{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn81.htm","path":"chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn81.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn81.htm","text":"47 So the ms., both Rom. edd., Hild., and Oehler, reading quamvis poenam; Gelenius, Canterus, Elm, and Oberth\u00fcr omit vis, and the other edd. v, i.e., \"as to what punishment the Egyptian,\" etc. This must refer to the cases in which the sacred bull, having outlived the term of twenty-five years, was secretly killed by the priests, while the people were taught that it had thrown itself into the water.\n48 i.e., \"burial-places.\" By this Oehler has attempted to show is meant the Hebdomades vel de Imaginibus of Varro, a series of biographical sketches illustrated with portraits, executed in some way which cannot be clearly ascertained.\n50 So the ms., first four edd., and Oberth\u00fcr, reading Toli, corrected Oli in the others, from Servius (ad. Aen., viii. 345). Arnobius himself gives the form Aulus, i.e. Olus, immediately below, so that it is probably correct.\n52 Ursinus suggested Valerius Antias, mentioned in the first chapter of the fifth book, a conjecture adopted by Hild.\n53 The ms., LB., Hild., and Oehler read Aulus, and, acc. to Oehler, all other edd. Tolus. Orelli, however, reads Olus, as above.\n54 The ms. and both Roman edd. read germani servuli vita without meaning, corrected as above by Gelenius, Canterus, Elm., and Oberth\u00fcr, ut a g. servulo, and ut a g. servulis-\"by the slaves,\" in the others, except Oehler who reads as above, g. servulo ut.\n55 The ms. and both Roman edd. read unintelligibly patientiae, corrected paternae in Hild. and Oehler, patriae in the rest.\n56 Lit., \"the perpetuity of the omen sealed might stand.\"\n57 Lit., \"through the times given to itself.\"\n58 The ms. reads s-oli,-changed into Toli by the first four edd., Elm., and Oberth\u00fcr. The others omit s.\n59 [\"Belittle.\" This word here is noteworthy. President Jefferson is said to have coined it, and I have never before seen it in a transatlantic book.]\n60 i.e., \"which you pretend to worship.\"\n61 So the edd., reading formar-e, except Hild. and Oehler, who retain the ms. reading i-\"that images be formed.\"\n62 The ms. and both Roman edd. read corruptly insolidi, corrected ita or sic coli, as above, in all except the last two edd.\n63 [It is manifest that nothing of the kind was said by Christians. See p. 506, note 3, supra.]\n64 i.e., you do not seek access to the gods directly, and seek to do them honour by giving that honour to the idols instead.\n65 i.e., the transmission of the sacrifice to the gods is made dependent on idols.\n66 This corresponds exactly to the English, \"to shoot at the pigeon and hit the crow.\"\n67 Lit., \"with vicarious substitution for.\" [A very pertinent question as to the images worshipped in Rome to this day. There is one Madonna of African hue and features. See also Murray's Handbook, Italy, p. 72.]\n68 The ms. reads effigitur, corrected as above, effin., in all edd. except Hild., who reads efficitur-\"is made,\" and Stewechius, effigiatur-\"is formed.\"\n70 Flavus, so invariably associated with blue eyes, that though these are the feature brought into contrast, they are only suggested in this way, and not directly mentioned-a mode of speech very characteristic of Arnobius.\n71 i.e., a fact which can be seen to be true by appealing to analogy.\n72 So the ms., LB., Hild., and Oehler, reading donastis, the others donatis-\"you give.\"\n73 As the appearance of the moon is the same in some of its phases as in others, it is clear that Arnobius cannot mean that it has thirty distinct forms. We must therefore suppose that he is either speaking very loosely of change upon change day after day, or that he is referring to some of the lunar theories of the ancients, such as that a new moon is created each day, and that its form is thus ever new (Lucr., v. 729-748).\n74 Lit., \"is changed through a thousand states with daily instability.\"\n76 Lit., \"intestine and domestic.\"\n77 The ms. reads leon-e-s torvissimam faciem, emended, as above, leonis t. f., in LB., Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, and l. torvissima facie-\"lions of very stern face,\" in the others. Nourry supposes that the reference is to the use of lions, or lion-headed figures, as architectural ornaments on temples (cf. the two lions rampant surmounting the gate of Mycenae), but partially coincides in the view of Elm., that mixed figures are meant, such as are described by Tertullian and Minucius Felix (ch. 28: \"You deify gods made up of a goat and a lion, and with the faces of lions and of dogs\"). The epithet frugifer, however, which was applied to the Egyptian Osiris, the Persian Mithras, and Bacchus, who were also represented as lions, makes it probable that the reference is to symbolic statues of the sun.\n78 Lit., \"such a god to whose form and appearance the likeness of this image has been directed.\"\n80 The ms. and both Roman edd. read unintelligibly sanquineo decotoro, for which s. de colore, as above, has been suggested by Canterus, with the approval of Heraldus.\n81 The ms. here inserts puetuitate, for which no satisfactory emendation has been proposed. The early edd. read pituitate, a word for which there is no authority, while LB. gives potus aviditate-\"drunk with avidity\"-both being equally hopeless.\n82 ms. sic, corrected by Gelenius si.\n83 So Meursius, ac dicere, for ms. -cidere.\n84 It is worthy of notice that although in this passage, as often elsewhere, Arnobius adheres pretty closely to the argument proposed by Clemens Alexandrinus, he even in such passages sometimes differs from it, and not at random. Thus Clement speaks merely of a \"stone,\" and Arnobius of an \"unshaped stone.\" The former expression harmonizes with the words of Maximus Tyrius (Serm., xxxviii. p. 225, Steph.), \"The Arabians worship I know not whom, but the image which I saw was a square stone;\" while Suidas (K\u00fcster's ed., s. v. qeu\\s !Arhj) agrees with Arnobius in calling it a \"stone, black, square, unfashioned\" (a0tu/pwtoj). This is the more noteworthy, as at times Arnobius would almost seem to be following Clement blindly. [See Clement, cap. iv. vol. ii. p. 184, this series.]\n85 So Arnobius renders Clement's Cithaeronian Hera.\n86 So corrected in the notes of Canterus from Clem. for the ms. reading Carios, retained by the first four edd. and Elmenh. In Icaria there was a temple of Diana called Tauropo/lion.\n87 The ms. and first four edd. read p-uteum-\"a well,\" corrected plut., as above, by Gifanius, and in the notes of Canterus.\n88 The ms. reads ethedius, corrected in the notes of Canterus.\n89 So all edd., except both Roman edd., which retain the ms. reading in the singular, suffraginem.\n92 So Meursius suggested amentes for the ms. reading animantis for which Heraldus proposed argumentis-\"by arguments.\"\n93 Lit., \"and most dissolved with the laxity of feminine liquidity.\"\n95 Lit., \"with a workman's preparing.\"\n96 Lit., \"is there any figure to find.\"\n98 Ex foribus. Cf. Tertull., de Idol., ch. 15: \"In Greek writers we also read that Apollo Qurai=oj and the daemones Antelii watch over doors.\"\n99 So the edd, reading petas-un-culum for the ms. -io-.\n101 Lit., \"with strife of skills.\"\n102 ms. Phyrna, but below Phryna, which is read in both instances by Hild. and Oehler.\n103 So Meursius, followed by Orelli, reading istic for the ms. iste.\n104 i.e., either the conceptions in their minds, or realized in their works. Orelli, followed by the German translator Besnard, adopting the former view, translates \"the ideas of the artists (die Ideale der K\u00fcnstler) were full of fire and life.\"\n106 [True, alas! to this day; notorious courtesans furnishing the models for the pictures and statues worshipped as saints, angels, etc.]\n107 So Gelenius and Canterus, reading et for ms. est.\n108 Lit., \"with exertion of immense strength.\"\n109 ms. Pantarches. This was a very common mode of expressing love among the ancients, the name of the loved one being carved on the bark of trees (as if the Loves or the mountain nymphs had done it), on walls, doors, or, as in this case, on statues, with the addition \"beautiful\" (Suidas, s. v. Kaloi/ and 9Ramnousi/a Ne/mesij, with K\u00fcster's notes). [Vol. ii. p. 187, note 1, this series.]\n111 Lit., \"conditions,\" habitus.\n115 [Isa. xl. 18-20, xliv. 9-20, xlvi. 5-8.]\n116 i.e., the faculty of discernment, which is properly man's.\n117 Lit., \"are in the limits of.\"\n118 The ms. reads his-\"these\", emended, as above, vobis in the margin of Ursinus, Elm., and LB.\n120 i.e., a respectable woman.\n121 i.e., the elephant's tusk.\n122 So Salmasius, followed by Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, reading furfuraculis, and LB., reading perforaculis for the ms. furfure aculeis.\n123 So the margin of Ursinus, Meursius (according to Orelli), Hild., and Oehler, reading part-u-m for the ms. -e--\"is a part of your labour,\" etc.\n124 Lit., \"of thy work and fingers.\"\n125 So the ms., both Roman edd., Elm., and Orelli, reading numinis favore, for which LB. reads favorem-\"the favour of the propitious deity to succour.\" [Isaiah's argument reproduced.]\n127 Rigaltius suggested confracta-\"shattered,\" for ms. -flata.\n128 So the edd. reading cog- for the ms. cogit-amini.\n129 Lit., \"be moved with agitation of breathing.\"\n130 Lit., \"outside,\" i.e., before being in bodily forms.\n131 So Ursinus and LB., reading retin-e-nt for the ms. -ea-, which can hardly be correct. There may possibly be an ellipsis of si before this clause, so that the sentence would run: \"If they had any natural properties, (if) they retain all these, what stupidity,\" etc.\n132 Lit., \"deprived of moveableness of feeling.\"\n133 Lit., \"a rational animal.\"\n134 Lit., \"with deceit of vain credulity.\" The edd. read this as an interrogation: \"Do you, therefore, sink down, adore, and bring yourselves into disgrace?\"\n135 So Orelli, Hild., and Oehler, adopting a conjecture of Graevius, di-, for the ms. de-ducere-\"to lead down.\"","title":"chr/ecf/006/footnote/fn81.htm","type":"page"}