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14 Necessitatem, answering to the "leges dominantium."
16 St. Augustine, in his de Civit. Dei, makes similar use of Varro's work on the heathen gods, Liber Divinarum.
24 Historia. This word seems to refer to the class of mythical divinity above mentioned. It therefore means "fable" or "absurd story" (see above).
30 Deum omnium notititam et veritatem absecutus, i.e., "following the God of all as knowledge and truth."
43 Ad praesentem speciem, the physical class.
45 Ut jam hinc praejudicatum sit.
46 Ad illam agnatorum speciem.
56 Mundi, i.e., the universe; see above.
57 The best reading is "vobis credi;" this is one of Tertullian's "final infinitives."
58 Compare Augustine, de Civit. Dei, vii. 6, 23, 24, 28.
63 This seems to mean: "because qe/ein has also the sense of sei/esqai (motion as well as progression)."
64 "Dominatione" is Oehler's reading, but he approves of "denominatione" (Rigault's reading); this would signify "designation of godhead."
73 Majorem orbem. Another reading has "majorem orbe," q.d. "as larger than the world."
93 Servitutis artem. "Artem" Oehler explains by "artificiose institutum."
94 We subjoin Oehler's text of this obscure sentence: "Non in ista investigatione alicujus artificis intus et domini servitutis artem ostendimus elementorum certis ex operis" (for "operibis," not unusual in Tertullian) "eorum quas facis potestatis?"
96 De licentia passivitatis libertas approbetur.
99 Universa negotiatio mundialis.