1 - Cf. Aezio, Plac. 1, 27-29; Ps. Plutarco, De fato 8-9; Manilio, Astron. 3, 43-101; Agostino, De div. qq. 83, 24: NBA, VI/2.

2 - Cf. Omero, Il. 21, 82; Odyss., 3, 226; pitagorici, in Diogene Laerzio, 8, 27; Eraclito, in Diogene Laerzio, 9, 7, in Aezio, Plac. 1, 27, 1; Leucippo, in Diels, FVS, 67, fr. 2; Democrito, in Diels, FVS, 68, fr. 118; i naturalisti, in Cicerone, De fato 17, 40; Lucrezio, De rer. nat. 2, 217-224; Ovidio, Met. 9, 434; Manilio, Astron. 4, 14-22; Seneca, De prov. 5, 8; i manichei, in Agostino, Enarr. in ps. 140, 10: NBA, XXVIII.

3 - Platone, Timeo 41d-e; Politeia 617b-d; Aristotele, Phys. 195b 31ss.; Zenone e gli stoici, in Teodoreto, Graec. aff. cur. 6, 14; Crisippo, in Aulo Gellio, Noct. att. 7, 2, 3; in Aezio, Plac. 1, 28, 3; Posidonio, in Aezio, Plac. 1, 28, 5; Ps. Plutarco, De fato 4, 570b; Plotino, Enn. 2, 3, 7-8; 3, 1, 1. 2, 1.

4 - Plotino, Enn. 2, 3, 7, 4-7; 3, 1, 6, 18-24.

5 - Cf. Plotino, Enn. 2, 3, 6, 1-3.

6 - Cicerone, De fato, 3, 5.

7 - Cicerone, Tuscul. 2; De div. 1; De off. 3.

8 - Cf. Manilio, Astron. 3, 537-547; 2, 826-835; Plotino, Enn. 2, 3, 1.

9 - Cf. Lucano, Scol. In Phars. 1, 639 (post. Ad Agostino?).

10 - Fr. 2, in H. Funaioli, Gramm. rom. fragmenta, Lipsia 1907.

11 - Gen 25, 25; Agostino, De doctr. chr. 2, 22: NBA, VIII.

12 - Cf. Manilio, Astron. 2, 150-787. 788-970; Giovanni Lido, De ostentis, passim.

13 - Cleante, trad. in lat., da Seneca, Ep. 107, 11.

14 - Omero, Odyss. 18, 136s. (trad. Cicerone, De fato, fr. 4).

15 - Ps 13, 1.

16 - Cicerone, De nat. deor. 1, 6, 15; 2, 67, 168; 3, 1, 1.

17 - Cicerone, De div. 2, 48-54.

18 - Cicerone, De div. 2, 49; De fato 17, 40.

19 - Cicerone, De div. 2, 51-53.

20 - Varrone, De ling. lat. 6, 52; cf. Platone, Politeia 617c; Plotino, Enn. 2, 3, 7, 4-7; 3, 1, 6, 18-24.

21 - Ps 61, 12-13.

22 - Cicerone, De div. 1, 55, 125; De fato 11, 24; 15, 34.

23 - Ps 13, 1.

24 - Sallustio, Catil. 7, 6.

25 - Sallustio, Catil. 6, 7.

26 - Cf. Varrone, De ling. lat. 5, 80; Cicerone, De rep. 1, 26, 42.

27 - Sallustio, Catil. 7, 3.

28 - Virgilio, Aen. 8, 646-648.

29 - Virgilio, Aen. 1, 279-285.

30 - Virgilio, Aen. 6, 847-853.

31 - Sallustio, Catil. 11, 1-2.

32 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 27, 25, 7.

33 - Sallustio, Catil. 54, 5.

34 - 2 Cor 1, 12.

35 - Gal 6, 4.

36 - Catone, in Sallustio, Catil. 52, 19-23.

37 - Cf. sopra 2, 18.

38 - Sallustio, Hist. 1, fr. 11.

39 - Sallustio, Catil. 53, 2-4.

40 - Sallustio, Catil. 53, 5.

41 - Sallustio, Catil. 52, 21.

42 - Orazio, Ep. 1, 1, 36-37.

43 - Orazio, Carm. 2, 2, 9-12.

44 - Cicerone, De rep. 5, 7, 9 (solo in Agostino).

45 - Cicerone, Tuscul. 1, 2, 4.

46 - Io 5, 44.

47 - Io 12, 43.

48 - Matteo 10, 33; Luca 12, 9.

49 - Matteo 6, 1.

50 - Matteo 5, 16.

51 - Matteo 6, 2.

52 - Matteo 5, 45.

53 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 2, 5; cf. sopra 3, 16.

54 - Virgilio, Aen. 6, 820-823.

55 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 8, 7, 20-21; cf. sopra 1, 23.

56 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 5, 7ss. (cf. sopra 2, 17; 3, 17, 2; 4, 7).

57 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 2, 12, 15.

58 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 7, 6, 3-5; Valerio Massimo, Facta et dicta mem. 5, 6, 2 (cf. sopra 4, 20).

59 - Matteo 10, 28.

60 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 8, 9; 10, 28 (cf. sopra 4, 20).

61 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 2, 8, 7-8 (è M. Orazio Polvillo).

62 - Matteo 8, 22.

63 - Livio, Per. 18; Cicerone, De off. 3, 26, 99; Floro, Epit. 1, 18 (2, 2), 23-26; Valerio Massimo, Facta et dicta mem. 1, 11, 14; Sempronio Tudiano, Ann., fr. 5; Elio Tuberone, Hist., fr. 9, in Aulo Gellio, Noct. att. 7, 4, 1-2; Eutropio, Brev. 2, 25; Orosio, Hist. 4, 10, 1 (cf. sopra 1, 15, 1-2. 24.

64 - Ps 115, 3.

65 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 2, 16, 7; Eutropio, Brev. 1, 11, 4.

66 - Livio, Hab Urbe cond. 3, 26, 9; Eutropio, Brev. 1, 17.

67 - Plutarco, Vitae, Pyrrhus 20; Eutropio, Brev. 2, 12; Valerio Massimo, Facta et dicta mem. 4, 3, 6.

68 - Valerio Massimo, Dict et fact. mem. 2, 9, 4; Floro, Epit. 1, 13, 22; Aulo Gellio, Noct. att. 4, 8 (è P. Cornelio Rufino).

69 - Act 2, 44; 4, 32.

70 - Rom 8, 18.

71 - Sallustio, Catil. 11, 2.

72 - Cf. Tacito, Ann. 14, 8, 4-5; 15, 37, 1-3; Svetonio, Vitae, Nero 34; Dione Cassio, Hist. rom. 62, 14-16.

73 - Prov 8, 15.

74 - Virgilio, Aen. 7, 266.

75 - Iob 34, 30.

76 - Ps 45, 5; 47, 2-3. 9.

77 - Epicuro, Ep. a Menec. 129-130.

78 - Gli stoici, in Diogene Laerzio, 7, 87-88.

79 - Cleante, in Cicerone, De fin. 2, 21, 69.

80 - Cicerone, De fin. 1, 13-16.

81 - Ex. Avesta, yasna 44; gli dèi sono Ormuzd o Ahura Mazda (da cui mazdeismo) e Ahriman o Angra Mainyu, nella predicazione di Zoroastro o Zarathustra (VII-VI sec. a.C.), conosciuto anche dagli scrittori greci e latini che gli accreditarono l'origine della magia: cf. Plutarco, Quaest. rom. 26; Pausania, Descr. Gr. 5, 27, 5-6; Plinio il Vecchio, Nat. hist. 30, 2, 3-11.

82 - Cf. sopra 4, 34; 5, 18, 3.

83 - Eutropio, Brev. 10, 16, 2; Ammiano Marcellino, Rer. gest. 24, 7, 4-7; Orosio, Hist. 7, 30; vedi sopra 4, 29.

84 - Eutropio, Brev. 10, 5-8.17-18; Ammiano Marcellino, Rer. gest. 31, 10, 11-18; Orosio, Hist. 7, 28. 31-33. 35.

85 - Claudiano, De tert. cons. Hon. Aug. 96-98.

86 - Cicerone, Tuscul. 5, 19, 55.