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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[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.
[98] Aratus was the author of two Greek astronomical poems, the Φαινόμενα and the Διοσημε̑ια Virgil, in his Georgics, has borrowed largely from the latter. Germanicus Cæsar, the grandson of Augustus, as stated in the text, translated the Φαινόμενα.
[99] αιγιοχος; “scutum habens.”
[100] Ancile, the sacred shield, carried by the Salii, or priests of Mars, in the processions at the festival of that deity.
[101] Non Furius, sed plane furiosus.
[102] Implicavit.
[103] Terricolas. Another reading is terriculas, bugbears.
[104] Pergula. The word properly means a projection attached to a house. Apelles is said to have placed his pictures in such an adjunct, and to have concealed himself behind them, that he might hear the comments of persons passing by.
[105] Cithæron, from “cithara,” a lyre.
[106] Didymus. A celebrated Alexandrian grammarian, a follower of the school of Aristarchus. He is distinguished from other grammarians who bore the name of Didymus, by the surname Chalcenteros, which he is said to have received from his unwearied diligence in study. Among his productions, which are all lost, was one on the Homeric poems. He also wrote a commentary on Pindar, to which allusion is made in the text. See Smith’s Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography.
[107] Cf. Virg., Æneid, v. [verse 718].
Chap. XXIII.—of the ages of vain superstitions, and the times at which they commenced.
[108] Theophilus was bishop of Antioch in the latter part of the second century. He was originally a heathen, and was converted to Christianity, as he tells us, by the reading of the Scriptures. [See vol. ii. pp. 87 and 120, this series.]
[109] De Temporibus. Among the extant works of Theophilus there is not any with this title, but his work to Autolycus contains an apology for Christianity in three books. It is to this that Lactantius here refers.
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