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Lactantius
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Introductory Notice To Lactantius.
[982] [See ed. Klotz, vol. ii. p. 403, Lips., 1869.]
Chap. IX.—Of the Crimes of the Wicked, and the Torture Inflicted on the Christians.
[983] Virg., Æn., ii. 355.
[984] Ter., Andr., i. 1, 41.
[985] The Jewish people. Thus St. Paul speaks, Acts xxvi. 6: “I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers.”
[986] i.e., the Christian religion.
[987] Mactant.
[988] Desperati, equivalent to παράβολοι, a word borrowed from combats with wild beasts, and applied to Christians as being ready to devote their lives to the cause of God.
[989] There is an allusion to the punishment of parricides, who were enclosed in a bag with a dog, a serpent, an ape, and a cock, and thrown into the sea.
[990] Patientia, in a bad sense. [The text of the translator gives “endurance,” for which I venture to substitute as above.]
[991] Contra fas omne.
[992] Induforo. “Indu” and “endo” are archaisms, used by Lucretius and other writers in the same sense as “in.”
[993] i.e., Christians. [See vol. i. pp. 26, 27.]
[994] Eoque fieri non potest. Others read “æque fieri,” etc.
Chap. X.—Of False Piety, and of False and True Religion.
[995] Virg., Æn., i. 544.
[996] Ibid., xi. 81.
[997] Ibid., i. 10.
[998] Ibid., x. 517.
[999] Ibid., xi. 111.
[1000] Virg., Æn., xi. 106.
[1001] Ibid., x. 524.
[1002] Ibid., xii. 946.
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