Opening the library…
On Patience
Tertullian
Therefore, if we see all servants of probity and right feeling
“Obsequium,” distinguished by Döderlein from “obedientia,” as a more voluntary and spontaneous thing, founded less on authority than respect and love.
Obsequii.
“Pollicetur,” not “promittit.”
Obedientiam.
“Subnixis.” Perhaps this may be the meaning, as in Virg. Æn. iv. 217. But Oehler notices “subnexis” as a conjecture of Jos. Scaliger, which is very plausible, and would mean nearly the same. Mr. Dodgson renders “supported by their slavery;” and Oehler makes “subnixis” ="præditis,” “instructis.” [Elucidation II.]
Obsequii.
Pecudibus,” i.e. tame domestic cattle.
“Bestiis,” irrational creatures, as opposed to “homines,” here apparently wild beasts.
Obsequii. For the sentiment, compare Isa. i. 3.
Obsequii.
See above, “the creatures…acknowledge their masters.”
Obsequio.
Obsequio.
“Oblectatur” Oehler reads with the mss. The editors, as he says, have emended “Obluctatur,” which Mr. Dodgson reads.
See the previous chapter.
See the previous chapter.
See chap. i.
[All our author’s instances of this principle of the Præscriptio are noteworthy, as interpreting its use in the Advs. Hæreses.]