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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1810] Omnes enim suis ex se pilis. Others read, “pellibus texit.”
[1811] [ποδωκίην λὰγωο̑ις —Anac., Ode i. 3.]
[1812] [Φύσις κέρατα ταύροις ὁπλὰς δ' έδωκεν ίπποις.—Anac., Ode i. 1, 2.]
[1813] [λέουσι χάσμ' οἠδόντων —Ib., 4.]
[1814] [“The survival of the fittest.” The cant of our day anticipated.]
[1815] [τοι̑ς ἀνδράσιν φρόνημα —Ib., 5. See p. 172, note 5, supra.]
[1816] [The admirable investigations of the modern atheists are so many testimonies against their own theories when they come to talk of force, etc., instead of God. P. 97, note 4, supra.]
Chap. III.—Of the Condition of the Beasts and Man.
[1817] Effusus est.
[1818] Ominari.
[1819] Lucret., v. 228.
[1820] [The admirable investigations of the modern atheists are so many testimonies against their own theories when they come to talk of force, etc., instead of God. P. 97, note 4, supra.]
[1821] Dependit.
[1822] Contrarium.
[1823] Excogitabit.
[1824] Boves Lucas. Elephants are said to have been so called, because they were first seen by the Romans in Lucania.
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