[249] Witte quotes from Isidore of Seville, a writer much used in the middle ages, the following: "In a moral sense, we offer a calf when we conquer the pride of the flesh; a lamb, when we correct our irrational impulses; a kid, when we master impurity; a dove, when we are simple; a turtle-dove, when we observe chastity; unleavened bread, 'when we keep the feast not in the leaven of malice, but in the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.'"
[250] 2 Chron. xx. 12 (Vulg.).
[251] Phars. iv. 593; Metam. ix. 183, x. 569.—(W.).
[252] V. 335—(W.)
[253] III. 10.—(W.)
[254] Witte only gives a query (?). The saying expresses the Ghibelline view of the relation of the Empire to the Pope; it may have originated with the coronation of Charles the Great.
[255] I. 4.—(W.)
[256] Metam. iv. 58, 88.—(W.)
[257] Oros. i. 14.—(W.)
[258] "Athlothetæ." The judges or umpires in the Greek games, whose seats were opposite to the goal at the side of the stadium. Vide Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, s.v. "stadium."