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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[1847] Visceribus.
Chap. VIII.—Of the Parts of Man: the Eyes and Ears.
[1848] Rigidum.
[1849] [An amusing persistency in the enforcement of this idea.]
[1850] Omnis. Others read “orbis.”
[1851] i.e., the head.
[1852] Cœlo. Some believed that the soul was of fire.
[1853] Foratu, “the process of boring;” foramen, “the aperture thus made.”
[1854] Frontem.
[1855] Duplicitas.
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