the gods
quoted 53 times by 29 works · as a person
also in the atlas: The gods the group
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
32 quoted · 20 reported · 1 carried
34 neutral 1 refuted 1 endorsedin the voice of God 7 , Brahmā 3 , Viṣṇu 3 , the gods 3 , Ariston 2 , Eumaios 2 , Josaphat 2 , Śiva 2 , Barlaam 1 , Brahmā (Svayambhū) 1
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in the voice of Brahmā
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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa Vālmīki 12 neutral 12 citations · 31 passages
The paragraphs present direct speech from Brahmā answering the gods.
'This Gaṅgā who traverses the sky — in her, Hutāśana shall beget a son who will be the subduer of enemies and commander of the army of the gods.
kanda 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Trita Aptya
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Rigveda Aufrecht (ed.) 3 neutral 5 citations · 8 passages
Trita's cry for aid from the well is reported and answered by Brhaspati, who widens the narrow confine.
Trita, cast down into the well, calls upon the gods for aid;
maṇḍala 1 ¶ -
in the voice of Josaphat
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Barlaam and Josaphat John of Damascus 3 neutral 3 citations · 5 passages
Josaphat's prayer is his first independent devotional act after Barlaam's departure.
Strengthen me yourself, then, to remain in this good confession until my last breath;
chapter 25 ¶ -
in the voice of The Prosecutor
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The Third Tetralogy Antiphon 2 neutral 2 citations
The prosecutor recounts the doctrine that God gave humanity the earth and sea to sustain life, so that whoever unlawfully kills sins against the gods and confounds human law.
For when God was minded to create the human race and brought the first of us into being, he gave us the earth and sea to sustain and serve us, in order that we might not die for want of the necessaries of life before old age brought us our end.
the third tetralogy ¶ -
in the voice of the gods (Agni, Soma, Bṛhaspati, Savitā, Indra)
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
The passage reports a collective divine declaration as the basis for the counter-charm.
That Agni has declared, that Soma has declared, Bṛhaspati, Savitā, and Indra have declared it — may those gods, as your priests, drive back with counter-charms the sorceries directed against you.
kanda 16 ¶ -
in the voice of Ariston
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Against Conon Demosthenes 2 neutral 2 citations
The speaker invokes the gods to affirm his restraint.
I only pray the gods that these things and all things like them may recoil upon Conon and his sons;
against conon ¶ -
in the voice of Eumaios
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Odyssey Homer 2 neutral 2 citations
Eumaios's prayer is reported rather than quoted verbatim, fitting reported_speech.
Eumaios did not forget the gods, for he was a man of good principles, so the first thing he did was to cut bristles from the pig's face and throw them into the fire, praying to all the gods as he did so that Odysseus might return home again.
book 14 ¶ -
in the voice of Hugo Grotius
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The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 neutral 2 citations · 5 passages
God's commands are reported across these paragraphs as the grounding authority for rules sparing non-combatants and numerous offenders.
” In the wars of the Hebrews, even after the offers of peace have been rejected, God commands the women and children to be spared.
ch. 40 ¶ -
in the voice of God
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On Providence Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 2 citations · 8 passages
The paragraph presents a direct quotation explicitly attributed to God ('he says').
"Let them be harried," he says, "by toils, by pains, by losses, that they may gather true strength.
on providence ¶ -
in the voice of the gods
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Manusmṛti Manu 1 neutral 2 citations · 3 passages
The gods are directly quoted issuing a verdict within a reported narrative exchange.
and the gods, having assembled, said to them, "The child has spoken rightly to you.
chapter 2 ¶ -
in the voice of al-Māwardī
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Adab al-wazīr al-Māwardī 1 citation · 2 passages
The basmalah and the istiʻānah formula are ritual utterances, each standing as its own paragraph, and constitute the book's inaugural speech act.
( And in Him we seek help )
the author's introduction ¶ -
in the voice of God
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Letters Basil of Caesarea 1 citation
Basil reports God's assured response to prayer as a direct promise.
Set your hope, then, on the goodness of God, and await His help, knowing that, if we turn to Him rightly and genuinely, He will not only not cast us off utterly, but, while we are still speaking the words of prayer, He will say:
letter 174 ¶ -
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments Cesare Beccaria 1 neutral 1 citation
The passage reports a decree attributed to God ('if he hath decreed eternal punishments') as part of the argument distinguishing divine from human justice.
If he hath decreed eternal punishments for those who disobey his will, shall an insect dare to put himself in the place of divine justice, to pretend to punish for the Almighty, who is himself all-sufficient;
ch. 9 ¶ -
in the voice of the exhorter (Clement)
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Protrepticus Clement of Alexandria 1 neutral 1 citation
A direct hymnic address voiced by the exhorting speaker to God.
"Hail, light.
protrepticus ¶ -
in the voice of Clement of Alexandria
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Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation
The author states as settled doctrine that God's beneficence is everlasting and his righteousness never began, presenting it as an endorsed teaching.
It is, then, plain to us from what has been said before, that the beneficence of God is everlasting, and that the natural righteousness, equal downright to all from a beginning that has no beginning, comes to each according to the desert of its kind, never having begun.
book 5 ¶ -
in the voice of Dio Chrysostom
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation
The final paragraph is an explicit prayer directly addressed to named gods, a formal speech act
I pray, then, to Dionysus the forefather of this city, and to Heracles its founder, and to Zeus Guardian of the City, and to Athena and Aphrodite Fosterer of Friendship, and to Concord and Nemesis and the other gods, that from this day forth they may cast upon this city longing for itself, and love, and a single mind, and the wish and the will for the same things, and may cast out faction and stri …
oration 39 ¶ -
in the voice of Chorus Leader
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Helen Euripides 1 neutral 1 citation
The Chorus Leader directly voices a prayer invoking the gods on behalf of Helen's lineage.
Chorus Leader:
helen ¶ -
in the voice of Earth (Gaia)
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Theogony Hesiod 1 neutral 1 citation
Earth's counsel to the gods about how to secure victory is reported speech that directly enables the freeing of the Hundred-Handers.
For she herself recounted all things to the gods fully, how with these they might gain victory and a glorious cause to vaunt themselves.
theogony ¶ -
in the voice of God
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum) Hugo Grotius 1 citation · 2 passages
The passage presents God's law and will as reported/interpreted speech acting through nature and the minds of men.
For they showed that God was the founder and ruler of the universe, and especially that being the Father of all mankind, He had not separated human beings, as He had the rest of living things, into different species and various divisions, but had willed them to be of one race and to be known by one name;
ch. 18 ¶ -
in the voice of God
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Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī 1 citation · 2 passages
Divine speech is quoted directly, both the enumeration of names and the existentiating utterance.
«He is God, than whom there is no god but He, the King, the All-Holy, the Peace, the Faithful, the Guardian, the Mighty, the Compeller, the Magnificent».
ch. 2 ¶ -
in the voice of Lucretius
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De Rerum Natura Lucretius 1 refuted 1 citation · 18 passages
The repeated direct-address question 'Who hath the power (I ask), who hath the power...' is an explicit rhetorical speech-act interrogating and refuting divine governance.
To rule the sum of the immeasurable,
book 2 ¶ -
Meditations Marcus Aurelius 1 citation
A statement is attributed as something one might say the gods have granted, functioning as a reported claim of divine authority within the argument.
And who told you that the gods do not work together with us even in the things in our power?
book nine ¶ -
in the voice of Sayyid ʻAlī al-Ṭūbjī
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al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq Miskawayh 1 neutral 1 citation · 2 passages
An extended act of direct address to God, formally a prayer, spoken in the author's own voice.
and upon his family and his companions, who held to his course and so were made happy in the first world and in the last.
the publisher's introduction ¶ -
in the voice of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
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Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī 1 citation · 2 passages
The basmala is a stated formula and the following saʼaltu min Allāh reports a petition in the author's own voice, both invoking divine authority at the work's threshold.
I began with premises upon which what is sought is built, and I asked of God preservation in speech and success in righteous deeds;
ch. 6 ¶ -
in the voice of poet/worshippers
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Sāmaveda Anonymous (Vedic) 1 neutral 1 citation
A direct theological question is addressed to the gods themselves about the nature of Rita and their oblation.
You gods who stand in the middle of the luminous realm of heaven — what is the sacred order for you?
prapāṭhaka 4 ¶ -
in the voice of God
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De Cultu Feminarum Tertullian 1 citation
The author performs a direct accusatory address to women, functioning as a quoted rhetorical speech act
"In sorrows and anxieties you bring forth, woman, and toward your husband is your turning, and he lords it over you.
de cultu feminarum ¶ -
in the voice of Tertullian
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De Fuga in Persecutione Tertullian 1 citation
Explicitly attributed: 'recall that God said, "He that can receive it, let him receive it"—that is, "He that cannot receive it, let him depart."'
but recall that God said, "He that can receive it, let him receive it"—that is, "He that cannot receive it, let him depart.
de fuga in persecutione ¶ -
in the voice of God
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Scorpiace Tertullian 1 neutral 1 citation
Quoted directly: '"I will burn them as gold is burnt, and I will prove them as silver is proved."'
"I will burn them as gold is burnt, and I will prove them as silver is proved" — surely through the torments of fires and punishments, through the examining martyrdoms of faith.
scorpiace ¶ -
History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 1 citation · 3 passages
The Delphic oracle's response to the Lacedaemonians' inquiry about going to war is reported, along with its later reinterpretation once the plague struck Athens rather than the Peloponnese.
Those who were acquainted with it recollected also the oracle given to the Lacedaemonians, when on their inquiring of the god whether they should go to war, he answered, that if they carried it on with all their might, they would gain the victory;
book 2 ¶
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