Matrem Deum. Cybele, as the Romans interpreted it, cf. 43.
Insigne—gestant. Worn, as amulets.
Frumenta laborant, i.e. labor for, or to produce, corn. Cf. Hor. Epod. 5, 60. Laborare is transitive only in poetry and post-Augustan prose. Elaborare would imply too much art for the author's purpose. See Rit. in loc.
Succinum. Amber, an important article of commerce in early ages, combining some vegetable juice (hence the Latin name, from succus) with some mineral ingredients.—Glesum. This name was transferred to glass, when it came into use. The root is German. Compare [Greek: chalaza.] Död.
Nec==non tamen. Yet it is not, etc.
Ut barbaris. Cf. ut inter barbaros, A. 11. Barbaris is dative in apposition with iis, which is understood after compertum.
Quae—ratio. What power or process of nature.
Donec—dedit. Cf. note, 87: affectavere.
Plerumque. Often; a limited sense of the word peculiar to post-Augustan Latin. Cf. G. 13: ipsa plerumque fama bella profligant; and Freund ad v.
Quae—expressa==quorum succus expressus, etc.