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27 Caput et Navia, literally "head and ship," the piece of money having a head of Janus on one side, and a ship on the other. See the matter illustrated in Macrobius, Saturnalia, i. 7, Aur. Vict. Orig. 3.
30 Luke xvi. 19-31. Non noverat Abraham. But some Mss. omit non; rightly, one would think. The meaning then is: "He recognised Abraham."
35 Augustin's reading of Ps. cxxxix. 9.
36 In manibus linguae = the Hebrew phrase zw#$l/ dayb@
, Prov. xviii. 21.
37 Ps. xxxviii. 3, ytka)+axa ynEb@;mi
41 That is (in opposition to the really "dead," afterwards mentioned), such as are seen by living persons in visions.
43 Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 279, "Consanguineus Lethi sopor" (Death's own brother, Sleep).
51 That is, as true apparitions indeed, but not as real bodies.
54 [Compare On the City of God, xiv. 2, 6, and On the Trinity, x. 11, 18. Augustin denied the trichotomy of the Greek Fathers before Appollinaris, and held that the soul and spirit constituted a single substantial unity, and this one spiritual essence was "soul" (anima) so far as it was the informing and vivifying principle of the body, and "spirit" (spiritus) so far as it was the power of rational thought.-W.]
68 He seems to refer to Ps. lv. 8.