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    remark that Lactantius was a pupil of Arnobius and the surviving treatise are all the surviving facts about Arnobius. Adversus nationes was composed in response...
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  • Arnobius the Younger (Latin: Arnobius Junior) was a Christian priest or bishop in Gaul, who wrote from Rome around the year 460. He is the author of a...
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    Campbell. Arnobius, 5.5. Arnobius, 5.5. Arnobius, 5.5. Arnobius, 5.5. Arnobius, 5.6. Arnobius, 5.6. Arnobius of Sicca, The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus...
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    Arnobius have been attributed by Marcovich to an unknown editor who misunderstood and redacted the text that Arnobius used, rather than to Arnobius himself:...
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    197M; Cicero, Timaeus XI[usurped]; Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 2.71, 3.29. Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 4.14. Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 3.37, citing Mnaseas...
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  • Roman mythology, according to Arnobius, Puta presided over the pruning of trees and was a minor goddess of agriculture. Arnobius, Ante-Nicene Christian Library:...
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    Kaaba (section Arnobius)
    temple too far north for it to have been Mecca. Christian church father Arnobius, in around 300 CE, referred to "an unshapen stone" worshiped in an unspecified...
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    Greek pantheon had become dominant, and must be regarded with skepticism. Arnobius states that the Etruscans had a set of six male and six female deities...
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    1930 †15. 2. 1990) (1990), pp. 114–29. JSTOR 43075881. Arnobius, The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus Gentes, translated by Archibald Hamilton Bryce...
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  • Hades". YouTube. October 30, 2020. Retrieved March 19, 2021. Arnobius, The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus Gentes, translated by Archibald Hamilton Bryce...
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    easternmost sea for many people in antiquity). Additionally, the testimony of Arnobius of Sicca, active shortly after AD 300, maintains that the Christian message...
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    Sebastiani, a 5th-century text written by an anonymous author, possibly Arnobius the Younger. Sebastian is a popular male saint, especially today among...
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    taught him dancing first and war only afterwards," Karl Kerenyi observed. Arnobius is aware of the importance accorded Priapus in this region near the Hellespont...
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    interpreted this act as an obscene loss of virginity. The Christian apologist Arnobius says that Roman matrons were taken for a ride (inequitare) on Tutunus's...
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  • 23. Augustine, De Civitate Dei 4.8. Arnobius, Adversus Nationes, 4.9. Augustine, De civitate Dei, 4.8; 6.7. Arnobius 4.9. Ludwig Preller, Römische Mythologie...
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  • are a collective of Roman deities mentioned by the Christian apologist Arnobius (d. 330 AD): "Indeed, who is there who would believe that there are gods...
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    Bath-Cupid's Lesson," 19th century, engraving Cicero, De natura Deorum 3.56; also Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 4.14. Glossary to Ovid's Fasti, Penguin edition, by...
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  • honey (Latin mel, mellis) as Pomona did for apples and Bubona for cattle. Arnobius describes her as "a goddess important and powerful regarding bees, taking...
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    derived from earlier now lost Greek works. These preservers of myth include Arnobius, Hesychius, the author of the Suda, John Tzetzes, and Eustathius. They...
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  • their virtus, their quality of character. The early Christian apologist Arnobius notes other authorities who also regarded them as mortals who became gods...
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  • name for Anton Wilhelm Amo, Ghanaian-German academic Arnobius Afer (died 4th century), also Arnobius the Elder, Roman rhetorician in the province of Africa...
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    1995. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Arnobius of Sicca, The Seven Books of Arnobius Adversus Gentes, translated by Archibald Hamilton Bryce...
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    Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius. Calvin College Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Archived from the...
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    585; Vergil, Aeneid 12, v. 139 (and Servian notes); Cicero, Cluent. 36; Arnobius of Sicca, Adversus gentes 3, 29 Levi, Peter, Virgil, His Life and Times...
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  • Saturnalia, he was "the learned man of his age". Maurus Servius Honoratus and Arnobius both employed his erudition to their own ends. He possessed a library of...
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  • derives from Latin pello "to hit, push, thrust off". Augustine, De civitate Dei, IV. 21 Arnobius, Adversus Nationes, IV. 4 Myth Index - Pellonia v t e...
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  • distinccion a threefold division. This is due to an application of the term by Arnobius, and was never common either in Latin or English. The meaning "trite, commonplace...
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    Roman goddess Ceres, University of Texas Press, 1996, pp. 4, 6–13, citing Arnobius, who mistakes this as the first Roman cult to Ceres. His belief may reflect...
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  • 1997 Teubner edition of Lindsay. ap. Non. p. 44; comp. Gell. xiii. 22; Arnobius iv. 2 – cited by Schmitz Poultney, J.W. "Bronze Tables of Iguvium" 1959...
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    geographical description of Atlantis. The early Christian apologist writer Arnobius also believed Atlantis once existed, but blamed its destruction on pagans...
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