² Became bishop before 325, died after 350.

³ On penitence. A few mss. read "patience" for "penitence" but the only one which the translator has been able to find which gives both is one at Wolfenb_ttel dated 1460, nor is it in the earliest editions (e.g.) Nürn. Koburger 1495, Paris 1512). But the later editions (Fabricius, Herding) have both.

⁴ worth, mss. generally; feeling, editions generally.

⁵ Bishop (Pope) 337, died 352.

⁶ Flourished 370.

⁷ Fourth century.

⁸ Bishop about 370.

⁹ About 360.

¹⁰ Used for T 35 31 a e 21; inclined to 30? ? Fabr. Her.

¹¹ changed A T 25 30 31 a e 21 10 Bamb. Bern. Gemblac. Sigberg. Guelfenb.; given over to death Fabr. Her. etc.

¹² Born about 292, died 348.

¹³ Born about 314, died 367.

¹⁴ Died about 380.

¹⁵ Scripture 25 30 a e 10: Holy Scriptures A T 31 21.

¹⁶ Born about 300, died 390 (391).

¹⁷ Born 345, died 399.

¹⁸ educated in T 31 e Her.; omit A 25 30 a.

¹⁹ Synodites a kind of monks.

²⁰ Theodore of Mopsuesta (?), born at Antioch (?) about 350, died 428.

²¹ Born at Saragossa 348, was at Rome in 405, died in Spain 408?

²² Trocheum. There is much controversy over the word, some maintaining that it should be Dittochaeon= "the double food or double testament" (Lock in Smith and Wace) or Diptychon. It is a description of a series of pictures from the Bible. The mss. read Trocheum a.e.; Troceum T 25; Trocetum 30: Trocleum A; Tropeum 31. A recent monograph on the subject has not yet come to hand.

²³ Symmachus. Two works are here confused, the work against Symmachus, and the Cathemerinon hymns, in the preface to which the quotation occurs.

²⁴ Bishop of Toledo about 390. (Chevalier) or in the reign of Constantius (Ceillier), 370 (Hoefer).

²⁵ Flourished about 270. There is wide variety of opinion respecting this date, some placing as early as 250 and some nearly one hundred years later.

²⁶ Flourished about 384.

²⁷ Apostate = prevaricatores.

²⁸ Born 345, at Jerusalem about 390, died 410.

²⁹ Xystus T 25 30 e; Sextus A 31 a Xystus of Rome T Her.