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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.”
[4764] Lit., “in that part of years.”
[4765] Lit., “attribute least.”
[4766] Lit., “divine spurning.”
[4767] [When good old Dutch Boyens came to the pontificate as Hadrian VI., he was accounted a “barbarian” because he so little appreciated the art-treasures in the Vatican, on which Leo X. had lavished so much money and so much devotion. His pious spirit seemed oppressed to see so many heathen images in the Vatican: sunt idola ethnicorum was all he could say of them,—a most creditable anecdote of such a man in such times. See p. 504, n. 6, supra.]
[4768] [In the Edin. edition this is the opening sentence, but the editor remarks]: “By some accident the introduction to the seventh book has been tacked on as a last chapter to the sixth, where it is just as out of place as here it is in keeping.” [I have restored it to its place accordingly.]
[4769] Lit., “those, moreover.”
[4770] Lit., “nor is any blame contracted.”
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