1864 Ex. xxxi. 2, Ex. xxxi. 3.
1865 1 K. vii. 14. A mistake of Jerome. It was Hiram's father who was a Tyrian.
1866 Hippias of Elis. See Cic. Or. iii. 32.
1869 A similar phrase occurs in Letter CXVIII.
1870 Plato, Phaedo xii. Cic. T. Q. 1. 31.
1879 Burned to death in a hut after the battle of Adrianople, 378 a.d.
1880 Died 383 a.d. by the hand of Andragathius.
1881 Strangled by Arbogastes at Vienne, 392 a.d.
1882 Aspirants to the purple who were put to death, the first by Valens, the second and third by Theodosius.
1884 Banished by Eutropius who had owed his advancement to him.
1885 The prime minister of Theodosius I. Shortly after the accession of Arcadius Gainas the Goth procured his assassination.
1886 One of the generals of Theodosius I., banished to the Oasis at the instigation of Eutropius.
1888 i.e. the Huns have taken the place of the Chaldaeans described in Hab. i. 8, LXX.
1894 Jornandes corroborates the account of the Huns here given by Jerome.
1897 1 Cor. xiii. 4, 1 Cor. xiii. 7, 1 Cor. xiii. 8.
1898 Bishop of Aquileia. His brother Eusebius was also a bishop.
1899 1 Th. v. 21. "Prove all things," Vulg. and A. V.
1900 Probably Aterbius (for whom see Jerome Apol. iii. 33, and note on Letter LXXXVI.) had brought with him some test-formula of orthodoxy which he called upon all anti-Origenists to sign.
1901 Isa. vi. 2. See Letter XVIII.
1902 A disciple of Cleanthes and Zeno, and after them the leading teacher of the Stoic school at Athens. He was born in 280 a.d.
1903 This expression is given in Greek.
1904 The father of Vigilantius is said by Jerome to have been an inn-keeper.
1906 Jerome subsequently (Letter CIX.) nicknamed his opponent Dormitantius (`the Sleepy One0'), his own name Vigilantius meaning `the Wakeful.0'
1907 Dan. ii. 34, Dan. ii. 45.