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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.”
[4555] Lit., “for.”
[4556] Lit., “the warp,” stamine.
[4557] i.e., if things are spoken of under their proper names.
[4558] The ms. reads ac unintelligibly.
[4559] Lit., “it remains that we.”
[4560] Lit., “series which is,” etc.
[4561] Singular. [But costly churches were built about this time.]
[4562] Non altaria, non aras, i.e., neither to the superior nor inferior deities. Cf. Virgil, Ecl., v. 66.
[4563] [It is not with any aversion to incense that I note its absence, so frequently attested, from primitive rites of the Church.]
[4564] The earlier edd. prefix d to the ms. eos—“that the gods,” etc.
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