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to Suetonius, or in twenty-seven days according to Strabo and Appian ; the 

 remains of Pompey's party, defeated in Africa, having assembled in Spain. 



() p. 24. Sil. Ital. Punica, Lib. iii. V. 477. 



t 42 ) p. 24. Idem. Lib. iv. V. 348 ; Lib. viii. V. 399. 



( 43 ) p. 25. See, on elegiac poetry, Nicol. Bach, in the allg. Schul-Zeitung, 

 1829, Abth. ii. No. 134, S. 1097. 



t 44 ) p. 26. Minucii Felicis Octavius, ex rec. Gron. Roterod. 1743, cap. 2 

 and 3 (p. 1228), cap. 1618 (p. 151171). 



( 45 ) p. 26. On the Death of Naucratius, about the year 357, see Basilii 

 Magni Opp. omma, ed. Par. 1730, T. iii. p. xlv. The Jewish Essenes, two 

 centuries before the Christian era, led an anchoritic life on the western shores 

 of the Dead Sea, "in intercourse with nature." Pliny says of them (v. 15), 

 "mira gens, socia palmarum." The Therapeutes dwelt originally more in 

 conventual communities, in a pleasant district near Lake Moeris (Neander, 

 allg. Geschichte der christl. Religion und Kirche, Bd. i. Abth. i. 1842, S. 

 73 and 103.) 



C 46 ) p. 28. Basilii M. Epist. xiv. p. 93, Ep. ccxxiii: p. 339. On the 

 beautiful letter to Gregory of Nazianzum, and on the poetic tone of mind of 

 Saint Basil, see Villemain de 1'Eloquence chretienne dans le quatrieme Siecle, 

 in his Melanges historiques et litteraires, T. iii. p. 320325. The Iris, on 

 the banks of which the family of the great Basil had ancient possessions in 

 land, rises in Armenia, flows through Pontus, and, after mingling with the 

 waters of the Lycus, pours itself into the Black Sea. 



( 47 ) p. 28. Gregorius of Nazianzum was not, however, so much charmed 

 with the description of the hermitage on the banks of the Iris, but that he 

 preferred Arianzus, in the Tiberina Regio, though termed, with dissatisfaction, 

 by his friend an impure ftapaOpoy. See Basilii Ep. ii. p. 70 ; and the Vita 

 Sancti Bas., p. xlvi., and lix. in the edition of 1730. 



t 48 ) p. 28. Basilii Homil. in Hexrem. vi., and iv. 6 (Bas. Opp. omnia, ed. 

 Gul. Gamier, 1839, T. i. p. 54 and 70). Compare therewith the expression 

 of profound melancholy in the beautiful poem of Gregory of Nazianzum, enti- 

 tled, " On the Nature of Man." (Gregor. Naz. Opp. omnia, ed. Par. 1611, 

 T. ii. Carm. xiii. p. 85). 



( 49 ) p. 29. The quotation from Gregory of Nyssa given in the text, con- 

 sists of separate fragments closely translated. They will be found in S. Gre- 

 gorii Nysseni Opp. ed.Par. 1615, T. i. p. 49 C, p. 589 D, p. 210 C, p. 780 C ; 

 T. ii. p. 860 B, p. 619 B, p. 619 D, p. 324 D. " Be thou gentle towards 

 the emotions of melancholy," says Thalassius, in aphoristic sayings, which 



