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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[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.]
[1312] Asclepiades was a Christian writer, and contemporary of Lactantius, to whom he wrote a book on the providence of God. [According to Eusebius, a bishop of this name presided at Antioch from a.d. 214 to 220; but this is evidently another.]
Chap. V.—Of the Creation of Man, and of the Arrangement of the World, and of the Chief Good.
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