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Introductory Note.

[757] Reciprocatione.

[758] Distributione.

Chapter XX.—Truth and Reality Pertain to Christians Alone. The Heathen Counselled to Examine and Embrace It.

[759] Compingite oscula.

[760] Eunuchs (Rigalt.).

[761] As the Christians were held to be; coming after (1) the heathen, (2) the Jews. See above, c. viii., and Scorpiace, c. x.

[762] Eunuchs (Rigalt.).

[763] An oft-quoted proverb in ancient writers. It occurs in Hesiod (Opp. et Dies) 25.

[764] Literally, “cease henceforth, O, simulated confession.”

[765] Omnia ista.

[766] This seems to be the force of the “agnitione,” which Oehler renders “auditione.”

[767] Satisfacitis.

[768] Jactetis.

[769] Quorum reatum.

[770] Memineritis.

[771] Si potestis.

[772] Si putatis.

Book II.

[773] In this part of his work the author reviews the heathen mythology, and exposes the absurdity of the polytheistic worship in the various classes of the gods, according to the distribution of Varro.

Chapter I.—The Heathen Gods from Heathen Authorities. Varro Has Written a Work on the Subject. His Threefold Classification. The Changeable Character of that Which Ought to Be Fixed and Certain.

[774] Miserandæ.

[775] Literally, “unwilling to know.”

[776] i.e., it does not know that it is error.

[777] Nescit.

 

 

 

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