[1]: Liddell and Scott explain this as meaning such even numbers as become odd when divided, as 2, 6, 10, 14, etc.
[2]: Liddell and Scott explain this as meaning such even numbers as become odd when divided, as 2, 6, 10, 14, etc.
[3]: Exodus xx. 13.
[4]: Genesis xvii. 1.
[5]: Exodus xx. 13.
[6]: Genesis xvii. 1.
[7]: Διὸς κοῦροι. Sons of Jupiter, i.e, Castor and Pollux. The Gemini or Twins of the Zodiac. The story of their living and dying on alternate days is alluded to by Virgil, Aen. vi. 121, where Aeneas says, Si fratrem Pollux alterna morte redemit Itque reditque viam toties. Or, as it is translated by Dryden, If Pollux, off’ring his alternate life, Could free his brother; and can daily go By turns aloft, by turns descend below.
[8]: Διὸς κοῦροι. Sons of Jupiter, i.e, Castor and Pollux. The Gemini or Twins of the Zodiac. The story of their living and dying on alternate days is alluded to by Virgil, Aen. vi. 121, where Aeneas ways, Si fratrem Pollux alterna morte redemit Itque reditque viam toties. Or, as it is translated by Dryden, "If Pollux, off’ring his alternate life, Could free his brother; and can daily go By turns aloft, by turns descend below."
[9]: This was one of the things which especially excited the ridicule of the Romans. Juvenal says, Sat. xv. 1— Quis nescit, Volusi Bithynice, qualia demens Aegyptus portenta colat? Crocodilon adorat Pars haec: illa pavet saturam serpentibus Ibim, Effigies sacri nitet aurea cercopitheci, Dimidio magice resonant ubi Memnone chorda, Atque vetus Thebe centum jacet obruta portis. Illic coeruleow, hic piscem fluminis, illic Oppida tota canem venerantur, nemo Dianam. Or, as it is translated by Gifford, Who knows not to what monstrous gods, my friend, The mad inhabitants of Egypt bend? The snake devouring ibis, these enshrine Those think the crocodile alone divine; Others, where Thebes’ vast ruins strew the ground And shattered Memnon yields a magic sound, Set up a glittering brute of uncouth shape, And bow before the image of an ape! Thousands regard the hound with holy fear, Not one Diana,
[10]: This was one of the things which especially excited the ridicule of the Romans. Juvenal says, Sat. xv. 1— Quis nescit, Volusi Bithynice, qualia demens Aegyptus portenta colat? Crocodilon adorat Pars haec: illa pavet saturam serpentibus Ibim, Effigies sacri nitet aurea cercopitheci, Dimidio magice resonant ubi Memnone chorda, Atque vetus Thebe centum jacet obruta portis. Illic coeruleow, hic piscem fluminis, illic Oppida tota canem venerantur, nemo Dianam. Or, as it is translated by Gifford, "Who knows not to what monstrous gods, my friend, The mad inhabitants of Egypt bend? The snake devouring ibis, these enshrine Those think the crocodile alone divine; Others, where Thebes’ vast ruins strew the ground And shattered Memnon yields a magic sound, Set up a glittering brute of uncouth shape, And bow before the image of an ape! Thousands regard the hound with holy fear, Not one Diana,"