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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