[1076] Luke xxiii. 34.
[1077] See above, Book I. c. i. sec. 2.
[1078] Acts xxiv. 1.
[1079] Paracleti.
[1080] "Favente," which is wanting in the mss., was inserted in the margin by Erasmus, as being needed to complete the sense.
[1081] Megalius, bishop of Calama, primate of Numidia, was the bishop who ordained Augustine, as we find in c. viii. of his life by Possidius. Augustine makes further reply to the same calumny, which was gathered from a letter of Megalius, in Contra Cresconium, Book III. c. lxxx. sec. 92, and Book IV. c. lxiv. secs. 78, 79.
[1082] Lente, ut dicitur, et bene. Morel (Element. Crit. pp. 140, 141) suggests as an amendment, "lene," as suiting better with "lente."
[1083] See Book I. c. i. secs. 2, 3.
[1084] Lactantius, Book V. c. xiv., tells us of the talents of Carneades, recording that when he was sent on an embassy to Rome by the Athenians, he spoke there first in defence of justice, and then on the following day in opposition to it; and that he was in the habit of speaking with such force on either side, as to be able to refute any arguments advanced by anybody else.
[1085] Ter. Heaut. IV. iii. 41.