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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[80] Virg., Æneid, vii. 774.
Chap. XVIII.—on the consecration of gods, on account of the benefits which they conferred upon men.
[81] Virtus in its first meaning denotes valour, the property of a man (vir); then it is used to signify moral excellence.
[82] Lit., than himself.
[83] Ab his sordibus.
[84] Exorsus est. The word properly denotes to begin a web, to lay the warp; hence the use of “ordiri” In the following clause.
Chap. XX.—of the gods peculiar to the Romans, and their sacred rites.
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