Part 22

Comp. Bacon's Essay on the Vicissitudes of Things.

Matt. v. 45.

2 Pet. ii. 19.

Nonius Marcell. borrows this anecdote from Cicero, De Repub. iii.

It was extinguished by Crassus in its third year.

Cloacina, supposed by Lactantius (De falsa relig. i. 20), Cyprian (De Idol. vanit.), and Augustine (infra., c. 23) to be the goddess of the "cloaca," or sewage of Rome. Others, however, suppose it to be equivalent to Cluacina, a title given to Venus, because the Romans after the end of the Sabine war purified themselves (cluere) in the vicinity of her statue.

Forculum foribus, Cardeam cardini, Limentinum limini.

Virgil, Eclog. iii. 60.

Virgil, Æneid, i. 47.

Cicero, De Nat. Deor. ii. 25.

Virgil, Georg. ii. 325, 326.

Eusebius, De Præp. Evang. i. 10.

Virgil, Georg. iv. 221, 222.

The feminine Fortune.

Hab. ii. 4.

So called from the consent or harmony of the celestial movements of these gods.

Tusc. Quæst. i. 26.

Livy, ii. 36; Cicero, De Divin. 26.

Called by Cicero (De Oratore, i. 39) the most eloquent of lawyers, and the best skilled lawyer among eloquent men.

Superflua non nocent.

Rom. i. 25.

De Divin. ii. 37.

Cic. De Nat. Deorum, lib. ii. c. 28.

Superstition, from superstes. Against this etymology of Cicero, see Lact. Inst. Div. iv. 28.

Balbus, from balbutiens, stammering, babbling.

See Cicero, De Nat. Deor. i. 2.

Plutarch's Numa, c. 8.

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