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Chapter
XXVII.—Doctrine of “Climates” Untenable.
“Moreover, we ought to remember the things
which have been mentioned, that in the one country of India there are
both persons who feed on human flesh, and persons who abstain even from
the flesh of sheep, and birds, and all living creatures; and that the
Magusæi marry their mothers and daughters not only in Persia, but
that in every nation where they dwell they keep up their incestuous
customs.847
| 847 The text
reads: “the incestuous customs of their evils, or of their
evil persons.” Hilgenfeld (Bardesanes, p. 113)
notices that it should be, “of their ancestors.” | Then,
besides, we have mentioned also innumerable nations, which are wholly
ignorant of the studies of literature, and also some wise men have
changed the laws themselves in several places; and some laws have been
voluntarily abandoned, on account of the impossibility of observing
them, or on account of their baseness. Assuredly we can easily
ascertain how many rulers have changed the laws and customs of nations
which they have conquered, and subjected them to their own laws.
This is manifestly done by the Romans, who have brought under the Roman
law and the civil decrees almost the whole world, and all nations who
formerly lived under various laws and customs of their own. It
follows, therefore, that the stars of the nations which have been
conquered by the Romans have lost their climates and their
portions.
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