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Introductory Note.

[1032] In the case of Ganymede.

[1033] In the case of Leda.

[1034] Quos.

[1035] Plebs.

[1036] Morata.

[1037] Proseminatoribus.

[1038] Alibi.

[1039] Optimum.

[1040] There would seem to be a jest here; “æquus” is not only just but equal, i.e., “on a par with” others—in evil, of course, as well as good.

Chapter XIV.—Gods, Those Which Were Confessedly Elevated to the Divine Condition, What Pre-Eminent Right Had They to Such Honour? Hercules an Inferior Character.

[1041] Inter nativos et factos. See above, c. ii., p. 131.

[1042] Summa responsionis.

[1043] Famulatoria mendicitas.

[1044] Vaccula.

[1045] Subegisse oculis, “reduced to his own eyesight.”

[1046] Byrsæ.

[1047] Magis obtinendus divinitati deputatur.

[1048] Fascias.

[1049] Hylas.

[1050] Rather murders of children and other kindred.

[1051] Æsculapius.

[1052] Tertullian does not correctly quote Pindar (Pyth. iii. 54–59), who notices the skilful hero’s love of reward, but certainly ascribes to him the merit of curing rather than killing: Αλλὰ κέρδει καὶ σοφία δέδεται ἔτραπεν καὶ κᾀκεῖνον ἁγάνορι μισθῷ χρυσὸς ἐν χερσὶν φανεὶς ἂνδῤ ἐκ θανάτου κομίσαι ἢδη ἀλωκότα· χερσὶ δ᾽ ἄρα Κρονίων ῥίψαις δἰ ἄμφοῖν ἀμπνοὰν στέρνων καθέλεν ὠκέως, αἴθων δὲ κεραυνὸς ἐνέσκιμψεν μόρον—“Even wisdom has been bound by love of gain, and gold shining in the hand by a magnificent reward induced even him to restore from death a man already seized by it; and then the son of Saturn, hurling with his hands a bolt through both, speedily took away the breath of their breasts, and the flashing bolt inflicted death” (Dawson Turner).

 

 

 

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