—Deipara: as in zoology we familiarly speak of oviparous and viviparous animals. It is not easy to fix the
invention of this word, which La Croze (Christianisme des
Indes, tom. i. p. 16) ascribes to Eusebius of Caesarea and
the Arians. The orthodox testimonies are produced by Cyril
and Petavius, (Dogmat. Theolog. tom. v. l. v. c. 15, p. 254,
etc.;) but the veracity of the saint is questionable, and the
epithet of so easily slides from the margin to the text of a Catholic MS.
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