“Ἔλλαβε πορφύρεος θάνατος καὶ μοῖρα κραταιή.”
“Can anyone be proved innocent, if it be enough to have accused him?”
“I feel awe of the gods, I love, I revere, I venerate them, and in short have precisely the same feelings towards them as one would have towards kind masters or teachers or fathers or guardians or any beings of that sort.”
“Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to be flung in naked words to the ears of the profane...”
“By the gods I do not want the Galileans to be killed or beaten unjustly nor to suffer any other ill. I do, however, state that the god-fearing (theosebeis) should be preferred to them … honour should go to the gods and to the men and cities that worship them.”
“Nullas infestas hominibus bestias, ut sunt sibi ferales plerique Christianorum expertus.”
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