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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[333] Sed. Other editions read et; but the one adopted in the text brings out the meaning more distinctly by contrast = they did not disgrace religion, but their own honour.
Chap. XVII.—That Astrology, Soothsaying, and Similar Arts are the Invention of Demons.
[334] By their presence.
[335] Malefici—evil doers. The word is specially used of enchanters.
[336] Book i. ch. vi.
[337] Apparitors. The word is especially applied to public servants, as lictors, etc.
[338] Surrounded, shut in.
[339] Prævaricatores. The word is properly applied to an advocate who is guilty of collusion with his antagonist, and thus betrays his client.
[340] Womanly Fortune.
[341] Unbelievers.
[342] Governments.
[343] At their nod, or suggestion.
[344] They presage.
[345] That which was necessary according to the purpose and arrangement of God.
[346] Tensa; a carriage on which the images of the gods were carried to the circus at the Circensian games.
[347] Deserved nothing, had nothing worthy of punishment. Varro and Paulus Æmilius were the two consuls who commanded at Cannæ. Varro escaped, Paulus was slain.
[348] Virg., Æn., viii. 292.
[349] Ibid., i. 19.
[350] Contempt.
[351] They have made old.
Chap. XVIII.—Of the Patience and Vengeance of God, the Worship of Demons, and False Religions.
[352] Jerome says “Great is the anger of God when He does not correct sins, but punishes blindness with blindness. On this very account God sends strong delusion, as St. Paul writes to the Thessalonians, that they should believe a lie, that they all may be damned who have not believed the truth. They are unworthy of the living fountain who dig for themselves cisterns.”
[353] Virg., Æn., iv. 464. Some read priorum instead of piorum
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