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Lactantius

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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[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.

[2037] Aristas. The word is sometimes applied, as here, to spikenard.

[2038] Et sociat myrrhæ pascua grata nimis; another reading is, “et sociam myrrhæ vim, Panachaia tuæ.”

[2039] In talique toro; others, “vitalique toro,” i.e., on a death-bed.

[2040] Commendat.

 

 

 

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