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[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).
[22] See Apolog., c. xi. med.; ad Nat., l. i. c. ix. med.; Plato, Timæus, pp. 24, 25 (Oehler).
[23] Oehler’s apt conjecture, “et solum sua dabat,” is substituted for the unintelligible “et solus audiebat” of the mss., which Rig. skilfully but ineffectually tries to explain.
[24] The “camp” of Cambyses, said by Herod. (iii. 26) to have been swallowed up in the Libyan Syrtes (Salm. in Oehler). It was one detachment of his army. Milton tells similar tales of the “Serbonian bog.” P.L., ii. 591–594.
[25] Ævi.
[26] Mundi.
[27] “Alias versura compensati redit;” unless we may read “reddit,” and take “versura” as a nominative: “the turn of compensation at some other time restores.”
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