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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[374] It is evident that the Academy took its rise from the doctrine of Socrates. Plato, the disciple of Socrates, founded the Academy. However excellent their system may appear to many, the opinion of Carneades the Stoic seems just, who said that “the wise man who is about to conjecture is about to err, for he who conjectures knows nothing.” Thus knowledge is taken from them by themselves.—Betul.
[375] With nothing but an inner wall between.
Chap. IV.—That Knowledge is Taken Away by Socrates, and Conjecture by Zeno.
[376] Terent., Heautont., iii. sec. 97.
[377] σπαρτοί, those who sprung from the dragon’s teeth.
[379] Distrahi, which is the reading of some editions, is here followed in preference to the common reading, detrahi.
Chap. VI.—Of Wisdom, and the Academics, and Natural Philosophy.
[380] The master of ignorance.
[381] Erutam.
[382] The New Academy.
[383] In Greek, ἀσύστατον, “without consistency, not holding together;” in Latin, “instabile” or “inconstans.”
[384] Versutus, one who turns and shifts.
Chap. VII.—Of Moral Philosophy, and the Chief Good.
[385] Natural philosophy.
[386] The hinge of wisdom altogether turns.
Chap. VIII.—Of the Chief Good, and the Pleasures of the Soul and Body, and of Virtue.
[387] Rationem, “the plan or method of his condition.”
[388] [Sus ille lutulentus. 2 Pet. ii. 22.]
[389] They, i.e., the beasts of prey and the tame animals.
[390] Virg., Georg., iii. 112, 102.
[391] [De Finibus, book v. cap. 28.]
[392] Literally, “since the nature of good things is placed on a steep ascent, that of evil things on a precipitous descent.”
[393] Honestas is used with some latitude of meaning, to express respectability of character, or honourable feeling, or the principle of honour, or virtue itself. [See Philipp. iv. 8.]
Chap. IX.—Of the Chief Good, and the Worship of the True God, and a Refutation of Anaxagoras.
[394] That he might be able to make some answer.
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