Arnobius

Footnotes

^[4679] i.e., the elephant’s tusk.

^[4680] So Salmasius, followed by Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, reading furfuraculis, and LB., reading perforaculis for the ms. furfure aculeis.

^[4681] So the margin of Ursinus, Meursius (according to Orelli), Hild., and Oehler, reading part-u-m for the ms. -e-—“is a part of your labour,” etc.

^[4682] Lit., “of thy work and fingers.”

^[4683] So the ms., both Roman edd., Elm., and Orelli, reading numinis favore, for which LB. reads favorem—“the favour of the propitious deity to succour.” [Isaiah’s argument reproduced.]

Chapter XV

^[4684] Lit., “thrown together.”

^[4685] Rigaltius suggested confracta—“shattered,” for ms. -flata.

^[4686] So the edd. reading cog- for the ms. cogit-amini.

^[4687] Lit., “be moved with agitation of breathing.”

^[4688] Lit., “outside,” i.e., before being in bodily forms.

^[4689] So Ursinus and LB., reading retin-e-ntfor the ms. -ea-, which can hardly be correct. There may possibly be an ellipsis of si before this clause, so that the sentence would run: “If they had any natural properties, (if) they retain all these, what stupidity,” etc.

^[4690] Lit., “deprived of moveableness of feeling.”

Chapter XVI

^[4691] Lit., “a rational animal.”

^[4692] Lit., “with deceit of vain credulity.” The edd. read this as an interrogation: “Do you, therefore, sink down, adore, and bring yourselves into disgrace?”

^[4693] So Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, adopting a conjecture of Grævius, di-, for the ms. de-ducere—“to lead down.”

^[4694] Lit., “resolved into members.”

^[4695] Lit., “by the charm of.”

^[4696] The ms. reads flev-ilium, for which Hild. suggests flex-, as above, previous edd. reading flat-—“of cast plates;” which cannot, however, be correct, as Arnobius has just said that the images were in part made of ivory.

^[4697] Lit., “delays salutary for lastingnesses.” The sense is, that the lead prevents the joints from giving way, and so gives permanence to the statue.

^[4698] Occipitiis.

^[4699] Plantarum vestigia.

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