3430 1 Sam. i. 27, 1 Sam. i. 28.
3431 Jer. xxxv. 6. Jer. xxxv. 7.
3432 See Letter LVIII. and note there.
3433 An allusion to the word `monachus, 0' `solitary 0' or `monk. 0'
3434 Acts vii. 29, Acts vii. 30.
3447 1 Thess. ii. 9.: 1 Cor. iv. 12.
3454 In Letter XVIII. Jerome speaks of his teacher as one so learned in the Hebrew language that the very scribes regarded him as a Chaldaean (i.e., as a graduate of the Babylonian school of Rabbinic learning).
3463 Romulus and Remus, the first of whom slew the second.
3465 When Jerome wrote, these terms had but recently come into use in the West i no doubt, however, the offices described by them were of older date. Archpresbyters seem to have been the forerunners of those who are now called "rural deans."
3471 Caninam exercent facundiam. The phrase recurs in Letter CXXXIV.
3472 See also Lactantius, vi. 18.
3473 The most celebrated physician of antiquity.
3477 Imitated from Persius (I. 58-60).
3478 i.e., Rufinus who was now dead. The nickname is taken from a burlesque very popular in Jerome's day entitled "The Porker's Last Will and Testament." In this the testator's full name is set down as Marcus Grunnius Corocotta, i.e., Mark Grunter Hog. In the beginning of the twelfth book of his commentary on Isaiah Jerome mentions the "Testament" as being then a popular school book.
3479 Plautus, Aulularia, I. 1. 10.
3480 A Platonist of the third century after Christ, much celebrated for his learning and critical skill. "To judge like Longinus" became a synonym for accurate discrimination.
3481 A martinet of the old school, who did his utmost to oppose what he considered the luxury of his age. He was censor in 184 b.c.
3482 Lucr. V. 905, Munro. The words come first from Homer, Il. vi. 181.
3495 Prov. xxiv. 21, Prov. xxiv. 22 Vulg.