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[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.”
[28] This rendering, which makes the earth the subject, appears to give at least an intelligible sense to this hopelessly corrupt passage. Oehler’s pointing is disregarded; and his rendering not strictly adhered to, as being too forced. If for Oehler’s conjectural “se demum intellegens” we might read “se debere demum intellegens,” or simply “se debere intellegens,” a good sense might be made, thus: “understanding at last” (or, simply, “understanding”) “that it was her duty to cultivate all (parts of her surface).”
[29] Comp. Gen. 11.26-12.5; Acts 7.2-4,15,45; 13.17-19.
[30] Sæculum.
[31] Oehler understands this of Clodius Albinus, and the Augusti mentioned above to be Severus and his two sons Antonius and Geta. But see Kaye, pp. 36–39 (ed. 3, 1845).
Chapter III.—Beasts Similarly Subject to the Law of Mutation.
[32] Reflecti: perhaps a play upon the word = to turn back, or (mentally) to reflect.
[33] Orbi.
[34] i.e., a place which he was to work, as condemned criminals worked mines. Comp. de Pu., c. xxii. sub init.; and see Gen. 2.25; 3.7,21-24.
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