ch1 Of the adversaries of the name of Christ, whom the barbarians for Christ's sake spared when they stormed the city
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ch2 That it is quite contrary to the usage of war, that the victors should spare the vanquished for the sake of their gods
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ch3 That the Romans did not show their usual sagacity when they trusted that they would be benefited by the gods who had been unable to defend Troy
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ch4 Of the asylum of Juno in Troy, which saved no one from the Greeks; and of the churches of the apostles, which protected from the barbarians all who fled to them
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ch5 Cæsar's statement regarding the universal custom of an enemy when sacking a city
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ch6 That not even the Romans, when they took cities, spared the conquered in their temples
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ch7 That the cruelties which occurred in the sack of Rome were in accordance with the custom of war, whereas the acts of clemency resulted from the influence of Christ's name
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ch8 Of the advantages and disadvantages which often indiscriminately accrue to good and wicked men
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ch9 Of the reasons for administering correction to bad and good together
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ch10 That the saints lose nothing in losing temporal goods
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ch11 Of the end of this life, whether it is material that it be long delayed
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ch12 Of the burial of the dead: that the denial of it to Christians does them no injury
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ch13 Reasons for burying the bodies of the saints
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ch14 Of the captivity of the saints, and that divine consolation never failed them therein
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ch15 Of Regulus, in whom we have an example of the voluntary endurance of captivity for the sake of religion; which yet did not profit him, though he was a worshipper of the gods
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ch16 Of the violation of the consecrated and other Christian virgins to which they were subjected in captivity, and to which their own will gave no consent; and whether this contaminated their souls
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ch17 Of suicide committed through fear of punishment or dishonour
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ch18 Of the violence which may be done to the body by another's lust, while the mind remains inviolate
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ch19 Of Lucretia, who put an end to her life because of the outrage done her
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ch20 That Christians have no authority for committing suicide in any circumstances whatever
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ch21 Of the cases in which we may put men to death without incurring the guilt of murder
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ch22 That suicide can never be prompted by magnanimity
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ch23 What we are to think of the example of Cato, who slew himself because unable to endure Cæsar's victory
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ch24 That in that virtue in which Regulus excels Cato, Christians are pre-eminently distinguished
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ch25 That we should not endeavour by sin to obviate sin
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ch26 That in certain peculiar cases the examples of the saints are not to be followed
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ch27 Whether voluntary death should be sought in order to avoid sin
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ch28 By what judgment of God the enemy was permitted to indulge his lust on the bodies of continent Christians
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ch29 What the servants of Christ should say in reply to the unbelievers who cast in their teeth that Christ did not rescue them from the fury of their enemies
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ch30 That those who complain of Christianity really desire to live without restraint in shameful luxury
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ch31 By what steps the passion for governing increased among the Romans
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ch32 Of the establishment of scenic entertainments
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ch33 That the overthrow of Rome has not corrected the vices of the Romans
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ch34 Of God's clemency in moderating the ruin of the city
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ch35 Of the sons of the church who are hidden among the wicked, and of false Christians within the church
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ch36 What subjects are to be handled in the following discourse
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ch37 Of the limits which must be put to the necessity of replying to an adversary
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ch38 Recapitulation of the contents of the first book
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ch39 That we need only to read history in order to see what calamities the Romans suffered before the religion of Christ began to compete with the worship of the gods
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ch40 That the worshippers of the gods never received from them any healthy moral precepts, and that in celebrating their worship all sorts of impurities were practised
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ch41 Of the obscenities practised in honour of the mother of the gods
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ch42 That the gods of the pagans never inculcated holiness of life
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ch43 That the suggestions of philosophers are precluded from having any moral effect, because they have not the authority which belongs to divine instruction, and because man's natural bias to evil induces
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ch44 That the theatrical exhibitions publishing the shameful actions of the gods, propitiated rather than offended them
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ch45 That the poetical licence which the Greeks, in obedience to their gods, allowed, was restrained by the ancient Romans
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ch46 That the devils, in suffering either false or true crimes to be laid to their charge, meant to do men a mischief
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ch47 That the Greeks admitted players to offices of state, on the ground that men who pleased the gods should not be contemptuously treated by their fellows
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ch48 That the Romans, by refusing to the poets the same licence in respect of men which they allowed them in the case of the gods, showed a more delicate sensitiveness regarding themselves than regarding t
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ch49 That the Romans should have understood that gods who desired to be worshipped in licentious entertainments were unworthy of divine honour
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ch50 That Plato, who excluded poets from a well-ordered city, was better than these gods who desire to be honoured by theatrical plays
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ch51 That it was vanity, not reason, which created some of the Roman gods
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ch52 That if the gods had really possessed any regard for righteousness, the Romans should have received good laws from them, instead of having to borrow them from other nations
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ch53 Of the rape of the Sabine women, and other iniquities perpetrated in Rome's palmiest days
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ch54 What the history of Sallust reveals regarding the life of the Romans, either when straitened by anxiety or relaxed in security
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ch55 Of the corruption which had grown upon the Roman republic before Christ abolished the worship of the gods
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ch56 Of the kind of happiness and life truly delighted in by those who inveigh against the Christian religion
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ch57 Cicero's opinion of the Roman republic
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ch58 That the Roman gods never took any steps to prevent the republic from being ruined by immorality
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ch59 That the vicissitudes of this life are dependent not on the favour or hostility of demons, but on the will of the true God
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ch60 Of the deeds of Sylla, in which the demons boasted that he had their help
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ch61 How powerfully the evil spirits incite men to wicked actions, by giving them the quasi-divine authority of their example
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ch62 That the demons gave in secret certain obscure instructions in morals, while in public their own solemnities inculcated all wickedness
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ch63 That the obscenities of those plays which the Romans consecrated in order to propitiate their gods, contributed largely to the overthrow of public order
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ch64 That the Christian religion is health-giving
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ch65 An exhortation to the Romans to renounce paganism
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ch66 Of the ills which alone the wicked fear, and which the world continually suffered, even when the gods were worshipped
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ch67 Whether the gods, whom the Greeks and Romans worshipped in common, were justified in permitting the destruction of Ilium
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ch68 That the gods could not be offended by the adultery of Paris, this crime being so common among themselves
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ch69 Of Varro's opinion, that it is useful for men to feign themselves the offspring of the gods
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ch70 That it is not credible that the gods should have punished the adultery of Paris, seeing they showed no indignation at the adultery of the mother of Romulus
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ch71 That the gods exacted no penalty for the fratricidal act of Romulus
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ch72 Of the destruction of Ilium by Fimbria, a lieutenant of Marius
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ch73 Whether Rome ought to have been entrusted to the Trojan gods?
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ch74 Whether it is credible that the peace during the reign of Numa was brought about by the gods
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ch75 Whether it was desirable that the Roman empire should be increased by such a furious succession of wars, when it might have been quiet and safe by following in the peaceful ways of Numa
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ch76 Of the statue of Apollo at Cumæ, whose tears are supposed to have portended disaster to the Greeks, whom the god was unable to succour
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ch77 That the Romans added a vast number of gods to those introduced by Numa, and that their numbers helped them not at all
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ch78 By what right or agreement the Romans obtained their first wives
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ch79 Of the wickedness of the war waged by the Romans against the Albans, and of the victories won by the lust of power
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ch80 What manner of life and death the Roman kings had
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ch81 Of the first Roman consuls, the one of whom drove the other from the country, and shortly after perished at Rome by the hand of a wounded enemy, and so ended a career of unnatural murders
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ch82 Of the disasters which vexed the Roman republic after the inauguration of the consulship, and of the non-intervention of the gods of Rome
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ch83 The disasters suffered by the Romans in the Punic wars, which were not mitigated by the protection of the gods
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ch84 Of the calamity of the second Punic war, which consumed the strength of both parties
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ch85 Of the destruction of the Saguntines, who received no help from the Roman gods, though perishing on account of their fidelity to Rome
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ch86 Of the ingratitude of Rome to Scipio, its deliverer, and of its manners during the period which Sallust describes as the best
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ch87 Of the edict of Mithridates, commanding that all Roman citizens found in Asia should be slain
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ch88 Of the internal disasters which vexed the Roman republic, and followed a portentous madness which seized all the domestic animals
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ch89 Of the civil dissension occasioned by the sedition of the Gracchi
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ch90 Of the temple of Concord, which was erected by a decree of the senate on the scene of these seditions and massacres
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ch91 Of the various kinds of wars which followed the building of the temple of Concord
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ch92 Of the civil war between Marius and Sylla
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ch93 Of the victory of Sylla, the avenger of the cruelties of Marius
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ch94 A comparison of the disasters which Rome experienced during the Gothic and Gallic invasions, with those occasioned by the authors of the civil wars
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ch95 Of the connection of the wars which with great severity and frequency followed one another before the advent of Christ
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ch96 That it is effrontery to impute the present troubles to Christ and the prohibition of polytheistic worship, since even when the gods were worshipped such calamities befell the people
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ch97 Of the things which have been discussed in the first book
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ch98 Of those things which are contained in Books Second and Third
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ch99 Whether the great extent of the empire, which has been acquired only by wars, is to be reckoned among the good things either of the wise or the happy
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ch100 How like kingdoms without justice are to robberies
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