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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[195] The circumstance is related by Livy, book ix. c. 29.
[196] Prodidit, “betrayed.”
[197] Lacinian, so called from the promontory Lacinia, near Croton.
[198] The island of Cos lies off the coast of Caria; it had a celebrated temple of Æsculapius.
[199] The Circensian games were instituted by Romulus, according to the legend, when he wished to attract the Sabine population to Rome for the purpose of obtaining wives for his people. They were afterwards celebrated with great enthusiasm.
[200] Furca, an instrument of punishment to which the slave was bound and scourged.
Chap. IX.—of the devil, the world, god, providence, man, and his wisdom.
[201] The tricks of a juggler.
[202] Most prudent.
[203] Chap. vi., infra
[204] Free.
[205] The Son of God, afterwards spoken of.
[206] By perseverance. There seems to be a contrast between the Son, who remained stedfast, and the evil spirits who fell.
[207] διάβολος, “slanderer or accuser.” The Greek and Latin words employed by Lactantius have the same meaning.
[208] Providence.
[209] Book iv. ch. vi., etc. [Deus, igitur, machinator constitutorque rerum, etc.]
[210] Lying under; answering to the Greek expression ὑποκειμένη ὕλη, subject matter.
[211] Not now found in the treatise which bears this title.
[212] Capable of proof.
[213] Materia; perhaps from “mater,” mother stuff—matter out of which anything is composed.
[214] The moulder. The ancients made statues of wax or clay, as well as of wood, ivory, and marble.
[215] Contradict.
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