| << | Contents | >> |
Lactantius
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 1828
Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1833] Cratis, properly “wicker-work.”
[1834] Vertibula.
[1835] Mobilitas.
[1836] Anguimanus,—a word applied by Lucretius to the elephant.
Chap. VI.—Of the Error of Epicurus, and of the Limbs and Their Use.
[1837] [Yet Lucretuis has originality and genius of an order far nobler than that of moderns who copy his follies.]
[1838] Ratio. Nearly equivalent its this place to “providentia.”
Search Comments
This page has been visited 0404 times.
| << | Contents | >> |
10 per page