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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4734] Lit., “in the limits of.”
[4735] Lit., “agonizing restraint.”
[4736] Lit., “to.”
[4737] Cf. p. 315, n. 2, supra.
[4738] So Clemens narrates; but Thucydides (iv. 133) says that “straightway Chrysis flees by night for refuge to Phlious, fearing the Argives;” while Pausanius (ii. 59) says that she fled to Tegea, taking refuge there at the altar of Minerva Alea.
[4739] From Varro’s being mentioned, Oehler thinks that Arnobius must refer to various marauding expeditions against the temples of Apollo on the coasts and islands of the Ægean, made at the time of the piratical war. Clemens, however, speaks distinctly of the destruction of the temple at Delphi, and it is therefore probable that this is referred to, if not solely, at least along with those which Varro mentions. Clement, vol. ii. p. 187.
[4740] Lit., “his visitors,” hospitis.
[4741] Varro Menippeus, an emendation of Carrio, adopted in LB. and Orelli for the ms. se thenipeus.
[4742] Lit., “suspicion being averted.”
[4743] It has been generally supposed that reference is thus made to some kind of thieves, which is probable enough, as Arnobius (end of next chapter) classes all these plunderers as “tyrants, kings, robbers, and nocturnal thieves;” but it is impossible to say precisely what is meant. Heraldus would read Saraceni—“Saracens.”
[4744] Lit., “with obscurity of means.” The phrase may refer either to the defence or to the assault of temples by means of magic arts.
[4745] Lit., “interior motion.”
[4746] Lit., “lop away,” deputarent, the reading of the ms., Hild., and Oehler; the rest reading deponerent—“lay aside.” [The same plausible defences are used to this day by professed Christians. See Jesuits at Rome, by Hobart Seymour, p. 38, ed. New York, 1849.]
[4747] Lit., “pass to human offices.”
[4748] Lit., “crimes and wickednesses.”
[4749] Lit., “go,” vadere.
[4750] Lit., “with their golden and to-be-feared splendours themselves.”
[4751] Lit., “and without any favour,” gratificatione.
[4752] Lit., “what great thing have these images in them.”
[4753] So the ms., first four edd., Elm., Hild., and Oehler, reading mores et maleficia, corrected in the others a maleficio—“morals withheld from wickedness.”
[4754] Cf. ch. 12, p. 511.
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