2. i, 7.
3. Lib. de viris illustribus, Cap. cxxi.
4. i, 13.
5. See Preface, p. xxii.
6. St. Jerome's words are as follows: 'Optatus Afer Episcopus Milevitarms ex parte Catholica scripsit sub Valentiniano et Valente Principibus adversus Donatianae partis calumniam Libros sex.' We know that, on any hypothesis, St. Optatus wrote only six Books ' in the time of the Emperors Valentinianus and Valens.' (Cf. Preface, p. xxii.)
7. Cf. vii, 1: 'video adhuc vestras vel vestrorum provocationes pullulare, quas vos audio dicere, ad unam communionem non oportuisse quaeri, cum filios traditorum vos esse constiterit, ad ea pauca respondeam.'
8. They are only to be found in C and in the Codex Tilianus.
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