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De Natura deorum

Chapter 107

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130 ROOK 1 CH. XV § 88.
which Pliny alludes MW. //. 11 5 gentes vero quaedam animalia et aliqua etiam obscena pro dis habent, ac multa dictu magis pudenda, per fetidas cepas, allia et similia jurantes. A similar charge is made by Clemens Strom. I 295 (oi Srackoi) copa cvta tov Ceov Sea THs atipotaryns Ans meoirnkevar A€yovoly OV KAAGS.
honore afficere: sce n. on vi affectam § 33.
reponere in deos: the force of re- is the same as that of dé in dro- SiS, ‘to put them among the Gods as their right’, cf. revocet § 28.
quorum—esset futurus: ‘dead men, whose worship, if they had been raised to the rank of Gods, must have borne exclusively the character of mourning’, Cf. Plut. Js. 70 p. 378 Zevodhans n&lwae rods Alyumriovs, et Beods vopicovar, pr Opnveiv, ef Sé Opnvotdar, Oeods pr vowitery (told with slight variations by Arist. Rhet. 1 23) and the remarks in the First Philippie 13 on the Supplicatio to Caesar, an me censetis decreturum fuisse ut parentalia cum supplicationibus miscerentur ? ut inexpiabiles religiones in rem publicam inducerentur ? ... adduct non possem ut quemquam mortuum conjungerem cum immortalium religione ; ut cujus sepulcrum nusquam extet, ubi: parente- tur, et publice supplicetur. The use of mourning garments at a supplicatio was entirely forbidden, see Vatin. 30 foll. During the Feralia and Lemuria the temples of the Gods were closed, Ov. Fust. 11 563, v 491. The worship of Zagreus, Adonis, and Osiris might fairly be described as a cultus in luctu.
§ 39. Chrysippus: (Krische 443—481) called the second founder of the Stoic school, ei px) yap jv Xpvourmos, ovk av nv oroa, His importance is marked by the emphatic jam vero with which the sentence begins. Philodemus says of him (Gomp. p. 77 foll.) dAAG pyy Kal Xptourmos [rd nav eri Aia avahéepwv"| €v TO TpeT@ Tept Oeav Aia hnaly eivar Tov dravra Stocxodvta Adyor Kal THY TOU ddov Wuyry, Kal TH TovTOV pev [wn mavta Cjv"]...Kal Tods ALOovs, Sid Kat Ziva Kareicbat, Aia & Ort Tavta@y aitios Kal Kvpios* Tov TE KOTpOY EuWuyor eivat Kal Ocdv" Kal TO Hyyepovtxoy Kal THY ddov Wux}y... Tov Ala Kal THY KoWNY TavT@Y vow Kai eipappérny kal avaykny’ Kat Thy adrny eivat Kai edvopiay kal Sixny kal Opovotav Kal eipnyny Kat “Adpoditny Kat TO mapamAnatoy wav. Kal jay Etvat Oeods appevas pnd€é Onrelas, as pndé modes pnd aperds, dvopaterOar dé povov dppevixes kai Onduxds tadta ovta, Kabanep oeAnvnY Kal piva’ Kal Tov “Apn kata Tov ToAeuou TeTayOat kal THs tTakews Kal avtira£ews’ “Hpacorov d€ rip elvat, Kal Kpdvov pev roy rod pevpatos poov, ‘Péav dé tiv yhv, Aia de tov aidépa (rovs b€ tov "AmdAXo, Kat THY Anuntpa yhv 7 TO é€v avty mvevpa)’ Kat radapiwdas AéyerOat Kai ypaperOar Kai TAaTTeTOat Geos avOpw- qTroewWets, OV TpoTov Kal TOAELS Kal ToTaBOvs Kal TOmOUS Kat TaOn’ Kai Aia peév eivat Tov Tept THY ynv dépa, Tov Sé okorevoy “Aidnv, Tov dé Oia Tis ys Kal
1 This is the emendation suggested in the excellent article on the Hercu- lanean Fragments which appeared in the Quarterly Review, Feb. 1810. German writers who have referred to this, have attributed it to Elmsley and others. I am informed by the present Editor of the Q. R. that it was really written by that
extraordinary man, Dr Thomas Young, and indeed it is so stated by Dean Peacock in his memoir.
2 Sauppe suggests puun mavra diaxetcOar, comparing C,’s fusionem universam.