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Part Fourth
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[1] [Written, according to Neander, about a.d. 208.]
Chapter I.—Time Changes Nations’ Dresses—and Fortunes.
[2] [See Elucidation I.]
[3] Utica (Oehler).
[4] i.e., in Adrumetum (Oehler).
[5] Sæcularium.
[6] i.e., Etruscans, who were supposed to be of Lydian origin.
[7] i.e., your gown.
[8] A Roman knight and mime-writer.
[9] Virg., Æn., i. 14.
[10] Or, “attack.”
[11] Caput vindicantis. But some read capite: “which avenges itself with its head.”
[12] See Virg., Æn., iii. 415 (Oehler).
Chapter II.—The Law of Change, or Mutation, Universal.
[13] Mundus.
[14] See Adv. Herm., c. xxv. ad fin. (Oehler).
[15] As being “the ears of an ass.”
[16] Mundus. Oehler’s pointing is disregarded.
[17] Mundus. Oehler’s pointing is disregarded.
[18] Mundus. Oehler’s pointing is disregarded.
[19] Metatio nostra, i.e., the world.
[20] i.e., blind. Cf. Milton, P. L., iii. 35, with the preceding and subsequent context.
[21] Alluding to the Sibylline oracles, in which we read (l. iii.), Καὶ Σάμος ἄμμος ἔσῃ, καὶ Δῆλος ἄδηλος and again (l. iv.), Δῆλος οὐκ ἔτι δῆλος, ἄδηλα δὲ πάντα τοῦ Δήλου (Oehler).
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