Note o — Chapter IX · [a]
Reading edition
Archæologia, vol. xiv. p. 188. The following are the first lines:—
Abundantia peccatorum solet fratres conturbare; Propter hoc Dominus noster voluit nos præmonere, Comparans regnum cœlorum reticulo misso in mare, Congreganti multos pisces, omne genus hinc et inde, Quos cum traxissent ad littus, tunc cœperunt separare, Bonos in vasa miserunt, reliquos malos in mare.
This trash is much below the level of Augustin; but it could not have been later than his age.