127 During Lent and the Easter holidays.
129 Constantina, a chief city of Numidia.
130 Turris, a town in Numidia.
131 Aceessus indisciplinatus sanctimonialium.
132 2 Tim. iv. 2 and Tit. i. 9-11.
134 We give the ipsissima verba of this canon: "In his enim rebus de quibus nihil certi statuit Scriptura divina mos populi Dei vel instituta majorum pro lege tenenda sunt."
135 In the text the name is Urbicus, from Urbs Roma.
148 Priscillian, Bishop of Avila in Spain, adopted Gnostic and Manichaean errors and practices. He was condemned by the Synod of Saragossa in 381 A.D., and beheaded, along with his principal followers, by order of Maximus in 385 A.D.
151 "Prima Sabbati a Matthaeo, a caetetis autem tribus una Sabbati dicitur." Matt. xxviii. 1; Mark xvi. 2; Luke xxiv. 1; John xx. 1.
153 Commonly called quarta feria.
161 Simplicianus succeeded Ambrose in the see of Milan in 397 A.D. This letter is the preface to the two books addressed to Simplicianus, and contained in vol. vi. of the Benedictine edition of Augstin.