Part Fourth

Footnotes

^[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.

^[62] Or, “forcipes.”

^[63] Of course the meaning is, “on the doffing of which a man congratulates himself more,” etc.; but Tertullian as it were personifies the act of doffing, and represents it as congratulating the doffer; and I have scrupulously retained all his extravagances, believing them (in the present treatise at least) to be intentional.

^[64] A Cynic philosopher.

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