“Those bugbears
Terriculas. There is another reading, “terricolas.” See note at Institutes, book i. ch. 22 p. 38, supra. the Lamiæ, which Faunus and Numa Pompilius and others instituted, at these he trembles; he places everything in this. As infant boys believe that every statue of bronze is a living man, so these imagine that all things reigned are true: they believe that statues of bronze contain a heart. It is a painter’s
See preceding note and reference. gallery; nothing is real, everything fictitious.”