[56] candidus id est deus, unde contra nigros mortuos dici- mus. significat etiam benignos et bonos, sicut contra malos nigros dicimus: Horatius "hic niger est, hunc tu Romane caveto". saepe tamen candidum pro pulchro ponit, ut "candida Dido" et "candida Maia". insuetum miratur l. o. quasi novus deus. et quibusdam videtur per allegoriam Caesarem dicere, qui primus divinos honores meruit et divus appellatus est.
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