The City of God, Volume I

by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine

[236] Fabulosum.

[237] Civile.

[238] Timeri.

[239] Vereri.

[240] Intercido, I cut or cleave.

[241] Paranymphi.

[242] Comp. Tertullian, Adv. Nat. ii. 11; Arnobius, Contra Gent. iv.; Lactantius, Inst. i. 20.

[243] Mentioned also by Tertullian, Apol. 12, but not extant.

[244] Numina. Another reading is nomina; and with either reading another translation is admissible: "One is announcing to a god the names (or gods) who salute him."

[245] Tert. Apol. 13, "Nec electio sine reprobatione;" and Ad Nationes, ii. 9, "Si dei ut bulbi seliguntur, qui non seliguntur, reprobi pronuntiantur."