Summary

Portrait of Arnobius Arnobius Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. VI, Adversus Gentes… (1885)

Let it be granted that the irrigation of the earth was meant by the union of Jupiter and Ceres, the burying of the seed [3] by the ravishing of Proserpine by father Dis, wines scattered over the earth by the limbs of Liber torn asunder by the Titans, that the restraining [4] of lust and rashness has been spoken of as the binding of the adulterous Venus and Mars.
Footnotes ↑ Lit., “natures.”↑ Lit., “things.”↑ So most edd., reading occultatiofor the ms. occupatio.↑ So all edd., reading com-, except Hild. and Oehler, who retain the ms. reading, im-pressio—“the assault of,” i.e., “on.”
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