[222] De Curâ pro Mortuis Gerendâ, written about A. D. 421.
[223] Bullettino, 1864, 33.
[224] Les Trois Romes, tom. iv, p. 39. Aringhi gives a similar list in his chapter, De imperatoribus ac regibus, qui apud Vaticanum sepulturæ traditi sunt.—Roma Subterranea, lib. ii, c. 9.
[225] Chrys., Quod Christus sit Deus. See legend, [p. 186].
[226] From fodere, fossum, to dig.
[227] Saint Emerita suffered martyrdom during the Valerian persecution.
[228] Jerome strongly censures the making merchandise of the resting-places of the dead—Quì sepulchra venditant, et non coguntur ut accepiant pretium, sed a nolentibus etiam extorquent.—Quæst. Heb. in Gen. xxiii.
[229] “Nocte Moab capta est, nocte cecidit murus ejus!” exclaims Jerome.—Ad Principiam.
[230] Gibbon, iii, 283. Am. Ed.
[231] The following lines by Pope Vigilius, A. D. 537, describe this event: