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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[971] Hominum. Another reading is “omnium,” of all, as opposed to the few.
[972] Propter humanitatem.
[973] Altiores se…faciebant. Another reading is, “altiores cæteris…fulgebant.”
[974] [Compare Cicero, De Officiis, i. 14, with Luke xxii. 25.]
Chap. VII.—Of the Coming of Jesus, and Its Fruit; And of the Virtues and Vices of that Age.
[975] [To establish this, would be to go far in a theodicy to reconcile the permission of evil with the divine goodness.]
[976] Patientia.
[977] Pati.
[978] Caput obvolutum. This appears to be the title of a lost declamation of Quintilian.
[979] Inanem.
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