³ Cicero, de Inventione Rhetorica i. 1.

⁴ Wisd. vi. 24.

⁵ Cf. Cicero, Orator. 21: "Sed est eloquentiae, sicut reliquarum rerum, fundamentum sapientia".

⁶ Rom. v. 3-5.

⁷ Cf. Cicero, Orator. 62: "Quae nescio cur, cum Graeci ko/mata et kw=la nominent, nos non recte incisa et membra dicamus".

⁸ Cf. Cicero, de Claris Oratoribus, 44: "Comprehensio et ambitus ille verborum (si sic periodum appellari placet.)".

⁹ 2 Cor. xi. 16-30.

¹⁰ The only apparent difference between membrum and caesum is, that the former is the longer of the two. It is impossible to express the difference in English.

¹¹ 2 Cor. xi. 6.

¹² 2 Cor. x. 10.

¹³ Amos. i. 1; vii. 14.

¹⁴ Amos vi. 1-6. The version given above, which is a literal translation of Jerome's Latin, as quoted by Augustin, differs from the English authorized version.

¹⁵ Cicero, Orator. 23: "Quaedam etiam negligentia est diligens".

¹⁶ "I shall not assemble their assemblies of blood," Ps. xvi. 4. (Vulgate.) "Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer." (A. V.)

¹⁷ Cicero, Orator. 21: "Est igitur eloquens qui ita dicet, ut probei, ut delectet, ut flectat." Not quoted accurately by Augustin.

¹⁸ "Probare, necessitatis est; delectare, suavitatis; flectere, victoriae."

¹⁹ "And the priests bear rule by their means." (A. V.)

²⁰ Jer. v. 30, 31 (LXX.).

²¹ Jer. xxiii. 29.

²² Ps. xxxv. 18.

²³ Cyprian, ad Donat. Ep. i..

²⁴ Matt. x. 19, 20.

²⁵ Matt. vi 8.

²⁶ 1 Tim. iv. 11.

²⁷ 1 Tim. v. 1.

²⁸ 2 Tim. i. 13.

²⁹ 2 Tim ii. 15.

³⁰ 2 Tim iv. 2.

³¹ Tit. i. 9.

³² Tit. ii. 1, 2.

³³ Tit ii. 15, iii. 1.

³⁴ 1 Cor. iii. 7.

³⁵ Ps. cxliii. 10.

³⁶ 2 Tim. iii. 14.

³⁷ Cicero, Orator. 29: "Is isitur erit etoquens, qui poterit parva summisse, modica temperate, magna granditer dicere."

³⁸ Luke xvi. 10.

³⁹ 1 Cor. vi. 1-9.

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