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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[2041] Genitali, “productive;” observe the antithesis.
[2042] Conflat.
[2043] Effectum; others read, “ad fœtum seminis instar habent.”
[2044] Cum corpore curto; others read, “cum tempore certo.”
[2045] Ruptis exuviis. The same word is used by Virgil to describe the serpent slipping its skin—“positis exuviis.”
[2046] Tineæ.
[2047] Tenues; others read “teneri.”
[2048] Thure soluto.
[2049] Exuvias suas.
[2050] In formam conglobat.
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