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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4534] The ms., first four edd., and Oehler read gravitas—seriousness; corrected pr. as above, in all edd. after Stewechius.
[4535] So, perhaps, the unintelligible ms. dignorum should be emended digna rerum.
[4536] So all edd. since Stewechius, adding s to the ms. voluisse.
[4537] i.e., the mere fact that the stories were published, showed a wish to teach; but their being allegories, showed a reluctance to allow them to be understood.
[4538] The edd. read this sentence interrogatively.
[4539] i.e., “if you said exactly what you mean.” The reference is not to the immediately preceding words, but to the question on which the chapter is based—“what prevented you from expressing,” etc.
[4540] Lit., “perverse.”
[4541] Passivè.
[4542] Lit., “is it clear to you.”
[4543] Lit., “natures.”
[4544] Lit., “things.”
[4545] So most edd., reading occultatiofor the ms. occupatio.
[4546] So all edd., reading com-, except Hild. and Oehler, who retain the ms. reading, im-pressio—“the assault of,” i.e., “on.”
[4547] Lit., “waves”—fluctibus, the reading of the ms., LB., Hild., and Oehler; the other edd. reading fustibus—“stakes.”
[4548] So Meursius, changing the ms. o- into u-rigo.
[4549] The first four edd. retain the ms., reading partis—“brought forth;” the others adopt a suggestion of Canterus, raptis, as above.
[4550] Lit., “vastness.”
[4551] Addere garo gerrem, a proverb ridiculing a worthless addition, which nullifies something in itself precious, garum being a highly esteemed sauce (or perhaps soup), which would be thrown away upon gerres, a worthless kind of salt fish. Arnobius merely means, however, that while such stories are wrong, what follows is unspeakably worse.
[4552] Lit., “with undubitable knowledge.”
[4553] Lit., “it ought to have been so believed, and to be held fixed in thought just,” etc.
[4554] Lit., “are in this part of censure.”
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