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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[3747] Lit., “of.”
[3748] Lit., “admiration is sought for by the putting together”—congregatione.
[3749] Lit., “a comparison of the worst may effect that we,” etc.
[3750] So all edd. except Hildebrand, who gives as the reading of the ms., qui-d—“what! do they assert.”
[3751] Lit., “by the force of,” vi,—an emendation of Heraldus for the ms. in.
[3752] So most edd., reading pertinacifor the ms. -ium—“by the opposition of persistent virtues,” which is retained in both Roman edd., Gelenius, Canterus, Hildebrand, and Oehler.
[3753] So Stewechius and later edd., reading ut…auferant, except Hildebrand, who gives as the ms. reading, et…-unt—“shun…and remove,” etc. The first four edd. read ne…afferant—“that they may not bring upon themselves,” etc.
[3754] So the ms. and first four edd., Orelli (who, however, seems to have meant to give the other reading), and Oehler, reading corri-p-i, for which the others read -igi—“corrected,” except Hildebrand, who without due reason gives -rumpi—“corrupted.”
[3755] In the ms. imperfectum is marked as a gloss, but is retained in all edd., while improbabilem is omitted, except in LB., when im is omitted, and probabilem joined to the next clause—“however he may strive to be acceptable,” in order to provide an object for “strive;” and with a similar purpose Orelli thrusts in contrarium, although it is quite clear that the verb refers to the preceding clause, “struggles to amend.”
[3756] The ms. reads se esse, without meaning, from which LB., followed by Hildebrand, and Oehler derived se ex se—“himself of himself.” The rest simply omit esse as above.
[3757] Lit., “hold.”
[3758] Lit., “hold.”
[3759] Lit., “set in the.”
[3760] Lit., “utter the same (conjectures),” easdem, the reading of LB. and Hildebrand, who says that it is so in the ms.; while Crusius asserts that the ms. has idem, which, with Orelli’s punctuation, gives—“we have the same power; since it is common (i.e., a general right) to bring forth what you ask,” i.e., to put similar questions.
[3761] i.e., may be retorted upon you.
[3762] Here, as elsewhere, instead of muli, the ms. reads milvi—“kites.”
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