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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1167] Populari levitate ducti: an expression somewhat similar to “popularis aura.”
[1168] Fabulam.
[1169] Cic., Pro Marcello [Nihil opere et manu factum.]
Chap. XII.—Of the Kinds of Beneficence, and Works of Mercy.
[1170] Beneficii fœneratio.
[1171] The meaning appears to be this: To benefit our friends and relatives, relates to man, i.e., is a merely human work; but to benefit those who cannot make a recompense is a divine work, and its reward is to be expected from God.
[1172] Rapiunt.
[1173] De Offic., ii. 18.
[1174] Ambire.
[1175] Malitiosi et astuti.
[1176] Malitia, roguery. The word properly signifies some legal trick by which the ends of justice are frustrated, though the letter of the law is not broken.
[1177] Umbratico et imaginario præceptori.
[1178] De Officiis, ii. 18.
[1179] Munera. The same word is used for “shows,” as of gladiators, or contests of wild beasts, exhibited to the people.
[1180] i.e., children.
[1181] Operationis.
[1182] Quasi odore quodam veritatis. The word “odor” is sometimes used to express “a presentiment” or “suspicion.”
[1183] [Gen. xlix. 29-31; Mark xiv. 8, 9.]
[1184] [Ennius; also in Cicero, De Offic., i. cap. 16]
[1186] In aram Dei. Others read “arcam,” the chest.
[1187] i.e., “gladiators purchased from a trainer for the gratification of the people.”
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