[75] The Burgundian king Gondecar had a brother and a son, both named Chilperic, who reigned at Geneva. The son reigned only one year after his father; he was killed by Gondebald in 477. S. Romanus died in 460. It is probable that his elder brother died before him, and that Lupicinus visited the elder Chilperic. I have therefore supposed that he died about 430. The Bollandists supposing that it was the younger Chilperic he visited, have fixed his death at 480.
[76] Short Studies, vol. 2, page 216.
[77] "Rule of S. Carthage," Irish Ecclesiastical Record, vol. 1, p. 117.
[78] "Magna est illa insula, et est terra sanctorum; quia nemo scit numerum sanctorum qui sepulti sunt ibi, nisi solus Deus." Vita S. Albei. Colgan, Acta SS.
[79] S. Eucherius De laude Eremi, 442.
[80] Hexaemeron, lib. 3, c. 5.
[81] The locality of the meeting is indicated by a chapel called S. Crocella.
[82] Related by Peter de Natalibus, lib. iii. c. 218.
[83] He is alluding to the Omophagic rites of Zeus Zagreus, in which the worshippers fell on a sheep and tore it with their teeth and ran about with the blood dripping from their jaws.
[84] "Clauso cubile, interula, caligis, cingulo, pileoque nocturno instructus, lecto sese colocat; fusis ad Deum precibus, somno se componit."