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 1       I|           may know what I ought to say to you, and that you, shaking
 2      II|           do your cause no good to say so to men who know the poets;
 3     III|      citing the poets, because you say it is allowable for them
 4     III|            teachers, or how do you say that they themselves have
 5     III|       initiated. You will no doubt say, "The sages and philosophers."
 6     III|         Hippasus, from Metapontus, say that fire is the first principle
 7       V|         Aristotle. For these, they say, have learned the perfect
 8       V|       first of all, from those who say so, from whom they say that
 9       V|         who say so, from whom they say that these men have learned
10       V|          erred regarding the Deity say, that God exists in a fiery
11       V|          Thales, then, very fairly say to him, "What is the reason,
12     VII|          some of your philosophers say that the human soul is in
13     VII|         the soul. For some of them say that the soul is fire, and
14     VII|     exhalation; and certain others say that it is a power flowing
15      IX|            to have regulated, they say that Moses first persuaded
16      IX|       words:~ ~Among the Jews they say that Moses ascribed his
17      IX|        invented the laws. And they say that Sasunchis was the second
18      IX| understanding. And the third, they say, was Sesonchosis the king,
19      IX|          the fourth lawgiver, they say, was Bocchoris the king,
20      IX|      government of Egypt. And they say that Darius, the father
21       X|           the history of the Jews, say that Moses was sprung from
22      XI|         time happened to live, you say that the oracle answered
23    XIII|            in contradiction should say that these books do not
24     XIV|           things which are, as you say, spoken of even by your
25     XIV|          on your account forced to say many things by the Divine
26      XV|     Orpheus, who was, as one might say, your first teacher of polytheism,
27      XX|          before the Athenians, and say, "Plato is doing harm, and
28      XX|            inevitably necessary to say that the gods were made
29      XX|            this very reason did he say that matter was eternal,
30      XX|          that he might not seem to say that God is the creator
31     XXI|           He further orders him to say, "He who is hath sent me
32   XXIII|      doctrines of polytheism, will say that to these fashioned
33    XXIV|          had ever lived godly, you say the answer was:~ ~Only the
34   XXVII|          certainly they will never say that the soul has a head
35   XXXII|         For as the sacred prophets say that one and the same spirit
36   XXXVI|          oracle, as you yourselves say, bears witness, saying, "
37  XXXVII|            the prophets. She, they say, was of Babylonian extraction,
38  XXXVII|             And not least would we say that they are divine, and