3639 Over Hannibal, b.c. 216. Jerome is quoting from Cicero, Brutus, III.
3640 The reference is to the siege of the Capitol by Brennus and the Gauls, b.c. 390.
3641 See note on Letter LXXIX.
3642 i.e. Juliana and Proba, the mother and grandmother of Demetrias.
3644 i.e. Olybrius, the father of Demetrias.
3645 Horace, Carm. iii. 3. 7, 8.
3651 Rom. viii. 35, Rom. viii. 36.
3654 Heraclian, Count of Africa.
3656 i.e. Pluto, king of the lower world.
3657 Sabinus, the son-in-law of Heraclian.
3659 Jerome here apostrophizes Heraclian.
3661 Reading dedignatus for dignatus.
3664 Cant. iii. 1: Cant. i. 7.
3671 Matt. v. 25, Matt. v. 26.
3673 Eccles. x. 4. Jerome takes `the ruler0' to be the devil.
3692 Exod. xii. 23, Exod. xii. 20.
3693 Ps. lvii. 7, Ps. lvii. 8.
3694 Isa. xxiii. 15, Isa. xxiii. 16.
3697 Rom. vii. 24, Rom. vii. 18, Rom. vii. 19.
3698 Rom. viii. 8, Rom. viii. 9.
3703 Joh. xiii. 15: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
3707 Lev. xxiii. 27, Lev. xxiii. 29.
3708 Job xl. 16. Cf. Letter XXII.
3712 Song of the Three Holy Children, 24.
3713 Dan. iv. 16, Dan. iv. 25, Dan. iv. 32.
3719 Mhden 'agan quoted by Terence (Andria, 61).
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