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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3819] Lit., “transfer to Him the undecided conversions of the breast.”
[3820] Lit., “He can be formed by no imagination.”
[3821] Lit., “which the obscurity of sacred divinity contains;” which Orelli interprets, “the most exalted being holds concealed from mortals.”
[3822] Lit., “and being fixed on.”
[3823] i.e., Christ.
[3824] As Heraclitus is reported to have said.
[3825] The ms., first five edd., and Oehler read supernatum, for which the other edd. read, as above, semper natum, from the margin of Ursinus. The soul is referred to.
[3826] So the later edd., following Elmenhorst, who emended dico for the ms. dici, omitted by the first four edd.
[3827] So most edd., reading sciolis, from the emendation of Gelenius; but the ms., first five edd., Hild., and Oehler read scholis—“by some schools, and (these) arrogating very much to themselves.”
[3828] Cf. ch. 13, p. 439; Plato, Rep., ii. st. p. 364, where Glaucon speaks of certain fortune-telling vagrant seers, who persuade the rich that they have power with the gods, by means of charms and sacrifices, to cleanse from guilt; and also Origen, contra Cels., i. 69, where the Magi are spoken of as being on familiar terms with evil powers, and thus able to accomplish whatever is within these spirits’ power.
[3829] Mentioned by Servius (on Æn., viii. 399) as composed by Tages, cap. 69 [p. 460, supra], and seemingly containing directions as to expiatory sacrifices.
[3830] Pl.
[3831] Lit., “a spirit of perpetuity.”
[3832] i.e., than the Supreme God.
[3833] Lit., “are.”
[3834] Lit., “all human things.”
[3835] i.e., reason.
[3836] The ms. reads fuisse me risui, which has no meaning; corrected, fuisse irrisui in most edd., and derisui by Meursius, Hild., and Oehler,—the sense being in either case as above.
[3837] Lit., “when it begins to approach to the feeling,” cum ad sensum; so read by Gelenius for the unintelligible ms. cum absens cum.
[3838] So the edd., reading quid sit cum eis animis actum for the ms. cum ejus nimis.
[3839] Lit., “of ancient and very old men.”
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