-- 19. Let him go now, and with panting lungs and swollen throat find fault with me as a mere dialectician. Nay, let him summon, not me, but the science of dialectics itself, to the bar of popular opinion as a forger of lies, and let him open his mouth t

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Footnotes:

[2368] Acts 24:1.

[2369] Paracletus.

[2370] "Favente," which is wanting in the Mss., was inserted in the margin by Erasmus, as being needed to complete the sense.

[2371] Megalius, bishop of Calama, primate of Numidia, was the bishop who ordained Augustin, as we find in c. viii. of his life by Possidius. Augustin makes further reply to the same calumny, which was gathered from a letter of Megalius, in Contra Cresconium, Book III. c. 80, 92, and Book IV. c. 64, 78, 79.