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- ↑ Internal evidence summarized by Quasten et al. 1970: "Life of Firmicus" p. 4.
- ↑ Firmicus states explicitly that he was of Sicilian birth (oriundo) in Matheseos I, proemium, 4.
- ↑ The text by Paulus Alexandrinus of 378 is an introduction to the subject.
- ↑ Quasten et al. 1970:6.
- ↑ Confessions: "“These impostors, whom they designate astrologers, I consulted without hesitation, because they used no sacrifices and invoked the aid of no spirit for their divination.”.
- ↑ Confessions: "Why, in the life of twins—in their actions, the events that befall them, their professions, arts, honors and other things pertaining to human life, as well as in their very deaths—is there often so great a difference that, as far as these things are concerned, many entire strangers are more like them than they are like each other, though separated at birth by the smallest interval of time but at conception generated by the same act and at the same moment?”
- ↑ There is a clear reference to Constans' expedition in Britain in 343.
- ↑ Patrick J. Healy, "Firmicus Maternus", Catholic Encyclopedia (1909),
- ↑ Louis Crompton, Homosexuality and Civilization, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, p. 132; the passage is in De errore 12.2.
- ↑ Johannes Quasten, Walter J. Burghardt, and Thomas Comerford Lawlor, eds. Firmicus Maternus: The Error of the Pagan Religions, Issue 37 (1970): "Life of Firmicus".
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- ↑ Such as the editors of the Catholic Encyclopedia: "This theory of course supposes that the author wrote one work before, the other after, his conversion.".
- ↑ Editions by Conrad Bursian (1856), and by Karl Felix Halm, in his Minucius Felix ( Corpus Scrip. Eccles. Lat. ii, 1867)
