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Julian: Two Orations of the Emperor Julian
Emperor Julian

Number of quotes: 9


Book ID: 218 Page: 1

Section: 2D2

I mean, who Attis or Gallus is; and who the mother of the gods: what the particulars are respecting her sacred rites; and on what account they were delivered to us at first: for they were delivered indeed by the most antient Phrygians, and were first of all received by the Greeks, not indeed indiscriminately.

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Book ID: 218 Page: 1

Section: 2B2,2D2

they did not as yet understand the properties of the goddess, and her agreement with Deo, Rhea, and Ceres.

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Book ID: 218 Page: 2

Section: 2D2

But after the Greeks, the Romans received the same sacred rites, the Pythian deity persuading them also to this undertaking, that they might procure the presence of the Phrygian goddess as a military associate in the Carthaginian war.

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Book ID: 218 Page: 2

Section: 2D2

The inhabitants of Rome, the friend of divinity, sent an ambassador to the kings of Pergamus, who then reigned in Phrygia, and ordered him to request of the Phrygians the most holy image of the goddess: but the ambassador receiving the sacred burthen, placed it in a good-sailing vessel, and which was in every respect well adapted to swim over such a length of sea.

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Book ID: 218 Page: 9

Section: 2D2

And thus far the mother of the gods permitted this beautiful and intellectual god Attis, who is similar to the solar rays, to leap and dance.

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Book ID: 218 Page: 9

Section: 2D2

Who then is the mother of the gods? She is indeed the fountain of the intellectual and demiurgic gods who govern the apparent series of things: or

certainly a deity producing things, and at the same time subsisting with the mighty Jupiter; a goddess mighty, after one mighty, and conjoined with the mighty demiurgus of the world. She is the mistress of all life, and the cause of all generation, who most easily confers perfection on her productions, and generates and fabricates things without passion, in conjunction with the father of the universe. She is also a virgin, without a mother, the assessor of Jupiter, and the true parent of all the gods:

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Book ID: 218 Page: 12

Section: 3C1

Gods. And the Corybantes {1}, who are the three ruling hypostases of the more excellent genera after the gods, were placed round him by the mother of the gods as his guards.

Quote ID: 5400

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 218 Page: 19

Section: 2D2

I alone among all men seem to owe the tribute of thanks to all the gods, but especially to the mother of the gods, not only on account of her beneficence towards me in other affairs, but for her goodness in not neglecting me as one wandering in darkness;

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Book ID: 218 Page: 25

Section: 2D2

But what will be the end of this discourse? Is it not evident that it should close with a hymn to the mighty goddess!

A mother of gods and men! O assistant and partner in the throne of mighty Jupiter!

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