Note 27 — Chapter I
Reading edition
The following is the epitaph as written by St. Jerome, "the Christian Cicero":
Scipio quam genuit, Pauli fudere parentes, Gracchorum soboles, Agamemnonis inclyta proles, Hoc jacet in tumulo, Paulam dixere priores, Euxtochii genetrix, Romani prima senatus, Pauperiem Christi et Bethlehemitica rura secuta est.