512 Letter XXVIII. ch. ii. p. 251.
513 De optimo genere interpretandi.
514 Letter LXXI., sec. 5, p. 327.
515 The critic here referred to was Canthelius, whom Jerome abuses in his commentary on the passage, insinuating that the reason why the gourds found in this scion of a noble house a champion so devoted, was that they had often rendered him a service which ivy could not have done, screening his secret potations from public notice.
516 Alluding to the extent to which Rome was indebted to Africa for corn.
521 The original here is antithetical: "jam vos videtis, et adhuc invidetis."
528 Proceedings before Munatius Felix, Letter LIII. sec. 4, p. 299.
529 Optatus, Donatist bishop of Thamugada, was cast into prison A.D. 397, and died there. He was a partisan of Gildo in his rebellion against Honorius, and shared the misfortunes, as he had participated in the crimes, of his chief.
534 He refers to their visiting the tomb of Felix of Nola, in the hope that by some miracle there the innocent and the guilty would be distinguished. See Letter LXXVIII. sec. 3, p. 346.
541 Third Council of Carthage, A.D. 397, Can. 7, 8.
545 Aug translates, "be sober and righteous."
547 "Nor count it is a great thing that they despise you."-Aug.
550 Deut. xxix. 29. This verse is the nearest I can find to the words here quoted by the apostle. The reference in the Bened. edition to 1 Cor. v. 12 must be a mistake.