48 Statesman and Sophist, came to Athens on a mission b.c. 327, and settled there.
49 Son of a Star; the leader of the Jewish revolt against Hadrian, a.d. 132-5.
50 King of Elis whom Jove destroyed for imitating thunder and lightning by his chariot and brazen bridge and torches.
52 Supposed to refer to Rev. ix, 7, Rev. ix, 17.
53 Possibly a nick-name for one of Rufinus' friends: or `to you even when you pose as Calpurnius.0' See above c. 28, note.
54 Jerome Letter li., Epiphanius to John of Jerusalem.
55 See Ruf. Apol. to Anastasius, 1.
56 See the end of the letter of Pammachius and Oceanus; Jerome Letter lxxxiii.
57 In the oration against Vatinius mention is made of his made of his boasting himself to be a Pythagorean.
58 Neo-Platonist of Alexandria, 4th century.
59 This is given by Jerome both in Greek and Latin.
61 Gesta quae in Alexandro et Scipione legeram. The Latin construction will bear Jerome's meaning, but cannot be exactly or elegantly rendered in English.
63 Anthony's wife who had Cicero's head brought to her, and bored through the tongue with a golden bodkin.
64 Eustathius was deposed at the instigation of Eusebius the Arian bishop of Nicomedia, who brought charges both of Sabellianism and of immorality against him. Socrates, Eccl. Hist. i. 24.
65 At the Synod at Tyre in 335. See Socrates Eccl. Hist. i. 29.
66 This expression was used by the Origenists of death. This life was a prison house into which souls had fallen; Jerome imputes this opinion to Rufinus, and Rufinus to him. See Ruf, Apol. i. 26.
67 Prov. iii. 29, 30. These quotations are from the LXX. version.