Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.41
41.1. Did he therefore send souls so that those who had lately been mild and ignorant how to be moved by feelings of savagery should build for themselves slaughterhouses and amphitheaters—places of blood and public impiety—in one of which they would see humans eaten and torn by beasts' mangling, others kill one another for no desert but for the favor and pleasure of those sitting, and count those very days in which so great a crime was committed among common joys and consecrate them with festal cheer; but in the other they would tear the entrails of wretched animals, snatch portions one from another as is the custom of dogs and vultures, subdue them with teeth and give them to a most cruel belly—and in such savage and horrid habits weep their lot whom poverty's straits would reclaim from such tables, and live as blessed and happy those whose mouths and faces such cruel preparations would pollute?
2. Did he therefore send souls so that, forgetful of divine weight and gravity, they should buy gems, pebbles, pearls at the cost of chastity, bind necks with these, pierce earlobes, lessen brows with fillets, seek dyes for bodies to be stared at, shadow eyes with soot, and not blush in men's forms to wave hair with curling-irons, smooth the body's skin, walk with bare knees and by every other cult both expose the vigor of manhood and soften into women's habit and delicacies?
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41.1. Idcirco animas misit, ut quae dudum fuerant mites et feritatis adfectibus nesciae commoveri, macella sibi et amphitheatra constituerent, loca sanguinis et publicae impietatis, ex quibus in altero mandi homines cernerent et bestiarum laniatibus dissipari, interficere se alios nullius ob meriti causam sed in gratiam voluptatemque sessorum, ipsosque illos dies quibus tantum committeretur nefas in gaudiis communibus ducerent et festa hilaritate sacrarent, at in altero vero animalium miserorum discerperent viscera, alias aliae raperent, ut canibus mos est et vulturiis, portiones, subigerent dentibus et crudelissimo ventri darent, et in tam saevis atque horridis moribus sortem suam flerent quas ab talibus mensis paupertatis angustiae vindicarent, pro beatis ac felicibus viverent quarum ora et faciem tam crudeles polluerent apparatus?
2. Idcirco animas misit, ut divini ponderis et gravitatis oblitae gemmas lapillos margaritas castitatis dispendio conpararent, innecterent his colla, lannas pertunderent aurium, imminuerent frontes limbis, conspiciendis quaererent corporibus fucos, fuligine oculos obumbrarent, nec in formis erubescerent masculorum calamistris vibrare caesariem, cutem corporis levigare, incedere poplitibus nudis omnique alio cultu vigorem virilitatis et exponere et in habitum feminarum deliciasque molliri?