Emperor of the West till A.D. 383, and as Treves was his usual
residence, he is most probably the person meant: but if not, then
his father Valentinian.

{29} See the excellent article on Gratian in Smith's Dictionary, by
Mr. Means.

{30} I cannot explain this fact: but I have seen it with my own
eyes.

{32} I use throughout the text published by Heschelius, in 1611.

{33} He is said to have been born at Coma, near Heracleia, in
Middle Egypt, A.D. 251.

{34} Seemingly the Greek language and literature.

{35} I have thought it more honest to translate [Greek text] by
"training," which is now, as then, its true equivalent; being a
metaphor drawn from the Greek games by St. Paul, 1 Tim. iv. 8.

{41} I give this passage as it stands in the Greek version. In the
Latin, attributed to Evagrius, it is even more extravagant and
rhetorical.

{42} Surely the imagery painted on the inner walls of Egyptian
tombs, and probably believed by Antony and his compeers to be
connected with devil-worship, explain these visions. In the "Words
of the Elders" a monk complains of being troubled with "pictures,
old and new." Probably, again, the pain which Antony felt was the