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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3231] Lugduni Batavorum 1651, containing the notes of Canterus, Elmenhorst, Stewechius, and Heraldus.
[3232] Salmasius purposed writing commentaries for this edition, but died without doing more than beginning them.
[3233] Wirceburgi, 1783, 8vo, preceded by a rambling introductory epistle.
[3234] Lipsiæ, 1816–17, 8vo.
[3235] Halis Saxonum, 1844, 8vo.
[3236] Lipsiæ, 1846, 8vo.
[3237] Cf. § 1, notes 2 and 3.
[3238] [This section (8) appears as a “Preface” to the Edinburgh edition.]
[3239] The words insanire, bacchari, refer to the appearance of the ancient seers when under the influence of the deity. So Virgil says, Insanam vatem aspicies (Æn., iii. 443), and, Bacchatur vates(Æn., vi. 78). The meaning is, that they make their asseverations with all the confidence of a seer when filled, as he pretended, with the influence of the god.
[3240] Et velut quiddam promptum ex oraculo dicere, i.e., to declare a matter with boldness and majesty, as if most certain and undoubted.
[3241] Popularia verba, i.e., rumours arising from the ignorance of the common people.
[3242] The Christians were regarded as “public enemies,” and were so called.
[3243] Or, “all party zeal.”
[3244] So Meursius,—the ms. reading is inusitatum, “extraordinary.”
[3245] So Gelenius; ms., coartatur, “pressed together.”
[3246] Or, “race,” gens, i.e., the Christian people.
[3247] The verb mereri, used in this passage, has in Roman writers the idea of merit or excellence of some kind in a person, in virtue of which he is deemed worthy of some favour or advantage; but in ecclesiastical Latin it means, as here, to gain something by the mere favour of God, without any merit of one’s own.
[3248] See Livy, i. 31, etc.; and Pliny, Nat. Hist., ii. 38.
[3249] The ms. reads, flumina cognoverimus ingentia lim-in-is ingentia siccatis, “that mighty rivers shrunk up, leaving the mud,” etc.
[3250] So Tertullian, Apologet., 40, says,—“We have read that the islands Hiera, Anaphe, Delos, Rhodes, and Cos were destroyed, together with many human beings.”
[3251] Arnobius, no doubt, speaks of the story of Phæthon, as told by Ovid; on which, cf. Plato, Tim., st. p. 22.
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