And after many years of charity and holiness, Fabiola withdrew to rest in peace, in company with Agnes and Miriam.
[1] Hot-baths.
[2] Lib. iv. ep. 16.
[3] The Pompeian Court in the Crystal Palace, London, will have familiarized many readers with the forms of an ancient house.
[4] This custom suggests to St. Augustine the beautiful idea, that the Jews were the pædagogi of Christianity,—carrying for it the books which they themselves could not understand.
[5] The peculiar epithet of the Catacombs.
[6] The pancratium was the exercise which combined all other personal contests,—wrestling, boxing, etc.
[7] The implements of writing in schools, the tablets being covered with wax, on which the letters were traced by the sharp point, and effaced by the flat top, of the style.