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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: TATIAN: Chapter XVII. They Falsely Promise Health to Their Votaries.

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Concerning the sympathies and antipathies of Democritus what can we say but this, that, according to the common saying, the man of Abdera is Abderiloquent? But, as he who gave the name to the city, a friend of Hercules as it is said, was devoured by the horses of Diomedes, so he who boasted of the Magian Ostanes 473 will be delivered up in the day of consummation 474 as fuel for the eternal fire. And you, if you do not cease from your laughter, will gain the same punishment as the jugglers.

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