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The references are to letters, as numbered in this selection, and to paragraphs.

  • Abaddir, a god, 6. 2
  • Abel, his sinlessness, 41. 8, 9
  • Abraham, 35. 3; 54. 6 n.; 60. 7
  • Abundantius, a profligate priest, 18. 1, 2
  • Acolytes, duties of, 43. 1 n.
  • Actium, battle of, 5. 2
  • Adam, 41. 6, 8, 9; 50. 3
  • Aemilianus, his legacy, 21. 4
  • Aetius, 42. 1 n.; his treachery, 51. 5 n.
  • Africa, Augustine’s dwelling-place, 6. 2; proconsul of, 27. 1 n.; 34. 1 n.; 46. 1 n.; 47. 5 n.; dux per Africam, 30. 1 n.; vicar of, 61. 1
  • African Bishops, deputation of, to the Emperor, 25. n.; decide not to allow appeals to Rome, 47. 1 n.
  • African Church, disorders in the, 8. 2, 4
  • Agilis, 14
  • Alaric, breaks his pledge to Rome, 22 n.; defeated by Stilicho, 25. 3 n.; captures Rome, 26 n.; sacks Rome, 31 n.; 32 n.; 36 n.; 37 n.
  • Albina, 32 n.; 33
  • Albinus, the acolyte, 43. 1; 44. 1
  • Algiers, 47. 8 n.
  • Alypius, 1; 8. 1; note on his life, 1 n.; 10; 33 n.; insulted by the people of Hippo, 33. 1, 2, 3, 9, 11; 43. 1; 51. 3; 52
  • Ambrose, St., opposed to tolerating pagan practices, 10. 10 n.; 55. 3 n.
  • Amulets, use of, 56. 2 n.
  • Andrew, 15. 4
  • Anger, 13. 2; 49. 14
  • Anna, 60. 9
  • Antioch, 9. 3 n.; 20 n.
  • Antoninus, Bishop, 47. 2 n., 3, 8, 9
  • Apringius, proconsul of Africa, 34 n.
  • Apuleius, birthplace of, 5. 1 n.
  • Aquitania, 14 n.
  • Archiater, or municipal doctor, 52 n.
  • Argentius, priest at Asna, 10. 12
  • Arian heresy, 51. 4
  • Armenian, manor of, 18. 1
  • Arnobius, 6. 4 n.
  • Asiarchs, 10. 12 n.
  • Asna, near Hippo, 10. 12
  • Astarte, famous temple of, at Sicca, 53. 1 n.
  • Astrologers, their foolishness, 57. 2
  • Augustine, St., his physical weakness, 3. 1; 53. 1; 62; his work on the Catholic religion, 4. 1; his use of Stoic arguments, 5. 3; bewails his own presumption, 7. 2; his ordination, 3; his unworthiness of the priesthood, 3, 4; asks Aurelius to pray for him, 8. 9; in Italy, 9 n.; made Bishop of Hippo, 9 n.; asks Jerome to criticize his writings, 9. 6; his sermon on dogs and swine, 10. 2; his sermon on drunkenness, 3, 5, 6, 11; weeps during his sermon, 7; his Contra Faustum, 11. 5 n.; and Simplician, 12 n.; suffers from piles or tumours, 13. 1; on anger and hatred, 2; admonishes Eudoxius, 15; on the way to
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  • appoint the clergy, 17. 1; declares he did not write a book against Jerome, 20. 2; on legacies left to monasteries, 21. 1–6; urges the Calamans to adopt Christianity, 24 n.; a reader of Virgil, 2 n.; on the immorality of the pagan gods, 4; on the disturbances of June the 1st, 8; his contempt for pagan writings, 28. 2; his books De Musica, 3; on the Psalms, 4; on being praised by his friend, 29. 3–5; his weak health, 31. 1; on the sanctity of oaths, 33. 11; his friendship with Marcellinus, 34 n.; on the punishment of criminals, 1, 2; his controversy with Pelagius, 36 n.; on the connexion of soul and body, 38. 1; on visions, 2; his argument against toleration, 39. 2; on free-will, 3–5; on baptism, 4 n.; on charity, 6; his De Trinitate, 40; his De natura et gratia, 41 n.; on the Pelagian heresy, 3–10; death of, 42. 1 n.; on military service, 4–6; on love, 44. 1, 2; his approval of conjugal continence, 45. 1 n., 3; 51. 12; development of monasticism among women due to, 48. 1 n.; his monastic Rule, 49. 5–16; his letter on grace and free-will, 50 n., 2–7; on bodily adornment, 51. 1, 2; on praise, 54. 2–4; his advice to Ecdicia on conjugal chastity, 60
  • Augustine, St., of Canterbury, 10. 1 n.
  • Augustinian Rule, the, 49. 5–6
  • Aurelius, Bishop, 8; 17; 39. 8 n.; 40 n.; 43. 1; 54. 7
  • Baal Addir, 6. 2 n.
  • Bacchus, deprives men of reason, 6. 4
  • Bagai, 39. 8 n.
  • Balearic Islands, 15 n.
  • Baptism, adult, Augustine on, 39. 4 n.; 59. 4 n.
  • Barbarus, 38. 1
  • Barnabas, 33. 6
  • Baths, once a month, 49. 13
  • Bede, 47. 2 n.
  • Bee, the, if it sticks in the honey dies, 4. 2
  • Benedict, St., Rule of, 49. 12 n., 15 n.; 51. 8 n.; 60. 5 n.
  • Benenatus, Bishop of Tugutiana, 58
  • Bethlehem, Jerome in, 9 n.; 20 n.; 43. 1 n.
  • Bishop, the difficulty of worthily discharging the duties of, 7. 1; legal duties of, 24. 7; translation of, forbidden, 47. 7 n.
  • Biskra, 51. 3
  • Boniface, Bishop of Cataquas, 25. 3
  • Boniface, Count, Governor of Africa, note on his life, 42. 1 n.; his disgrace, 51. 1 n.; his marriage, 4 n.; barbarian invasions under, 7; 54 n.
  • Boniface, Pope, 47. 1 n., 6, 9
  • Bonum, donum, 45. 3 n.
  • Britain, 44. 1 n.
  • Britons, the, 44. 1 n.
  • Bulla, 18. 1
  • Byzacena, 39. 8 n.; 50 n.
  • Cabrera, 15 n.
  • Caecilian, Bishop of Carthage, 39. 7–9; his Act of Purgation, 49. 13 n.
  • Caecilianus, Roman legate, note on his life, 23 n.
  • Caelestis, temple of, consecrated as a church, 45. 3 n.
  • Caesarea, note on its history, 47. 8 n.
  • Cain, 41. 8
  • Calama, 13. 2 n., 3; 19 n.; pagan festivals held at, 24 n., 10
  • Caligula, 47. 8 n.
  • Campania, 14 n.
  • Capitulum, portion of Scripture, 10. 2 n.
  • Capraria, 15 n.
  • Caprera, famous for manufacture of goat’s-hair garments, 15. 4 n.
  • Capua, 28 n.
  • Carthage, Church of, 8. 4; Augustine’s lectures in, 9 n.; Council of, 17. 2 n.; 36 n.; 41 n.; 48. 1 n.; Caecilianus in, 22 n.; 38. 3; conference of, 39. 7 n.; Synod of, 47. 8 n.; 53. 1; 55. 3 n.
  • Cassiciacum, 1. 1 n.; 2. 1 n.; 24. 2 n.; 38 n.
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