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Nepos 'slight regard for philosophy is shown by a letter to Cicero quoted by Lactant. _inst.div. _ iii.

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Non-Christians are people who have not taken the oath of service to God or Christ, and who consequently have no part in the sacrament (“Sacramentum ignorantes,” Lactant.)!

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This rite (“purifici roris perfusio,” Lactant., iv. 15), whose beginnings lie wrapt in obscurity, certainly was not introduced in order to meet the pagan craving for the mysteries, but as a matter of fact it is impossible to think of any symbolic action which would prove more welcome to that craving than baptism with all its touching simplicity.

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Nodum in fcirpo quae - que effectus haberi peteft. rit Cellarius, Senfus eft: Ma - Earn deuotam mortem dixit xentiusopes, mille et fexa - Lactant. de Mort.

Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. 1779

Non-Christians were originally called “pagani” as “sacramentum ignorantes” (Lactant., v. 1), or because they were “far from the city of

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Cunctaque marmoreis ornata Peristyla signis; Moeniaque in valli formam circumdata labro, Omnia quae magnis operum velut aemula formis Excellunt: nec juncta premit vicinia Romae.] [Footnote 91: Lactant. de M.P. c.

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The taste of most of the editors (except Isaeus; see Lactant. edit.

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Libanius, Orat.viii. p. 203.] [Footnote 92: Lactant. de M.P. c.

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Christians; that is, between the years 306 and 311.] 2 Lactant.

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Libanius, Orat.viii. p. 203.] 92 Lactant. de M.P. c.

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