^{page 55 note 1} Dr. Salmon (Dict. Chr. Biog. s.v. ‘Minucius Felix’) speaks of the author ‘mourning for his lately deceased friend Octavius.’ There is nothing to show that the latter was only ‘lately deceased.’

^{page 55 note 2} There is now a new Teubner text by Boenig, 1903 [v. supra].

^{page 55 note 3} See a few textual notes by him on Minucius in Journal of Philology, No. 52 (1899).

^{page 56 note 1} See his article ‘Die Abfassungszeit des Octavius des Minucius Felix’ in Rheinisches Museum, vol. 50 (1895), pp. 114 foll.Google Scholar

^{page 56 note 2} Cf. 19, 15: ‘ nam et deum nouimus et parentem omnium dicimus et numquam publice nisi interrogati praedicamus.’

^{page 57 note 1} Civ. Dei, vi. 7: ‘ Nonne attestati sunt omnes Euemero, qui non fabulosa garrulitate, sed historica diligentia, homines fuisse mortalesque conscripsit? ’