[43.] The critical time in human life.
[44.] Oracles were said to have ceased when Christ came, the reply to Augustus on the subject being the last—
“Me puer Hebræus divos Deus ipse gubernans
Cedere sede jubet tristemque redire sub Orcum
Aris ergo de hinc tacitus discedito nostris.”
[45.] An historian who wrote “De Rebus Indicis.” He is cited by Pliny, Strabo, and Josephus.
[46.] Alluding to the popular superstition that infant children were carried off by fairies, and others left in their places.
[47.] Who is said to have lived without meat, on the smell of a rose.
[48.] “Essentiæ rationalis immortalis.”
[49.] St Augustine, De Civ. Dei, lib. x., cc. 9, 19, 32.