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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[1291] [See p. 108, supra.]

[1292] Ad confundendos. Others read “consolandos.”

Chap. II.—Of the Error of the Philosophers, and of the Divine Wisdom, and of the Golden Age.

[1293] Decurso temporum spatio. A metaphor taken from the chariot course; spatium being used for the length of the course, between the metæ, or goals.

[1294] Ter., Phorm., v. 2.

[1295] Assumptio: often used for the minor proposition in a syllogism.

[1296] Tusc. Disp., i. 41.

Chap. III.—Of Nature, and of the World; And a Censure of the Stoics and Epicureans.

[1297] Eum. Others read “eam,” referring it to “majestatem.”

[1298] Æneid, vi. 726.

[1299] i.e., earthquakes.

[1300] Siccaverunt: rarely used in a neuter sense.

[1301] Primam terræ faciem: as opposed to the inner depths.

[1302] De Rer. Nat., v. 157–166.

[1303] Quòd si ratio ei quadraret.

[1304] Little images, sigilla.

[1305] Rationem.

[1306] i.e., atoms.

[1307] Corrupit.

[1308] Æqualis.

[1309] Interfusio.

[1310] Aspiratio.

Chap. IV.—That All Things Were Created for Some Use, Even Those Things Which Appear Evil; On What Account Man Enjoys Reason in So Frail a Body.

[1311] [The parables of nature are admirably expounded by Jones of Nayland. See his Zoologica Ethica, his Book of Nature, and his Moral Character of the Monkey, vols. iii., xi., and xii., Works, London, 1801.]

 

 

 

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