Idque & Oracula & Autores docuerunt praclari_.
Ammian Marcel Lib. 21.
[B] [Greek: Hapanti Daimon andri symparistatai
Euthys genomeno mystagogos tou biou. Menan]
[C] Scit Genius Natale comes, qui temperat Astrum, Nature Deus
Humana. Horat. [Transcriber's Note: This footnote is not seen
in the text.]
[D] _Volunt unicuique Genium appositum Damonem benum & malum,
hoc est rationem qua ad meliora semper boriatur, & libidinem
qua ad pejora, hic est Larva & Genius malus, ille bonus Genius
& Lar._ Serv. in Virgil, Lib. 6. v. 743.
[E] _Indulge Genio: carpamus dulcia_. Pers. Sat. 5.
[F] _Suum defraudans Genium._ Terent. Phorm. Act 1.
But a _Genius_ in common Acceptation amongst _us_, doth not
barely answer to this Sense. The _Pondus Animae_ is to be taken
into its Meaning, as well as the bare Inclination; as Gravitation
in a Body (to which this bears great Resemblance) doth not barely
imply a determination of its Motion towards a certain Center, but
the _Vis_ or Force with which it is carried forward; and so the
_English_ Word _Genius_, answers to the same _Latin_ Word, and
_Ingenium_ together. [G]_Ingenium_ is the _Vis ingenita_, the
natural Force or Power with which every Being is indued; and
this, together with the particular Inclination of the Mind,
towards any Business, or Study, or Way of Life, is what we mean
by a _Genius_.
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