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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[395] The fall or overthrow.
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