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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[461] Justice comprises within herself all the virtues. And thus Aristotle calls her the mother of the other virtues, because she cherishes as it were in her bosom all the rest.
[462] [This caustic review of Plato is painfully just. Alas! that such opprobria should be incapable of reply.]
Chap. XXIII.—Of the Errors of Certain Philosophers, and of the Sun and Moon.
[463] That is, philosophers of less repute and fame.
[464] Cicero speaks of Tuditanus as scattering money from the rostrum among the people.
[465] [Anacreon, Ode 2. τοι̑ς ἀδράσιν φρόνημα.]
[466] Animals of a solitary nature, as opposed to those of gregarious habits.
[467] [He was nearer truth than he imagined, if the planet Mars may be called below us.]
Chap. XXIV.—Of the Antipodes, the Heaven, and the Stars.
[469] He alludes to the hanging gardens of Semiramis at Babylon.
[470] [World here means universe. See vol. ii. p. 136, note 2.]
Chap. XXV.—Of Learning Philosophy, and What Great Qualifications are Necessary for Its Pursuit.
[471] Tusc., ii. 1.
[472] A long beard and cloak were the badges of the philosophers. [See vol. ii. p. 321, note 9.]
[473] [Platonic philosophy being addressed to the mind, and the Epicurean to lusts and passions.]
[474] Themiste is said to have been the wife of Leontius; Epicurus is reported to have written to her. Themistoclea, the sister of Pythagoras, is mentioned as a student of philosophy; besides many other women in different ages.
[475] Plato dedicated to Phædo his treatise on the immortality of the soul: according to other accounts, Phædo was ransomed by Crito or Alcibiades at the suggestion of Socrates.
[476] Terence, Adelphi, iv. 1.
[477] Perillus invented the brazen bull, which the tyrant Phalaris used as an instrument of torture. It was so constructed that the groans of the victims appeared to resemble the bellowing of the bull.
[478] The baptismal font. [i.e., as signifying Zech. xiii. 1.]
[480] A shadow; outline, or resemblance.
[481] Lucretius, i. 65.
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