130 Hor. A. P. 147. Zeus having visited Leda in the form of a swan, she produced two eggs, from one of which came Castor and Pollux, and from the other Helen, who was the cause of the Trojan war.
132 A play on words: callidus, "wary," is indistinguishable in sound from calidus, "warm."
133 The words quoted do not occur in the extant portion of Cicero's speech.
136 For some account of this writer see Jerome, De V. iii. c. xcvii.
137 A Roman annalist some of whose works are still extant. He was contemporary with but probably older than Jerome.
138 A puritan of the third century who seceded from the Roman church because of the laxity of its discipline.
139 I.e. the life of Paul the Hermit, translated in this vol.
140 Hor. Ep. I. ii. 69; cf. T. Moore:
"You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will:
The scent of the roses will hang round it still."
144 Matt. ix. 12, Matt. ix. 13.
161 Luke vii. 40 sqq.: the heroine of this story is identified by Jerome with Mary Magdalene.
162 Matt. xxviii. 1, Matt. xxviii. 9.
163 Matt. xxiii. 6, Matt. xxiii. 7.
168 Ps. iv. 4, LXX.: Eph. iv. 26.
177 A reminiscence of Tertullian.
179 Nepotian, afterwards famous as the recipient of Letter LII., and the subject of Letter LX.