Arnobius, Against the Nations 2.6
6.1. Unless perhaps those seem to you dull and foolish who already throughout the whole world conspire and gather into the assent of this belief. 2. - What then? Are you alone founded in wisdom and by the sheer force of intelligence seeing I know not what else and deep: do you alone understand all these things to be trifles, alone take as words and childish silliness those things we promise will come from the chief King?
3. From where, I ask, was so much wisdom handed to you, from where so much sharpness and liveliness, or from what disciplines of knowledge were you able to take so much heart, to drink so much of divination? 4. Because you know how to decline words and names through cases and tenses, because you avoid barbarous sounds and solecisms, because you yourselves know how to bring forth numbered and structured and composed speech or know when it has been rough, because you hold sealed in memory Lucilius’s Fornix and Pomponius’s Marsyas, because you know what constitutions there are in lawsuits, how many kinds of causes, how many of speeches, what genus is, what species, by what reasons an opposite is distinguished from a contrary—therefore do you judge that you know what is false, what true, what can happen or cannot, what the nature of lowest and highest things is? 5. Has that common saying never struck your ears, that the wisdom of man is folly with God?
Latin
6.1. Nisi forte obtunsi et fatui videntur hi vobis, qui per orbem iam totum conspirant et coeunt in istius credulitatis adsensum. 2. - Quid ergo? vos soli sapientiae conditi atque intellegentiae vi mera nescio quid aliud videtis et profundum: soli esse nugas intellegitis haec omnia, soli verba et pueriles ineptias ea quae nobis promittimus principali ab rege ventura. 3. Unde quaeso est vobis tantum sapientiae traditum, unde acuminis et vivacitatis tantum vel ex quibus scientiae disciplinis tantum cordis adsumere, divinationis tantum potuistis hau rire?
4. Quia per casus et tempora declinare verba scitis et nomina, quia voces barbaras soloecismosque vitare, quia numerosum et structum o compositum que sermonem aut ipsi vos nostis ecferre aut incomptus cum fuerit scire, quia Fornicem Lucilianum et Marsyam Pomponi obsignatum memoria continetis, quia quae sint in litibus constitutiones? quot causarum genera, quot dictionum, quid sit lsgenus, quid species, oppositum a contrario quibus rationibus distinguatur, idcirco vos arbitramini scire, quid sit falsum, quid verum, quid fieri possit aut non possit, quae imorum summorumque natura sit? 5. Numquam ne illud vulgatum perstrinxit aures vestras, sapientiam hominis stultitiam esse apud deum primum? (cf 1Cor 3,19).