121 The position of Calama is described by Augustin as between Constantine and Hippo, but nearer Hippo.-Contra I.it. Petil. ii. 228, A full description of it is given in Poujoulat's Histoire de S. Augustin, i. 340, who says it was one of the most important towns of Numidia, eighteen leagues south of Hippo, and represented by the modern Ghelma. It is to its bishop, Possidius, we owe the contemporary Life of Augustin.
124 Compare Basil's Homily on Paradise, and John Damascene, De Fide Orthad. ii. 11.
22 We alter the pronoun to suit Augustin's interpretation.
28 C. Faustum. Man. xii. c. 9.
31 Lamech, according to the LXX.
33 Virgil, Aen., xii 899, 900. Compare the Iliad, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq. "Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."
35 See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits.
36 Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 49, merely reports what he had read in Hellanicus about the Epirotes of Etolia.