ~I had always admired
576 2    |         hymning the praises of the gods, in happy converse with
577 2    |           is made of the nature of gods and heroes-as when a painter
578 2    |       first and greatest among the gods. ~I entirely agree with
579 2    |         plots and fightings of the gods against one another, for
580 2    |      innumerable other quarrels of gods and heroes with their friends
581 2    |         and all the battles of the gods in Homer-these tales must
582 2    |       strife and contention of the gods were instigated by Themis
583 2    |          principles concerning the gods, to which our poets and
584 2    |           poets tell us that ~"The gods, taking the disguise of
585 2    |          myths-telling how certain gods, as they say, "Go about
586 2    |        speak blasphemy against the gods. ~Heaven forbid, he said. ~
587 2    |            said. ~But although the gods are themselves unchangeable,
588 2    |            be allowed, is hated of gods and men? ~What do you mean?
589 2    |           is hated not only by the gods, but also by men? ~Yes. ~
590 2    |           about divine things. The gods are not magicians who transform
591 2    |            of sentiments about the gods which will arouse our anger;
592 2    |            true worshippers of the gods and like them. ~I entirely
593 3    |          we mean them to honor the gods and their parents, and to
594 3    |         grim and squalid which the gods abhor should be seen both
595 3    |          Priam, the kinsman of the gods, as praying and beseeching, ~"
596 3    |        events not to introduce the gods lamenting and saying, ~"
597 3    |           if he must introduce the gods, at any rate let him not
598 3    |   misrepresent the greatest of the gods, as to make him say - ~"
599 3    |    unworthy representations of the gods, instead of laughing at
600 3    |            a representation of the gods be allowed. ~Still less
601 3    |        allowed. ~Still less of the gods, as you say, he replied. ~
602 3    |    expression to be used about the gods as that of Homer when he
603 3    |            arose among the blessed gods, when they saw Hephaestus
604 3    |            a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine
605 3    |          of Zeus, who, while other gods and men were asleep and
606 3    |         them of ~"Gifts persuading gods, and persuading reverend
607 3    |            overweening contempt of gods and men. ~You are quite
608 3    |        persuade our youth that the gods are the authors of evil,
609 3    |          evil cannot come from the gods. ~Assuredly not. And, further,
610 3    |            by ~"The kindred of the gods, the relatives of Zeus,
611 3    |            us. The manner in which gods and demigods and heroes
612 3    |         priest came and prayed the gods on behalf of the Greeks
613 3    |           and vaunting against the gods in conceit of her happiness,
614 3    |            sacrifice to the proper gods and prepare their dwellings. ~
615 4    |         offering sacrifices to the gods on their own account, and
616 4    |          and the entire service of gods, demigods, and heroes; also
617 4    |          whether seen or unseen by gods and men. ~Nonsense, said
618 4    |          whether seen or unseen of gods and men, or to be unjust
619 5    |         arms at the temples of the gods, least of all the arms of
620 5    |           fair are children of the gods; and as to the sweet "honey-pale,"
621 6    |          And which, I said, of the gods in heaven would you say
622 7    |        from the world below to the gods? ~By all means, he replied. ~
623 8    |            men who are dear to the gods, and are their best guardians
624 9    |        over men, but also over the gods? ~That he will. ~And the
625 9    |          whether seen or unseen by gods and men"? ~Let the words
626 10   |            the earth; he makes the gods also. ~He must be a wizard
627 10   |       conviction that hymns to the gods and praises of famous men
628 10   |           procure to the soul from gods and men, both in life and
629 10   |        possibly escape the eyes of gods and men, still this admission
630 10   |            in which she is held by gods and men and which we acknowledge
631 10   |       unjust is truly known to the gods. ~Granted. ~And if they
632 10   |         the other the enemy of the gods, as we admitted from the
633 10   |              And the friend of the gods may be supposed to receive
634 10   |            life and death; for the gods have a care of anyone whose
635 10   |         palms of victory which the gods give the just? ~That is
636 10   |          bestowed upon the just by gods and men in this present
637 10   |            Of piety and impiety to gods and parents, and of murderers,
638 10   |          he accused chance and the gods, and everything rather than
639 10   |          to one another and to the gods, both while remaining here


The Second Alcibiades
    Part
640 Text |           you not suppose that the Gods sometimes partly grant and
641 Text |            good, especially if the Gods are in the mood to grant
642 Text |          wrong when they blame the gods as the authors of the ills
643 Text |       public and private, that the Gods will give unto them the
644 Text |         surely, as I conceive, the Gods have power either to grant
645 Text |         were also to ask, ‘Why the Gods always granted the victory
646 Text |           so little respect to the Gods that they have a habit of
647 Text |           or make offerings to the Gods, and beg at random for what
648 Text |          bad. When, therefore, the Gods hear them using words of
649 Text |            winds;~‘But the blessed Gods were averse and received
650 Text |           they were hateful to the Gods, who are not, like vile
651 Text |          is inconceivable that the Gods have regard, not to the
652 Text |     innumerable crimes against the Gods or against their fellow-men
653 Text |   fellow-men or the state. For the Gods, as Ammon and his prophet
654 Text |    especially honoured both by the Gods and by men of sense; and
655 Text |           to speak and act towards Gods and men. But I should like
656 Text |          should behave towards the Gods and towards men.~ALCIBIADES:
657 Text |       excellent advice, and to the Gods we will offer crowns and


The Seventh Letter
    Part
658 Text |           that with the aid of the Gods, Dionysios might perhaps
659 Text |          writing, then surely, not gods, but men “have themselves
660 Text |           small or great.” “By the gods,” I said, “you did promise


The Sophist
    Part
661 Intro|     invisible—about man, about the gods, about politics, about law,
662 Intro|            and the heavens and the gods, and would sell them all
663 Text |            Homer says that all the gods, and especially the god
664 Text |        hard to be discerned as the gods. For the true philosophers,
665 Text |           and the heavens, and the gods, and of all other things;
666 Text |          sort of war of Giants and Gods going on amongst them; they
667 Text |         them have reference to the gods and are divine.~THEAETETUS:


The Statesman
    Part
668 Intro|         are either philosophers or gods (compare Laws).~The Statesman
669 Intro|           may again exist when the gods resume their care of mankind.
670 Intro|     motions; or that there are two gods, one turning it in one direction,
671 Intro|         the whole world, and other gods subject to him ruled over
672 Intro|        taught them arts, and other gods gave them seeds and plants.
673 Intro|            acceptable gifts to the gods, and in many parts of Hellas
674 Intro|           gave of the names of the gods (‘They must surely have
675 Intro|       knowledge of the arts; other gods give him seeds and plants;
676 Intro|            the introduction of the gods is not a reason, but an
677 Intro|         not wholly deserted by the gods, may contain some higher
678 Text |      opposite courses; or that two Gods, having opposite purposes,
679 Text |        were imparted to man by the gods, together with so much teaching
680 Text |        life; since the care of the Gods, as I was saying, had now
681 Text |            the interpreters of the gods to men.~YOUNG SOCRATES:
682 Text |     declares, know how to give the gods gifts from men in the form


The Symposium
    Part
683 Intro|           apparition only, and the gods afterwards contrived his
684 Intro|        immediately follow: and the gods, who honour the love of
685 Intro|           relations of men towards gods and parents is called divination.
686 Intro|    divination is the peacemaker of gods and men, and works by a
687 Intro|            and friendship with the gods and with one another. I
688 Intro|        scale heaven and attack the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial
689 Intro|            celestial councils; the gods were divided between the
690 Intro|         blessedest and best of the gods, and also the youngest,
691 Intro|        Iapetus and Cronos when the gods were at war. The things
692 Intro|      inventor of the arts; all the gods are his subjects; he is
693 Intro|    Eryximachus) who conveys to the gods the prayers of men, and
694 Intro|            men the commands of the gods.~Socrates asks: Who are
695 Intro|           which have images of the gods inside them; and, secondly,
696 Intro|           singular remark that the gods favour the return of love
697 Intro|     language in speaking about the gods. He has no sophistical notions
698 Intro|          tragedy, moving among the gods of Olympus, and not among
699 Intro|     mythology ‘the greatest of the Gods’ (Rep.) is not exempt from
700 Text |   Eryximachus, that, whereas other gods have poems and hymns made
701 Text |           god, and wonderful among gods and men, but especially
702 Text |            he is the eldest of the gods, which is an honour to him;
703 Text |              First in the train of gods, he fashioned Love.’~And
704 Text |            to be the eldest of the gods. And not only is he the
705 Text |       action of hers appear to the gods, as well as to men, that
706 Text |    exceeding honour is paid by the gods to the devotion and virtue
707 Text |           far). And greatly as the gods honour the virtue of love,
708 Text |            was dead. Wherefore the gods honoured him even above
709 Text |       noblest and mightiest of the gods; and the chiefest author
710 Text |           called heavenly. All the gods ought to have praise given
711 Text |      himself (so men say), and the gods will forgive his transgression,
712 Text |           the entire liberty which gods and men have allowed the
713 Text |           art of communion between gods and men—these, I say, are
714 Text |            in his feelings towards gods or parents, towards the
715 Text |    divination is the peacemaker of gods and men, working by a knowledge
716 Text |         and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest
717 Text |          makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with
718 Text |          be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of
719 Text |            made an attack upon the gods; of them is told the tale
720 Text |           have laid hands upon the gods. Doubt reigned in the celestial
721 Text |             on the other hand, the gods could not suffer their insolence
722 Text |            are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that
723 Text |         him—he is the enemy of the gods who opposes him. For if
724 Text |            that of all the blessed gods he is the most blessed because
725 Text |          to be the youngest of the gods, and youthful ever. The
726 Text |           ancient doings among the gods of which Hesiod and Parmenides
727 Text |      chaining or mutilation of the gods, or other violence, but
728 Text |           hearts and souls of both gods and men, which are of all
729 Text |            the empire of Zeus over gods and men, are all due to
730 Text |            order the empire of the gods—the love of beauty, as is
731 Text |          deeds were done among the gods, for they were ruled by
732 Text |         wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have
733 Text |          comrade, helper; glory of gods and men, leader best and
734 Text |           love charms the souls of gods and men. Such is the speech,
735 Text |            order the empire of the gods, for that of deformed things
736 Text |         would acknowledge that the gods are happy and fair—of course
737 Text |              she replied, ‘between gods and men, conveying and taking
738 Text |           and taking across to the gods the prayers and sacrifices
739 Text |        commands and replies of the gods; he is the mediator who
740 Text |           there was a feast of the gods, at which the god Poros
741 Text |         middle, and have images of gods inside them. I say also
742 Text |          of those who have need of gods and mysteries, because they
743 Text |          when I awoke (let all the gods and goddesses be my witnesses)


Theaetetus
    Part
744 Intro|            and, ‘Whether there are gods or not, I cannot tell.’
745 Intro|         they “round apace,” if the gods are propitious to them;
746 Intro|          words—~“Ocean, whence the gods sprang, and mother Tethys.”~
747 Intro|          sit and declaim about the gods, of whose existence or non-existence
748 Intro|        good, out of the way of the gods in heaven. Wherefore also
749 Intro|      knowledge, not of men, but of gods, perfect and all sufficing:—
750 Text |            Ocean whence sprang the gods, and mother Tethys,’~does
751 Text |            I think of them; by the Gods I am! and I want to know
752 Text |         some of them that they are gods, and others that they can
753 Text |           of men, or indeed of the gods?—for you would assume the
754 Text |         Protagoras to apply to the gods as well as men?~THEAETETUS:
755 Text |         harangue, and bring in the gods, whose existence or non-existence
756 Text |         commanders as if they were gods, and expect salvation from
757 Text |          Having no place among the gods in heaven, of necessity


Timaeus
    Part
758 Intro|         became the children of the gods, excelling all men in virtue,
759 Intro|          enterprise, call upon the Gods; and he who is about to
760 Intro|            had made of the Eternal Gods moving and living, he rejoiced;
761 Intro|           are four of them: one of gods, another of birds, a third
762 Intro|           a fourth of animals. The gods were made in the form of
763 Intro|           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
764 Intro|         The knowledge of the other gods is beyond us, and we can
765 Intro|           were the children of the gods, as they said; for surely
766 Intro|     Creator addressed them thus:— ‘Gods, sons of gods, my works,
767 Intro|         them thus:— ‘Gods, sons of gods, my works, if I will, are
768 Intro|           by me they would be like gods. Do ye therefore make them;
769 Intro|         and he ordered the younger gods to frame human bodies for
770 Intro|        courses were encased by the gods in a sphere which is called
771 Intro|             In the next place, the gods gave a forward motion to
772 Intro|        every man, the other by the gods and by very few men. And
773 Intro|          be framed out of man.~The gods also mingled natures akin
774 Intro|         when they degenerated, the gods implanted in men the desire
775 Intro| generalization are dimly seen. The Gods themselves, especially the
776 Intro|             especially the greater Gods, such as Zeus, Poseidon,
777 Intro|            one God, greatest among Gods and men, who was all sight,
778 Intro|           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
779 Intro|            of Zeus while the other gods go in procession, is called
780 Intro|            first and eldest of the gods, and is probably the symbol
781 Intro|          which is the image of the gods, who are the stars, and
782 Intro|         must surely have known the gods who were their ancestors,
783 Intro|        knowledge is granted to the gods only. To have seen the affinity
784 Intro|          on those who say that the Gods have no care of human things.~
785 Intro|            be the offspring of the Gods—that is what they say—and
786 Intro|        word of the children of the Gods? Although they give no probable
787 Text |             on the other hand, the gods purge the earth with a deluge
788 Text |      children and disciples of the gods.~Many great and wonderful
789 Text |        after duly calling upon the Gods.~TIMAEUS: All men, Socrates,
790 Text |             must invoke the aid of Gods and Goddesses and pray that
791 Text |           be our invocation of the Gods, to which I add an exhortation
792 Text |            many opinions about the gods and the generation of the
793 Text |       created image of the eternal gods, he rejoiced, and in his
794 Text |           the heavenly race of the gods; another, the race of birds
795 Text |           day, first and eldest of gods that are in the interior
796 Text |            the created and visible gods have an end.~To know or
797 Text |            be the offspring of the gods—that is what they say—and
798 Text |        word of the children of the gods? Although they give no probable
799 Text |             the genealogy of these gods is to be received and set
800 Text | revolutions as well as those other gods who are of a more retiring
801 Text |    addressed them in these words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are
802 Text |          words: ‘Gods, children of gods, who are my works, and of
803 Text |            on an equality with the gods. In order then that they
804 Text |           committed to the younger gods the fashioning of their
805 Text |          by what providence of the gods; and holding fast to probability,
806 Text |          our way.~First, then, the gods, imitating the spherical
807 Text |         that is in us: to this the gods, when they put together
808 Text |     attached to every man; and the gods, deeming the front part
809 Text |        when the eyelids, which the gods invented for the preservation
810 Text |            or will be given by the gods to mortal man. This is the
811 Text |        they have been given by the gods to the same end and for
812 Text |            is the attribute of the gods and of very few men. Wherefore
813 Text |            a substance dear to the gods. The compounds of earth
814 Text |            in all of them. But the gods, foreknowing that the palpitation
815 Text |          provide against this, the gods made what is called the
816 Text |     dissolution and depletion, the gods contrived the following
817 Text |        that perfect life which the gods have set before mankind,
818 Text |        reason why at that time the gods created in us the desire