23. But the true3274
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The carelessness of some copyist makes the ms. read ve-st-ri, “your,”
corrected as above by Ursinus. |
gods, and
those who are worthy to have and to wear the
dignity of this name,
neither conceive
anger nor indulge a
grudge, nor do they contrive by
insidious
devices what may be hurtful to another party. For
verily it is
profane, and surpasses all acts of
sacrilege, to believe
that that
wise and most
blessed nature is uplifted in
mind if one
prostrates himself before it in
humble adoration; and if this adoration
be not paid, that it deems itself
despised, and regards itself as
fallen from the
pinnacle of its
glory. It is childish,
weak, and
petty, and scarcely becoming for those whom the experience of learned
men has for a long time called demigods and heroes,
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So Ursinus, followed by Heraldus, LB., and Orelli, for the
ms. errores, which Stewechius
would change into
errones—“vagrants”—referring to the
spirits wandering over the earth: most other edd., following
Gelenius, read, “called demigods, that these
indeed”—dæmonas appellat, et hos, etc. |
not to be versed in heavenly things,
and, divesting themselves of their own proper state, to be busied with
the coarser matter of earth.
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