1. De ieiun. 12 (290 Reifferscheid and Wissowa).
2. Cf. ibid. ; Herzog R. , Die Wunderheilungen von Epidauros ( Philologus, suppl. 22, Heft 3, Leipzig 1931) 112f.; McGinley L. J. , Form-Criticism of the Synoptic Healing Narratives (Woodstock 1944) 126. Though by far the greater part of the inscriptions of Epidaurus report healing miracles, there are some (miracles nos. 24; 46; 63) which show clearly mantic character and can be brought under the heading ‘help for finding lost persons and treasures.’ Moreover, the healing miracles can be divided into two groups: in those of the first group, the act of healing is performed in the dream itself by direct interventions of the deity; in those of the second group, the sick receive a dream-oracle telling them what they ought to do for their recovery (cf. Weinreich , Antike Heilungswunder 78ff.).
3. Lines 732-736 : (1.98 Preisendanz).
4. Tertullian quotes the text according to the LXX : Cf. also Waszink 483.
5. Cf. Socrates , Hist. eccl. 5.22 (ed. Hussey R. [Oxonii 1853] 2.630f.), whose general statement to the effect that the quadragesimal fast was not kept universally for forty actual days seems to be correct, though doubts may be justified with regard to details mentioned by him.