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[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.
[939] Usque in.
[940] We have thus rendered “quiritatem est,” to preserve as far as one could the pun on the deified hero of the Quirites.
[941] We insert the Latin, to show the pun on Sterculus; see The Apology, c. xxv. [See p. 40, supra.]
[942] Curaria quam consecrari.
[943] Bona Dea, i.e., the daughter of Faunus just mentioned.
[944] See Livy, viii. 20, xxxii. 1; Ovid, Fasti, vi. 213, etc. Compare also Augustine, de Civ. Dei, xviii. 19. [Tom, vii. p. 576.]
[945] Compare Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 7. [Tom. vii. p. 184.]
[946] Æditum ejus.
[947] That is, when he mounted the pyre.
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