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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[950] Cf. Matt. vii. 15.
[951] Epilogus.
Chap. IV.—Why This Work Was Published, and Again of Tertullian and Cyprian.
[952] [Future Writers. This laying of an anchor to windward is characteristic of Lactantius.]
[953] [See elucidations, vol. iii. pp. 56–60, this series.]
[954] Oblatrantem atque obstrepentem veritati. These words are taken from Cyprian, vol. v. p. 457, this series.
[955] Rudem.
[956] Caligaret.
[957] [This censure of Cyprian fully exculpates Minucius, Arnobius, and others, superficially blamed for their few quotations from Holy Writ. Also, it explains our author’s quotations from the Sibyl, etc.]
Chap. V.—There Was True Justice Under Saturnus, But It Was Banished by Jupiter.
[958] [Striking is the language of the Pollio (“Redit et Virgo,” etc.) in which the true Virgin seems to be anticipated.]
[959] Ulla. Another reading is “illâ,” as though there were a reference to the family of Saturnus.
[960] Germanicus Cæsar, the grandson of Augustus, translated in verse a part of the poems of Aratus. [See p. 36, supra.]
[961] Cicero translated in verse part of the poems of Aratus. [This poet is quoted by St. Paul, του̑ γὰρ καὶ γένος ἐσμέν, Acts xvii. 28. Archdeacon Farrar does not consider the natural and impedantic spirit of the Apostle in suiting this quotation to time and place; and, if it was a common-place proverb, all the more suggestive is the accuracy of the reference to “one of your own poets.”]
[962] Virg., Georg., i. 126.
[963] Ovid, Metam., i. 111.
[964] Virg. Æn., viii. 320.
[965] Germ. Cæs., Arat., 136.
[966] [That is, in his translation of the poetry of Aratus.]
[968] [Et Jovis in regno, cœlique in parte resedit. For this fragmentary verse we are indebted to our author; other fragments are given in good editions of Cicero. He translated the Phenomena of Aratus in his youth. My (Paris) edition contains nearly the whole.]
[969] Virg., Georg., i. 139.
[970] Virg., Æn., viii. 327.
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