61. perdam atque discutiam.
62. posse beatitudines martyris eo genere conquirere. Duchesne paraphrases thus ( op. cit. p. 37): 'Il ne reculera pas devant la rigueur, et ceux qui s'en trouveront mal ne devront pas s'attendre à ce qu'on les regarde comme des martyres.'
63. The MS. reads violentiae; Ziwsa reads violentes.
64. ad plenissimam fidem salute etiam teste invocata. The sense seems to be that the clerics were to invoke their own salvation as witness to their fullest fidelity or truthfulness. 'As they hoped for salvation,' this was to be the Christian formula, as distinguished from the old appeal to heathen deities, in confirmation of evidence.
65. pro institute meo.
66. pur it as.
67. Pax illa sanctissimae fraternitatis. (The Catholic Church.)
68. i.e. the basilicas, in which they were proud ( gauderent ) to have sinned by their schism.
69. quo omnia bona vota et facta referuntur. Quo is an emendation for cum of the MS.
70. institutes.
71. moribus.
72. languescentibus.
73. leto. The MS. has laeto.
74. Valete voto communi per saecula, iubente Deo, fratres carissimi.
75. Cod. Theod. xvi, ii, 1,2; cf. Eusebius, H.E. x, 7.
76. qui nos id quod suum esse voluit. These last words are clearly corrupt, I have translated, emending esse to est habere.
77. mirandum est. The MS. has miratum est.
78. Cf. Cicero, Cato m. 3, 7.
79. Cf. Matthew vii, 17, 18.
80. Gravitas vestra.
81. cum ipso suo patre (i.e. the devil).
82. ex hoc quippe maius existat. For existat Du Pin reads exstat.
83. In Constantino, civitate. Cirta had only recently received its new name.
84. rationalem.
85. ad Consularem Numidiae. Consularis is one who has been consul; consequently ' consularis Numidiae ': = governor of Numidia, as he was not technically 'proconsul' but prefect.