agony of a fever; and the visions which he saw, its delirium.

{44} Here is an instance of the original use of the word
"monastery," viz. a cell in which a single person dwelt.

{45} An allusion to the heathen mysteries.

{49} A.D. 311. Galerius Valerius Maximinus (his real name was
Daza) had been a shepherd-lad in Illyria, like his uncle Galerius
Valerius Maximianus; and rose, like him, through the various grades
of the army to be co-Emperor of Rome, over Syria, Egypt, and Asia
Minor; a furious persecutor of the Christians, and a brutal and
profligate tyrant. Such were the "kings of the world" from whom
those old monks fled.

{52a} The lonely alluvial flats at the mouths of the Nile. "Below
the cliffs, beside the sea," as one describes them.

{52b} Now the monastery of Deir Antonios, over the Wady el Arabah,
between the Nile and the Red Sea, where Antony's monks endure to
this day.

{60} This most famous monastery, i.e. collection of monks' cells,
in Egypt is situate forty miles from Alexandria, on a hill where
nitre was gathered. The hospitality and virtue of its inmates are
much praised by Ruffinus and Palladius. They were, nevertheless,
the chief agents in the fanatical murder of Hypatia.

{65} It appears from this and many other passages, that extempore
prayer was usual among these monks, as it was afterwards among the