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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3726] Lit., “the salvation of.”
[3727] Lit., “height of.”
[3728] Lit., “things perfect, and preserving the measure of their completeness;” i.e., continuing so.
[3729] So the ms., LB., Oberthür and Oehler, reading claudum et quod minus esset a recto. All other edd. read eminus—“at a distance from the right.”
[3730] Lit., “less than.”
[3731] Lit., “material.”
[3732] Lit., “some power latent and cruelty.”
[3733] So the ms. and all edd.; but Orelli would change item into iterum, not seeing that the reference is to the indicated preference of his opponents for the simple truth.
[3734] Nescire Hildebrand, with good reason, considers a gloss.
[3735] Nihilfor the ms. mihi which makes nonsense of the sentence.
[3736] This somewhat wide-spread opinion found an amusing counterpart in the doctrines of Rorarius (mentioned by Bayle, Dict. Phil.), who affirmed that the lower animals are gifted with reason and speech, as we are.
[3737] Lit., “superior.”
[3738] Lit., “tending to no reasons.”
[3739] Omni vero verissimum est certoque certissimum—the superlative for the comparative.
[3740] Lit., “finished with the perfection of.”
[3741] Lit., “by perversity”—s-c-ævitate, the reading of the ms., LB., Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, all others omitting c—“by the rage;” except Stewechius, who reads servitute—“slavery.”
[3742] Or, perhaps, “the goodness of the Supreme planted”—generositas eos adsereret principalis.
[3743] Lit., “opposition;” i.e., “the setting of one party against the other.”
[3744] Lit., “weighed with balancing of equality.”
[3745] Lit., “bounded by the comprehensions of names;” i.e., possibly, “the good are certainly few enough to be numbered, perhaps even to be named.”
[3746] So LB., reading ex cruciatibusfor the ms. scruc.
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