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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[2009] Virg., Æn., viii. 660.
[2010] From Hieron., Commentar. in ep. ad Gal., l. ii., opp. ed. Vallars. viii. 1, p. 426. Hieron., De Viris Illus., c. 80: we have “four books of epistles to Probus.”
[2011] [A curious expansion of the fable so long supposed to be authentic history of a natural wonder, and probably derived from Oriental tales corroborated by travellers. See vol. i. p. 12; also iii. 554. Yezeedee bird-worship may have sprung out of it.]
[2012] Remotus. The reference is supposed to be to Arabia, though some think that India is pointed out as the abode of the phœnix.
[2013] Hiat.
[2014] Cædis amore furor. There is another reading, “cedit.”
[2015] Vellera, “thin fleecy clouds.” So Virg., Georg., i. 397; Tenuia nec lanæ per cœlum vellera ferri.
[2016] Vivum.
[2017] Per singula tempora mensum.
[2018] Unica, “the only one.” It was supposed that only one phœnix lived at one time. So the proverb “Phœnice rarior.”
[2019] Birds were considered sacred to peculiar gods: thus the phœnix was held sacred to Phœbus. [Layard, Nineveh, vol. ii. p. 462.]
[2020] Gurgite.
[2021] Aura. So Virg., Æneid, vi. 204: “Discolor unde auri per ramos aura refulsit.”
[2022] Ciere.
[2023] Aëdoniæ voces. The common reading is “Ædoniæ,” contrary to the metre.
[2024] i.e., strains of Apollo and the Muses, for Cyrrha is at the foot of Parnassus, their favourite haunt.
[2025] Aperta Olympi, when he has mounted above the horizon.
[2026] Protulit.
[2027] Antistes.
[2028] Gravem, i.e., a burden to herself.
[2029] Fatis urgentibus; others read “spatiis vergentibus.”
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