Introductory Note to the Instructions of Commodianus.: 1

¹ He gives us a painful picture of the decline of godliness in his days; of which see Wordsworth's Hippolytus, p. 140.

¹ [Sufficient evidence of his heathen origin.]

² [An index of time. He writes, therefore, in the third century.]

³ We have changed marhus et into mortuus, and de suo into denuo.

⁴ [He defers to the Canon Law and notes the Duae Viae.]