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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[85] Lupa. [See vol. iii. cap. 10, p. 138, this series.]
[86] Lupanar.
[87] Mens. [Tayler Lewis, Plato, etc., p. 219.]
[88] Or, lights. The oracle is ambiguous, since the word φωσ signifies a man, and also light. [i.e., φὼς = man, and φω̑ς = light.]
[89] v. 629.
[90] Jace. Others read “jaci.”
[91] v. 621.
[92] So the priests of Baal cut themselves, 1 Kings xviii. 28.
[93] Panibus, loaves made in the shape of crowns.
[94] [See this page, note 6, infra.]
[95] The moon.
[96] εὐφημια. It was supposed that words of ill omen, if uttered during the offering of a sacrifice, would render the gods unpropitious: the priest therefore, at the commencement of a sacrifice, called upon the people to abstain from ill-omened words: εὐφημει̑τε, “favete linguis.”
[97] Βούζυγον.
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