[238] Roma Christiana.
[239] Dyer, p. 94.
[240] "At Rome, Selvaggi made a Latin distich in honour of Milton, and Salsilli a Latin tetrastich, celebrating him for his Greek, Latin, and Italian poetry; and he in return presented to Salsilli in his sickness those fine Scazons or Iambic verses having a spondee in the last foot, which are inserted among his juvenile poems. From Rome he went to Naples."—Newton.
[241] A holy hermit of Scete, who died 391.
[242] See Roma Sotterranea, p. 174.
[243] Une Chrétienne à Rome.
[244] The reasons for this belief are given in "The Roman Catacombs of Northcote," p. 78.
[245] The bodies were removed to Sta. Sabina in the fifth century by Celestine I.
[246] Cramer's Ancient Italy, i. 389.
[247] Cic. Phil. ix. 7. See Dyer's Rome, p. 215.