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Introductory Notice to Arnobius.
[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.
[4927] Singular.
[4928] So the margin of Ursinus, Elm., LB., Orelli, Hild., and Oehler; the ms. reading not being known.
[4929] Lit., “in dancing motions.”
[4930] So Meursius, Orelli, and Oehler, reading existimat-ve, all the others retaining the ms. -ur-—“Is Flora thought to be treated,” etc.
[4931] Lit., “adapts.”
[4932] Here also there is doubt as to what the reading of the ms. is. The 1st ed. reads sine culpa—“without blame,” which is hardly in keeping with the context, emended causa, as above, by Gelenius.
[4933] So Orelli explains certare hos spiritu as referring to a contest in which each strove to speak or sing with one breath longer than the rest.
[4934] Lit., “an animal of no value.”
[4935] Lit., “the modesty of their humility.”
[4936] Lit., “they contain their nature in a corporeal form.”
[4937] Lit., “of.”
[4938] Cf. p. 531, n. 8.
[4939] Lit., “by opposition of the parts of each.” Considerable difficulty has been felt as to the abrupt way in which the book ends as it is arranged in the ms. Orelli has therefore adopted the suggestion of an anonymous critic, and transposed cc. 35, 36, 37 to the end. This does not, however, meet the difficulty; for the same objection still holds good, that there is a want of connection and harmony in these concluding chapters, and that, even when thus arranged, they do not form a fitting conclusion to the whole work.
[4940] Lit., “of.”
[4941] Lit., “that effigies have been far removed from them.” This may be understood, either as meaning that the gods had not visible form at all, or, as above, that their likenesses made by men showed no resemblance.
[4942] in Orelli.
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