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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[48] [Nat. Deor., iii. 36. De Maistre, Soirèes, i. p. 30, and note, p 63.]
Chap. XI.—of the origin, life, reign, name and death of jupiter, and of saturn and uranus.
[49] [Compare the remorseless satire of Arnobius, vol. vi. p. 498.]
[50] Ζεὺς, or Ζη̑ν. [Quad sit auctor vitæ. Delphin note.]
[51] [On the Poets, vol. i. cap. 2, p. 273.]
[52] Eo, i.e., to those.
[53] Juvando. [Nat. Deor., iii. 25, 26.]
[54] Ætate pessum acta. [See plural Joves, Nat. Deor., iii. 16.]
[55] Commutavit; others read consummavit, “he completed.”
[56] [Condensed from cap. xxii. See vol. iv. p. 186, this series.]
[57] Æther. [Tayler Lewis, Plato cont. Ath., pp. 126–129.]
[58] Æther. [Tayler Lewis, Plato cont. Ath., pp. 126–129.]
[59] Euhemerus was a Sicilian author of the age of Alexander the Great. He wrote a sacred history containing an account of the several gods who were worshipped in Greece, whom he represents as having originally been men who had distinguished themselves by their exploits, or benefits conferred upon men, and who were therefore, after their death, worshipped as gods. The Christian writers frequently refer to Euhemerus as helping them to prove that the pagan mythology consisted only of fables invented by men. See Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.
Chap. XII.—that the stoics transfer the figments of the poets to a philosophical system.
[60] vi. 291. [Tayler Lewis (ut supra), note xii. p. 119.]
[61] De Nat. deor., ii. 64.
[62] Virg., Æneid, viii. 321.
[63] Georg., ii. 538.
[64] Æneid, viii. 324.
[65] Ibid., vi. 793.
Chap. XV.—how they who were men obtained the name of gods.
[66] [Vol. ii. cap. 28, p. 143, this series.]
[67] Per amorem meriti. Some editions omit “meriti.”
[68] Æneid, vii. 133.
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