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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1037] i.e., The Academic School.
[1038] Sacramentum, “the true theory of human life.”
[1039] Fabulosus.
[1040] Hor., Carm., i. 22. 1, Lord Lytton’s translation.
[1041] Pro fide.
[1042] Deprecatus esse dicitur.
[1043] Proprietatem.
[1044] Conciliatricem sui.
[1045] Nesciunt, quia malum est nocere.
[1046] Officium.
Chap. XIX.—Of Virtue and the Tortures of Christians, and of the Right of a Father and Master.
[1047] Thus far he has refuted the arguments of Furius, the advocate of injustice. He now shows the reasons why Lælius, who was esteemed most wise, does not worthily maintain the cause of justice, i.e., because he was ignorant of heavenly wisdom. [See cap. xvii. p. 152, supra.]
[1048] De Republ., i. 3.
[1049] Vid. ch. xii.
[1050] [In focum. Here it means the brazier placed before an image.]
[1051] Generandi ministrum.
[1052] [Perpetually recurring are such ideas and interpretations of God’s warnings. Vol. iv. p. 542.]
Chap. XX.—Of the Vanity and Crimes, Impious Superstitions, and of the Tortures of the Christians.
[1053] Prædonum. Some refer this to the priests; others, with greater probability, to the demons alluded to in the sentence.
[1054] Ludibriis.
[1055] Ex mortibus. Another reading is, ex moribus.
[1056] [That is, the introductions, historically recorded, of such rites; e.g., by Numa. See vol. iii. p. 36, this series.]
[1057] Carnificina.
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