[[21]] On de pallio see Boissier, La Fin da Paganisme, bk. iii, ch. 1.
[[22]] ad Natt, i, 7; the charges were incest, and child-murder for purposes of magic.
[[23]] de Præscriptione, 44 (end). Similarly of resurrection, virgin-birth, etc..—recogitavi.
[[24]] de Patientia, 1, miserrimus ego semper æger caloribus impatientiæ.
[[25]] Cf. his tone as to the scortum, unexampled, so far as I know, in Latin literature, and only approached in Greek perhaps by Dio Chrysostom—the publicæ libidinis hostiæ (de Spect. 17), publicarum libidinum victimæ (de cult. fem. ii, 12). He alone of all who mention the strange annual scene on the stage, which Cato withdrew to allow, has pity for the poor women.
[[26]] de Pænitentia, 8.
[[27]] de corona, 12.
[[28]] I refer especially to such passages as de Carne Christi, 4-9, 14; de Resurr. Carnis, 7, 12, etc.
[[29]] de Pænit. 1, hoc genus hominum quod et ipsi retro fuimus, cæci, sine domini lumine.
[[30]] Apol. 15, cf. ad Natt. i, 10, another draft of the same matter.