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intended to suggest that Patrick's captivity immediately followed the 

 sin committed, as he tells us (§ 27), at the age of fifteen. 



P. 235, 1. 8. Hilerione. — This form occurs also in Conf. 16, 23, 28, 

 41,62; Ep. 1, 5,10, 12; Hiheria^ Ep. 16; Vox Hyhermiacum^ Conf. 

 23 ; Ad Hihernas gentes, Conf. 37. 



P. 235, 1. 8. Tot milia hominum occurs again, Conf. 14, 50 ; cf . 

 Ep. 14, " Cum tot milia solidorum." 



P. 235, 11. 11, 12. Irani aniynationis suae. — The emendation indigna- 

 tionis in B is intended to bring the quotation into exact agreement 

 with the text of Ps. Ixxvii. 49. But the words really are cited from 

 Isaiah xlii. 25. 



P. 235, 1. 13. Faruitas mea. — There are seveml such periphrases for 

 ego in these tracts, e.g., "Paruitas nostra," Ep, 9; "Incredulitas mea," 

 Conf. 2; ''Ignorantia mea," Conf . 2, 62 (" Mea ign.") ; Mea gratia," 

 Conf. 37, Ep. 11 ; " Insipientia mea," Conf. 46; " eglegentia mea," 

 Conf. 46 ; Modicitas mea," Conf. 50 ; " Imperitia mea," Ep. 20. 



P. 235, 1. 14. Aperuit sensum incredulitatis meae. — Incredulitas mea 

 is best taken as a periphrasis for ego. The Insertion of the words 

 cordis mei is consequently not necessary to complete the sense. It was 

 possibly due to a desire to see a reference to Jer. iv. 19, " Sensus cordis 

 mei," and Heb. iii. 12, "Cor malignum incredulitatis." The phrase 

 adoliscentiae ignorantiae meae just below was similarly a stumbling- 

 block to later copyists. I^ote that B differs from the others in its 

 method of getting over it. 



P. 236, 1. 2. — Consulatus = consolatus, as always in A. It is there- 

 fore better to read me than inei, in order to avoid misunderstanding. 



P. 236, 11. 5, 6. TJt . . . exaltare. — Ut is followed by an infinitive also 

 in Conf. 14, " Ut . . . relinquere," and Conf. 43, " Ut . . . uisitare." 



P. 236, 1. 10. Omnia tenentem. — Omnitenens is found in TertuUian 

 and St. Augustine as the rendering of TravTOKparoip, Almighty. 



P 236, 1. 18. — CF3F4 punctuate : ipsius. Mox futurum, &c. 



P. 237, 1. 10. — In die ilia. — Dies (sing.) is feminine also in Conf. 

 16, 18 (only read in A), 19 (bis in rell.) 27, 33 (CF3F4), 42, 52, 59. 

 Ep. 3. It is masc. in Conf. 19 (A), 26, 29, 33 (Boll.) 52. 



P. 237, 1. 14. Ne incederem in linguam hominum. — Incederem 

 = incideretn, as R writes it. Todd {St. Patrick, p. 311) renders the 

 phrase, " I was afraid of falling upon the language of men [i.e. I was 

 afraid of attempting to write in the language of the civilized world] " ; 

 and W. Stokes {Fit. Trip., p. 359) explains it, "I feared offending 

 against [doing violence to] the language of men." Both these explana- 

 tions seem rather forced. It means rather, as Ferguson renders it, "I 



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