231 The Benedictine Fathers translate this, in their note, sitz-bath.
239 Ps. xxiv. 1; 1 Cor. x. 25, 26; and 1 Tim. iv. 4.
240 For Augstin's mature view on this subject, see his work. De Libero Arbitrio, i. 5. 13: "That it is wrong to shed the blood of our fellow-men in defence of those things which ought to be despised by us."
243 The monastery of these brethren was in the island of Capraria-the same, I suppose, with Caprera-now so widely famous as Garibaldi's home.
260 Cilicium, the garment of goats' hair worn by the brethren. These were the staple article of manufacture in Caprera, "the goat island."
261 This letter is found only in the Vatican Ms. On this ground, and because of its tone and style, its composition has been ascribed to another hand than Augustine's. The reader may judge for himself. The sixty Christians of Suffectum (a town in the territory of Tunis), whose death is here mentioned, are commemorated in the martyrology of the Roman Catholic Church. Their day in the Calendar is Aug. 30.
266 Felicianus and Praetextatus were two of the twelve bishops by whom Maximianus was ordained. They were condemned by the Donatist Council of Bagae; but finding it impossible to eject them from their sees, the Donatists yielded after a time, and restored them to their office. See Letter LIII. p. 299.
269 We conjecture this to be the meaning of the elliptical expression EUTUXWS with which the letter ends.
270 "Ordo." The phrase is afterwards given (sec. 2) more fully, "ordo episcoporum sibi succcdentium."
274 Totius Ecclesiae figuram gerenti.
277 Compare the allusion to the same custom in Letter XLIII. sec. 21, p. 155.