663 Ps. xxxv. 12.

664 Ps. cxx. 6, 7.

665 The actual heading of the Report stands thus: "A. GGG. NNN. Anulinus VC. proconsul Africae." For the tnterpretation we are indebted to the marginal note on the Codex Gervasianus.

666 Dicationi meae.

667 Parvitas mea.

668 The value of the evidence of these wirnesses is apparent when we remember that they were all in a position to speak from personal knowledge of the persecution in A.D. 303 (under Diocletian and Maximian), and had in their public capacity some share in enforcing the demand made in that persecution for the surrender of the sacred books. These could tell whether Felix the Bishop of Aptunga was guilty or not of the unfaithfulness to his religion with which the faction of Majorinus reproached him.

669 Suspensum.

670 Prov. xix. 12.

671 Ecclus. xxvii. 29, and Prov. xxvi. 27.

672 Donatist bishop of Hippo. See Letter XXXIII. p. 260.

673 At Carthage, A.D. 403.

674 For a more detailed reference to this case, see Letter CV. sec. 4. Crispinus was charged with an attempt to kill Possidius the bishop of Calama. See also Aug. Cont. Crescon. b. iii. c. 46, n. 50, and c. 47, n. 51.

675 Isa. lxvi. 5, as given by Augustine.

676 Acts xv. 9.

677 1 Pet. iv. 8.

678 Matt. iv. 4.

679 Acts xvii. 18.

680 Ge xxii. 18.

681 John i. 33.

682 Jer. xvii. 5.

683 He refers to a riot in which the Pagans, after celebrating a heathen festival, attacked the Christians on June 1, 408 A.D.

684 Eunuchus, Act iii. Sc. 5.

685 Here culminates in the original a play upon words, towards which Augustine has been working with the ingenuity of a rhetorician from the beginning of the second paragraph; but the zest of his wit is necessarily lost in translation, because in our language the words "flower" and "flourish" are not so immediately suggestive of each other as the corresponding noun and verb in Latin (flos and florere).

686 Letter XC. p. 376.

687 The law of Honorius, passed on Nov. 24, 407, forbidding the celebration of public heathen solemnities and festivals (quidquam, solemnitatis agitare).

688 Rom. v. 5.

689 1 Cor. ii. 11.

690 1 Cor. iv. 5.

691 1 John i. 5.

692 1 Tim. vi. 16.

693 Ps. xxxiv. 5.

694 1 John iii. 2.

695 Col. iii. 10.

696 2 Cor. iv. 6.

697 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

698 1 Cor. ii. 14.

699 John viii. 44.

700 Matt. v. 8.

701 e0n ai/nigmati.

702 1 Cor. xiii.12.

703 John iv. 24.