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[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.
[948] Herculi functam. “Fungi alicui” means to satisfy, or yield to.
[949] The well-known Greek saying, ῎Αλλος οὗτος ῾Ηρακλῆς.
[950] Pluto; Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres, is meant. Oehler once preferred to read, “Hebe, quæ mortuo placuit,” i.e., “than Hebe, who gratified Hercules after death.”
[951] Tertullian often refers indignantly to this atrocious case.
[952] Subigitis.
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