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1. Derived from Superstition, 10 (Moralia, 169–70), where Saturn is not mentioned.

2. Saturn, one of the most ancient of the gods, was said to have eaten all his children except Jupiter, for whom a stone was substituted.

3. Affection.

4. Orderly, free from turmoil.

5. See Essay 15, note 12.

6. Religious conference convened in 1545 to oppose Protestant doctrines and settle disputed Catholic ones.

7. Medieval philosophers and teachers in the universities who sought to regulate the doctrines of the Christian Church according to the rules of Aristotelian logic.