The remarks of the rector recall the saying of Lactantius, "literati non habent fidem."

This power of silencing oracles, and putting the devils to flight, is also attested by Arnobius, Lactantius, Prudentius, Minutius, Felix, and several others.

Many excellent questions appertain to this sense, discussed by philosophers: as whether this sight be caused intra mittendo, vel extra mittendo, &c., by receiving in the visible species, or sending of them out, which Plato, Plutarch, Macrobius, Lactantius and others dispute.

1. de Anima, Tertullian, Lactantius de opific.

3, Origen, Tertullian, Lactantius, and many ancient Fathers of the Church: that in their fall their bodies were changed into a more aerial and gross substance.

3 et 23; but be where he will, he rageth while he may to comfort himself, as [1220] Lactantius thinks, with other men's falls, he labours all he can to bring them into the same pit of perdition with him.

Lactantius, 2 instit., will exclude "fear from a wise man:" others except all, some the greatest passions.

Arnobius, lib. 7, adversus gentes, Lactantius, lib. 5. cap.

But Lactantius l. 6. c. 7. de vero cultu, calls it a detestable opinion, and fully confutes it, lib.

'Tis the same devil still, called heretofore Apollo, Mars, Neptune, Venus, Aesculapius, &c. as Lactantius lib.

Varro, Lactantius, Aug. 1659.

Lactantius.

Tertullian, Lactantius, even St. Augustine himself, quote his words with marked admiration, and St. Jerome appeals to him as "our Seneca."

"Accordingly," says Lactantius, one of the Christian Fathers, "he has said many things like ourselves concerning God."

[Footnote 18: Lactantius, Divin.

The Christian Cicero, Lucius Coelius Lactantius (died 330).

In view of these explicit statements it is difficult to see what the Church Father Lactantius meant by asserting (de Vero Cultu, 23): Non enim, sicut iuris publici ratio est, sola mulier adultera est, quae habet alium; maritus autem, etiamsi plures habeat, a crimine adulterii solutus est.

Laceration, ii. 106; iii. 419, n. 1. Lactantius, iii. 133.

"Hippolitus" is added to the authorities in the MS.; and in the English, p. 36., "Anastasius Sinaiti, S. Gaudentius, Q. Julius Hilarius, Isidorus Hispalensis, and Cassiodorus," are inserted after Lactantius, in both.

The Latin ascribed to Lactantius, is printed in the Variourum edition of Claudian, and, I believe, in the editions of Lactantius. Jan. 30, 1850.

The Latin ascribed to Lactantius, is printed in the Variourum edition of Claudian, and, I believe, in the editions of Lactantius. Jan. 30, 1850.

The Latin poem, in hexameters and pentameters, attributed to Lactantius, is given at the foot of the page.

It will be found at the end of the works of Lactantius, in the small edition by Fritzsche (Lipsiæ, 1842).

C.W.G. Lay of the Phoenix."SELEUCUS" (No. 13, p. 203.) asks, "Is there any published edition of the hexameter poem by Lactantius, which is said to have suggested the idea of the Anglo-Saxon Lay of the Phoenix?"

This poem is not in hexameter, but in elegiac verse; and though, on account of its brevity, we could not expect that it would have been separately published, it is to be found very commonly at the end of the works of Lactantius; for example, in three editions before me, Basil.