CYPRIAN (†258) in _ad Fortunatum_, 11, quotes v. 5, apparently following a translation of the Ο´, and not of Θ's, text. The same verse is again quoted by him in _Ep._ lviii. 5 in exactly the same words. It is curious that both passages are preceded, in the same sections, by a quotation of Dan. iii. 16--18, apparently based on Θ's version. In the case of v. 5 in _Ep._ lviii. there is a slight variation in the readings of some MSS. as given by Hartel. _Cf._ Prof. Swete's _Introd._ 1902, p. 47.
PSEUDO-CYPRIAN (3rd century?) gives parts of vv. 37, 38, in _Oratio_ II. 2, following Ο´ a little more closely than Θ.
PASSING OF MARY (3rd or 4th century, _see D.C.B., Mary_, 1142b). In the First Latin form vv. 33--39 are clearly referred to.
ATHANASIUS (†373) in his _Discourse against Arians_, II. 8, quotes v. 5 as words of Daniel, which he also refers to in III. 30.
EPHREM SYRUS (†378). In the hymn _de Jejunio_ there is, according to T.J. Lamy (Mechlin, 1886), a reference to Bel and the Dragon, "cum Daniel jejunavit."
GREGORY NAZIANZEN (†390) in his poetical _Præcepta ad Virgines_ has the line, speaking of Daniel, ἀερίην δ᾽ ἐνὶ χρσὶν ἐδέξατο δαῖτα προφήτου.
AMBROSE (†397), in his Commentary in _Ep. ad Rom. I. 23_, writes, "Coluerunt et serpentem draconem quem occidit Daniel, homo dei" (Basel, 1527, IV. p. 768).
CHRYSOSTOM (†407), _In Danielem_, cap. XIII. (XIV.) comments on Bel and the Dragon as part of the book, seemingly without reserve or alteration of tone.
PRUDENTIUS (†410), in his _Cathemerinon_, IV., has several verses on the den episode, of which this is one:
"Cernit forte procul dapes ineuntas Quas messoribus Habakkuk propheta Agresti bonus exhibebat arte."
JEROME (†420), though excluding this and the other Additions from the canon, according to what he writes in his preface to Daniel, "veru anteposito easque jugulante subjecimus," retains it in his Bible. In his _Onomasticon de Nominibus Hebraicis_ he includes under Daniel, Astyages, Bel, Ambacum, without distinction from the rest of the names in Daniel. But for this last work he was chiefly indebted to Eusebius, Πετὶ τῶν οπικῶν ὀνομάτων. (_D.C.B._ II. 336a).
HESYCHIUS OF JERUSALEM (†438), in his Στιχηρόν on the XII prophets, says of Habakkuk that, whether he was the same Habakkuk as an angel carried to Babylon, εἰπεῖν τὸ σαφὲς οὐκ ἔχω.