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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.”
[4053] So most edd., following Gelenius, who reads esse nomenfor the ms. si omnes istud.
[4054] Lit., “who have deserved to,” etc.
[4055] The ms. reads immortalium, corrected in the edd. urbem Ilium.
[4056] Supposed to be either the genius attending Jupiter; the family god as sent by him; or the chief among the genii, sometimes mentioned simply as Genius.
[4057] Lit., “whom the commonalty receives.”
[4058] Consentes (those who are together, or agree together, i.e., councillors) and Complices (confederate, or agreeing) are said by some to be the twelve gods who composed the great council of heaven; and, in accordance with this, the words una oriantur et occidant una might be translated “rise and sit down together,” i.e., at the council table. But then, the names and number of these are known; while Arnobius says, immediately after, that the names of the dii Consentes are not known and has already quoted Varro, to the effect that neither names nor number are known. Schelling (über die Gotth. v. Samothr , quoted by Orelli) adopts the reading (see following note), “of whom very little mention is made,” i.e., in prayers or rites, because they are merely Jove’s councillors, and exercise no power over men, and identifies them with the Samothracian Cabiri—Κάβειροι and Consentes being merely Greek and Latin renderings of the name.
[4059] So the ms. and all edd. reading miserationis parcissimæ, except Gelenius, who reads nationis barbarissimæ—“of a most barbarous nation;” while Ursinus suggested memorationis parc.—“of whom very little mention is made,”—the reading approved by Schelling.
[4060] Lit., “shaken to its foundations.”
[4061] Æribus. Cf. Lucretius, ii. 633–636.
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