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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[1789] Pœnitentiâ factorum.
[1790] ἐλέει. Others read, ὦ μέλευι “O wretched.”
[1791] Vaniloquentia.
[1792] Venerabilis.
[1793] Hospitium, i.e., a place of hospitality.
[1794] Familia, “a household of slaves.”
[1795] Officiosa, i.e., familia.
[1796] Materia rerum.
[1797] Ratio virtutum.
[1798] Æterna morte damnatur.
[1799] Ineluibiles sibi maculas inusserunt.
[1800] Humilia.
[1801] Sopiantur, i.e., be lulled to sleep.
[1802] Destructilia. The word is used by Prudentius.
[1803] [See p. 163, supra. See note below.]
Chap. I.—The Introduction, and Exhortation to Demetrianus.
[1804] [Of whom, infra.]
[1805] [Nostræ sectæ. Perhaps adopted pleasantly from Acts xxviii. 22.] i.e., Christians.
[1806] Virg., Æn., iii. 436.
[1807] i.e., have been initiated by baptism. [Philipp. iii. 20. Greek.]
[1808] Contrectari.
[1809] [The argument from design is unanswerable, and can never be obsolete. The objections are frivolous, and belong to Cicero’s “minute philosophers.”] Of whom, see Tuscal. Quæst., book i. cap. 23.]
Chap. II.—Of the Production of the Beasts and of Man.
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