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CHAPTER XI
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_numen_: godhead, deity.
Page 340, footnote 3.

_idem etiam_, etc.: he says also that Jupiter is the power of this law, eternal and immutable, which is the guide, so to speak, of our life and the principle of our duties; a law which he calls a fatal necessity, an eternal truth of future things.
Page 341, l.15.

_qua_: as.
Page 341, l.26._O qui res_, etc.: thou who rulest with eternal sway the doings of men and gods.
Page 342, l.1._Olli_, etc.: the sire of men and gods, smiling to her with that aspect wherewith he clears the tempestuous sky, gently kissed his daughter's lips; then thus replies: Cytherea, cease from fear; immovable to thee remain the fates of thy people.
Page 351, l.13._Iuppiter_, etc.: Jove reserved these shores for the just, when he alloyed the golden age with brass; with brass, then with iron he hardened the ages, from which there shall be a happy escape according to my predictions.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: Martial iv.64.

12.] [Footnote 2: _Aen_.viii.90.foll.The Capitoline hill, which Virgil means by "arx" a conspicuous object from the river just below the Aventine, and would have been much more conspicuous in the poet's time.

There is a view of it from this point in Burn's _Rome and the Campagna_, p.


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