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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[4035] The nine are Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Ourania, and Calliope (Theog., 77–79).
[4036] Lit., “into the end of the same opinion.”
[4037] Lit., “in the middle,” “intermediate.”
[4038] i.e., Ephorus.
[4039] i.e., Hesiod.
[4040] Lit., “the undertaking of religion itself is brought into the danger,” etc.
[4041] An Umbrian village.
[4042] Lit., “that the number is nine.” [i.e., a triad of triads; the base a triad, regarded, even by heathen, as of mystical power.]
[4043] A grammarian who lived in the time of Augustus, not to be confounded with Cicero’s correspondent.
[4044] Novitatum.
[4045] The Etruscans held (Pliny, H. N., ii. 52) that nine gods could thunder, the bolts being of different kinds: the Romans so far maintained this distinction as to regard thunder during the day as sent by Jupiter, at night by Summanus.
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