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[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.
[35] Alexander Polyhistor, who dedicated his books on the affairs of the Phrygians and Egyptians to his mother (Rig. in Oehler).
[36] The Egyptian Liber, or Bacchus. See de Cor., c. vii. (Rig. in Oehler).
Chapter IV.—Change Not Always Improvement.
[37] Male senescentia. Rig. (as quoted by Oehler) seems to interpret, “which entail a feeble old age.” Oehler himself seems to take it to mean “pursuits which are growing very old, and toiling to no purpose.”
[38] Or, as some take it, with wax (Oehler).
[39] Used as a depilatory.
[40] Achilles.
[41] ᾽Αχιλλεύς: from ἀ privative, and χεῖλος, the lip. See Oehler.
[42] The Centaur Chiron, namely.
[43] Deianira, of whom he had begotten Pyrrhus (Oehler).
[44] See the note on this word in de Idol., c. xviii.
[45] Hom., Od., xvi. 294 (Oehler).
[46] Jos. Mercer, quoted by Oehler, appears to take the meaning to be, “to his clandestine Lydian concubine;” but that rendering does not seem necessary.
[47] Viraginis; but perhaps =virginis. See the Vulg. in Gen. ii. 23.
[48] i.e., Hercules.
[49] Or, “which are now attributed to Novius.” Novius was a writer of that kind of farce called “Atellanæ fabulæ;” and one of his farces—or one attributed to him in Tertullian’s day—was called “The Fullers.”
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