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Introductory Note.

[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.

[1085] Operati plerique.

[1086] Dediticius.

[1087] Apollo; comp. The Apology, c. xiv., p. 30.

[1088] See Herodot. i. 50.

[1089] Veluti tueri.

[1090] Religiositas.

[1091] Superstitio.

[1092] Frugi.

[1093] Temeraria.

[1094] Læsis.

[1095] Morabantur. We have taken this word as if from “mores” (character). Tertullian often uses the participle “moratus” in this sense.

[1096] Et depropitiorum.

[1097] Volutavit.

[1098] Compare The Apology, c. xxvi.

[1099] We have treated this “tanquam” and its clause as something more than a mere simile. It is, in fact, an integral element of the supremacy which the entire sentence describes as conferred on the Romans by the Almighty.

 

 

 

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