[35] The association of Saint Elias with the sun was due to the resemblance of the name to the Greek ἥλιος.
[36] See [Appendix C, 6].
[37] St. Honorat.—Lero is Ste. Marguerite.
[38] A.D. 426.
[39] A.D. 433.
[40] His own expression “as a son” shows that parentes here means kinsfolk, not parents, and justifies the inference that his parents were dead.
[41] Pelagius, Letter to Demetrias, Migne, P.L., xxxii. 1100.
[42] Prosper has an epigram on the thesis that the whole life of non-Christians is sin:
Perque omnes calles errat sapientia mundi
Et tenebris addit quae sine luce gerit.