[Footnote 2: Nec intelligunt homines ineptissimi, quod si
sentire simulacra et moveri possent, adoratura hominem
fuissent a quo sunt expolita. (Divin. Institut. l. ii. c.
2.) Lactantius is the last, as well as the most eloquent, of
the Latin apologists. Their raillery of idols attacks not
only the object, but the form and matter.]