60. Salinas p. 65, Migne 32, 49 note 2.
61. Migne 32, 55 note 6.
62. The MSS. EFG on the whole agree rather with CD than with AB, though somewhat unsteadily.
63. These variants in C are so numerous that they could not all be included in the apparatus criticus. They are therefore given only when they have some direct bearing on readings in other MSS.
64. The choice of A in preference to B as the purer representative of the AB family follows naturally after a comparison of the two MSS. Evidence, if necessary, may be found in the apparatus criticus.
65. Ind = Indiculus, fr -= fragmentary.
66. This is one of the MSS. used by Salinas. However it is not the Vita proper, but consists in extracts from the Vita with later additions. It is the form of the Vita described as follows under BHL 792: VITA ET TRANSLATIONES. Inc. Bb. Augustinus ex provincia Africae civitate Thagastensi honestis et christianis parentibus progenitus fuit. Des . Iure igitur in apostolica est collocatus ecclesia quia pro apostolica...
67. This edition was reprinted at Antwerp 1700-1703. Venice 1729-1734, Bassano 1807, Paris 1836-1839 and by Migne, Petit-Montrouge 1841-1849 and again at Paris in 1865 as part of the Patrologia Latina.
68. S. Aurelii Augustini Hipponesis Episcopi Vita auctore S. Possidio Calamensi Episcopo . . . opera et studio D. Joannis Salinas, Romae 1731. A copy of this rare book was procured for the Library of Princeton University by the late Director Jesse Benedict Carter of the American Academy at Rome.
69. See note 66, p. 32.
70. Compare, for example, the unanimous evidence of the MSS. as opposed to the editions on p. 44. Further instances of this sort of text correction where the evidence of the MSS. is unanimously opposed to the editions, are recorded in the apparatus criticus. In some other cases when the MSS. vary, the editions nevetheless present some individual readings unsupported by any of the MSS.
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