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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4378] i.e., priests of Cybele, their names being derived from the Phrygian river Gallus, whose waters were supposed to bring on frenzy ending in self-mutilation.
[4379] Lit., “with wailing.”
[4380] Lit., “with.”
[4381] Lit., “and the duty of defence itself.”
[4382] i.e., secret rites, to which only the initiated were admitted.
[4383] Lit., “which you deliver”—traditis; so Elmenh., LB., and later edd., for the unintelligible ms. tradidisse, retained in both Roman edd.
[4384] Lit., “deformity affixed to all.”
[4385] ms. fetam f. Cf. i. 36, n. 2, p. 422, supra.
[4386] So Heraldus, from Plutarch, Rom., 21, where Butas is said to have written on this subject (αἰτίαι) in elegiacs, for the ms. Putas.
[4387] Lit., “in like manner and with dissimulation.”
[4388] i.e., heart, lungs, and liver, probably of a sacrifice.
[4389] i.e., “divination, augury,” etc.
[4390] Vis Lucilii, i.e., semen. [He retails Pliny xxxvi. 27.]
[4391] Cf. iv. 24.
[4392] So the ms. and edd., reading gens illa, for which Memmius proposed Ilia—“and all the Trojan race.”
[4393] Lit., “riding upon”—inequitare.
[4394] Lit., “most open.”
[4395] Subsessoris.
[4396] Lit., “growling”—fremitum.
[4397] The ms. reads primo, emended as above by the brother of Canterus, followed by later edd.
[4398] i.e., testiculi.
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