[48] Euseb. E. H. 1. vi. c. 43.
[49] No domestic concealment surely could be more difficult than that of a wife’s religion from her husband. Yet Tertullian supposes this to have been not uncommon. For, speaking of a married woman communicating herself at home, according to practice in those ages of persecution, he says, “Let not your husband know what you taste secretly, before every other food; and if he shall know of the bread, may he not know it to be what it is called.” Ad Uxor. lib. ii. c. 5. Whereas, in another place, he writes of a Catholic husband and wife giving communion to one another. De Monogamia, c. 11.
[50] The Vicus Patricius.
[51] Job xxix. 15.
[52] The place most noted in the neighborhood of Rome for whining and importunate beggars.
[53] Is. i. 9.
[54] “Ne quis hæredem virginem neque mulierem faceret,” that no one should leave a virgin or a woman his heiress.—Cicero in Verrem, i.
[55] The upper part of the Quirinal, leading to the Nomentan gate, Porta Pia.
[56] “Cujus pulchritudinem sol et luna mirantur, ipsi soli servo fidem.”—Office of St. Agnes.
[57] We have it recorded of Nepotian, that on his conversion he distributed all his property to the poor. St. Paulinus of Nola did the same.