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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[3877] The ms. reads edi in filosophia; the first four edd., Philos.; Elmenh. and Orelli, Etenim phil.—“For were phil.;” LB., Ede an phil.—“say whether phil.,” which is, however faulty in construction, as the indicative follows. Rigaltius, followed by Oehler, emended as above, Medicina phil.
[3878] Lit., “reached the coasts of.”
[3879] Lit., “of the intestines”—extorum.
[3880] In both Roman edd., Theutatem, i.e., Theutas. Cf. Plato, Phædrus, st. p. 274.
[3881] i.e., Pluto.
[3882] Pl.
[3883] Lit., “Castors,” i.e., Castor and Pollux.
[3884] i.e., sine ullius seminis jactu.
[3885] Lit., “forms of bodily circumscription.”
[3886] Lit., “what we do is.”
[3887] Lit., “thing.”
[3888] Lit., “how many steps are there of race.”
[3889] i.e., Jupiter and Picus.
[3890] The ms. reads genitor…Latinus cujus, some letters having been erased. The reading followed above—genitor is cujus—was suggested to Canterus by his friend Gifanius, and is found in the margin of Ursinus and Orelli.
[3891] Cf. above, “four hundred years ago,” etc., and i. ch. 13. It is of importance to note that Arnobius is inconsistent in these statements. [In the Edinburgh edition we have here “fifteen hundred years;” etc., but it was changed, in the Errata, to ten hundred and fifty.]
[3892] Lit., “be nursed with the breasts and dropt milk.”
[3893] Lit., “of what space.”
[3894] i.e., re.
[3895] So the ms., according to Crusius and Livineius, reading ac; all edd. except Oehler read aut—“head (i.e., source) or fountain.”
[3896] The ms. reads unintelligibly vertitur solæ; for which LB., followed by the later edd. reads, as above, vertimur soli.
[3897] Dr. Schmitz (Smith’s Dict., 3. v. Isis) speaks of these consuls as heading the revolt against the decree of the senate, that the statues of Isis and Serapis should be removed from the Capitol. The words of Tertullian (quoting Varro as his authority) are very distinct: “The consul Gabinius…gave more weight to the decision of the senate than the popular impulse, and forbade their altars (i.e., those of Serapis, Isis, Arpocrates, and Anubis) to be set up” (ad Nationes, i. 10, cf. Apol., 6).
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