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A strain of Sodom

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  • A strain of Sodom.
  1: Maris aequor.
  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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