[265] De Beato Philog. vol. i. p. 753.
[266] In Nat. Christi, vol. ii. p. 560.
[267] De Bapt. Christi, c. 4.
[268] In Kalend. c. 2.
[269] In Ephes. Hom. vi. c. 4.
[270] Perhaps that convulsive twitching which we call “quick blood.”
[271] In Ephes. Hom. xii. c. 3. In Hom. viii. and xii. on 1 Cor. he rebukes the heathenish ceremonies performed at the birth of a child. One was, to give it that name which was attached to the candle that burned longest out of a row of candles.
[272] He was executed at Carthage in A.D. 376.
[273] See Gibbon, c. xxvi. xxvii.
[274] Cod. Theod. xvi. 1, 2.