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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1825] Some editions here add: “But what is the nature of this, it does not belong to the present subject to consider.”
Chap. IV.—Of the Weakness of Man.
[1826] Quadrat.
[1827] Claudicare.
[1828] [The disposition, even among men, to herd together in artificial societies, is instinctively repugnant to the stronger natures.]
Chap. V.—Of the Figures and Limbs of Animals.
[1829] Conglobare, “to gather into a ball.”
[1830] Temperandum. Others read “tenendum.”
[1831] [But, query, Is there not an unsolved mystery about birds and flying? They seem to me to be sustained in the air by some faculty not yet understood.]
[1832] Viscera. This word includes the heart, lungs, liver, stomach, and intestines.
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