208 Matt. xxiii. 13, 15, 23, 24, 27, 28.
227 See below, 95, 217, and c. Gaudentium, I. 25, 28 sqq..
229 Augustin speaks of the Moor Rogatus, bishop of Cartenna in ecclesiastical province of Mauritania Caesariensis in his ninety-third epistle, to Vincentius, c. iii. 11. We learn from the eighty-seventh epistle, to Emeritus, sec. 10, that the followers of Rogatus called the other Donatists Firmiani, because they had been subjected to much cruelty at their hands under the authority of Firmus.
231 Optatus of Thaumugade (Thamogade), the friend of Gildo.
232 Augustin mentions again in his thirty-fifth epistle, to Eusebius, sec. 3, that Hippo had received the Roman citizenship. His argument is that, even if not a native of the place, the deacon should have been safe from molestation wherever Roman laws prevailed.
233 Emphyteuticam. The land, therefore, was held under the emperors, and less absolutely in the power of the owner than if it had been freehold.
234 Augustin remonstrates with Crispinus on the point, Epist. lxvi.