'To whom were the baskets given?' |381
Crescentianus said:
'To Silvanus the Bishop.'
Zenophilus said:
'Were they given to Silvanus?'
Crescentianus said:
'Yes, to Silvanus.'
Zenophilus said:
'Was nothing given to the people?'
He answered:
'Nothing. We too must have received something if the distribution had been made in the usual manner.'
Zenophilus said to Nundinarius:
'What else is there that you think should be asked of Crescentianus?'
Nundinarius said:
'His evidence is the very thing. Since Crescentianus the subdeacon has given his evidence frankly about everything, let him be dismissed.'
Then when Januarius the subdeacon was brought in and sworn, Zenophilus said:
'What is your name?'
He answered:
(What followed in the manuscript is lost.)
[Footnotes moved to the end and renumbered]
1. Cf. Opt. i, 13, 14.
2. Cf. Opt. i, 13: 'Homicida Purpurius Limatensis' etc.
3. St. Augustine writes thus of Silvanus (con. Cresc. iii, 30): 'Qui cum Traditor fuisset, permanere etiam haereticus voluit, ut falsum honorem in parte Donati haberet, qui habere in Catholica nullum posset tam manifestos Traditionis suae gestis publico iudicio referatis.'
4. Du Pin's heading.
5. There is evidently something wanting here in the MS. scribente has been suggested. Also excipiente.