159 e0leei. Others read, w\ me/leui "O wretched."
162 Hospitium, i.e., a place of hospitality.
163 Familia, "a household of slaves."
168 Ineluibiles sibi maculas inusserunt.
170 Sopiantur, i.e., be lulled to sleep.
171 Destructilia. The word is used by Prudentius.
172 [See p. 163, supra. See note below.]
2 [Nostrae sectae. Perhaps adopted pleasantly from Acts xxviii. 22.] i.e., Christians.
4 i.e., have been initiated by baptism. [Philipp. iii. 20. Greek.]
6 [The argument from design is unanswerable, and can never be obsolete. The objections are frivolous, and belong to Cicero's "minute philosophers."] Of whom, see Tuscal. Quaest., book i. cap. 23.]
7 Omnes enim suis ex se pilis. Others read, "pellibus texit."
8 [podwki/hn la\gwo=ij.-Anac., Ode i. 3.]
9 [fu/sij ke/rata tau/roij o9pla\j d' e!dwken i!ppoij.-Anac., Ode i. 1, 2.]
10 [le/ousi xa/sm' o0do/ntwn.-Ib., 4.]
11 ["The survival of the fittest." The cant of our day anticipated.]
12 [toi=j a0ndra/sin fro/nhma.-Ib., 5. See p. 172, note 5, suprasupra.]
13 [The admirable investigations of the modern atheists are so many testimonies against their own theories when they come to talk of force, etc., instead of God. P. 97, note 4, supra.]
17 [The admirable investigations of the modern atheists are so many testimonies against their own theories when they come to talk of force, etc., instead of God. P. 97, note 4, supra.]
21 Boves Lucas. Elephants are said to have been so called, because they were first seen by the Romans in Lucania.
22 Some editions here add: "But what is the nature of this, it does not belong to the present subject to consider."
25 [The disposition, even among men, to herd together in artificial societies, is instinctively repugnant to the stronger natures.]