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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[4046] So LB., reading relig- for the ms. reg-iones.
[4047] Lit., “the very skilful.”
[4048] Lit., “if the number nine bring on the name of,” etc.
[4049] Lit., “gives another’s might and power to gods presiding.”
[4050] Lit., “the title of this name.”
[4051] Lit., “after they have finished the mortality of life,” i.e., either as above, or “having endured its perishableness.”
[4052] Lit., “lying under.”
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