[138] “Discede a me pabulum mortis, quia jam ab alio amatore præventa sum.” “Ipsi soli servo fidem, ipsi me tota devotione committo.” “Quem cum amavero casta sum, cum tetigero munda sum, cum accepero virgo sum.” Ibid.
[139] “Est autem sabaia ex hordeo vel frumento in liquorem conversis paupertinus in Illyrico potus.” “Sabaia is the drink of the poor in Illyria, made of barley or wheat, transformed into a liquid.” Ammian. Marcellinus, lib. xxvi. 8, p. 422, ed. Lips.
[140] A.D. 258.
[141] Prudentius, in his hymn on St. Laurence.
[142] “Our lords Dioclesian and Maximian, the unconquered, elder Augusti, fathers of the Emperors and Cæsars.”
[143] The name of the Emperor.
[144] See Lucian’s address to the judge, upon Ptolemæus’s condemnation, in the beginning of St. Justin’s Second Apology, or Ruinart, vol. i. p. 120.
[145] There was one cemetery called ad sextum Philippi, which is supposed to have been situated six miles from Rome; but many were three miles from the heart of the city.
[146] Ad Uxorem, lib. ii. c. 5.
[147] When the Vatican cemetery was explored, in 1571, there were found in tombs two small square golden boxes, with a ring at the top of the lid. These very ancient sacred vessels are considered by Bottari to have been used for carrying the Blessed Eucharist round the neck (Roma Subterranea, tom. i. fig. 11); and Pellicia confirms this by many arguments (Christianæ Eccl. Politia, tom. iii. p. 20).