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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[4755] The reference is probably to some statue or picture of Juno represented as girt with the girdle of Venus. (Il., xiv. 214).
[4756] Lit., “inferior.”
[4757] Formidinum.
[4758] Terrores.
[4759] Or, perhaps, “relate that images so frigid and so awkward.”
[4760] The ms., and both Roman edd. read monstruosissima-s torvi-tate-s annis; corrected by Gelenius and later edd. monstruosissimâ torvitate animos, and by Salmasius, Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, as above, m. t. sannis.
[4761] The ms., first four edd., Elm., and Oberthür read manus, which, with animos read in most (cf. preceding note), would run, “that they were even kept back, as to (i.e., in) minds and hands, from wicked actions by the preternatural savageness of masks.” The other edd. read with Salmasius, as above, maniis.
[4762] Lit., “cut away.”
[4763] Lit., “opinion of.”
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