¹ Dexter. Compare chapters 132 and 106.

² Tranquillus. C. Suetonius Tranquillus (about a.d. 100). De illustribus grammaticis; De claris rhetoribus.

³ Published or handed down "Prodiderunt." Some mss. read "tradiderunt," and Jerome usually employs "Edo" for publish.

⁴ Fourteenth year of the Emperor Theodosius. a.d. 492.

⁵ Hermippus of Smyrna. (3rd century b.c.) Lives of distinguished men.

⁶ Antigonus. Antigonus of Carystus (Reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus?).

⁷ Satyrus. A Peripatetic (Reign of Ptolemy Philopator) "wrote a collection of biographies."

⁸ Aristoxenus the musician. A Peripatetic, pupil of Aristotle, wrote lives of various Philosophers.

⁹ Varro. M. Terentius Varro the "most learned of the Romans" (died b.c. 28) published among other things a series of "portraits of seven hundred remarkable personages" (Ramsay in Smith's Dictionary).

¹⁰ Santra. Santra the Grammarian?

¹¹ Nepos. Cornelius Nepos friend of Cicero wrote Lives of Illustrious men.

¹² Hyginus. Caius Julius Hyginus, freedman of Augustus and friend of Ovid.

¹³ Seek to stimulate 30 31 a [H e 21] and the mass of mss. also Fabricius; stimulate. A.T. Migne. Her.

¹⁴ Some A H 25 31 e 21. Fabricius; No T a? Migne Her.

¹⁵ The Lord Jesus A H T 25 31 e; The Lord Jesus Christ a; Our Lord Jesus Christ Bamb. Bern; My Lord Jesus Christ Norimb.

¹⁶ Out of the way corner of the earth i.e., Bethlehem.

¹⁷ In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ farewell T 25 31 a 21; do. omitting Christ A; omit all H e.