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[3] The father, whom they erringly suppose to have been the original god, was ignorant that this (son of his) was lying concealed in Crete; the son, again, whom they believe the mightier god, knows not that the father whom himself had banished is lurking in Italy. If he was in heaven, when would he not see what was doing in Italy? For the Italian land is "not in a corner." 10 And yet, had he been a god, nothing ought to have escaped him. But that he whom the Italians call Saturnus did lurk there, is clearly evidenced on the face of it, from the fact that from his lurking11 the Hesperian12 tongue is to this day called Latin, 13 as likewise their author Virgil relates. 14
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10 See Acts xxvi. 26. 11 Latitatio. 12 i.e., Western: here=Italian, as being west of Greece. 13 Latina. 14 See Virg. Aen. viii. 319-323: see also Ov. Fast. I. 234-238. |
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