{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn77.htm","path":"chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn77.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn77.htm","text":"199 The words following the asterisk (*) are marked in LB. as spurious or corrupt, or at least as here out of place. Orelli transposes them to ch. 13, as was noticed there, although he regards them as an interpolation. The clause is certainly a very strange one, and has a kind of affected abstractness, which makes it seem out of place; but it must be remembered that similarly confused and perplexing sentences are by no means rare in Arnobius. If the clause is to be retained, as good sense can be made from it here as anywhere else. The general meaning would be: The gods, if angry, are angry with the pagans; but if they are not subject to passion, it would be idle to speak of them as angry with the Christians, seeing that they cannot possibly at once be incapable of feeling anger, and yet at the same time be angry with them. [See cap. 13, note 4, p. 480, supra.]\n1 So most edd., inserting er; in ms. and Oehler, vid-entur.\n2 So named either because he was said to have made use of the bird of Mars, i.e., a woodpecker (picus), in augury, or because according to the legend he was changed into one by Circe.\n3 i.e., the Aventine. The story is told by Plutarch in his Life of Numa, c. 15, and by Ovid, Fasti, iii. 291 sqq.\n4 The ms. reads sollemniter haec, corrected, as above, solenne iter huc by all edd. except Hild.\n5 So the ms. and most edd., reading pocula non parvi numeri, for which Elmh. and Orelli have received from the margin of Ursinus, poc non parva mero- \"cups of great size, with pure wine.\"\n10 Jupiter is supposed to say humano, meaning capite, to be understood, i.e., \"with a man's head,\" while the king supplies capillo-\"with a man's hair.\"\n12 Maena. There is here a lacuna in the text; but there can be no difficulty in filling it up as above, with Heraldus from Plutarch, or with Gelenius from Ovid, piscis-\"with the life of a fish.\"\n13 The ms. and both Roman edd. read Numa, corrected by Gelenius, as above, non.\n14 The ms. and edd. read cred-i-musne-\"do we believe,\" for which Meursius suggests -e- as above.\n15 Lit., \"or whether.\" Below the ms. reads corruptly ad ipsum-\"to him.\"\n16 The ms. reads scire, but \"knows\" would hardly suit the context. Instead of adopting any conjecture, however, it is sufficient to observe, with Oehler, that scire is elsewhere used as a contraction for sciscere.\n18 So Cujacius, inserting vi, omitted by the ms.\n20 Lit., \"the fumigation of verbenae,\" i.e., of boughs of the laurel, olive, or myrtle.\n22 Lit., \"the uncertain things of that ambiguity.\"\n23 Lit., \"unless a mortal anticipated\"-praesumeret, the ms. reading.\n25 Lit., \"liveliness of heart is procured.\"\n27 So Ovid also (Metam., i. 321), and others, speak of Themis as the first to give oracular responses,\n28 So the ms. and edd., reading quam incestis, except Orelli, who adopts the conjecture of Barthius, nequam-\"lustful Jupiter with lewd desires.\"\n29 So the ms. and edd., except Hildebrand and Oehler, who throughout spell Agdestis, following the Greek writers, and the derivation of the word from Agdus.\n30 So Ursinus suggested, followed by later edd., ex utroque (ms. utra.) sexu; for which Meursius would read ex utroque sexus-\"and a sex of both,\" i.e., that he was a hermaphrodite, which is related by other writers.\n34 So the reading of the ms. and edd., unum laqueum, may be rendered; for which Canterus conjectured imum-\"the lowest part of the noose.\"\n35 So the edd., reading eo quo (ms. quod) fuerat privat sexu; for which Hild. and Oehler read fu-tu-erat-\"of the sex with which he had been a fornicator.\"\n36 Lit., \"these (i.e., the parts and the blood) are,\" etc.\n37 The ms. here reads Nata, but in c. 13 the spelling is Nana, as in other writers.\n39 The ms. reads t-abulis, corrected as above p- by Jos. Scaliger, followed by Hild. and Oehler. The other edd. read bacculis-\"berries.\"\n40 So all the edd., except Hild. and Oehler, who retain the ms. reading sanguinarius-\"bloodthirsty.\"\n41 So Salmasius, Orelli, and Hild., reading repertum nescio quis sumit Phorbas, lacte; but no mention of any Phorbas is made elsewhere in connection with this story, and Oehler has therefore proposed forma ac lacte-\"some one takes the child found, nourishes it with sweet pottage of millet (forma) and milk,\" etc.\n45 The ms., first five edd., and Oberth\u00fcr, read exterriti adorandorum Phryges; for which Ursinus suggested ad ora deorum-\"at the faces of gods,\" adopted by Oehler; the other edd. reading ad horam-\"at the hour, i e., thereupon.\"\n46 It seems probable that part of this chapter has been lost, as we have no explanation of this epithet; and, moreover (as Oehler has well remarked) in c. 13 this Gallus is spoken of as though it had been previously mentioned that he too had mutilated himself, of which we have not the slightest hint.\n48 Lit., \"so great motions of furious hazards.\"\n49 So most edd., reading veste prius tectis atque involutis for the ms. reading, retained by Hild. and Oehler, tecta atque involuta-\"his vest being first drawn over and wrapt about them;\" the former verb being found with this meaning in no other passage, and the second very rarely.\n52 Nourry supposes that this may refer to M. Valerius Messala, a fragment from whom on auspices has been preserved by Gellius (xiii. 15); while Hild. thinks that Antias is meant, who is mentioned in c. 1.\n53 So Orelli punctuates and explains; but it is doubtful whether, even if this reading be retained, it should not be translated, \"bedewed these (violets).\" The ms. reads, suffodit et as (probably has)-\"digs under these,\" emended as above in LB., suffudit et has.\n55 So it has been attempted to render the ms., reading pausatae circum arboris robur, which has perplexed the different edd. Heraldus proposed pausate-\"at intervals round the trunk of the tree;\" LB. reads -ata-\"round...tree having rested.\" Reading as above, the reference might be either to the rest from motion after being set up in the cave, or to the absence of wind there.\n56 Lit., \"could be done through (i.e. as far as concerns) fate.\"\n57 So Oehler, reading sacerdotum antistitiis for the ms. antistibus, changed in both Roman edd. and Hild. to -stitibus-\"with priests (or overseers) of priests.\" Salmasius proposed intestibus-\"with castrated priests.\"\n58 i.e., in the ever-recurring festival of Cybele.\n60 So the edd., reading orari in alicujus substantiae qualitate for the ms. erari restored by Oehler, num-erari-\"numbered in the quality of some substance,\" from the reading of an old copy adopted by Livineius.\n61 Lit., \"through the resistance of nature.\"\n63 Lit., \"the feeling commonly implanted.\"\n64 Lit., \"was regard of piety wanting\"-defuit, an emendation of Salmasius (according to Orelli) for the ms. depuit.\n65 Lit., \"the depth and patience of his sleeping mother.\"\n66 Lit., \"from the theft of taking by surprise\"-obreptionis, for which the ms., first four edd., Oberth., Hild., and Oehler read object.-\"of what he proposed.\"\n67 So Heraldus, reading conventionis hujusmodi coetum for the ms. coeptum.\n69 Most edd. read as an interrogation.\n70 Perhaps, \"that she might not be subject to ill-will for having borne so.\"\n71 i.e., to form nooses with. The reading translated is an emendation of Jos. Scaliger, adopted by Orelli, peniculamenta decurtantem cantheriorum, for the ms. peniculantem decurtam tam cantherios, emended by each ed. as he has thought fit.\n73 Lit., \"endowed with the honour of.\"\n74 The ms. here inserts de-\"from the body from a divine (being).\"\n75 So the edd. (except Oehler), reading tum cum for the ms. tum quae quod.\n76 Balaustiis, the flowers of the wild pomegranate.\n77 Dares supplied by Salmasius.\n78 [The Abderitans were proverbially such. \"Hinc Abdera, non tacente me.\"-Cicero, Ep. ad Attic., iv. 16.]","title":"chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn77.htm","type":"page"}