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Preparation for the Gospel

Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903

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2. Book 1, 1. What the Treatise on the Gospel Promises
3. Book 1, The Charges Usually Brought Against Us by Those Who Try to Slander Our Doctrines
4. Book 1, That We Did Not Adopt the Sentiments of the Word of Salvation Without Inquiry
5. Book 1, Our Adoption of Belief in the Greatest Blessings is Not Uncritical as to Time
6. Book 1, We Did Not Forsake the Superstitious Errors of Our Fathers Without Sound Reason
7. Book 1, 6. Primitive Theology of Phoenicians and Egyptians
8. Book 1, 7. Character of the Cosmogony of the Greeks
9. Book 1, Philosophers’ Opinions Concerning the System of the Universe
10. Book 1, The Ancients Worshipped No Other Gods Than the Celestial Luminaries, Knowing…
11. Book 1, 10. Theology of the Phoenicians
12. Book 2, Preface
13. Book 2, Epitome of Egyptian Theology, and How It Was Transmitted to the Greeks; and that…
14. Book 2, Epitome of the Mythological Tales Among the Greeks Concerning Their Gods and…
15. Book 2, Of the Secret Initiations and Cryptic Mysteries of Their Polytheistic Delusion
16. Book 2, By What Considerations We Were Led to Withdraw from the Opinions of the Greeks…
17. Book 2, 5. Summary of the Preceding Arguments
18. Book 2, That What They Call the Temples of Their Gods are the Tombs of Dead Men
19. Book 2, 7. What Plato Thought of the Theology of the Ancients
20. Book 2, 8. Of the Theology of the Romans
21. Book 3, Preface
22. Book 3, 1. The Physical Theology of the Greeks
23. Book 3, 2. The Same Subject
24. Book 3, 3. The Allegorical Theology of the Egyptians
25. Book 3, Further Consideration of the Physical System of the Egyptians, and that They…
26. Book 3, 5. That This System Also Was Wholly Condemnable
27. Book 3, That We Had Good Reason for Withdrawing from Their More Physical Theory of the…
28. Book 3, The Systems of Causation Which the More Recent Philosophers Interwove with the…
29. Book 3, 8. The Erection of Carved Images in Old Times
30. Book 3, Further Consideration of the Allegorical Theology of the Greeks and Egyptians
31. Book 3, 10. Confutation and Overthrow of Their Forced Explanation
32. Book 3, 11. Strong Confutation of the Greek Doctrines on This Point
33. Book 3, 12. Of the Image at Elephantine
34. Book 3, 13. Of the Ox that is Sacrificed to the Sun in Heliopolis
35. Book 3, That Their Gods, by Ratifying the Legendary Narratives Concerning Gods by Their…
36. Book 3, That They Also by Their Oracles Confirm the Theories of the Philosophers by…
37. Book 3, That It is a Natural Impossibility for the Parts of the Cosmos or the Divine…
38. Book 3, 17. That All Such Effects are Due to Daemonic Action
39. Book 4, Preface Concerning the Oracles in Various Cities, and the Most Celebrated…
40. Book 4, That It is Easy for Any Who Will to Prove the Promise of the Oracles to Be the…
41. Book 4, Extract from Diogenianus, that Their Soothsaying is Inconsistent and Full of…
42. Book 4, That from These Great Evils We Were Delivered by the Evangelic Teaching of Our…
43. Book 4, 5. The Division of Greek Theology
44. Book 4, That We Confirm the Testimonies Used in Our Arguments Not by Our Own Assertions,…
45. Book 4, Extract from Porphyry on the Oracles. His Oath of the Truth of His Statements
46. Book 4, 8. That His Intended Statements Must Not Be Published to All
47. Book 4, How the Worship of the Gods by Sacrifice is Prescribed by Apollo
48. Book 4, 10. That They Who Delight in Animal Sacrifices Cannot Be Gods
49. Book 4, That None of the Fruits of the Earth May Be Offered to the Supreme God Either as…
50. Book 4, Not Even to the Divine Powers is It Right to Offer Any of the Fruits of the Earth…
51. Book 4, Further Concerning the Impropriety of Offering the Fruits of the Earth to the…
52. Book 4, To Offer Animals to the Gods is Unlawful and Injurious and Unjust and Unholy, and…
53. Book 4, 15. That Their Offerings are Made to Daemons and Not to Gods
54. Book 4, 16. Porphyry on Human Sacrifice in Old Time
55. Book 4, That After the Teaching of the Gospel the Old Custom of Human Sacrifice Was…
56. Book 4, 18. It is Wrong to Sacrifice to Evil Daemons
57. Book 4, 19. How We Ought to Be Devoted to the Supreme God
58. Book 4, 20. How Apollo Enjoins Sacrifice to the Evil Daemon
59. Book 4, None Other Than Our Lord and Saviour Ever Delivered the Whole Human Race from the…
60. Book 4, 22. The Manner of Daemoniacal Activity
61. Book 4, 23. Of the Evil Daemons and the Character of Their Rulers
62. Book 5, Further Proof that the Prophetic and Oracular Shrines Among the Heathen Belonged…
63. Book 5, 2. The Manner of the Daemoniacal Operation
64. Book 5, That the Superstition of the Greeks Concerning the Gods Consisted of Many…
65. Book 5, That the Prophetic and Oracular Shrines Among the Heathen Belonged to Evil Daemons
66. Book 5, That the Mythical Narratives Related Concerning Gods Contain Covert Histories of…
67. Book 5, 6. That Their So-called Good Daemons are Agents of Death
68. Book 5, That They Minister Also to Amorous Pleasures; and the Kind of Pleasures in Which…
69. Book 5, That They are Drawn Down by Incantations, and Compelled Against Their Will to…
70. Book 5, 9. That They Cannot Withdraw of Their Own Accord
71. Book 5, The Kind of Methods by Which Their Wonderful Gods are Subjected to the Impostors
72. Book 5, That the Daemons Whom Men Have Supposed to Be Gods Taught Them Their Own Curious…
73. Book 5, That They Themselves Taught Men How to Array Their Images for Magical Rites
74. Book 5, 13. That They Showed the Proper Forms of Their Own Statues
75. Book 5, 14. That They Encourage the Practice of Magic
76. Book 5, 15. That They Love the Lifeless Blocks
77. Book 5, 16. Of the Oracles that Have Failed
78. Book 5, 17. That the Daemons Whom They Worship as Gods Actually Die
79. Book 5, 18. Of the Oracles Mentioned Among the Greeks of Old Times
80. Book 5, Apollo Charged with Commanding Twice Seven Boys and Maidens to Be Sent Out by the…
81. Book 5, How Apollo Has Been the Cause of Death to Many by the Ambiguity of His Responses
82. Book 5, How Again by an Ambiguous Response He Caused Croesus to Lose His Own Kingdom
83. Book 5, How They Used to Mislead Inquirers by Deluding Them Through the Responses
84. Book 5, That by Their Darkness and Obscurity They Concealed Their Own Ignorance
85. Book 5, That, Being Unable to Give Any Help in the Misfortunes of War, They Used to…
86. Book 5, 25. The Answers to the Lacedaemonians
87. Book 5, 26. The Like to the People of Cnidos
88. Book 5, How They Incited Those Who Consulted Them to War Against Each Other
89. Book 5, That the Treatment of Lycurgus the Law-giver of the Lacedaemonians Was Not Worthy…
90. Book 5, That They Failed to Give Answers About Matters of Importance
91. Book 5, That, in Advising Men What to Do, They Were Guided by Ordinary Human Reasonings
92. Book 5, That Their Recommendations Were for the Most Part Unphilosophical
93. Book 5, 32. That They Used to Take Part with the Wrongdoers
94. Book 5, That in Accordance with the Opinions of the Multitude They Injudiciously Belauded…
95. Book 5, That They Exhorted Men to Glorify Pugilists and Athletes with Honours Equal to…
96. Book 5, 35. That They Used to Flatter Tyrants
97. Book 5, 36. That They Bade Men Worship Lifeless Matter
98. Book 6, Preface
99. Book 6, The Seeming Prophecies of the Daemons in the Oracles are Conjectures from the…
100. Book 6, They Destroy Our Free Will by Asserting that Our Purposes are Set in Motion by…
101. Book 6, They Were Not Able Even to Defend Their Own Consecrated Shrines When Struck by…
102. Book 6, 4. They Say that the Decrees of Fate May Be Annulled by Magic
103. Book 6, 5. They Utter Lying Prophecies
104. Book 6, 6. Refutation of the Argument in Defence of Fate
105. Book 6, How Their Philosophers Refuted the Opinions Even of Their Gods Concerning Fate by…
106. Book 6, 8. On the Same Subject. From Diogenianus
107. Book 6, 9. On the Same Subject. From Alexander Aphrodisiensis
108. Book 6, How the Argument for Fate is Refuted from Mathematical Science. From Bardesanes
109. Book 6, How Refuted Also from the Interpretation and Testimony of the Divine Scriptures.…
110. Book 7, Concerning the Mode of Life of the Original Hebrews, and the Good Reasons for Our…
111. Book 7, Recapitulation of the Theology of Other Nations, and Its Evil Effects on Their…
112. Book 7, Exposition of the Character of the Hebrews, and Their Modes of Thought Concerning…
113. Book 7, Their Opinions Concerning the Immortality of the Soul, and the Substance of the…
114. Book 7, How for Their Piety They Were Rewarded with the Recorded Theophanies and Oracles
115. Book 7, That Apart from Judaism Before the Time of Moses They Were Illustrious for Piety
116. Book 7, That Moses Himself Has Recorded in His Own Writings the Lives of Those Hebrews…
117. Book 7, That We Showed Good Judgement and Wise Consideration in Accepting Their History:…
118. Book 7, 9. Of the Doctrinal Theories of the Hebrews
119. Book 7, Of General Providence, and the Constitution and Construction of the World
120. Book 7, The Opinions of the Hebrews Concerning God as the First Cause of the Universe
121. Book 7, 12. On the Theological Doctrine of the Second Cause
122. Book 7, 13. Philo Concerning the Second Cause
123. Book 7, 14. Aristobulus on the Same
124. Book 7, 15. On the Constitution of Rational Creatures
125. Book 7, 16. On the Adverse Powers
126. Book 7, 17. On the Nature of Man
127. Book 7, 18. Philo on the Soul
128. Book 7, 19. That Matter is Not Uncreated
129. Book 7, 20. On the Same Subject from Origen’s Commentaries on Genesis
130. Book 7, 21. Philo on the Same
131. Book 7, 22. That Matter is Not Uncreated, nor the Cause of Evil
132. Book 8, 1. On the Religious Polity of Moses
133. Book 8, 2. Aristeas on the Translation of the Jewish Scriptures
134. Book 8, 3. Letter of Demetrius Phalereus to Ptolemy, King of Egypt
135. Book 8, Letter of King Ptolemy, to Eleazar the High Priest of the Jews
136. Book 8, 5. Letter of Eleazar the High Priest to King Ptolemy
137. Book 8, 6. Philo on the Journey of the Israelites Out of Egypt
138. Book 8, 7. The Same Concerning the Religious Polity of Moses
139. Book 8, 8. Josephus on the Polity of Moses
140. Book 8, Eleazar the High Priest’s Sketch of the Thought Allegorically Expressed in the…
141. Book 8, 10. Aristobulus on the Mention of Limbs as Belonging to God
142. Book 8, Philo on the Virtuous Life of Those Jews Who of Old Time Studied Philosophy, from…
143. Book 8, 12. On the Same, from the Treatise That Every Good Man is Free
144. Book 8, 13. Philo Concerning God, and that the Earth Was Created
145. Book 8, The Same Author on The Government of the World by God’s Providence
146. Book 9, 1. The Greek Historians Who Mentioned the Jewish Nation
147. Book 9, Theophrastus Concerning the Jews, from Porphyry On Abstinence from Animal Food,…
148. Book 9, Porphyry on the Illustrious Philosophy of the Jews in Ancient Times
149. Book 9, 4. Hecataeus Concerning the Jews
150. Book 9, 5. Clearchus on the Same, from Bk. i, On Sleep
151. Book 9, Clement, Strom. i, Concerning Those Who Have Mentioned the Jewish Nation
152. Book 9, Numenius the Pythagorean Philosopher Concerning the Jews, from Bk. i, On the Good
153. Book 9, The Same Concerning Moses and the Jews, from Bk. iii, On the Good
154. Book 9, 9. Choerilus the Poet Concerning the Jews
155. Book 9, Oracles of Apollo Concerning the Hebrews, from the Works of Our Contemporary…
156. Book 9, The Foreign Historians Who Mentioned the Flood Described by Moses, from Josephus,…
157. Book 9, 12. Concerning the Flood, from the Writings of Abydenus
158. Book 9, The Long Life of the Ancients Mentioned by Many Authors, from Josephus,…
159. Book 9, 14. On the Building of the Tower, from Abydenus
160. Book 9, Mention of the Same by Many Others, from Josephus, Antiquities
161. Book 9, 16. On Abraham the Forefather of All the Hebrews, from the Same
162. Book 9, Eupolemus Concerning Abraham, from the Work of Alexander Polyhistor On the Jews
163. Book 9, 18. Artapanus on the Same, from the Same Work of Polyhistor
164. Book 9, 19. Molon on the Same, from the Same Work
165. Book 9, 20. Philo on the Same
166. Book 9, 21. Demetrius Concerning Jacob
167. Book 9, 22. Theodotus Concerning the Same
168. Book 9, 23. Artapanus Concerning Joseph
169. Book 9, 24. Philo Concerning Joseph
170. Book 9, 25. Aristeas Concerning Job
171. Book 9, 26. Eupolemus Concerning Moses
172. Book 9, 27. Artapanus Concerning the Same
173. Book 9, 28. Ezekiel Concerning the Same
174. Book 9, 29. Demetrius Concerning the Same
175. Book 9, 30. Eupolemus Concerning David and Solomon and Jerusalem
176. Book 9, 31. Letter of Solomon to Vaphres, King of Egypt
177. Book 9, 32. Letter of Vaphres to King Solomon
178. Book 9, 33. Letter of Solomon to Suron (Hiram), King of Phoenicia
179. Book 9, 34. Letter of Suron to Solomon
180. Book 9, 35. Timochares Concerning Jerusalem
181. Book 9, 36. The Author of The Metrical Survey of Syria on the Same
182. Book 9, 37. Philo Concerning the Waters of Jerusalem
183. Book 9, 38. Aristeas Concerning the Same
184. Book 9, 39. Eupolemus Concerning the Prophet Jeremiah
185. Book 9, 40. Berossus on the Captivity of the Jews by Nabuchodonosor
186. Book 9, 41. Abydenus Concerning Nabuchodonosor
187. Book 9, Josephus Concerning the Authors Who Have Mentioned the Jewish Nation
188. Book 10, How the Serious Branches of Learning Passed from Barbarians to Greeks: Also…
189. Book 10, 2. Of the Plagiarism of the Greek Writers, from Clement
190. Book 10, That the Greeks Were Plagiarists. From Porphyry, The Lecture on Literature, Bk. i
191. Book 10, That, Not Unreasonably, We Have Preferred the Theology of the Hebrews to the…
192. Book 10, That in All Things the Greeks Have Profited by the Barbarians
193. Book 10, 6. On the Same Subject, from Clement
194. Book 10, 7. On the Same Subject, from Josephus
195. Book 10, Diodorus, the Author of the Bibliotheca, on the Same Subject
196. Book 10, 9. On the Antiquity of Moses and the Hebrew Prophets
197. Book 10, 10. From Africanus
198. Book 10, 11. From Tatian
199. Book 10, 12. From Clement
200. Book 10, 13. From Josephus
201. Book 10, That the Times of the Greek Philosophers are More Recent Than the Whole History…
202. Book 11, Preface
203. Book 11, How the Philosophy of Plato Followed that of the Hebrews in the Most Essential…
204. Book 11, 2. Atticus on the Threefold Division, of Plato’s Philosophy
205. Book 11, 3. Aristocles on the Philosophy of Plato
206. Book 11, 4. On the Ethical Doctrines of the Hebrews
207. Book 11, 5. On the Logical Method of the Hebrews
208. Book 11, 6. On the Correctness of Hebrew Names
209. Book 11, 7. On the Natural Philosophy of the Hebrews
210. Book 11, 8. On the Philosophy of the Intelligible World
211. Book 11, 9. Moses and Plato on True Being
212. Book 11, Extract from Numenius, the Pythagorean, Concerning the Good, Bk. ii
213. Book 11, 11. From Plutarch’s Treatise Entitled On the Εἶ at Delphi
214. Book 11, 12. That the Divine Nature is Ineffable
215. Book 11, 13. That God is One Only
216. Book 11, 14. On the Second Cause
217. Book 11, 15. Philo on the Second Cause
218. Book 11, 16. Plato on the Second Cause
219. Book 11, 17. Plotinus on the Same
220. Book 11, 18. Numenius on the Second Cause
221. Book 11, 19. Amelius on the Theology of Our Evangelist John
222. Book 11, 20. On the Three Primary Hypostases
223. Book 11, 21. On the Essence of the Good
224. Book 11, 22. Numenius on the Good
225. Book 11, 23. On the Ideas in Plato
226. Book 11, 24. Philo on the Ideas in Moses
227. Book 11, 25. Clement on the Same
228. Book 11, 26. The Hebrews and Plato on the Adverse Powers
229. Book 11, 27. The Hebrews and Plato on the Immortality of the Soul
230. Book 11, 28. Porphyry on the Same
231. Book 11, 29. That the World is Created
232. Book 11, 30. On the Luminaries in Heaven
233. Book 11, 31. That All the Works of God are Good
234. Book 11, 32. On the Alteration and Change of the World
235. Book 11, 33. On the Return of the Dead to Life, from the Same
236. Book 11, 34. Again Concerning the End of the World
237. Book 11, That Plato Records that Dead Have Been Raised in Accordance with the Statements…
238. Book 11, 36. Plutarch on the Like Matter
239. Book 11, That Plato Describes the So-called Celestial Earth in Like Manner as the Hebrews
240. Book 11, That Plato Agrees with the Hebrews in Believing that There Will Be the Judgement…
241. Book 12, That the Hebrews, According to Plato, Were Right in Imparting to Beginners the…
242. Book 12, That Faith, According Even to Plato, is the Greatest of Virtues
243. Book 12, That We Ought to Believe What is Said Concerning the Soul, and the Other…
244. Book 12, That It Will Be Necessary to Deliver the First Introductory Lessons to Children…
245. Book 12, That No Hurtful Fables Must Be Recited to Children, But Only Those that are…
246. Book 12, That Plato Accepted the Faith Not Only in Word, But Also Confessed that with…
247. Book 12, That It Would Not Be Right to Publish the Solemn Doctrines of the Truth to All
248. Book 12, What Kind of Rulers Plato Says Should Be Appointed: Simple and Illiterate Men,…
249. Book 12, That One Should Decline Offices. From the First Book of The Republic
250. Book 12, 10. On Plato’s Idea of Justice
251. Book 12, 11. On the Paradise Described by Moses
252. Book 12, 12. How the Woman is Said to Have Been Taken Out of the Man
253. Book 12, 13. On the Mode of Life of Mankind at First
254. Book 12, 14. That They Associated Even with Irrational Animals
255. Book 12, 15. How They Mention the Flood
256. Book 12, That the Course of Doctrine Rightly Begins with Things Divine and Ends with…
257. Book 12, That It is Good to Train Children from a Still Early Age in Habits of Religion
258. Book 12, That We Should Regard as Education Only that Which Leads to Virtue, Not that…
259. Book 12, That Plato Agreed with the Hebrews in Thinking that This World is an Image of…
260. Book 12, That the Young Should Be Prepared for the Acquirement of Virtue by Learning…
261. Book 12, 21. What Kind of Thoughts the Odes Should Contain
262. Book 12, That It is Not Every One that Can Compose the Proper Odes and Songs, But Either…
263. Book 12, Concerning Those Who are Capable of Judging the Odes Composed According to the…
264. Book 12, That Even in Banquets the Odes Should Be Adopted for Laws as It Were of the…
265. Book 12, 25. That Drinking of Wine is Not to Be Permitted to All
266. Book 12, That Plato Was Not Ignorant that His Enactments Were in Use Among Certain…
267. Book 12, That Our Warfare is Against Ourselves and Our Inward Passions
268. Book 12, That It is Not the Body But the Soul that is the Cause of Our Evil Deeds
269. Book 12, 29. Of the Pure Philosopher. From the Theaetetus
270. Book 12, 30. Of All the Sophistry in Man
271. Book 12, That It Will Be Necessary Sometimes to Use Falsehood as a Remedy for the Benefit…
272. Book 12, That Not Men Only, But Also Women and Every Race of Mankind, Ought to Be…
273. Book 12, That It is Not Right to Accuse the Whole Nation from the Cases of Those Who Live…
274. Book 12, How Plato Changed the Oracles in Proverbs into a More Hellenic Form
275. Book 12, 35. Of Riches and Poverty
276. Book 12, 36. Of Honour to Parents
277. Book 12, 37. Of Purchasing Slaves
278. Book 12, How He Altered the Saying, ‘Remove not ancient landmarks which were set by thy…
279. Book 12, A Saying Like, Visiting the Sins of the Fathers Upon the Children Unto the Third…
280. Book 12, 40. Of Thieves
281. Book 12, 41. Of Slaying a Thief
282. Book 12, 42. Of a Beast of Burden
283. Book 12, 43. That Plato Uses the Same Examples as the Hebrew Scriptures
284. Book 12, 44. Further Concerning the Like Examples
285. Book 12, 45. Further Concerning the Same
286. Book 12, 46. Further Concerning the Same
287. Book 12, That Plato Also Enacts that the Citizens Should Be Divided into Twelve Tribes in…
288. Book 12, In What Kind of Place Plato Enacts that the City Should Be Founded: He Describes…
289. Book 12, How Plato Deprecates the Preparatory Teaching of the Greeks as Being Injurious
290. Book 12, On the Opinion of the Atheists, from the Tenth Book of The Laws
291. Book 12, 51. How Plato Arranges the Argument Concerning God
292. Book 12, How He Discourses on God’s Universal Providence. In the Tenth Book of The Laws
293. Book 13, Preface
294. Book 13, How Plato Exposed the Absurdity of the Greek Theology. From the Timaeus
295. Book 13, 2. Further on the Same Subject from the Dialogue Epinomis
296. Book 13, Further on the Same Subject from the Second Book of the Republic; Also that God…
297. Book 13, That Nothing Else Than Indecent Fables Were Contained in the Narratives…
298. Book 13, 5. Numenius on the Same Subject, from The Secrets in Plato
299. Book 13, That One Must Not Heed the Opinions of the Multitude, nor Depart from One’s Own…
300. Book 13, That We Must Not Retaliate on Those Who Have Endeavoured to Injure Us. From the…
301. Book 13, That We Must Not Set Aside What Has Once Been Rightly Determined, Not Even If…
302. Book 13, What Will Be the Disposition of the Man Who Through Fear of Death Renounces His…
303. Book 13, That One Ought Not to Shrink from Death in Defence of the Truth. From the…
304. Book 13, How We Ought to Honour the Death of Those Who Have Nobly Resigned Their Life.…
305. Book 13, How Aristobulus the Peripatetic, Who Was a Hebrew Before Our Time, Acknowledges…
306. Book 13, How Clement in Like Proves that the Noble Sayings of the Greeks are in Agreement…
307. Book 13, That Plato Has Not Stated All Things Correctly: Wherefore It is Not Without…
308. Book 13, That Plato Was Not Altogether Right in His Conduct of the Argument Concerning…
309. Book 13, That Plato Did Not on All Points Hold Right Opinions Concerning the Soul, Like…
310. Book 13, That the Nature of the Soul Does Not, as Plato Supposes, Consist of an Impassive…
311. Book 13, That Plato Was Not Altogether Right in His Opinions Concerning Heaven and the…
312. Book 13, What Kind of Laws Concerning Women Were Not Rightly Ordained by Plato
313. Book 13, Concerning the Laws of Murder in Plato, Which Were Not Worthy of His Great…
314. Book 14, 1. Preface Concerning the Subject of the Book
315. Book 14, On the Mutual Contradiction and Conflict of the Philosophers
316. Book 14, 3. On the Harmony of the Hebrew Writers
317. Book 14, 4. How Plato Has Accused His Predecessors. From the Theaetetus
318. Book 14, On the First Successors of Plato. From Numenius the Pythagorean
319. Book 14, On Arcesilaus, the Founder of the Second Academy. From the Same
320. Book 14, 7. Of Lacydes, the Successor of Arcesilaus. From the Same
321. Book 14, Of Carneades, the Founder of the Third Academy. From the Same
322. Book 14, Of Philo, Who Succeeded Cleitomachus, the Successor of Carneades. From the Same
323. Book 14, That Among the Greek Philosophers There are Conjectures, and Logomachies, and…
324. Book 14, Concerning Geometry, and Astronomy, and Syllogisms. From Xenophon’s Memorabilia
325. Book 14, Concerning the Professors of Natural Science. From the Same, in the Epistle to…
326. Book 14, 13. On Gymnastic and Music. From Plato’s Republic
327. Book 14, 14. Opinions of Philosophers on First Principles. From Plutarch
328. Book 14, 15. On the Doctrine of Anaxagoras. From Plato
329. Book 14, 16. Opinions of Philosophers Concerning Gods. From Plutarch
330. Book 14, Against the School of Xenophanes and Parmenides, Who Rejected the Senses. From…
331. Book 14, Against the Followers of Pyrrhon, Called Sceptics or Ephectics, Who Declared…
332. Book 14, Against the Philosophers of the School of Aristippus, Who Say that Only Feelings…
333. Book 14, Against the School of Metrodorus and Protagoras, Who Say that the Senses Alone…
334. Book 14, Against the Epicureans, Who Define the Good as Pleasure. From the Same
335. Book 14, Further Against Those Who Define the Good as Pleasure. From the Philebus of Plato
336. Book 14, Against the Epicureans, Who Deny a Providence, and Refer the Universe to…
337. Book 14, 24. From Human Examples. From the Same
338. Book 14, 25. From the Constitution of the Universe. From the Same
339. Book 14, 26. From the Nature of Man. From the Same
340. Book 14, 27. That to God There is No Toil in Working. From the Same
341. Book 15, 1. Preface Concerning the Whole Argument
342. Book 15, On the Philosophy of Aristotle, and His Personal History. From Aristocles the…
343. Book 15, On the Doctrines of Aristotle, Who Was at Variance with the Hebrews and Plato…
344. Book 15, Atticus the Platonist Against Aristotle, as at Variance with Moses and Plato; in…
345. Book 15, The Same Against the Same, as at Variance with Moses and Plato; in the Discourse…
346. Book 15, The Same Against the Same, as at Variance with Moses and Plato; in the Discourse…
347. Book 15, The Same Against the Same, as Assuming a Fifth Corporeal Essence, Which Neither…
348. Book 15, The Same Against the Same, as at Variance with Plato Also in His Theories as to…
349. Book 15, The Same Against the Same, as at Variance with Plato and the Hebrew Scriptures…
350. Book 15, Plotinus, from the Second Book On the Immortality of the Soul, Against…
351. Book 15, Porphyry on the Same, from the Answer to Boëthus On the Soul
352. Book 15, Against the Same, as at Variance with Plato in the Argument Concerning the…
353. Book 15, Against, the Same; for Ridiculing the Platonic Ideas, of Which the Hebrew…
354. Book 15, On the Stoic Philosophy, and the Account of First Principles as Rendered by…
355. Book 15, What Kind of Opinion the Stoics Profess Concerning God, and Concerning the…
356. Book 15, Porphyry, Against the Opinion of the Stoics Concerning God, from the Answer to…
357. Book 15, That True Being Cannot Be Body, as the Stoics Teach. From the First Book of…
358. Book 15, What the Stoics Think Concerning the Conflagration of the Universe
359. Book 15, What the Stoics Think Concerning the Regeneration of the Universe
360. Book 15, 20. What the Same Sect Think Concerning the Soul
361. Book 15, The Disputation of Longinus Against the Opinion of the Stoics Concerning the Soul
362. Book 15, In Answer to the Stoics, that the Soul Cannot Possibly Be Corporeal From…
363. Book 15, Opinions of the Physical Philosophers Concerning the Sun; from Plutarch
364. Book 15, 24. On the Magnitude of the Sun
365. Book 15, 25. On the Figure of the Sun
366. Book 15, 26. On the Moon
367. Book 15, 27. On the Magnitude of the Moon
368. Book 15, 28. On the Figure of the Moon
369. Book 15, 29. On the Illumination of the Moon
370. Book 15, 30. What is the Substance of the Planets and Fixed Stars
371. Book 15, 31. On the Shapes of the Stars
372. Book 15, 32. How the World Was Constituted
373. Book 15, 33. Whether the All is One
374. Book 15, Whether the World Has a Soul, and is Administered by Providence
375. Book 15, 35. Whether the World is Imperishable
376. Book 15, 36. From What Source the World is Sustained
377. Book 15, 37. From What God First Began to Create the World
378. Book 15, 38. On the Order of the World
379. Book 15, 39. What is the Cause of the Cosmical Obliquity
380. Book 15, 40. Concerning the Outside of the World, Whether It is a Vacuum
381. Book 15, 41. Which is the Right and Which the Left Side of the World
382. Book 15, 42. Of the Heaven, What is Its Substance
383. Book 15, 43. Of Daemons and Heroes
384. Book 15, 44. Of Matter
385. Book 15, 45. Of Form
386. Book 15, 46. Of the Order of the Stars
387. Book 15, 47. Of the Course and Motion of the Heavenly Bodies
388. Book 15, 48. Whence the Stars Derive Their Light
389. Book 15, 49. Of the So-called Dioscuri
390. Book 15, 50. Of an Eclipse of the Sun
391. Book 15, 51. Of an Eclipse of the Moon
392. Book 15, 52. Of the Appearance of the Moon, and Why It Appears Earthy
393. Book 15, 53. Of Its Distances
394. Book 15, 54. Of Years
395. Book 15, 55. Of the Earth
396. Book 15, 56. Of the Figure of the Earth
397. Book 15, 57. Of the Position of the Earth
398. Book 15, 58. Of the Earth’s Motion
399. Book 15, 59. Of the Sea, How It Was Formed, and Why It is Salt
400. Book 15, 60. Of the Parts of the Soul
401. Book 15, 61. Of the Ruling Part
402. Book 15, That Even Socrates, the Wisest of the Greeks, Used to Declare that Those Who…