Gods and goddesses
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all the gods and goddesses · goddesses · gods · the gods and goddesses · the immortal gods
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Consolation to Helvia
The gods generally, invoked rhetorically against luxury and cited as beings unconcerned with material wealth.
Money has nothing to do with the mind, any more than with the immortal gods.
may the gods and goddesses destroy those whose luxury overpasses the bounds of an empire so envied!
Anabasis
The divine powers invoked through oath, prayer, and interpretation of events.
and at daybreak they offered prayer to the gods, formed their lines for battle, and set forth at the fastest possible pace.
And it may be that the god is guiding events in this way, he who wills that those who talked boastfully, as though possessed of superior wisdom, should be brought low, and that we, who always begin with the gods, should be set in a place of higher honour than those boasters.
Well, soldiers, he said, that you may understand the matter fully I swear to you by all the gods and goddesses that in very truth, so soon as I became aware of your intention, I offered sacrifices to learn whether it was best for you to entrust to me this command and for me to undertake it;