Arnobius

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^[4398] i.e., testiculi.

^[4399] Virilitate pignoris visa.

^[4400] So Ursinus suggested, followed by Stewechius and later edd., concepti fœtus revocatur ad curam; the ms. reads concepit—“is softened and conceived,” etc.

^[4401] Jupiter may be here called Verveceus, either as an epithet of Jupiter Ammon—“like a wether,” or (and this seems most probable from the context), “dealing with wethers,” referring to the mode in which he had extricated himself from his former difficulty, or “stupid.” The ms. reads virviriceus.

^[4402] Lit., “encountered”—aggressus.

^[4403] Lit., “sufficiently.”

^[4404] i.e., Ceres.

^[4405] Lit., “will any one want.”

^[4406] i.e., handed down by antiquity. [Vol. ii. p. 176, this series.]

^[4407] These seem to have been celebrated in honour of Dionysius as well as Zeus, though, in so far as they are described by Arnobius, they refer to the intrigue of the latter only. Macrobius, however (Saturn., i. 18), mentions that in Thrace, Liber and Sol were identified and worshipped as Sebadius: and this suggests that we have to take but one more step to explain the use of the title to Jupiter also.

Chapter XXII

^[4408] Lit., “of.”

^[4409] Lit., “that he might be a crop of”—seges, a correction in the margin of Ursinus for the ms. sedes—“a seat.”

^[4410] So all edd., reading scenarum (ms. scr-, but r marked as spurious), except LB, followed by Orelli, who gives sentinarum—“of the dregs.” Oehler supplies e, which the sense seems to require. [Note our author’s persistent scorn of Jove Opt. Max.]

^[4411] Lit., “neigh with appetites of an enraged beast.”

Chapter XXIII

^[4412] This clearly refers to the Æneid, x. 18.

^[4413] Lit., “on the rear part.”

^[4414] Suffragines.

^[4415] So the margin of Ursinus, Elmenh. L.B., Oberth., Orelli, and Oehler, reading molli fimo for the ms. molissimo.

^[4416] Lit., “censorial.”

^[4417] Lit., “rage with thunders.”

^[4418] So Gelenius, followed by Stewechius and Orelli, reading smilia for the corrupt and unintelligible ms. nullas.

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