[151] We alter the pronoun to suit Augustine's interpretation.
[162] Virgil, _Æneid_, xii. 899, 900. Compare the _Iliad_, v. 302, and Juvenal, xv. 65 et seqq.
"Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."
[164] See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits.
[165] Pliny, _Hist. Nat._ vii. 49, merely reports what he had read in Hellanicus about the Epirotes of Etolia.
[166] "Our own MSS.," of which Augustine here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew MSS." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare _De Doct. Christ._ ii. 15 et seqq.
[167] Jerome (_De Quæst. Heb. in Gen._) says it was a question famous in all the churches.--VIVES.
[168] "Quos in auctoritatem celebriorum Ecclesia suscepit."
[171] On this subject see Wilkinson's note to the second book (appendix) of Rawlinson's _Herodotus_, where all available references are given.
[172] One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one hundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion, the argument of Augustine is easily followed.
[173] Gen. vii. 10, 11 (in our version the seventeenth day).
[181] His own children being the children of his sister, and therefore his nephews.
[182] This was allowed by the Egyptians and Athenians, never by the Romans.
[183] Both in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, though not uniformly, nor in Latin commonly.
[195] Eusebius, Jerome, Bede, and others, who follow the Septuagint, reckon only 2242 years, which Vives explains by supposing Augustine to have made a copyist's error.
[203] Or, according to another reading, "Which I briefly said in these verses in praise of a taper."
[207] On these kinds of devils, see the note of Vives _in loc._, or Lecky's _Hist. of Rationalism_, i. 26, who quotes from Maury's _Histoire de la Magie_, that the Dusii were Celtic spirits, and are the origin of our "Deuce."
[211] Gen. vi. 1-4. Lactantius (_Inst._ ii. 15), Sulpicius Severus (_Hist._ i. 2), and others suppose from this passage that angels had commerce with the daughters of men. See further references in the Commentary of Pererius _in loc_.