(Fasti, II.) explains the derivation of February, telling us that it was the last month of the old year, and took its name from the lustrations performed then: “Februa Romani dixere piamina patres.” ↩
  • Ennius, in Cicero, De Natura Deorum II. 18. ↩

  • John 10:9. ↩

  • Georgic, II. 470. ↩

  • Summa, which also includes the meaning “last.” ↩

  • Virgil, Eclogue III. 60, who borrows the expression from the Phaenomena of Aratus. ↩

  • Soranus lived about BC 100. See Smith’s Dictionary. ↩

  • Tigillus. ↩

  • Ruma. ↩

  • “Pecunia,” that is, property; the original meaning of “pecunia” being property in cattle, then property or wealth of any kind. Compare Augustine, De disciplina Christiana 6. ↩

  • Sallust, De Conjuratione Catilinae ch. 11. ↩

  • Quasi medius currens. ↩

  • Nuncius. ↩

  • Enunciantur. ↩

  • Coelo. ↩

  • Coelum. ↩

  • Sc. Χρόνος. ↩

  • See ch. XVI. ↩

  • Varro, De Lingua Latina V. 68. ↩

  • Nourisher. ↩

  • Returner. ↩

  • In the book De Ratione Naturali Deorum. ↩

  • Mundum. ↩

  • Immundum. ↩

  • Mundus. ↩

  • Mundum. ↩

  • Virgil, Aeneid, VIII. 319⁠–⁠20. ↩

  • In the Timaeus. ↩

  • Plutarch’s Numa; Livy, XL. 29. ↩

  • Compare Lactantius, Institutiones Divinae I. 6. ↩

  • Egesserit. ↩

  • Wisdom 7:24⁠–⁠27. ↩

  • “Sapiens,” that is, a wise man, one who had attained to wisdom. ↩

  • Finem boni. ↩

  • Dii majorum gentium. ↩

  • Book I. 13. ↩

  • Romans 1:19, 20. ↩

  • Colossians 2:8. ↩

  • Romans 1:19, 20. ↩

  • Acts 17:28. ↩

  • Romans 1:21⁠–⁠23. ↩

  • De Doctrina Christiana, II. 43. Compare Retractationes II. 4, 2. ↩

  • Liberating Jewish slaves, and sending gifts to the temple. See Josephus, Antiquities XII. 2. ↩

  • Genesis 1:1, 2. ↩

  • Spiritus. ↩

  • Exodus 3:14. ↩

  • Romans 1:20. ↩

  • Ch. XIV. ↩

  • De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • Virgil, Aeneid 7. 338. ↩

  • Virgil, Aeneid 4. 492, 493. ↩

  • Virgil, Eclogue 8. 99. ↩

  • Pliny (Historia Naturalis XXVIII. 2) and others quote the law as running: “Qui fruges incantasit, qui malum carmen incantasit⁠ ⁠… neu alienam segetem pelexeris.” ↩

  • Before Claudius, the prefect of Africa, a heathen. ↩

  • Another reading, “whom they could not know, though near to themselves.” ↩

  • These quotations are from a dialogue between Hermes and Aesculapius, which is said to have been translated into Latin by Apuleius. ↩

  • Romans 1:21. ↩

  • Jeremiah 16:20. ↩

  • Zechariah 3:2. ↩

  • Isaiah 19:1. ↩

  • Matthew 16:16. ↩

  • Matthew 8:29. ↩

  • Psalm 96:1. ↩

  • Psalm 115:5, etc. ↩

  • 1 Corinthians 10:19, 20. ↩

  • Psalm 96:1⁠–⁠5. ↩

  • Jeremiah 16:20. ↩

  • Ornamenta memoriarum. ↩

  • Compare The Confessions, VI. 2. ↩

  • See Plutarch, “On the Cessation of Oracles.” ↩

  • The De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • De Finibus III. 20; Tusculanae Disputationes III. 4. ↩

  • The distinction between bona and commoda is thus given by Seneca (Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 87, ad fin.): “Commodum est quod plus usus est quam molestiae; bonum sincerum debet esse et ab omni parte innoxium.” ↩

  • Book XIX. ch. 1. ↩

  • See Diogenes Laertius II. 71. ↩

  • Virgil, Aeneid, IV. 449. ↩

  • Seneca, De Clementia II. 4 and 5. ↩

  • Pro Ligario ch. 12. ↩

  • De Oratore, I. 11, 47. ↩

  • De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • De Conjuratione Catilinae I. ↩

  • Plotinus died in 270 AD. For his relation to Plato, see Augustine’s Contra Academicos III. 41. ↩

  • Enneades IV. 3. 12. ↩

  • Apuleius, not Plotinus. ↩

  • De Deo Socratis. ↩

  • Apuleius, De Deo Socratis ↩

  • Virgil, Georgic I. 5. ↩

  • Augustine apparently quotes from memory from two passages

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