61
"Second to none," as he is called by Herodotus, who first of all tells his well-known story (Clio. 23, 24).
62
Augustine here uses the words of Cicero ("vigilando peremerunt"), who refers to Regulus, in Pisonem, c. 19. Aulus Gellius, quoting Tubero and Tuditanus (vi. 4), adds some further particulars regarding these tortures.
63
As the Stoics generally would affirm.
64
Plutarch's Life of Cato, 72.
65
1 Cor. ii. 11.