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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4326] So most edd., reading veste prius tectis atque involutis for the ms. reading, retained by Hild. and Oehler, tecta atque involuta—“his vest being first drawn over and wrapt about them;” the former verb being found with this meaning in no other passage, and the second very rarely.
[4327] Lit., “from.”
[4328] i.e., the pine.
[4329] Nourry supposes that this may refer to M. Valerius Messala, a fragment from whom on auspices has been preserved by Gellius (xiii. 15); while Hild. thinks that Antias is meant, who is mentioned in c. 1.
[4330] So Orelli punctuates and explains; but it is doubtful whether, even if this reading be retained, it should not be translated, “bedewed these (violets).” The ms. reads, suffodit et as (probably has)—“digs under these,” emended as above in LB., suffudit et has.
[4331] Lit., “burial.”
[4332] So it has been attempted to render the ms., reading pausatæ circum arboris robur, which has perplexed the different edd. Heraldus proposed pausate—“at intervals round the trunk of the tree;” LB. reads -ata—“round…tree having rested.” Reading as above, the reference might be either to the rest from motion after being set up in the cave, or to the absence of wind there.
[4333] Lit., “could be done through (i.e. as far as concerns) fate.”
[4334] So Oehler, reading sacerdotum antistitiis for the ms. antistibus, changed in both Roman edd. and Hild. to -stitibus—“with priests (or overseers) of priests.” Salmasius proposed intestibus—“with castrated priests.”
[4335] i.e., in the ever-recurring festival of Cybele.
[4336] Lit., “length.”
[4337] So the edd., reading orari in alicujus substantiæ qualitate for the ms. erari restored by Oehler, num-erari—“numbered in the quality of some substance,” from the reading of an old copy adopted by Livineius.
[4338] Lit., “through the resistance of nature.”
[4339] b.c. 43.
[4340] Lit., “the feeling commonly implanted.”
[4341] Lit., “was regard of piety wanting”—defuit, an emendation of Salmasius (according to Orelli) for the ms. depuit.
[4342] Lit., “the depth and patience of his sleeping mother.”
[4343] Lit., “from the theft of taking by surprise”—obreptionis, for which the ms., first four edd., Oberth., Hild., and Oehler read object.—“of what he proposed.”
[4344] So Heraldus, reading conventionis hujusmodi cœtum for the ms. cœptum.
[4345] Sustulisse alvos graves.
[4346] Most edd. read as an interrogation.
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