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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4014] So Meursius emended the ms. sali—“sea.”
[4015] Lit., “the quality of this name has been adjusted.”
[4016] So Orelli, reading monte vertice; the last word, according to Oehler, not being found in the ms.
[4017] i.e., Cybele. Cf. Lucr., ii. 991 sqq.
[4018] Lit., “seeds.”
[4019] Fasti—“list,” “register.”
[4020] Lit., “motions.”
[4021] Cf. Servius ad Virg., Georg., i. 5: “The Stoics say that Luna, Diana, Ceres, Juno, and Proserpina are one; following whom, Virgil invoked Liber and Ceres for Sol and Luna”
[4022] Triviali—“common,” “vulgar,” seems to be here used for triplici.
[4023] Actæon.
[4024] Plato, Timæus, st. p. 30.
[4025] Lit., “of which things, however, if the opinion,” etc.
[4026] i.e., deifying parts of the universe, and giving them, as deities, the same names as before.
[4027] Lit., “the difference of their disjunction being preserved”—multi disjunctionis differentia conservata, suggested in the margin of Ursinus for the ms. multitudinis junctionis d. c., retained in the first five edd.
[4028] Lit., “of their own name.”
[4029] Lit., “for the sake of our name, men’s affairs are made harassing.”
[4030] Lit., “with flames of,” etc.
[4031] The ms., according to Crusius, reads nos—“us.”
[4032] Three was the most ancient number; and the names preserved by Pausanias, are Μελέτη, ᾽Αοιδή, Μνήμη.
[4033] Cicero (de Nat. Deor., iii. 21, a passage where there is some doubt as to the reading) enumerates as the four Muses, Thelxiope, Aœde, Arche, Melete.
[4034] The ms. reads Murtylus. Seven are said to have been mentioned by Epicharmis,—Neilous, Tritone, Asopous, Heptapolis, Acheloïs, Tipoplous, and Rhodia.
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