⁶⁸⁵ De suis saeculis detrahentem. The text is clearly corrupt, and no satisfactory emendation has yet been suggested.

⁶⁸⁶ So the author of II. Peter speaks of God "tartartizing the angels that sinned" (ii. 4).

⁶⁸⁷ I.e. her conduct justified her official title.

⁶⁸⁸ Cf. Matt. vi. 2.

⁶⁸⁹ Luke xvi. 19-24.

⁶⁹⁰ Paulina, chief priestess of Ceres.

⁶⁹¹ In the Roman mythology the abode of gods and heroes. Cf. Ovid, M. i. 175, 176.

⁶⁹² Wisd. v. 4.

⁶⁹³ Ps. xlviii. 8.

⁶⁹⁴ Matt. x. 10.

⁶⁹⁵ 2 Cor. iv. 18.

⁶⁹⁶ Vide the preceding Letter.

⁶⁹⁷ Rom. xi. 6.

⁶⁹⁸ Jer. i. 5.

⁶⁹⁹ Luke i. 41.

⁷⁰⁰ Eph. i. 4.

⁷⁰¹ Probably Marcella before she was married.

⁷⁰² 2 Thess. iii. 10.

⁷⁰³ Matt. vi. 17.

⁷⁰⁴ Matt. xix. 26.

⁷⁰⁵ Cf. Juvenal, Sat. x. 356.

⁷⁰⁶ Sacerdotes.

⁷⁰⁷ XXVI.

⁷⁰⁸ #Onw lura was a Greek proverb.

⁷⁰⁹ Reading nec diligentiam instead of et.

⁷¹⁰ Acts xxvi. 24.

⁷¹¹ Haereditarias sepulturas.

⁷¹² The reference is to Letter XXII.

⁷¹³ Ps. lxix. 4.

⁷¹⁴ Ps. lxix. 11.

⁷¹⁵ Hor. A. P. 21, 22.

⁷¹⁶ Perhaps an allusion to the Greek proverb, onoj luraj hkouse kai salpiggoj uj. "The ass listened to the lyre, and the pig to the trumpet."

⁷¹⁷ Rom. xii. 11, Rom. xii. 12. The reading kuriw "Lord" is probably correct. The R.V. says, "Some ancient authorities read the opportunity," (kairw).

⁷¹⁸ I.e. a "presbyter."

⁷¹⁹ 1 Tim. v. 19, 1 Tim. v. 20.

⁷²⁰ 1 Tim. i. 15.

⁷²¹ Jerome's detractors suggested this word instead of the simpler "ass" in Zech. ix. 9 and Matt. xxi. 2-5. The phrase "Gallican geldings" appears to be a quotation from Plaut. Aul. iii. 5, 21.

⁷²² Isa. xxxii. 20, LXX.

⁷²³ Ps. i. 2.

⁷²⁴ Matt. vii. 7.

⁷²⁵ Luke xi. 5-8.

⁷²⁶ Matt. xiv. 25-33.

⁷²⁷ Lev. ii. 11.

⁷²⁸ Ex. xii. 8.

⁷²⁹ I.e. the day of his martyrdom, his heavenly nativity.

⁷³⁰ Ezek. xvi. 11.

⁷³¹ Jer. xxxvi.; Baruch vi.

⁷³² Matt. iii. 16.

⁷³³ Letter XXII.

⁷³⁴ Tim. ii. 10.

⁷³⁵ 2 Cor. iii. 2.

⁷³⁶ Jer xxxvi. 23.

⁷³⁷ Hos vii. 11.

⁷³⁸ Celebrated for his campaigns against Mithridates, and also as a prince of epicures.

⁷³⁹ Jer. xxiv. 1-3.

⁷⁴⁰ Jer. xxiv. 3.

⁷⁴¹ Rev. iii. 15, Rev. iii. 16.

⁷⁴² Gal. i. 10.