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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.
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the abolition of, refuted, ii. 179–182.

Deborah, i. 426.

Decalogue, the Gnostic exposition of the, ii. 383, etc.

Definition, the need of perspicuous, ii. 491, 492; prevents ambiguity, 496, etc.

Degrees of glory in heaven, ii. 365, etc.; more than salvation, 366, etc.

Degrees of knowledge, ii. 371.

Deities, female, their vile character, i. 40.

Deluge, the, ii. 334.

Demeter, i. 28; the mysteries of, 28; and Baubo, 31.

Demetrius, king, raised to the rank of a god, i. 59.

Demetrius of Phalerus, i. 448.

Demetrius, his book on the kings in Judæa quoted, i. 442.

Democritus, i. 397.

Demons, i. 60; ii. 271, 294; plagues, etc., attributed to, 321.

Demonstration, ii. 472, etc.; and syllogism, 493; and analysis, 495.

Denunciation, i. 168.

Desire, the duty of repressing, ii. 192, 193.

Devil, the, matched by our Lord, i. 380; a thief and a robber, 408; a wicked spirit, referred to by Plato, ii. 276; transformed, 341.

Dialects of men, gods, and animals, i. 443; ii. 380, 381.

Dialectic, the true, i. 467.

Dice prohibited, i. 325.

Didymus, the grammarian, quoted, ii. 248.

Diogenes quoted, ii. 68.

Dino, i. 67.

Dion, the philosopher, cited, ii. 194.

Dion Thytes quoted, ii. 248.

Dionysian mysteries, the, i. 29; a vile story of, 41.

Dionysius, i. 41, 45.

Dionysius Iambus quoted, ii. 249.

Dionysius, the tyrant, i. 57.

Dionysius Thrax quoted, ii. 248.

Diphilus, the comic poet, quoted, ii. 291, 423.

Directions for those who live together, i. 225.

Discipline, various modes of, adopted by the Instructor, i, 164, etc.

Dives and Lazarus, i. 257.

Divination, i. 26, 27.

Divine things wrapped up in fiigures, ii. 232, etc.

Division, logical, ii. 503.

Dogs, giving holy things to, ii. 5.

Δόξα, i. 257.

Doubts, the causes of, ii. 505.

Draco, i. 404.

Dreams, i. 243; ii. 192, 193.

Dress. See Clothing.

Drinking, water most suitable for, i. 199; water to be preferred to wine for, 201; intemperance in, censured, 205, etc.; decency in, 207; the example of Jesus as to, 208; considered in relation to women, 209.

Drunken bouts, and drunkards, i. 204.

Dyeing of the hair, the impropriety of, i. 235; and the clothes, 257.


Earrings, i. 315.

Ears, the, not to be bored for rings or drops, i. 272.

East, turning to the, ii. 436.

Eating, the regulation of ourselves in, i. 186; the end of, is to live, 186, 187; epicurism in, to be avoided, 187, etc.; moderation in, 192; viewed in relation to things sacrificed to idols, 193; temperance in, 193, 194; speaking while, to be avoided, 195; proper food for, 195.

Eating the flesh of Christ, i. 140, 143.

Eclectic philosophy, the, paves the way to virtue, i. 374.

Eetion, i. 27.

Effeminacy in men described and condemned, i. 284–291.

Egyptian styles of writing, ii. 233.

Egyptian symbols of sacred things, ii. 245, 246.

Egyptian temples, i. 276.

Egyptians, their various objects of worship, i. 45; inventors of arts, 401; gods of the, 438; temples of the, i. 276; sacred symbols of the, ii. 245, 246; styles of writing of the, 233; the Greeks drew many of their philosophical tenets from, 323, 324; did not allow their priests to feed on flesh, 430.

Egyptians, the, spoiled by the Israelites, i. 453; overthrown in the Red Sea, 457.

Elements, the, worshipped by the heathen, i. 386.

Eleusinian mysteries, the, i. 32.

Elias, i. 301.

Embellishing the body, considerations condemnatory of, i. 276–284.

Empedocles quoted, i. 36; ii. 209,