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Front Page  Titles (by Subject) TAUROBOLIUM. - The Works of Voltaire, Vol. VII (Philosophical Dictionary Part 5)
TAUROBOLIUM. - Voltaire, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. VII (Philosophical Dictionary Part 5) [1764]Edition used:The Works of Voltaire, A Contemporary Version, (New York: E.R. DuMont, 1901), A Critique and Biography by John Morley, notes by Tobias Smollett, trans. William F. Fleming. Vol. VII.
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- Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Vii — Part I
- Property.
- Prophecies.
- Prophets.
- Providence.
- Purgatory.
- Quack (or Charlatan).
- Ravaillac.
- Reasonable, Or Right.
- Relics.
- Religion.
- Rhyme.
- Resurrection.
- Rights.
- Rivers.
- Roads.
- Rod.
- Rome (court Of).
- Samothrace.
- Samson.
- Saturn’s Ring.
- Scandal.
- Schism.
- Scrofula.
- Sect.
- Self-love.
- Sensation.
- Sentences (remarkable). On Natural Liberty.
- Sentences of Death.
- Serpents.
- Shekel.
- Sibyl.
- Singing. Questions On Singing, Music, Modulation, Gesticulation, Etc.
- Slaves.
- Sleepers (the Seven).
- Slow Bellies (ventres Paresseux).
- Society (royal) of London, and Academies.
- Socrates.
- Solomon.
- Somnambulists and Dreamers.
- Sophist.
- Soul.
- Space.
- Stage (police of The).
- States—governments.
- States-general.
- Voltaire a Philosophical Dictionary Vol. Vii—part Ii
- Style.
- Superstition.
- Symbol, Or Credo.
- System.
- Tabor, Or Thabor.
- Talisman.
- Tartuffe—tartuferie.
- Taste.
- Taurobolium.
- Tax—fee.
- Tears.
- Terelas.
- Testes.
- Theism.
- Theist.
- Theocracy. Government of God Or Gods.
- Theodosius.
- Theologian.
- Thunder.
- Toleration.
- Tophet.
- Torture.
- Transubstantiation.
- Trinity.
- Truth.
- Tyranny.
- Tyrant.
- University.
- Usages. Contemptible Customs Do Not Always Imply a Contemptible Nation.
- Vampires.
- Veletri, a Small Town of Umbria, Nine Leagues From Rome; And, Incidentally, of the Divinity of Augustus.
- Venality.
- Venice; And, Incidentally, of Liberty.
- Verse.
- Viands. Forbidden Viands, Dangerous Viands.—a Short Examination of Jewish and Christian Precepts, and of Those of the Ancient Philosophers.
- Virtue.
- Vision.
- Vision of Constantine.
- Vows.
- Voyage of St. Peter to Rome.
- Waller.
- War.
- Weakness On Both Sides.
- Whys (the).
- Wicked.
- Will.
- Wit, Spirit, Intellect.
- Women.
- Xenophanes.
- Xenophon, and the Retreat of the Ten Thousand.
- Yvetot.
- Zeal.
- Zoroaster.
- Declaration of the Amateurs, Inquirers, and Doubters, Who Have Amused Themselves With Proposing to the Learned the Preceding Questions In These Volumes.
TAUROBOLIUM.
Taurobolium, a sacrifice of expiation, very common in the third and fourth centuries. The throat of a bull was cut on a great stone slightly hollowed and perforated in various places. Underneath this stone was a trench, in which the person whose offence called for expiation received upon his body and his face the blood of the immolated animal. Julian the Philosopher condescended to submit to this expiation, to reconcile himself to the priests of the Gentiles.
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