The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · ¶616
Even the laws which the philosophers of Athens and of Rome wrote for their imaginary republics are intolerant. Plato does not leave to his citizens freedom of religious worship; and Cicero expressly prohibits them from having other gods than those of the state. Lettres de quelques Juifs a Mons. Voltaire, i. p. 226.—G.Read in context ›
Edward Gibbon · Project Gutenberg #731 (Milman edition) — public domain
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