9 – puleium, lit. the herb penny royal.

10 – Bassianus is mentioned among the Bishops who took in the

Council of Aquileia, as Bishop of Laus Pompeia, now Lodi

Vecchio, S.E. of Milan. The modern town of Lodi is about

5 miles from the site of the ancient one.

11 – He means the day of his consecration as Bishop. So S. Ambr.

speaks of his own consecration day as his birthday, Comm.

in Luc. vii. 78.

12 – Comum is the modern Como, at the southern extremity of the

Lake which takes its name from it.

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