Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.45
45.1. But far be this monstrosity of a wicked opinion—that almighty God, sower and founder, begetter of great and invisible things, should be believed to have begotten souls so mobile, of no gravity or weight or constancy, liable to vices, sloping down into every kind of sins, and though He knew them such and of this sort, to have ordered them to go into bodies, whose prisons they would wear under the storms and tempests of fortune daily,
2. and now do shameful things, now suffer obscenities, perish by shipwrecks, ruins, burnings of fires, that poverty press some and beggary others, that some suffer the mangling of beasts, others die by the poison of little flies, that some walk lame, that others lose the light, that others sit with joints bound, that they be cast before all diseases which unhappy and pitiable mortality sustains by the tearing of diverse punishments; then at last, forgetful that they are of one fountain, one begetter and head, they would tear and break the rights of kinship, overturn their cities, plunder lands as enemies, make slaves of free persons, insult virgins and others’ marriages, hate one another, envy others’ joys and felicities, then at last all curse one another, carp, and mangle with the bite of savage teeth.
Latin
45.1. Sed procul haec abeat sceleratae opinionis immanitas, ut deus credatur omnipotens, magnarum et invisibilium rerum sator et conditor, procreator, tam mobiles animas genuisse, gravitatis ac ponderis constantiaeque nullius, in vitia labiles, in peccatorum genera universa dcclives, cumque eas tales atque huiusmodi sciret, in corpora ire iussisse, quorum indutae carceribus sub procellis agerent tempestatibusque cotidie fortunae,
2. et modo turpia facerent modo paterentur obscena, naufragiis ruinis incendiorum conflagrationibus ut perirent, pauperies alias, alias ut mendicitas premeret, ut ferarum paterentur aliae laniatus, muscularum aliae ut interirent veneno, claudae ut incederent aliae, ut aliae lumen amitterent, ut articulis sederent aliae colligatis, morbis denique obiectarentur ut cunctis, quos infelix et miseranda mortalitas diversarum sustinet dilaceratione poenarum; tunc deinde oblitae unius esse se fontis, unius genitoris et capitis, germanitatis convellerent atque abrumperent iura, urbes suas everterent, popularentur hostiliter terras, servos de liberis facerent, insultarent virginibus et matrimoniis alienis, odissent invicem sese, aliorum gaudiis et felicitatibus inviderent, tum deinde se omnes maledicercnt, carperent et saevorum dentium mordacitate laniarent.