{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn56.htm","path":"chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn56.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn56.htm","text":"35 Otherwise, \"while you consider, while you are yet alive, poor wretches, what is threatening after death.\"\n36 Some read, \"with shivering.\"\n37 This is otherwise read, \"Academic Pyrrhonists.\"\n38 Cicero, de Natura Deorum, i. 22.\n39 \"Plautinae prosapiae.\" The expression is intended as a reproach against the humble occupations of many of the Christian professors. Plautus is said, when in need, to have laboured at a baker's hand-mill. Caecilius tells Octavius that he may be the first among the millers, but he is the last among the philosophers. Stieber proposes \"Christianorum\" instead of \"pistorum\" - \"Christians\" instead of \"millers.\"\n44 Some read \"cavillaverit\" instead of \"vacillaverit,\" which would give the sense, \"make captious objections.\"\n45 This is otherwise given \"certainty,\" which helps the meaning of the passage.\n46 Otherwise, \"Far from his guileless subtlety is so crafty a trickery.\" But the readings are very unsettled.\n49 According to some, \"point out\" or \"indicate.\"\n50 Olives ripen in the month of December.\n51 [In the case of Darius Hystaspes.]\n54 According to some, \"one fate.\"\n55 These words are omitted by some editors.\n56 Homer, Odyss., xviii. 136, 137.\n58 Some read, \"For these things are true.\"\n59 Virgil, Georgics, iv. 221; Aeneid, i. 743.\n61 The ms. here inserts, \"Aristoteles of Pontus varies, at one time attributing the supremacy to the world, at another to the divine mind.\" Some think that this is an interpolation, others transfer the words to Theophrastus below.\n62 Otherwise, \"Aristo the Chian.\"\n63 [See note on Plato, chap. xxvi.]\n64 Some editors read, \"mere wonders,\" apparently on conjecture only.\n66 Four early editions read \"instantius\" for \"in statuis,\" making the meaning probably, \"more keenly,\" \"more directly.\"\n67 Otherwise, according to some, \"of the historians.\"\n68 This treatise is mentioned by Athenagoras, Legat. pro Christ., ch. xxviii. [See vol. ii. p. 143, this series.] Also by Augustine, de Civ. Dei., lib. viii. ch. iii. and xxvii. In the fifth chapter Augustine calls the priest by the name of Leo.\n69 This passage is very doubtful both in its text and its meaning.\n70 Otherwise, \"carried about.\"\n71 Otherwise, \"his approach is drowned.\"\n72 Otherwise, \"do they not show what are the sports and the honours of your gods?\"\n73 These words are very variously read. Davis conjectures that they should be, \"When Feretrius, he does not hear,\" and explains the allusion as follows: that Jupiter Feretrius could only be approached with the spolia opima; and Minucius is covertly ridiculing the Romans, because, not having taken spolia opima for so long a time, they could not approach Feretrius.\n74 Otherwise, \"pointed out,\" or \"designated.\"\n75 Otherwise corrupted into Aetna.\n76 Some read, \"and it is marvellous how these have prejudiced,\" etc.\n77 Some read, \"the truth itself.\"\n79 Otherwise, \"Then Vulcan fabricates,\" etc.\n81 \"Be created\" is a more probable reading.\n82 Otherwise, \"that he had rashly been so deceived by the artificer in the material, as to make a god.\"\n83 [Footbaths. See vol. ii., Theophilus, p. 92, and Athenagoras, p. 143.]\n86 Some read \"probra\" for \"morbos,\" scil. \"reproaches.\"\n87 Reipublicae; but it is shrewdly conjectured that the passage was written, \"cum majore R. P. parte\" - \"with the greater part of the Roman people,\" and the mistake made by the transcriber of the ms.\n89 [Octavius and Minucius had but one mind (see cap. i. supra), and both were philosophers of the Attic Academy reflecting Cicero. See my remarks on Athenagoras, vol. ii. p. 126, this series.]\n90 According to some editors, \"warns us that the desire of love is received.\"","title":"chr/ecf/004/footnote/fn56.htm","type":"page"}