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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1425] Virg., Bucol., iv. 21–45. The order of the lines is changed. [This, the famous Pollio, greatly influenced Constantine. See p. 140, note 7, supra.]
Chap. XXV.—Of the Last Times, and of the City of Rome.
[1426] Consignatam teneri.
[1427] [See p. 218, supra, and Victorinus, sparsim, infra.]
[1428] [Again a reference, as on p. 213 note 1, supra.]
[1429] ρυμη. There are other readings, as πυ̑ρ and “pyra.”
Chap. XXVI.—Of the Loosing of the Devil, and of the Second and Greatest Judgment.
[1430] Usque ad unum.
[1431] [This clearly proves that the better sort of Chiliasm was not extinct in the Church,]
[1432] [i.e., “the faithful,” a title often used to designate Christians. This discipline was based on Heb. v. 14 and Matt. vii. 6.]
[1433] Jam emergente atque illustratâ veritate.
[1434] Singularis.
[1435] Profligati jacent.
[1436] Consummas. [Art fulfilling; i.e., as a catechumen.]
[1437] [In admonishing the great, the form was to ascribe to them the characters they should cultivate. Lactantius here speaks as a courtier, but guardedly.]
Chap. XXVII.—An Encouragement and Confirmation of the Pious.
[1438] Decursis septem spatiis,—an expression borrowed from the chariot race: here applied to the seven books of this treatise.
[1439] Terent., Phorm., ii. 1. 19.
[1440] De Nat. Rer., vi. 24.
[1441] Quorum cæcis mentibus lux negatur. Others read, “Quidam cæcis mentibus viri.”
[1442] [This evident quotation from Rev. xxi. 7 and xxii. 17 is noteworthy as proof of the currency of the Apocalypse in North Africa.]
[1443] Rationem hominis.
[1444] Virg., Æneid, iv. 336.
The Preface.—The Plan and Purport of the Whole Epitome, And of the Institutions.
[1445] [A specimen of the abridgments made by authors and editors, owing to the great expense of books in manuscript. They have been sources of great injury to literature.]
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