1797 1 Chron. xi. 5, 1 Chron. xi. 6.
1799 Horace, Sat. I. ix. 59, 60.
1800 Virgil, Georg. iii. 67, 68.
1801 Afterwards noted as an assailant of Jerome's ascetic doctrines. See the introduction to Letter LXI.
1802 The allusion seems to be to the behaviour of Vigilantius during an earthquake which occurred when he was at Bethlehem. His fright on the occasion exposed him to the ridicule of the community there. (Against Vig., i. 11.)
1803 As before, Therasia, the wife of Paulinus is meant.
1807 Wisd. iv. 11, Wisd. iv. 14.
1813 Matt. xxvii. 52, Matt. xxvii. 53.
1826 The words are quoted by Cicero (T. Q. iii. 13) apparently from the Telamon of Ennius. They are ascribed to Anaxagoras by Diog. Laert.
1827 In his De consolatione of which only a few fragments remain.
1829 In the first year of the Republic. Acc. to Livy (ii. 8) his son was not really dead.
1830 The conqueror of Macedonia. He celebrated his triumph 167 b.c.
1842 mhden agan, ne quid nimis. A saying of one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, 6th cent. b.c. See Grote iv. 127.
1847 Dedit escam. This is the reading of the LXX. The Vulgate, like the A.V., has "shall divide the spoil." Compare Letter LXIX 6.
1848 Acts ix. 17. (Cf. Letter LXIX. )
1850 For other allusions to a Roman officer's uniform see Letters LXXIX. and CXVIII.
1854 Like Bonosus (Letter III. 4).
1856 Nu. xi. 16. Presbyterum. This name (afterwards contracted into Priest) is taken from that of the Elders of Israel.
1860 Luke xviii. 1, Luke xviii. 5.
1863 Jerome here confounds two distinct persons: C. Fabius Pictor was the painter; his grandson Q. Fabius the historian.