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hand. Hecate also rules them as holding together the triple element.” And again he says: 4.23.7 “Having cited one more oracle, which Hecate herself has made, I will cease my account of her: ‘I am this maiden of many forms, who walks in heaven, bull-faced, three-headed, harsh, with golden arrows, Phoebe unwedded, bringer of light to mortals, Eileithyia, bearing the triple signs of a three-part nature; in the ether appearing as fiery phantoms, and in the air I sit upon silver courses; and the earth controls the dark brood of my hounds.’” 4.23.8 To which the author adds clearly, who the hounds are: that they are the evil demons, about whom we have just ceased to speak. So much then for these things. But concerning the fact that the demons are truly evil, and that those who are treated as gods by the multitude bring nothing good, come let us establish this still more through many proofs.

5.pin.t THE FIFTH BOOK OF THE GOSPEL PREPARATION CONTAINS THESE THINGS

5.pin.1 1. Further, that the oracles and divinations among the Gentiles are of evil demons; and how all have been abolished and have failed since the gospel teaching of our Savior 2. What is the manner of demonic activity 3. That the superstition about the gods established among the Greeks was multifarious and of many opinions 4. Concerning the fact that the oracles and divinations among the Gentiles are of evil demons 5. Concerning the fact that the mythological narratives, as though about gods, contain hidden histories of demons 6. How their so-called good demons are producers of death 7. That they are also subservient to erotic pleasures, and in which ones each of them rejoices 8. That they are drawn down by sorceries and are compelled against their will to serve human purposes 9. That they are not even able to depart of their own accord 10. By what methods their wonderful gods are subjected to sorcerers 11. That the demons, whom they supposed to be gods, taught men their own curious arts 12. That they also taught how to magically construct the statues 13. That they also showed the shapes of the wooden images 14. That they also incite to practice magic 15. That they also love inanimate matter 16. Concerning the oracles that have failed 17. Concerning the fact that the demons, whom they honor as gods, also die 18. Concerning the oracles mentioned among the ancient Greeks 19. Against Apollo who commanded that twice seven boys and girls be sent out by the Athenians to the Cretans to be slaughtered 20. How Apollo became the cause of death for many through the ambiguity of his oracles 21. How he also became the cause for Croesus to fall from his own rule, again through an ambiguous oracle 22. How they deceived those who asked, by playing games with the oracles 23. That they hide their own ignorance in the darkness of obscurity 24. That, being able to help in no way in the calamities of war, they devised sophistries through ambiguous oracles and deceived the refugees 25. How they incited those who consulted them to war against each other 26. The things concerning Lycurgus the lawgiver of the Lacedaemonians, that they are not worthy of a god 27. That they did not make their oracles about serious matters 28. That they advised what should be done with common and human reasoning 29. That they also often gave unphilosophical advice 30. That they also sided with wrongdoers 31. That they also uncritically praised poets who had demonstrated nothing worthy of a philosophical life, in accordance with the opinions of the multitude 32. That they also exhorted men to honor boxers and athletes with honors equal to the gods 33. That they also flattered tyrants 34. That they also commanded to worship inanimate matter E 5.1.1 1.

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χεῖρα. ἄρχει δ' αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ Ἑκάτη ὡς συνέχουσα τὸ τρίστοιχον.» Καὶ πάλιν φησίν· 4.23.7 «Ἔτι παραθεὶς ἓν χρηστήριον, ὅπερ αὐτὴ ἡ Ἑκάτη πεποίηται, καταπαύσω τὸν περὶ ταύτης λόγον· ἥδ' ἐγώ εἰμι κόρη πολυφάσματος, οὐρανόφοιτος, ταυρῶπις, τρικάρηνος, ἀπηνής, χρυσοβέλεμνος, Φοίβη ἀπειρολεχής, φαεσίμβροτος Εἰλείθυια, τριστοίχου φύσεως συνθήματα τρισσὰ φέρουσα· αἰθέρι μὲν πυρόεσσιν ἐειδομένη εἰδώλοις, ἠέρα δ' ἀργεννοῖσι τροχάσμασιν ἀμφικάθημαι· γαῖα δ' ἐμῶν σκυλάκων δνοφερὸν γένος ἡνιοχεύει.» 4.23.8 Οἷς ἐπιλέγει ὁ συγγραφεὺς σαφῶς, τίνες οἱ σκύλακες· ὅτι οἱ πονηροὶ δαίμονες, περὶ ὧν ἄρτι πεπαύμεθα λέγοντες. τοσαῦτα μὲν δὴ καὶ ταῦτα. περὶ δὲ τοῦ δαίμονας εἶναι πονηροὺς ἀληθῶς, ἀλλ' οὐδὲν ἀγαθὸν ἐπαγομένους τοὺς παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς θεολογουμένους φέρε ἔτι μᾶλλον διὰ πλειόνων κρατύνωμεν.

5.pin.t Ε ΤΑ∆Ε ΤΟ ΠΕΜΠΤΟΝ ΠΕΡΙΕΧΕΙ ΣΥΓΓΡΑΜΜΑ ΤΗ ΕΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΚΗΣ

ΠΡΟΠΑΡΑΣΚΕΥΗΣ 5.pin.1 αʹ. Ἔτι περὶ πονηρῶν δαιμόνων εἶναι τὰ παρὰ τοῖς ἔθνεσι μαντεῖα καὶ χρηστήρια· καὶ ὡς καθῄρηται πάντα καὶ ἐκλέλοιπεν μετὰ τὴν τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν εὐαγγελικὴν διδασκαλίαν βʹ. Τίς ὁ τρόπος τῆς δαιμονικῆς ἐνεργείας γʹ. Ὅτι πολυσχιδὴς καὶ πολυγνώμων ἡ περὶ θεῶν τοῖς Ἕλλησι συνέστη δεισιδαιμονία δʹ. Περὶ τοῦ πονηρῶν δαιμόνων εἶναι τὰ παρὰ τοῖς ἔθνεσι μαντεῖά τε καὶ χρηστήρια εʹ. Περὶ τοῦ λανθανούσας δαιμόνων περιέχειν ἱστορίας τὰς μυθικὰς ὡς περὶ θεῶν διηγήσεις ʹ. Ὡς θανάτου ποιητικοί εἰσιν οἱ λεγόμενοι αὐτῶν ἀγαθοὶ δαίμονες ζʹ. Ὅτι καὶ ἐρωτικαῖς ἡδυπαθείαις ἐξυπηρετοῦνται, καὶ ποίαις ἕκαστος αὐτῶν χαίρει ηʹ. Ὅτι μαγγανείαις καθέλκονται καὶ παρὰ γνώμην ἀναγκάζονται ταῖς ἀνθρωπίνας βουλαῖς δουλεύειν θʹ. Ὅτι οὐδὲ ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν ἀναχωρεῖν δύνανται ιʹ. Ὁποίαις μεθόδοις οἱ θαυμάσιοι αὐτῶν θεοὶ τοῖς γόησιν ὑποτάττονται ιαʹ. Ὅτι οἱ δαίμονες, οὓς δὴ θεοὺς ὑπειλήφασιν, ἀνθρώπους ἐδίδαξαν τὰς οἰκείας περιεργίας ιβʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα μαγικῶς αὐτοὶ κατασκευάζειν ἐδίδαξαν ιγʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τὰς μορφὰς τῶν ξοάνων αὐτοὶ κατέδειξαν ιδʹ. Ὅτι καὶ μαγεύειν προτρέπουσιν ιεʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τὰς ἀψύχους ὕλας φιλοῦσιν ιʹ. Περὶ τῶν ἐκλελοιπότων χρηστηρίων ιζʹ. Περὶ τοῦ καὶ θνήσκειν τοὺς δαίμονας, οὓς δὴ ὡς θεοὺς τιμῶσιν ιηʹ. Περὶ τῶν παρὰ τοῖς παλαιοῖς Ἕλλησιν μνημονευομένων χρηστηρίων ιθʹ. Πρὸς τὸν Ἀπόλλω κελεύσαντα δὶς ἑπτὰ παῖδάς τε καὶ κόρας σφαγησομένους ἐκπέμπεσθαι Κρησὶν ὑπὸ Ἀθηναίων κʹ. Ὡς πολλοῖς θανάτου γέγονεν αἴτιος ὁ Ἀπόλλων διὰ τῆς χρησμῶν ἀμφιβολίας καʹ. Ὡς καὶ τῷ Κροίσῳ τῆς οἰκείας ἀρχῆς ἐκπεσεῖν πάλιν δι' ἀμφιβόλου χρησμοῦ κατέστη αἴτιος κβʹ. Ὡς ἐπλάνων διὰ τῶν χρησμῶν παίζοντες τοὺς ἐρωτῶντας κγʹ. Ὅτι τῷ τῆς ἀσαφείας σκότῳ τὴν σφῶν ἄγνοιαν ἐπικρύπτονται κδʹ. Ὅτι μηδὲν δυνάμενοι βοηθεῖν ἐν ταῖς τῶν πολέμων συμφοραῖς δι' ἀμφιβόλων χρησμῶν ἐσοφίζοντο καὶ ἠπάτων τοὺς πρόσφυγας κεʹ. Ὡς τοὺς χρωμένους αὐτοῖς ἐξέκαιον εἰς τὸν κατ' ἀλλήλων πόλεμον κʹ. Τὰ περὶ Λυκούργου τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων νομοθέτου ὅτι μὴ θεοῦ ἄξια κζʹ. Ὅτι οὐ περὶ σπουδαίων πραγμάτων τοὺς χρησμοὺς ἐποιοῦντο κηʹ. Ὅτι κοινοῖς καὶ ἀνθρωπίνοις λογισμοῖς τὰ πρακτέα συνεβούλευον κθʹ. Ὅτι καὶ ἀφιλοσόφως τὰ πολλὰ παρῄνουν λʹ. Ὅτι καὶ συνεμερίζοντο τοῖς ἀδικοῦσιν λαʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τοὺς ποιητὰς οὐδὲν φιλοσόφου βίου ἄξιον ἐπιδεδειγμένους κατὰ τὰς τῶν πολλῶν δόξας ἀκρίτως ἀνύμνουν λβʹ. Ὅτι καὶ πύκτας ἄνδρας καὶ ἀθλητὰς ἰσοθέοις τιμαῖς γεραίρειν παρεκελεύοντο λγʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τοὺς τυράννους ἐκολάκευον λδʹ. Ὅτι καὶ τὴν ἄψυχον ὕλην σέβειν προσέταττον Ε 5.1.1 αʹ.