Arnobius

“ Why did she not crush and repel assaults [8] so terrible before these awful blows fell, by which all the blood was shed, and the life even failed, the vitals being almost exhausted? She had not been brought yet, says my opponent, nor asked to show favour. ”

“ Be it so; [9] but a kind helper never requires to be asked, always offering assistance of his own accord. She was not able, you say, to expel the enemy and put him to flight, while still separated from Italy [10] by much sea and land. But to a deity, if really one, [11] nothing whatever is remote, to whom the earth is a point, and by whose nod all things have been established.
Footnotes ↑ 47 in Orelli.↑ Lit., “did a stone drive,” etc.↑ Lit. ”