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[680] In ista civitate, Rome.
[681] This is explained in the passage of The Apology (xvi.): “He had for money exposed himself with criminals to fight with wild beasts.”
[682] Decutiendus, from a jocular word, “decutire.”
[683] This curious word is compounded of ὅνος, an ass, and κοιᾶσθαι, which Hesychius explains by ἰερᾶσθαι, to act as a priest. The word therefore means, “asinarius sacerdos,” “an ass of a priest.” Calumnious enough; but suited to the vile occasion, and illustrative of the ribald opposition which Christianity had to encounter.
[684] We take Rigaltius’ reading, “seminarium.”
[685] Tanquam hesternum.
Chapter XV.—The Charge of Infanticide Retorted on the Heathen.
[686] Comp. The Apology, c. ix.
[687] Sacri.
[688] He refers in this passage to his Apology, especially c. ix.
[689] Tabellis.
[690] Unius ætatis. This Oehler explains by “per unam jam totam hanc ætatem.”
[691] Genere.
[692] Pignora, scil. amoris.
[693] See Apology, c. ix.
[694] Si forte.
[695] Parum scilicet?
[696] Elicitis.
[697] Infantem totum præcocum.
[698] Comp. The Apology, c. ix.
[699] Adulteram noctem.
[700] Ceterum.
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