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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4251] Lit., “as a lover by.” Cf. Homer, Il., 14, 312.
[4252] i.e., of himself.
[4253] Lit., “except that which was full of religion.”
[4254] i.e., according to which such offenses should be punished.
[4255] Lit., “have willed.”
[4256] Lit., “full-grown race,” exoleti, a word frequently used, as here, sensu obscæno.
[4257] i.e., the actors, etc.
[4258] i.e., the crowd of adulterers, as Orelli suggests.
[4259] Lit., “draw enticements of pleasures from.”
[4260] Or, “Venus, the mother…and loving parent,” etc.
[4261] Lit., “of meretricious vileness.”
[4262] i.e., Cybele, to whom Mount Dindymus in Mysia was sacred, whose rites, however, were celebrated at Pessinus also, a very ancient city of Galatia.
[4263] ms. Sofocles, corrected in LB. Sophocles. Cf. Trach. 1022 sqq.
[4264] Lit., “towards (in) the last of the wasting consumed by the softening of his bowels flowing apart.”
[4265] Lit., “debauched and scoffers.”
[4266] So Orelli, reading et quando; ms. and other edd. et si—“and if ever.”
[4267] Arnobius is generally thought to refer here to the persecution under Diocletian mentioned by Eusebius, Hist. Eccl., viii. 2.
[4268] The service in which these prayers were offered was presided over by the bishop, to whom the dead body was brought: hymns were then sung of thanksgiving to God, the giver of victory, by whose help and grace the departed brother had been victorious. The priest next gave thanks to God, and some chapters of the Scriptures were read; afterwards the catechumens were dismissed; the names of those at rest were then read in a clear voice, to remind the survivors of the success with which others had combated the temptations of the world. The priest again prayed for the departed, at the close beseeching God to grant him pardon, and admission among the undying. Thereafter the body was kissed, anointed, and buried.—Dionysius, Eccl. Hier., last chapter quoted by Heraldus. Cf. Const. Apost., viii. 41. With the Church’s advance in power there was an accession of pomp to these rites. [Elucidation IV.]
[4269] Cf. the younger Pliny, Epist., x. 97: “They affirmed that they bound themselves by oath not for any wicked purpose, but to pledge themselves not to commit theft, robbery, or adultery, nor break faith, or prove false to a trust.”
[4270] Lit., “whom our society joins together,” quos solidet germanitas. [Lardner justly argues that this passage proves our author’s familiarity with rites to which catechumens were not admitted. Credibil., vol. iii. p. 458.]
[4271] i.e., in their sight or estimation.
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