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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[69] Ibid., v. 59.
[70] Instructa. [Vol. ii. cap. 18, p. 137, this series.]
[71] [De Legibus, ii. cap. 8.]
[72] [Liber i. capp. 12, 13.]
[73] And that the office of propagating (his race) does not fall within the nature of God.
[74] i. 931. [i.e., De Rerum Natura, lib. i. verse 931.]
[75] [Cicero, De Officiis, lib. iii. 11.]
[76] [Nat. Deor., liber i. 32.]
[77] Delos.
[78] The priests of Cybele were called Galli.
[79] Jupiter.
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