212 – This sentence as it stands in the text is incomplete, the
‘quia’ having no correlative. The ‘at vero quia’ seems
like ‘at enim’ in Classical Latin, or perhaps the ‘quia’
should be omitted.
213 – See Letter xix, 7. S. Ambrose in De Abraham B. 1. c. 9, 93
alludes to the use of the veil in Christian marriages.
214 – This name appears in the reply of the Milan Synod as
Plotinus, which is probably the true form.
215 – There are three laws in the code of Theodosius directed
against the Manichees, one of the year 372 A.D. which
forbade them to hold assemblies, one of 389 A.D. and one
of 391 A.D. ordering their banishment. It is probably
the second of these that is referred to, though Gothofred
refers it to the third, in which case the date of the
Letter must be altered.
216 – All these names except Geminianus occur in the list of
Bishops present at the Council of Aquileia. See p. 60.
217 – νοῦς.
218 – This whole passage is full of expressions borrowed from
Virgil.
219 – This title seems here to be applied especially to the
constellations of the Pleiades and Hyades, each of which
consisted of seven stars.