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Introductory Note.

[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.

[778] Agnoscit.

[779] Liceret.

[780] Discuti, or, in the logical sense, “be tested.”

[781] Nunciatio (legally, this is “an information lodged against a wrong.”)

[782] Excidere, “falls through.”

[783] Sed enim.

[784] Quidni?

[785] Receptorum.

[786] Necessitatem, answering to the “leges dominantium.”

[787] Adulterinam.

[788] St. Augustine, in his de Civit. Dei, makes similar use of Varro’s work on the heathen gods, Liber Divinarum.

[789] Scopum, perhaps “mark.”

[790] Insinuatores.

 

 

 

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