Arnobius,
Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Adversus Gentes…
(1885)
“ Is it not a thousand times more desirable to become mute and speechless, and to lose that flow of words and noisy and [4] unseemly loquacity, than to call the basest things by the names of the gods; nay, more, to signify commonplace things by the base actions of the gods? ”
