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A strain of Sodom IntraText CT - Index of footnotes |
2: See Gen. ix. 21, 22, x. 8-17. 3: Comp. 2 Pet. iii. 5-14. 4: The expression, "sinners against their own souls," in Num. xvi. 38 - where, however, the LXX. have[...] 5: Whether the above be the sense of this most obscure triplet I will not presume to determine. It is[...] 6: Comp. Heb. i. 14. It may be as well here to inform the reader once for that prosody as well as sy[...] 7: "Divinos;" i.e., apparently "superhuman," as everything heavenly is. 8: Of hospitality - bread and salt, etc. 9: "Mensa;" but perhaps "mensae" may be suggested - "the sacred pledges of the board." 10: "Dispungit," which is the only verb in the sentence, and refers both to pia pignora and to amicos.[...] 11: Altera = alterna. But the statement differs from Gen. xix. 4. 12: "Istam juventam," i.e., the two "juvenes" (ver. 31) within. 13: "Fas" = osion, morally right; distinct from "jus" or "licitum." 14: i.e., Lot's race or family, which had come from "Ur of the Chaldees." See Gen. xi. 26, 27, 28. 15: I use "preventing" in its now unusual sense of "anticipating the arrival of." 16: Shgwr in the LXX., "Zoar" in Eng. ver. 17: "Simul exoritur sol." But both the LXX. and the Eng. ver. say the sun was risen when Lot entered t[...] 18: So Oehler and Migne. But perhaps we may alter the pointing slightly, and read: - "Down pours [...] 19: The story of Phaëthon and his fate is told in Ov., Met., ii. 1-399, which may be compared with the[...] 20: i.e., as she had been before in the case of Eve. See Gen. iii. 1 sqq. 21: I have hazarded the bold conjecture - which I see others (Pamelius at all events) had hazarded bef[...] 22: This use of "easely" as a dissyllable is justifiable from Spenser. 23: This seems to be the sense, but the Latin is somewhat strange: "morsest maris illa quieti," i.e., [...] 24: Inque picem dat terrae haerere marinam. 25: "Pressum" (Oehler); "pretium" (Migne): "it will yield a prize, namely, that," etc. 26: Luciferam. 27: Oehler's pointing is disregarded. 28: "De caelo jura tueri;" possibly "to look for laws from heaven." |
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