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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3554] Mastruca, a garment made of the skins of the muflone, a Sardinian wild sheep.
[3555] Tribula, for rubbing out the corn.
[3556] Aurum is omitted in all edd., except those of LB., Hild., and Oehler.
[3557] Liber, a roll of parchment or papyrus, as opposed to the preceding codex, a book of pages.
[3558] The ms. reads vobis unintelligibly, corrected by Meursius bovis.
[3559] So Orelli and modern edd.; but Crusius gives as the ms. reading conspici-etur (not -et), as given by Ursinus, and commonly received—“Will he not…be seen?”
[3560] The ms. and first five edd. read et—“and,” changed in LB. to sed.
[3561] In this dialogue (st. p. 81) Socrates brings forward the doctrine of reminiscence as giving a reasonable ground for the pursuit of knowledge, and then proceeds to give a practical illustration of it by leading an uneducated slave to solve a mathematical problem by means of question and answer.
[3562] Lit., “his knowledge of things.”
[3563] So the ms. and edd., reading i-gnarum rerum, except LB., which by merely omitting the i gives the more natural meaning, “acquainted with the things,” etc.
[3564] Lit., “established in the limits of humanity.”
[3565] i.e., a square numerically or algebraically. The ms., both Roman edd., and Canterus read di-bus aut dynam-us, the former word being defended by Meursius as equivalent to binio, “a doubling,”—a sense, however, in which it does not occur. In the other edd., cubus aut dynamis has been received from the margin of Ursinus.
[3566] Æneid, vi. 472.
[3567] This clause is with reason rejected by Meursius as a gloss.
[3568] Founded on Plato’s words (Phædrus, st. p. 247), τῷ δ᾽ (i.e., Zeus) ἕπεται στρατιὰ θεῶν τε καὶ δαιμόνων, the doctrine became prevalent that under the supreme God were lesser gods made by Him, beneath whom again were dæmons, while men stood next. To this Orelli supposes that Arnobius here refers.
[3569] The vessels in which according to Plato (Timæus, st. p. 41), the Supreme Being mixed the vital essence of all being. Cf. c. 52.
[3570] Lit., “and endowed.”
[3571] The text and meaning are both rather doubtful, and the edd. vary exceedingly. The reading of Orelli, demoretur iners, valeat in ære quamvis, has been translated as most akin to the ms., with which, according to Oehler, it agrees, although Orelli himself gives the ms. reading as ær-io.
[3572] Lit., “acknowledge turnings in the course.”
[3573] Lit., “but retaining its own things, bind itself in earthly bodies.”
[3574] Lit., “of.”
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