¹⁸³ A name of Juno, in reference to her office to mothers, "quia eam sanguinis fluorem in conceptu retinere putabant." Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iii. 2.

¹⁸⁴ Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, vii. 2, 3.

¹⁸⁵ Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.

¹⁸⁶ Such as Lucina, Partula, Nona, Decima, Alemona.

¹⁸⁷ Or, Prorsa.

¹⁸⁸ "Quae infantes in cunis (in their cradle) tuetur." Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 11.

¹⁸⁹ Educatrix; Augustine says: "Ipse levet de terra et vocetur dea Levana" (de Civ. Dei, iv. 11).

¹⁹⁰ From the old word ruma, a teat.

¹⁹¹ Comp. August. de Civ. Dei, iv. 9, 11, 36.

¹⁹² See also Tertullian's de Anima, xxxix.; and Augustine's de Civ. Dei, iv. 21, where the god has the masculine name of Statilinus.

¹⁹³ See Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9 and vii. 3.

¹⁹⁴ Ibid. iv. 21, vii. 3.

¹⁹⁵ Ibid. iv. 21.

¹⁹⁶ Ibid. iv. 11, vii. 22.

¹⁹⁷ Ibid. iv. 11 [N.B.-Augustine's borrowing from our author.]

¹⁹⁸ Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 3.

¹⁹⁹ Augustine, de Civ. Dei. [iv. 11 and 16] mentions Agenoria.

²⁰⁰ On Fortuna Barbata, see Augustine, de Civ. Dei, iv. 11, where he also names Consus and Juventa.

²⁰¹ Tertullian, in Apol. xxv. sarcastically says, "Sterculus, and Mutunus, and Larentina, have raised the empire to its present height."

²⁰² Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 7,11; August. de Civ. Dei, vi. 9.

²⁰³ For these three gods, see Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 9; and Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iv. 7.

²⁰⁴ Agrees with The Apology, c. x.

²⁰⁵ Bona fide.

²⁰⁶ Censum.

²⁰⁷ There is here an omitted clause, supplied in The Apology, "but rather to recall it to your memory."

²⁰⁸ Ab ipsa ratione.

²⁰⁹ Signatur.

²¹⁰ Undeunde.

²¹¹ Tantam proceritatem.

²¹² Insolescere, i.e., at the commencement of puberty.

²¹³ Lapilliscere, i.e., to indicate maturity.

²¹⁴ The nominative "coelum" is used.

²¹⁵ It is not very clear what is the force of "sed et pepererit," as read by Oehler; we have given the clause an impersonal turn.

²¹⁶ "Certe" is sometime "certo" in our author.

²¹⁷ Distulit.

²¹⁸ That is, to rain and cloud.

²¹⁹ Abalienato.

²²⁰ The word is "coelum" here.

²²¹ Eleganter.

²²² i.e., as representing Time.

²²³ So Augustine, de Civ. Dei, iv. 10; Arnobius, adv. Nationes, iii. 29; Cicero, de Nat. Deor. ii. 25.

²²⁴ As if from "sero," satum.

²²⁵ Translatio.

²²⁶ Utrumque corporale.

²²⁷ Mentitis agrumentationibus.

²²⁸ Census.

²²⁹ See his Histories, v. 2, 4.

²³⁰ Antiquitatem canos, "hoary antiquity."

²³¹ Jano sive Jane.

²³² Depalaverat, "marked out with stakes."

²³³ Coelitem.

²³⁴ Magis proximis quoniam illius aetatis.

²³⁵ Prosapia.

²³⁶ Qualitas. [N.b. Our author's use of praescriptio.]

²³⁷ Comparantur.

²³⁸ Monumenta liquent.

²³⁹ Comp. The Apology, c. xi. [p. 27. Supra.]

²⁴⁰ Allecti.

²⁴¹ This is not so terse as Tertullian's "nomen et numen."

²⁴² Praestare.

²⁴³ Mancipem.

²⁴⁴ In cunabulis temporalitatis.

²⁴⁵ The ill-fame of the Cretans is noted by St. Paul, Tit. i. 12.

²⁴⁶ Virgil, Georg. i. 125.

²⁴⁷ Sewell.

²⁴⁸ Ipsa.

²⁴⁹ Jupiter's, of course.

²⁵⁰ The law which prescribed the penalty of the paracide, that he be sewed up in a sack with an ape, a serpent, and a cock, and be thrown into the sea.

²⁵¹ In duos culleos dividi.

²⁵² De quo.

²⁵³ De fugitivo.

²⁵⁴ Abusui nundinare.

²⁵⁵ The "operam ejus"=ingenia et artificia (Oehler).

²⁵⁶ Percontationi alienae

²⁵⁷ In the case of Europa.

²⁵⁸ In the case of Danae.

²⁵⁹ Similitudines actuum ipsas.

²⁶⁰ In the case of Ganymede.

²⁶¹ In the case of Leda.

²⁶² Quos.

²⁶³ Plebs.

²⁶⁴ Morata.

²⁶⁵ Proseminatoribus.

²⁶⁶ Alibi.

²⁶⁷ Optimum.

²⁶⁸ There would seem to be a jest here; "aequus" is not only just but equal, i.e., "on a par with" others-in evil, of course, as well as good.

²⁶⁹ Inter nativos et factos. See above, c. ii., p. 131.

²⁷⁰ Summa responsionis.

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