20. 3270
| 3270
The ms. reads at,
“but.” |
Do they on this account wreak their
wrath
on you too, in order that, roused by your own private
wounds, you may
rise up for their
vengeance? It seems, then, that the gods
seek
the help of
mortals; and were they not protected by your strenuous
advocacy, they are not able of themselves to repel and to
avenge3271
| 3271
Defendere is added in the ms., but
marked as a gloss. |
the insults
offered them. Nay rather, if it be true that they
burn with
anger, give them an opportunity of
defending themselves, and let them
put forth and make
trial of their innate powers, to take
vengeance for
their offended
dignity. By
heat, by hurtful cold, by noxious
winds, by the most occult
diseases, they can
slay us, they can
consume
3272
| 3272
Consumere is in like manner marked as a gloss. |
us, and they
can drive us entirely from all intercourse with men; or if it is
impolitic to assail us by
violence, let them give forth some token of
their indignation,
3273
| 3273
So Orelli, for the ms.
judicationis, “judgment.” |
by which it may be clear to all that
we live under heaven subject to their strong
displeasure.
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