Opening the library…
Ad Nationes
Tertullian
I hasten to even more abominable cases. Your writers have not
Compare Augustine, de Civ. Dei, vi. 7. [Tom. vii. p. 184.]
Æditum ejus.
That is, when he mounted the pyre.
Herculi functam. “Fungi alicui” means to satisfy, or yield to.
The well-known Greek saying, ῎Αλλος οὗτος ῾Ηρακλῆς.
Pluto; Proserpine, the daughter of Ceres, is meant. Oehler once preferred to read, “Hebe, quæ mortuo placuit,” i.e., “than Hebe, who gratified Hercules after death.”
Tertullian often refers indignantly to this atrocious case.
Subigitis.