[535] Lag. 454. 6.
[536] Lag. 455. 35. Cf. De Immenso, ii. 13. 310, 311.
[537] Lag. 456. 7.
[538] Cf. the mockery of Momus in the Spaccio (sub Orion, Lag. p. 543).
[539] Sig. Sig. Op. Lat. ii. 2. 190.
[540] Orat. Consol. Op. Lat. i. 1. 51; cf. i. 3. 4.
[541] Cf. Lucretius, ii. 646: “Omnis enim per se divom natura necessest,” etc.
[542] Lag. 463. 464.
[543] Cena, Lag. 169. 17 ff.; cf. Spinoza, Tractatus Theologico politicus, esp. ch. 14 and 15, and preface, § 24: “Scripturam rationem absolute liberam relinquere et nihil cum philosophia commune habere.”
[544] Cf. what is said of the danger of preaching determinism to the many, in Inf., Lag., 317. 11, and Her. Fur., Lag. 619. 20.