Arnobius

“ And how shall he be overcome by any fear or dread who has been persuaded that he is immortal, just as the supreme God Himself, and that no sentence can be pronounced upon him by God, seeing that there is the same immortality in both, and that the one immortal being cannot be troubled by the other, which is only its equal? ”

“ Cease to place man in the upper ranks, since he is of the lowest; and in the highest orders, seeing that his person only is taken account of, [1] that he is needy, poverty-stricken in his house and dwelling, [2] and was never entitled to be declared of illustrious descent. For while, as just men and upholders of righteousness, you should have subdued pride and arrogance, by the evils [3] of which we are all uplifted and puffed up with empty vanity ”

“ Orelli, however, would supply anima, ἀπὸ τοῦ κοινοῦ, as he puts it, of which nothing need be said. Meursius, with customary boldness, emends nec vi alterius altera, “nor by the power of one can the other,” etc. ”