Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.1
1.1. If in this place any faculty could be granted, I would wish, with all those to whom the name of Christ is hated, having made a little digression from the defense principally instituted, to mingle such words:
2. "If you think it no insult to answer something when asked, set forth for us and say: what matter, what cause is it, that you pursue Christ with such heavy wars, or what offenses of His do you hold, that at mention of His name you boil over with heats of rabid breasts?
3. Did He, claiming royal power for Himself, occupy the whole orb of lands with most hostile legions and destroy some nations pacified from the beginning and raise them up, compel others to obey Him with necks subjugated?
4. Did He, burning with heats of avarice, claim as property of His possession all those riches with which the human race studiously contends to be filled?
5. Did He, eager with desires of lusts, break the bars of chastity by force or plot secretly against others' marriages?
6. Did He, swollen with the eyebrow of arrogance, inflict injuries and insults everywhere without distinctions of any person?"
Latin
1.1. Hoc in loco tribui si ulla facultas posset, vellem cum his omnibus quibus nomen invisum est Christi ab instituta principaliter defensione deverticulo paulisper facto talia verba miscere:
2. ''Si nullam esse ducitis contumeliam respondere aliquid interrogatos, edissertate nobis et dicite: quid rei, quid causae est, quod tam gravibus insectamini Christum bellis, vel quas eius continetis offensas, ut ad eius nominis mentionem rabidorum pectorum effervescatis ardoribus?
3. Numquid regiam sibi vindicans potestatem terrarum orbem cunctum legionibus infestissimis occupavit et pacatas ab exordio nationes alias delevit ac sustulit alias sibi parere cervicibus compulit subiugatis?
4. numquid ardoribus avaritiae flagrans universas opes illas, quibus se genus humanum studiose contendit impleri, possessionis suae mancipio vindicavit?
5. numquid libidinum cupiditatibus gestiens pudicitiae repagula vi fregit aut alienis furtim insidiatus est matrimoniis?
6. numquid adrogantiae supercilio tumidus iniurias et contumelias passim sine ullius personae discriminibus inrogavit?''.