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[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).
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[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.”
[50] i.e., cynical; comp. de Pa., c. ii. ad init.
[51] i.e., Domitian, called by Juv. calvum Neronem, Sat. iv. 38.
[52] Alexander.
[53] Comp. de Idol., c. viii. med.
[54] i.e., one who affects Tyrian—dresses in Tyrian purple.
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