Arnobius

“ This is that precious being man, endowed [3] with the loftiest powers of reason, who is said to be a microcosm, and to be made and formed after the fashion of the whole universe, superior, as has been seen, to no brute, more senseless than stock or stone; for he is unacquainted with men, and always lives, loiters idly in the still deserts although he were rich, [4] lived years without number, and never escaped from the bonds of the body. ”

“ To this Orelli supposes that Arnobius here refers.↑ The vessels in which according to Plato (Timæus, st. p. 41) , the Supreme Being mixed the vital essence of all being. Cf. c. 52.↑ Lit., “and endowed.”↑ The text and meaning are both rather doubtful, and the edd. vary exceedingly. The reading of Orelli, demoretur iners, valeat in ære quamvis, has been translated as most akin to the ms., with which, according to Oehler, it agrees, although Orelli himself gives the ms. reading as ær-io.↑ Lit., “acknowledge turnings in the course.” ”