[Note 43]. Page 434.
Anchialus is a dubious word found in Martial, Ep. xi. 94, and very variously explained. The famous oracle quoted by Josephus is found in Macrobius, Saturn. i. 18.
[Note 44]. Page 439.
Esther, in her epitaph, charges Arescusus not to put ‘D. M.’ or any other pagan symbol on her tomb. The name of Primitivus, a Curator Spoliarii in Nero’s time (mentioned in the next paragraph), has been preserved in an inscription found in the Columbaria.
[Note 45]. Page 448.
I borrow this ancient hymn from the conclusion of the Pædagogus of Clement of Alexandria. The translation is by my friend the late Dean of Wells.
[Note 46]. Page 477.
What we call St. Elmo’s fire was known to the ancients as ‘the fires of Castor and Pollux.’ A bidental was an enclosure round a place struck by lightning. For such legends of St. John as I have here adopted I may refer to Tert. De Præscr. Hær. 36; Jer. C. Jovin. i. 26; and In Matt. xx. 23, Orig. In Matt. Hom. xii; Zahn, Acta Johannis, cxvii.-cxxii.
[Note 47]. Page 478.
I have elsewhere given strong reasons for the belief that St. John was banished to Patmos by Nero, not by Domitian. See Early Days of Christianity, ii. 147, 184 sqq.