[286] Virgil, Æneid, viii. 319-20.
[287] In the Timæus.
[288] Plutarch's Numa; Livy, xl. 29.
[289] Comp. Lactantius, Instit. i. 6.
[290] Egesserit.
[291] Wisdom vii. 24-27.
[292] "Sapiens," that is, a wise man, one who had attained to wisdom.
[293] Finem boni.
[294] Dii majorum gentium.
[295] Book i. 13.