Arnobius

Footnotes

^[4444] Orpheus, under whose name there was current in the time of Arnobius an immense mass of literature freely used, and it is probable sometimes supplemented, by Christian writers. Cf. c. 19.

^[4445] Lit, “put forth with Greek mouth.”

^[4446] Lit., “tossing.”

^[4447] It may be well to observe that Arnobius differs from the Greek versions of these lines found in Clem. Alex. (vol. ii. p. 177) and Eusebius (Præpar. Evang. ii. 3), omitting all mention of Iacchus, who is made very prominent by them; and that he does not adhere strictly to metrical rules, probably, as Heraldus pointed out, because, like the poets of that age, he paid little heed to questions of quantity. Whether Arnobius has merely paraphrased the original as found in Clement and Eusebius, or had a different version of them before him, is a question which can only be discussed by means of a careful comparison between the Greek and Latin forms of the verses with the context in both cases.

^[4448] So LB., Hild., and Oehler, reading Erechthidæ O(inserted by Hild.) for the ms. erithideo.

^[4449] i.e., Athenians.

^[4450] The ms., 1st ed., Hild., and Oehler read ita—“It is thus not,” etc.; the others as above, ista.

^[4451] Delatione calumniosa. [Conf. vol. ii. p. 175, col. 2.]

^[4452] Cyceon. [P. 499, supra, and 503, infra.]

^[4453] The ms. reads exci-ta, corrected as above, ex cista, in the margins of Ursinus.

^[4454] [It is a pity that all this must be retailed anew after Clement, vol. ii. pp. 175, 177, notes.]

Chapter XXVII

^[4455] Lit., “by stealthy frauds.”

^[4456] Lit. “is the honour of virginity snatched from them?”

^[4457] Sine veniâ ac sine honoribus præfatis.

^[4458] So Stewechius, LB., and Orelli, reading spec-t-u in t-ali for the ms. in specu ali.

^[4459] Lit., “light.” [Note Clement, vol. ii. p. 175, col. 2, line 12.]

^[4460] So the ms., Hild. and Oehler reading noscentis.

Chapter XXVIII

^[4461] This allusion is somewhat obscure. Heraldus regards tricas Tellenas as akin in sense to t. Atellanas, i.e., “comic trifles;” in which case the sense would be, that Arnobius had been heaping up any trifles which would keep him back from the disagreeable subject. Ausonius Popma (quoted by Orelli) explains the phrase with reference to the capture of Tellenæ by Ancus Martius as meaning “something hard to get through.”

^[4462] The ms. reads alimoniæ, corrected from Clem. Alex. by Salmasius, Alimontia, i.e., celebrated at Halimus in Attica.

^[4463] Lit., “in pure senses.” [Ironically said.]

^[4464] Cicero (de Nat. Deor., iii. 23) speaks of five Dionysi, the father of the fifth being Nisus. Arnobius had this passage before him in writing the fourth book (cf. c. 15, and n. 2), so that he may here mean to speak of Liber similarly.

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