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31 Ibid., 26.

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44 Serm. 212; 213; 214; 215. (PL., v. 38).

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51 Ep. 84, (CSEL., v. 34, (2), pp. 392–393). The reading in section 2 (P. 393) is cum Latina lingua, but from the context it is evident that this is the error of a copyist who substituted Latina for Punica, or that the word is a gloss which has become incorporated in the text. Augustine occasionally refers to the Punie language. See Ep. 17:2 (OSEL., v. 34, (1), pp. 41–42), which refers to Numidia, or at least to the region about Madaura, as “a district in which the cradle of that language is still warm.” The serfs of Mappalia in the diocese of Hippo understood only Punie. Ep., 66:2, (CSEL., v. 34, (2), p. 236). The inhabitants of the city itself were more Latin than the rural residents; and in Serm. 167:4. (PL., v. 38, p. 910Google Scholar) he states that not nil of his hearers understand the Punic language.

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56 Note the ease of Pinianus, related below.

57 Ep. 78:4; 27:4–6; 31:7; 41:2; 159:1; 206; 212, (CSEL., v. 34, (2), p. 337; v. 34 (1), pp. 99–102; v. 34, (2) pp. 6–7; 83–4; v. 44, pp. 497–8; v. 57, pp. 340; 371–2).

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61 Ep. 65:2, (CSEL., v. 34 (2), pp. 233–4),

62 ibid.

63 Ibid.

64 Sixteenth Council of Carthage, can. 17 (or Cod. Cans Eec. Afr., no. 125); Mansi, v. III, p. 822; Ferrbre, p. 30; Hefele, Conciliengcschichte, II, p. 106; History of Councils, II, p. 461.

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79 Cod. Theod., XVI, 11:1.

80 Ibid., I, 27:2; Cod. Just., I, 4:8.

81 On a level with a judgment of the Praetorian Prefect.

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