Apologetic

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^[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.]

Chapter X.—A Disgraceful Feature of the Roman Mythology. It Honours Such Infamous Characters as Larentina.

^[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.

Chapter XI.—The Romans Provided Gods for Birth, Nay, Even Before Birth, to Death. Much Indelicacy in This System.

^[953] Efflagitant cœlo et sanciunt, (i.e., “they insist on deifying.”)

^[954] Comp. Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9.

^[955] A name of Juno, in reference to her office to mothers, “quia eam sanguinis fluorem in conceptu retinere putabant.” Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iii. 2.

^[956] Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, vii. 2, 3.

^[957] Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.

^[958] Such as Lucina, Partula, Nona, Decima, Alemona.

^[959] Or, Prorsa.

^[960] “Quæ infantes in cunis (in their cradle) tuetur.” Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.

^[961] Educatrix; Augustine says: “Ipse levet de terra et vocetur dea Levana” (de Civ. Dei, iv. 11).

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