[165] Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 49, merely reports what he had read in Hellanicus about the Epirotes of Etolia.
[166] "Our own mss.," of which Augustine here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew mss." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare De Doct. Christ. ii. 15 et seqq.
[167] Jerome (De Quæst. Heb. in Gen.) says it was a question famous in all the churches.—Vives.
[168] "Quos in auctoritatem celebriorum Ecclesia suscepit."
[169] See below, book xviii. c. [42]-[44].
[171] On this subject see Wilkinson's note to the second book (appendix) of Rawlinson's Herodotus, where all available references are given.
[172] One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one hundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion, the argument of Augustine is easily followed.
[173] Gen. vii. 10, 11 (in our version the seventeenth day).
[174] Gen. viii. 4, 5.