90. quod Pax in commune possederat.
91. quod vobis postulantibus gentilis executio non potuit ignorare. Ziwsa points out that postulare here = criminari (cf. iii, 3: ' postulabant utique contra episcopos').
92. velamina et instrumenta dominica extortistis. For velamina Cochlaeus suggested volumina ---- a suggestion adopted by Casaubon.
93. pallas. Casaubon thinks that pallas has crept in for pallia and quotes Victor Uticensis, who has written of velaminum pallia and of pallia altaris. But Pope Innocent I ( De Mysteriis Missae, ii, 55) writes: 'Duplex est palla quae dicitur corporalis; una quam Diaconus super altare totum extendit, altera, quam super calicem plicatam imponit.'
94. corrupisti diligentiam tuam. RB concupisti.
95. religiosus.
96. sc. of churches that had been used by Catholics.
97. inclusa spatia aqua salsa spargi praecepistis. For inclusa RBv read in caussa, Cochlaeus conjectured sine caussa.
98. St. Optatus could not have written in the strain of the next paragraph, had he known anything of the later usage of mixing
salt with water, to make Holy Water; much less had he known of the salt, water, ashes and wine prescribed, for certain purifications, in the Pontifical.
99. Cf. Gen. i, 2.
100. indulcata ligno. Indulcare = γλυκαίνειν . Cf. Martius 'Prudenter edulcare convenit vitam.'
101. tot populorum pectora suavissimis haustibus satiasti. (Cf. Ex. xv, 23, 25.)
102. restabat tibi post promotionem non leviter degradari.
103. a scismaticis hodie cum Catholicorum turba dulcedo tua vexatur.
104. paves patimur bellum, pares expectamus vindicem Deum.
105. et in vico et in platea, CG plateis.
106. quare non omnia emendatis? (emendare ---- rebaptisare: i, 5 'post vos non emendamus' ; v, 11 'Sanctitas vestra emendet, si potest, mortuos.' Cf. iii, 10: ' emendate voluntatem Dei, si potestis,')
107. sc. by Rebaptism.
108. vestra hebetudo.
109. haec vos stulta fecisse.
110. Even in places where the Donatists had a church of their own, they were empowered by the Edict of Julian to seize the church of the Catholics. St. Optatus here suggests that they did this in order to deprive Catholics of the privilege of burial amongst their fellow Catholics in the cemeteries which were attached to every Catholic church.
111. perdidisti malitiae fructum.
112. in unum.
113. in uno.