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Introductory Note.

[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.

[791] Volutetur.

[792] Adoptionibus.

[793] Adoptatio.

[794] Passiva, “a jumble.”

[795] Argumentationibus.

[796] Historia. This word seems to refer to the class of mythical divinity above mentioned. It therefore means “fable” or “absurd story” (see above).

[797] Adoptivum.

Chapter II.—Philosophers Had Not Succeeded in Discovering God. The Uncertainty and Confusion of Their Speculations.

[798] Patrocinatur.

 

 

 

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