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P. Hen en. Index verborum quae TertuUiani apologetico
continentur, Louvain and Paris, 1910 (from Musee Beige, vols.
XIII, XIV, xv).
J. P. Waltzing, L'Apologetique de Tertullien...Traduction
litterale suivie d'un commentaire historique, Louvain, Wll-*^.
A. Bill, Zur Erklarimg und Textkritik des 1. Bucks TertuUians
Adv. Marc. (Texte und Untersuchungen, xxxviii, 2),
Leipzig, 1911.
J. P. Waltzing, Les trois principaux MSS de I'Apologetique
de Tertullien (Musee Beige, xvi (1912), 181—241).
H. Schrors, Zur Textgeschichte und Erklarung von TertuUians
Apologetikum (Texte und Untersuchungen, XL, 4),
Leipzig, 1914.
E. Lofstedt, Tertullian's Apologeticum textkritisch untersucht,
Lund and Leipzig, 1915.
J. Moffatt, The Theology of Tertullian (intended for publication
in 1916).
See R. Klussmann, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Classicorum et
Graecorum et Latinorum, ii (2), Leipzig, 1913, 280—287, and
Teufiel, Gesch. d. rom. Lit.«, Leipz. 1913, § 373. A. S.]
To scholars whose reading is confined to the handful of
writers, barely filling a single shelf, which are counted as Latin
classics, I would venture to offer a few reasons for following
Scaliger, Casaubon, Gataker, Bentley, Wasse, Haupt, Bernays,
in widening their ken to the entire range of Latin authors, of
whatever creed or profession, down to the contemporaries of
Bede and Alcuin. Even such a self-taught giant as Madvig
often shews pitiable weakness from the limits to which he
restricted himself^.
When a Greek or Roman philosopher or rhetorician became
a Christian (fiunt, non nascuntur Christiani), he did not at once
forget all the learning of the past. A very large part of what
1 Has a large bibliography on pp. 336—356.
' At the Leyden tercentenary Madvig told me that he had read no Greek
or Latin theological author but Joaephus, and that only for information
respecting ancient warfare. He was however a diUgent student of the New
Testament, as may be seen by his copy in the Cambridge Divinity Library.