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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.”
[3575] So the ms. and edd., reading sua-de-ri, for which Oehler reads very neatly sua de vi—“can anything of its own power destroy,” etc.
[3576] Lit., “not suffer forgetfulness.”
[3577] Lit., “however the most solid unions of bodies may have bound them round.”
[3578] So the edd. reading privat immortalitate has omni, for which, according to Hildebrand, the ms. reads -tatem has omnis—“all these of immortality.”
[3579] Lit., “put on the blindness of oblivion.”
[3580] Cf. Lucretius, iii. 969, where life is thus spoken of.
[3581] The ms. reads ne videamu-s, changed in both Roman edd. into -amur—“that we may not be seen by you (as ignorant), how say you,” etc. Gelenius proposed the reading of the text, audiamus, which has been received by Canterus and Orelli. It is clear from the next words—quemadmodum dicitis—that in this case the verb must be treated as a kind of interjection, “How say you, let us hear.” LB. reads, to much the same purpose, scire avemus, “we desire to know.”
[3582] Lit., “before man.”
[3583] Lit., “placed outside.”
[3584] Quod enim.
[3585] Rebus ingressis.
[3586] So read by Orelli, artes suas antiquas, omitting atque, which he says, follows in the ms. It is read after suas, however, in the first ed., and those of Gelenius, Canterus, Hildebrand; and according to Oehler, it is so given in the ms., “its own and ancient.” Oberthür would supply res—“its own arts and ancient things.”
[3587] So the ms., reading constitut-a, followed by all edd. except those of Ursinus, Hildebrand, and Oehler, who read -æ, “how do they remember when established in the bodies,” which is certainly more in accordance with the context.
[3588] Lit., “of immortality.”
[3589] Cf. ch. 16, p. 440.
[3590] Lit., “of a lost memory.”
[3591] Lit., “of (a memory) preserved.”
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