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Life of St Augustine · Translator's introduction26

CCEL

17 supplementary MSS., see page 30.

Sal.

Salinas.

Ben.

Benedictine.

Mi.

Migne.

edd.

Salinas, Benedictine, Migne.

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Words followed by a single square bracket are extracts from the text adopted in this edition.

Readings Noted in the Apparatus Criticus.

The readings noted are the variant readings, with no citations from the MSS. supporting the text, except where there is considerable confusion in the MSS. and where readings of the supplementary MSS. a-r are given.

1. Prosper, in his Chronicon, states that Augustine died August 28, 430; Possidius says it was in the third month of the siege of Hippo, and also that he died at the age of seventy-six. Augustine himself gives the day of his birth: Idibus Novembris mihi natalis dies erat: De Beata Vita i 6.

2. Religionis verissimae semina mihi a pueritia salubriter insita: De Duabus Animabus i 1.

3. Conf. III xi 19.

4. Conf. III xi 19.

5. Conf. IX x 26.

6. Conf. IX ix-x.

7. De Beata Vita i 6 and Conf. IX xi 27.

8. Ep. CCXI 4.

9. Vita XXVI.

10. Bollandistes, Vies des Saints V 306.