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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1104] [Ut infinita et perpetua potestate dominos se dici velint universi generis humani. A bold hint to Constantine.]
[1105] Variis. Another reading is “vanis.”
[1106] Philosophiam in oculos impingit. [A warning to the emperor, a reflection on such as the Antonines, and a prolepsis of Julian.]
Chap. V.—Of False and True Virtue; And of Knowledge.
[1107] [Inutilia.]
[1108] Hostem atque inimicum: the former word signifies a “public,” the latter a “private enemy.”
[1109] [De Officiis, passim. Notably, to begin with, book i. cap. 3: “Triplex igitur,” etc.]
[1110] [De Nat. Deor., iii. See also De Off., cap. 5, sec. 18.]
[1111] Epist., i. 1. 41.
[1112] [To be taken with a grain of salt, but apparently comprehended in our author’s personal theodicy.]
Chap. VI.—Of the Chief Good and Virtue, and or Knowledge and Righteousness.
[1113] Pœne: others read “plenè,” and “planè.” [c. 30, p. 100, supra.]
[1114] [The first of the three inutilia of Lucilius, ut supra, thus: (1) “Virtus quærendæ rei finem scire, modumque;” (2) “Virtus divitiis pretium persolvere posse;” (3) “Virtus id dare quod re ipsa debetur honori.” See p. 167, supra.]
[1115] See chap. v. [p. 167, supra.]
[1116] Ratio virtutis.
[1117] [How I love our author for his winning reproof of mere philosophical virtue in contrast with evangelical righteousness!]
[1118] [See the Quis Dives Salvetur of Clement, vol. ii. p. 591, this series.]
[1119] [Haggai. ii. 7. “La journée de Pharsale fut la dernière heure de la liberté. Le sénat, les lois, le peuple, les mœurs, le mond romain étaient anéantis avec Pompée.”—Lamartine.]
[1120] [See, on Pharsalia, etc., Lamartine’s eloquent remarks, Vie des Grands Hommes (César), vol. v. pp. 276–277, ed. Paris, 1856.]
[1121] De Offic., iii. 6.
[1122] Funditus, “from the very foundation.”
[1123] Moremque civilem.
[1124] De Offic., iii. 17.
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