Arnobius — Against the Nations 2.43
43.1. What do you say, O offspring and first progeny of the divinity? Did those wise souls, brought forth from principal causes, know these kinds of shames, crimes, and malice, and—that they might practice, carry out, and make much of these evils—were they ordered to depart and dwell in these parts and be clothed with the wrapping of a human body?
2. And is there any mortal receiving some sense of reason who judges the world ordered by these, and not rather set as a seat and dwelling in which every day every wickedness would be perpetrated, all evil deeds done—ambushes, frauds, deceits, greed, robberies, force, crime, boldness, obscenity, shame, outrage, and all other evils which humans on the whole globe bear with harmful mind and devise ruin against one another?
Latin
43.1. Quid dicitis, o suboles ac primi progenies numinis? Ergone sapientes illae atque ex causis principalibus proditae genera haec animae turpitudinum criminum malitiarumque noverunt atque ut exercerent, ut gererent, ut percelebrarent haec mala, abire atque habitare iussae sunt has partes et humani corporis circumiectione vestiri?
2. Et mortalium quisquam est rationis alicuius accipiens sensum, qui ordinatum existimet mundum per has esse ac non potius sedem ac domicilium constitutum, in quo omne cotidie perpetraretur nefas, maleficia cuncta confierent, insidiae fraudes doli avaritia rapinae vis scelus audacia obscenitas turpitudo flagitium, mala omnia cetera, quae in orbe homines toto mente noxia pariunt et labem machinantur in mutuam?