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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[132] Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, vi. 5. [“Premunt ad terram.”]
[133] Lucretius, v. 1197.
[134] Odor quidam sapientiæ.
[135] Rom. i. 22: “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.”
[136] The apostle teaches the same, Rom. i. 19-21.
[137] Divini sacramenti. 1 Cor. ii. 7: “We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.”
[138] 1 Cor ii. 14: “The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”
[139] [2 Pet. iii. 16. Even among believers such perils exist.]
[140] De Natura Deorum, lib. i. [cap. 32. Quam falsa convincere].
[141] Horat., 1 Serm. 8. 1.
[142] The wood of the fig-tree is proverbially used to denote that which is worthless and contemptible.
[143] The Georgics, which are much more elaborately finished than the other works of Virgil.
[144] Priapus was especially worshipped at Lampsacus on the Hellespont; hence he is styled Hellespontiacus.
[145] Compositum jus, fasque animi. Compositum jus is explained as “the written and ordained laws of men;” fas, “divine and sacred law.” Others read animo, “human and divine law settled in the mind.”
[146] Persius, Sat., ii. 73.
[147] Pupæ, dolls or images worn by girls, as bullæ were by boys. On arriving at maturity, they dedicated these images to Venus. See Jahn’s note on the passage from Persius.
[148] The allusion is to the proverb that “old age is second childhood.”
[149] An allusion to Ps. cxv. 5: “They have mouths, but they speak not.”
[150] Quæ tam non habent qui accipiunt, quam qui illa donarunt. The senseless images can make no use of the treasures.
[151] Justin relates that Græcia Magna, a part of Italy, was subdued by Dionysius. Cicero says that he sailed to Peloponnesus, and entered the temple of the Olympian Jupiter. [De Nat. Deor., iii. 34.]
[152] Sigilla. The word is also used to denote seals, or signets.
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