[39]Cp. Gal. i. 20.
[40]i. e. in October 249.
[41]The Prefect of Egypt.
[42]This was a kind of soldier employed on secret service by the emperors and their provincial governors.
[43]Probably his sons, though they might be his pupils or his servants.
[44]One of “the boys.”
[45]Whether Timotheus was making off to join Dionysius or was fleeing in another direction is not clear.
[46]Cp. Mark xiv. 52.
[47]Dionysius’s language here recalls 2 Cor. xi. 1, 17, 21 and xii. 6, 11.
[48]Viz. Tobit xii. 7, where the best attested reading is “to reveal gloriously,” instead of “(it is) glorious to reveal.”