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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[4565] Lit., “endowed with the eminence of this name.”
[4566] Lit., “and to satiety.”
[4567] The ms. wants se, which was supplied by Stewechius.
[4568] i.e., not act impartially and benevolently, which may possibly be the meaning of contrariis agere, or, as Oehler suggests, “to assail men with contrary, i.e., injurious things.” All edd. read egere, except Oehler, who can see no meaning in it; but if translated, “to wish for contrary things,” it suits the next clause very well.
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