Notes1a.d. 410.2Retractations, ii. 43.3Letters 132-8.4See some admirable remarks on this subject in the useful work of Beugnot, Histoire de la Destruction du Paganisme, ii. 83 et sqq.5As Waterland (iv. 760) does call it, adding that it is "his most learned, most correct, and most elaborate work."6For proof, see the Benedictine Preface.