[Note 18]. Page 77.
The Fish.—The initial letters of ΙΧΘΥΣ, ‘fish,’ stood for Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς Θεοῦ Υἱὸς Σωτήρ, ‘Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Saviour.’ It was the commonest of ancient Christian symbols. See Tert. De Bapt. i.; Jer. Ep. 43; Aug. De Civ. Dei, xviii. 23; and the writer’s Lives of the Fathers, i. § xvi.
[Note 19]. Page 81.
Arrest of Onesimus.—Some readers will recognise an incident which really occurred in the life of Alypius, the friend of St. Augustine, which the English reader may see narrated in my Lives of the Fathers, ii. 313.
[Note 20]. Page 101.
Agrippas.—Children born feet-first were called agrippas, and to be so born was regarded as a certain augury of misfortune.—Pliny, N. H. vii. 6.
[Note 21]. Page 114.
Ancient dancing.—The allusions to the dancing of the pantomimic actors may all be found in Lucan’s De Saltatione; Vell. Paterc. ii. 83; Athen. xiv. 627-630; and other ancient writers.
[Note 22]. Page 124.
Lucan’s daring flatteries may be read in Pharsal. i. 33-66.