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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.”
[1839] Summa. [Wisd. xi. 20.]
[1840] [The amazing proportions imparted to all things created, in correspondence with their relations to man and to the earth, is beautifully hinted by our author.]
[1841] [The snout of the elephant and the neck of the giraffe were developed from their necessities, etc. Modern Science, passim.]
[1842] [In our days reproduced as progress.]
[1843] Cerneret, “to see so as to distinguish;” a stronger word than “video.”
[1844] Præposterus; having the last first, and the first last.
Chap. VII.—Of All the Parts of the Body.
[1845] Solidamenta corporis.
[1846] Retinaculis.
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