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Introductory Note.

[1064] Diva arquis.

[1065] Perhaps another form of Diana.

[1066] Faciunt = ῥίζουσι.

[1067] This seems to be the meaning of an almost unintelligible sentence, which we subjoin: “Geniis eisdem illi faciunt qui in isdem locis aras vel ædes habent; præterea aliis qui in alieno loco aut mercedibus habitant.” Oehler, who makes this text, supposes that in each clause the name of some god has dropped out.

[1068] Numinum janitorum.

[1069] Ceteris.

[1070] Immo cum.

[1071] Proveniunt.

[1072] Prædes.

Chapter XVI.—Inventors of Useful Arts Unworthy of Deification. They Would Be the First to Acknowledge a Creator. The Arts Changeable from Time to Time, and Some Become Obsolete.

[1073] Sedenim.

[1074] We insert this clause at Oehler’s suggestion.

[1075] Ministerium.

[1076] The incident, which was closely connected with the third Punic war, is described pleasantly by Pliny, Hist. Nat. xv. 20.

[1077] Præconium.

[1078] Artifices.

[1079] “Antiquitas” is here opposed to “novitas,” and therefore means “the arts of old times.”

[1080] In æmulis. “In,” in our author, often marks the instrument.

Chapter XVII.—Conclusion, the Romans Owe Not Their Imperial Power to Their Gods. The Great God Alone Dispenses Kingdoms, He is the God of the Christians.

[1081] Compare The Apology, xxv. xxvi., pp. 39, 40.

[1082] The verb is in the singular number.

[1083] Æneid, i. 16–20.

[1084] Conington.

 

 

 

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