1. Plato, Alcibiades Ii, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 148e. took counsel together and decided that the best thing they could do was to send and inquire of Ammon ; and moreover, to ask also for what reason the gods granted victory to the Spartans rather than to themselves: for we —such was the message— offer up to them more and finer sacrifices than any of the Greeks, and have adorned their temples with votive emblems as no other people have done, and presented to the gods the costliest and stateliest processions year by year, and spent more money thus than |
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2. Plato, Laws, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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3. Plato, Republic, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 364b. and disregard those who are in any way weak or poor, even while admitting that they are better men than the others. But the strangest of all these speeches are the things they say about the gods and virtue, how so it is that the gods themselves assign to many good men misfortunes and an evil life but to their opposites a contrary lot; and begging priests and soothsayers go to rich men’s doors and make them believe that they by means of sacrifices and incantations have accumulated a treasure of power from the gods that can expiate and cure with pleasurable festival |
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4. Plato, Theaetetus, None (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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5. Xenophon, Memoirs, 4.4.25 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 4.4.25. Then, Hippias, do you think that the gods ordain what is just or what is otherwise? Not what is otherwise — of course not; for if a god ordains not that which is just, surely no other legislator can do so. Consequently, Hippias, the gods too accept the identification of just and lawful. By such words and actions he encouraged Justice in those who resorted to his company. |
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6. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, None (4th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
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7. Diodorus Siculus, Historical Library, 10.9.8 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
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