[38.] Cf. Hatch, The Influence of Greek Ideas and Usages on the Christian Church, X, B; Anrich, Das antike Mysterienwesen in seinem Einfluss auf das Christentum, 1894, pp. 168 ff., especially 179 ff.
[39.] Hom. in Num., xxv; in Ps. xxxvi, 3.
[40.] C. D., xx, 25; xxi, 13 (where Virgil’s verses given above are quoted), 26; de octo Dulcitii Quaest., Qu. i, 13; Enchiridion, lxix.
[41.] St. Thomas, Opera (Venice, 1759), xii, p. 575, Distinctio xxi, Quaes. 1, Sol. 3; xiii, p. 347 ff., Distinctio xliv, Quaes. 3, Art. 4, Quaestiunc. 3; Bellarmino, de Purgatorio, II, x-xii.