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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4652] Divendere.
[4653] Lit., “with a workman’s preparing.”
[4654] Lit., “is there any figure to find.”
[4655] Habitus.
[4656] Ex foribus. Cf. Tertull., de Idol., ch. 15: “In Greek writers we also read that Apollo Θυραῖος and the dæmones Antelii watch over doors.”
[4657] So the edd, reading petas-un-culumfor the ms. -io-.
[4658] Lit., “are.”
[4659] Lit., “with strife of skills.”
[4660] ms. Phyrna, but below Phryna, which is read in both instances by Hild. and Oehler.
[4661] So Meursius, followed by Orelli, reading istic for the ms. iste.
[4662] i.e., either the conceptions in their minds, or realized in their works. Orelli, followed by the German translator Besnard, adopting the former view, translates “the ideas of the artists (die Ideale der Künstler) were full of fire and life.”
[4663] [See note 15, p. 511.]
[4664] [True, alas! to this day; notorious courtesans furnishing the models for the pictures and statues worshipped as saints, angels, etc.]
[4665] So Gelenius and Canterus, reading et for ms. est.
[4666] Lit., “with exertion of immense strength.”
[4667] ms. Pantarches. This was a very common mode of expressing love among the ancients, the name of the loved one being carved on the bark of trees (as if the Loves or the mountain nymphs had done it), on walls, doors, or, as in this case, on statues, with the addition “beautiful” (Suidas, s.v. Καλοί and ῾Ραμνουσία Νέμεσις, with Küster’s notes). [Vol. ii. p. 187, note 1, this series.]
[4668] Lit., “bones.”
[4669] Lit., “conditions,” habitus.
[4670] Lit., “similitude.”
[4671] Lit., “first among.”
[4672] Lit., “human things.”
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