ANF06. Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius, and Minor Writers, Methodius, Arnobius

25. Unxia, my opponent says, presides over the anointing of door-posts; Cinxia over the loosening of the zone; the most venerable Victa³⁹⁹³

³⁹⁹³ The ms. reads Vita.
and Potua attend to eating and drinking. O rare and admirable interpretation of the divine powers! would gods not have names³⁹⁹⁴

³⁹⁹⁴ [i.e., these names are derived from their offices to men. Have they no names apart from these services?]
if brides did not besmear their husbands’ door-posts with greasy ointment; were it not that husbands, when now eagerly drawing near, unbind the maiden-girdle; if men did not eat and drink? Moreover, not satisfied to have subjected and involved the gods in cares so unseemly, you also ascribe to them dispositions fierce, cruel, savage, ever rejoicing in the ills and destruction of mankind.
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