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Lactantius

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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.

[267] Sacrario, “the shrine.”

[268] Father’s brother.

[269] Gradus.

[270] Prophetical writings.

[271] Book i. [ch. 11, p. 22, supra].

[272] The title ὁ δημιουργος, the Architect, or Creator, is used by Plato and Hermes.

[273] Georg., ii. 341. [Terrea progenies duris caput extulit arvis.]

[274] Terrea. Another reading is ferrea, “the race of iron.”

[275] The origin.

[276] The fable of the three Parcæ—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—is derived from Hesiod.

[277] Frailty.

Chap. XII.—That Animals Were Not Produced Spontaneously, But by a Divine Arrangement, of Which God Would Have Given Us the Knowledge, If It Were Advantageous for Us to Know It.

[278] Ripeness, or suitableness.

[279] Little bags, or follicles.

[280] Book v. 806. [Uteri terram radicibus apti.]

[281] A perpetual temperature and an equable spring.

[282] The seasons were varied.

[283] Be rough.

[284] Inextricabilis, that cannot be disentangled.

[285] [De Legibus, book i. cap. 7.]

[286] That is, according to the notions of the heathen.

[287] Made fast, established.

Chap. XIII.—Why Man is of Two Sexes; What is His First Death, and What the Second and of the Fault and Punishment of Our First Parents.

 

 

 

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