Arnobius

“ His virtues have been made manifest to you, and that unheard-of power over things, whether that which was openly exercised by Him or that which was used [4] over the whole world by those who proclaimed Him: it has subdued the fires of passion, and caused races, and peoples, and nations most diverse in character to hasten with one accord to accept the same faith. ”

“ The reading translated, et suspicionum argutias profertis, is that of LB., Orelli, and the later edd. generally; while the ms. reads -atis—“Bring forward arguments to us, and” (for which Heraldus conjectures very plausibly, nec, “and not”) “subtleties,” etc., which, by changing a single letter, reads in the earlier edd. pro-fer-etis—“Will you,” or, “You will bring forward,” etc.↑ Meursius conjectures in- (for ms. ju-) dicare—“pointed out,” of which Orelli approves.↑ So the ms. and both Roman edd., supported by Heraldus, reading solidæ facilitatis, changed by the edd. ”

“ If so, it may be well to remember that Lucan (x. 29 sq.) makes the Seres neighbours of the Ethiopians, and dwellers at the sources of the Nile.↑ Instead of sint, Stewechius would read essent—“were.”↑ Instead of the ms. reading, Numæ regis artibus et antiquis superstitionibus, Stewechius, followed by Heraldus, would read ritibus—“with the rites of Numa,” etc.↑ So the ms., reading res patrias, for which Heraldus, ritus patrios—“rites.”↑ So the ms., although the first five edd., by changing r into s, read cur-s-um—“course.” ”