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Introductory Note.

[918] Compressa.

[919] Isis; comp. The Apology, xvi. [See p. 31, supra.]

[920] Consecrasse.

[921] Recontrans.

Chapter IX.—The Power of Rome. Romanized Aspect of All the Heathen Mythology. Varro’s Threefold Distribution Criticised. Roman Heroes (Æneas Included,) Unfavourably Reviewed.

[922] Vitii pueritatem.

[923] Recipere (with a dative).

[924] Ignotis Deis. Comp. Acts xvii. 23.

[925] Ut bulbi. This is the passage which Augustine quotes (de Civit. Dei, vii. 1) as “too facetious.”

[926] Adventicii, “coming from abroad.”

[927] Touching these gods of the vanquished nations, compare The Apology, xxv.; below, c. xvii.; Minucius Felix, Octav. xxv.

[928] Diligentem.

[929] See Homer, Il. v. 300.

[930] Invenitur.

[931] Referred to also above, i. 18.

[932] The obscure “formam et patrem” is by Oehler rendered “pulchritudinem et generis nobilitatem.”

[933] The word is “eorum” (possessive of “principum”), not “suæ.”

[934] Dejerant adversus.

[935] What Tertullian himself thinks on this point, see his de Corona, xi.

[936] Cleobis and Biton; see Herodotus i. 31.

[937] See Valerius Maximus, v. 4, 1.

[938] We need not stay to point out the unfairness of this statement, in contrast with the exploits of Æneas against Turnus, as detailed in the last books of the Æneid.

 

 

 

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