[486] Adulteros. So all the MSS. of Augustine, though in Cyprian is sometimes found "adulterinos." In classical Latin, however, "adulter" is sometimes used in the sense of "adulterinus." Cassius seems to have had in mind Heb. xii. 8, "Then are ye bastards, and not sons."
[487] Jer. ii. 21.
[488] Vicus Cæsaris is unknown, unless it be the same as Nova Cæsaris in Numidia.
[489] Carpis was in Zeugitana, on the borders of Tunis.
[490] Fiant. Another reading in some MSS. of Cyprian (not found in those of Augustine) is, "quomodo Christianos faciunt," which is less in harmony with the context.
[491] Matt. xii. 30.
[492] Ps. cxliv. 11-15, from the LXX.
[493] Cypr. Ep. xi. ad Clericos, sec. 1.
[494] Thabraca was on the coast of Numidia, the frontier town towards Zeugitana, at the mouth of the Tucca.
[495] Uthina was in Zeugitana.