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Arnobius
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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[4906] Briæ, drinking-cups, but of their peculiar shape or purpose we know nothing.
[4907] Lit., “badly.”
[4908] Lit., “being strangled, may be.”
[4909] So LB., Orelli, and Oehler, reading with Salmasius m-u-scos (ms. -i-). Gelenius proposed cnissas, which would refer to the steam of the sacrifices.
[4910] Lit., “interior.”
[4911] So most edd., reading nimirum quia plus valet, for which the ms., followed by both Roman edd., Hild., and Oehler, read primum. q. v., which Hild. would explain “because it prevails above all rather than;” but this is at least very doubtful.
[4912] Vino inferio.
[4913] Lit., “bound by religion.”
[4914] This is admirably illustrated in an inscription quoted by Heraldus: “Jupiter most excellent, supreme, when this day I give and dedicate to thee this altar, I give and dedicate it with these conditions and limits which I say openly to-day.”
[4915] Circumscriptione verborum.
[4916] Symphoniæ. Evidently musical instruments; but while Isidore speaks of them as a kind of drum, other writers call them trumpets and pipes.
[4917] At daybreak on opening, and at night on closing the temple, the priests of Isis sang hymns in praise of the goddess (cf. Jos. Scaliger, Castigationes ad Cat., etc., p. 132); and to these Arnobius refers sarcastically, as though they had been calls to awake, and lullabies to sing her asleep.
[4918] At daybreak on opening, and at night on closing the temple, the priests of Isis sang hymns in praise of the goddess (cf. Jos. Scaliger, Castigationes ad Cat., etc., p. 132); and to these Arnobius refers sarcastically, as though they had been calls to awake, and lullabies to sing her asleep.
[4919] i.e., March 27th, marked Lavatio in a calendar prepared during the reign of Constantius.
[4920] Lit., “and some rubbing of cinders added,” aliqua frictione cineris; an emendation of Ursinus for the possibly correct ms. antiqua f. c.—“the ancient rubbing,” i.e., that practiced in early times.
[4921] Lit., “anniversary.”
[4922] So the later edd., adopting the emendation of ad suas usionesfor the corrupt ms. ad (or ab) suasionibus.
[4923] i.e., feast at which the image of Ceres was placed on a couch, probably the Cerealia, celebrated in April. This passage flatly contradicts Prof. Ramsay’s assertion (Ant., p. 345) that lectisternium is not applied to a banquet offered to a goddess; while it corroborates his statement that such feasts were ordinary events, not extraordinary solemnities, as Mr. Yates says (Smith’s Ant., s.v.). See p. 519, n. 2.
[4924] Lit., “the impression of the cushions is lifted up and raised,” i.e., smoothed.
[4925] Thus the 25th of January is marked as the birthday of the Graces, the 1st of February as that of Hercules, the 1st of March as that of Mars, in the calendar already mentioned.
[4926] The former dedicated to Flora (cf. iii. 25), the latter to Cybele.
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