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[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.
[55] Empedocles (Salm. in Oehler).
[56] I have adopted Oehler’s suggestion, and inserted these words.
[57] i.e., of Cloacina or Cluacina (="the Purifier,” a name of Venus; comp. White and Riddle), which Tertullian either purposely connects with “cloaca,” a sewer (with which, indeed, it may be really connected, as coming derivatively from the same root), and takes to mean “the nymphs of the sewers” apparently.
[58] The nymphs above named (Oehler).
[59] i.e., are worn by his votaries.
[60] i.e., Christianity. Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 6, 7.
Chapter V.—Virtues of the Mantle. It Pleads in Its Own Defence.
[61] Toga.
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