[68a] I.e. those who were still heathens.
[68b] ἰερεύς. The Christian priest is always called in this work simply πρεσθύτερος, or elder.
[72a] Probably that of A.D. 341, when Gregory of Cappadocia, nominated by the Arian Bishops, who had assembled at the Council of Antioch, expelled Athanasius from the see of Alexandria, and great violence was committed by his followers and by Philagrius the Prefect. Athanasius meanwhile fled to Rome.
[72b] I.e. celebrated there their own Communion.
[77] Evidently the primæval custom of embalming the dead, and keeping mummies in the house, still lingered among the Egyptians.
[108] These sounds, like those which St. Guthlac heard in the English fens, are plainly those of wild-fowl.
[115] The Brucheion, with its palaces and museum, the residence of the kings and philosophers of Egypt, had been destroyed is the days of Claudius and Valerian, during the senseless civil wars which devastated Alexandria for twelve years; and monks had probably taken up their abode in the ruins. It was in this quarter, at the beginning of the next century, that Hypatia was murdered by the monks.
[116] Probably the Northern, or Lesser Oasis, Ouah el Baharieh, about eighty miles west of the Nile.
[117a] Jerome (who sailed that sea several times) uses the word here, as it is used in Acts xxvii. 27, for the sea about Malta, “driven up and down in Adria.”
[117b] The southern point of Sicily, now Cape Passaro.