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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.”
[2030] Studio renascendi.
[2031] Venus was worshipped in Syro-Phœnice.
[2032] Gratum; others read “Graium,” Grecian.
[2033] Quà; another reading is “quam,” that which.
[2034] Purpureum. There may be a reference to the early dawn.
[2035] Obsit.
[2036] Some ancient writers place these fabulous people in India, others beyond Arabia.
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