6. inducto et applicito. Cf. Exod. xxii, 8: 'si latet fur, dominus domus applicabitur ad deos, et iurabit quod non extenderit manum in rem proximi sui.'
7. vir clarissimus consularis. These words are always repeated after Zenophilus in the text. We shall omit them henceforth in the translation, as the repetition in English would be merely wearisome.
8. in comitatu. Comitatus is the regular name for the Court of the Emperor. There are several instances in the fourth and fifth centuries of Canons of Carthage enacted against Bishops going ad comitatum ----i.e. to curry favour at Ravenna.
9. Victor was evidently in the Moorish Guard.
10. Of Tigisis. St. Augustine often mentions him, speaking of him as Primate of Numidia, and telling us that he presided at the Council of Cirta.
11. non recte.
12. quoniam semper civitas nostra unam Ecclesiam habet. There was at this time only one Bishop at Cirta. But at the time of the first Conference of Carthage there were two Bishops there, Fortunatus sometimes called Fortunatianus (the Catholic) and Petilianus (the Donatist)----both of whose names figure amongst the eighteen elected Actores. We find that Petilianus complained that another Catholic Bishop named Delphinus (who was too ill to attend the Conference) was living 'in the middle of his Diocese.' St. Augustine tells us ( Ep. cxxxix) that this Delphinus had been sent to Numidia by his fellow-Bishops on account of the needs of the Church. At the Conference of Carthage there was a passage of arms between Fortunatus and Petilianus. When the latter heard the name of the former read aloud, he cried out 'Ipse est persecutor Ecclesiae in eadem civitate ubi ego Episcopus sum.' To which Fortunatus was not slow to retort 'In eadem civitate ab haereticis omnia altaria confracta sunt' ( Gesta Coll. Carthag. diei i, lxv; cxxxviii, cxxxix) ----so that there was not always harmony at Cirta.
13. intermisso eo. This has been taken as referring to Caecilian. But these proceedings were not at Carthage, but in Numidia, so that eo probably should be understood of Felix of Aptunga.
14. cuius innocentia purgata est. For purgata Masson reads probata ----but wrongly (cf. Coll. tert. Carthag. cap. dlxxi: 'Donatistarum prosecutio, qua dicunt praesentem Felicem debuisse purgari' ; and cap. dlxiv: 'Prosecutio Catholicorum, maioris esse innocentiae documentum, quod absens purgatus est Felix'). St. Augustine also uses purgare in this sense (cf, Ep. clxii and Contra Cresconium Grammaticum iii, lxi).
15. nam. So Ziwsa. The MS. has non. Masson reads num.
16. Near Cirta.
17. i.e. that you may not be put to the torture.
18. Legis (sc. Catholicae). Cf. Acta Purgationis Felicis, p. 333.
19. fossoribus. The fossores or grave-diggers were recognised Christian officials.
20. urceola.
21. cucumellum.
22. cereofala.
23. mafortea.
24. coplas rusticanas.
25. responsio vestra actis haeret.
26. posteaquam in bibliothecis inventa sunt armaria inania. So the MSS. St. Augustine, however, referring to the passage, reads 'Posteaquam apertum est in bibliothecam' ( con. Cresc. iii, 29) and again 'Posteaquam perventum est ad bibliothecam' ( ibid. iv, 56). From these two passages Masson made up his reading, accepted by Du Pin, Posteaquam perventum est in bibliothecam. But, as Baluzius points out, the old reading may well stand, for bibliotheca here probably means bookcase. Thus Possidius in his life of St. Augustine (chapter xxxi) writes: 'Una cum bibliothecis libros.'
27. capitulata. St. Augustine twice gives us the word 'capitulata' ( Ep. clxv; con. Cresc. iii. 29); but once ( con. Cresc. iv, 56) for. capitulatam he substitutes capsulam. Capsa is a box (e.g. for MS. rolls).
28. post orcam. St. Augustine quoting this passage ( con. Cresc. iii, 29) reads arcam.
29. St. Augustine mentions this in three places ( Ep. clxvii; contra Cresc. iii, 29, and iv, 56).
30. quod hic fuit, totum hoc eiecimus. A colloquialism for 'Hoc quod eiecimus totum est.'