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Introductory Note.

[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.

[799] Mancipium.

[800] Prov. ix. 10; Ps. cxi. 10.

[801] Porro.

[802] Deum omnium notititam et veritatem adsecutus, i.e., “following the God of all as knowledge and truth.”

[803] Nutat.

 

 

 

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