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166.21. The bracketed words merely repeat the thought of the preceding sentence and may be omitted. 167.2.

numerum versuum: i.e. their lore was put into verse to assist the memory. 167.4.

fas: the words fas and nefas refer to what is religiously right and wrong, in distinction from ius and iniuria, which refer to human obligations only. 167.8.

litteris confisos, by trusting to written words, a useful hint to teachers. 167.11.

hoc (acc.), more usually illud, refers to what follows; hoc (abl.) to what has just been said. 167.12.

transire: the belief in the transmigration of souls was common to many ancient peoples, and is still a tenet of some Eastern religions, especially of the Buddhists. 167.15.

mundi, the universe (system of things); terrarum (cf. orbis terrarum), the world.


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