{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn1.htm","path":"chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn1.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn1.htm","text":"1 [Written, according to Neander, about a.d. 208.]\n4 i.e., in Adrumetum (Oehler).\n6 i.e., Etruscans, who were supposed to be of Lydian origin.\n8 A Roman knight and mime-writer.\n11 Caput vindicantis. But some read capite: \"which avenges itself with its head.\"\n12 See Virg., AEn., iii. 415 (Oehler).\n14 See Adv. Herm., c. xxv. ad fin. (Oehler).\n15 As being \"the ears of an ass.\"\n16 Mundus. Oehler's pointing is disregarded.\n17 Mundus. Oehler's pointing is disregarded.\n18 Mundus. Oehler's pointing is disregarded.\n19 Metatio nostra, i.e., the world.\n20 i.e., blind. Cf. Milton, P. L. iii. 35, with the preceding and subsequent context.\n21 Alluding to the Sibylline oracles, in which we read (l. iii.), Kai Samoj ammoj esh, kai Dhloj adhloj and again (l. iv.), Dhloj ouk eti dhloj, adhla de panta tou Dhlou (Oehler).\n22 See Apolog., c. xi. med.; ad Nat., l. i. c. ix. med.; Plato, Timaeus, pp. 24, 25 (Oehler).\n23 Oehler's apt conjecture, \"et solum sua dabat,\" is substituted for the unintelligible \"et solus audiebat\" of the mss., which Rig. skilfully but indffectually tries to explain.\n24 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.\n27 \"Alias versura compensati redit;\" unless we may read \"reddit,\" and take \"versura\" as a nominative: \"the turn of compensation at some other time restores.\"\n28 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).\"\n29 Comp. Gen. xi. 26-xii. 5 with Acts vii. 2-4, 15, 45, and xiii. 17-19.\n31 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).\n32 Reflecti: perhaps a play upon the word = to turn back, or (mentally) to reflect.\n34 i.e., a place which he was to work, as condemned criminals worked mines. Comp., de Pu., c. xxii. sub init.; and see Gen. ii. 25 (in LXX. iii. 1), iii. 7, 21-24.\n35 Alexander Polyhistor, who dedicated his books on the affairs of the Phrygians and Egyptians to his mother (Rig. in Oehler).\n36 The Egyptian Liber, or Bacchus. See de Cor., c. vii. (Rig. in Oehler).\n37 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.\"\n38 Or, as some take it, with wax (Oehler).\n41 Axillenj: from a privative, and seilo<\\|dq_, the lip. See Oehler.\n42 The Centaur Chiron, namely.\n43 Deianira, of whom he had begotten Pyrrhus (Oehler).\n44 See the note on this word in de Idol., c. xviii.\n45 Hom., Od., svi. 294 (Oehler).\n46 Jos. Mercer, quoted by Oehler, appears to take the meaning to be,\"to his clandestine Lydian concubine;\" but that rendering does not seem necessary.\n47 Viraginis; but perhaps = virginis. See the Vulg. in Gen. ii. 23.","title":"Fn1","type":"page"}