622 Letter XL. sec. 4, p. 273, quoted also by Jerome, LXXV. sec. 12, p. 338.
624 We follow here the reading of fourteen Mss., "agit" instead of "ait."
630 Terence, Andria, Acti. Sc. 1.
634 An important sentence, as indicating the estimation in which Augustine held the "consensus patrum" as an authority in the interpretation of Scripture.
636 It is interesting to know that Jerome afterwards admitted the soundness of the view so ably and reasonably defended by Augustine in this letter concerning the rebuke of Peter at Antioch. In Letter CLXXX., addressed to Oceanus, we have these words: "This question the venerable Father Jerome and I have discussed fully in letters which we exchanged; and in the last work which he teas published against Pelagius, under the name of Critobulus. he has maintained the same opinion concerning that event, and the sayings of the apostles, as I myself had adopted, following the blessed Cyprian." See Jerome, book i., against the Pelagians, and Cyprian, Letter LXX., to Quintus.
638 This letter has not been preserved.
644 The text here gives latinâ. All that we know of the languages then spoken in Hippo would lead us to suppose that punicâ must have been written here by Augustine.
648 Regionem Hipponensium Regiorum.
660 Rogatus, bishop of Cartenna in Mauritania, who left the Donatists and suffered much persecution at the hands of Firmus, a brother of Gildo; hence the Donatists were named by the Rogatists Firmiani See Augustine, Contra Literas Petiliani, book ii ch. 83.
661 Bishop of Casae Nigrae in Nunntdia, and at that time the Donatist primate, as the oldest of their bishops.