Section 27

commotum: 'agitated', 'worked-up'.

quodammodo: 'in a certain way', 'a kind of'.

extra naturam hominis videbatur: 'he seemed above human nature'.

numquam in illius ore nisi Christus: 'never (was anything) on his lips except Christ'.

pro eorum . . . peccatis: 'for the sins of those'.

remotum et quietum: substantival, 'a secluded and quiet man', i.e. Martin.

qui in illo oderant quod: 'who hated in him that which'.

ingemescendum: 'lamentable'.

non alii . . . non alii . . . quam: 'none other than' (repeated for emphasis).

fere: 'for the most part', 'mostly'.

licet pauci admodum: 'though quite few'.

ferebantur: 'were said (to be)'.

licet nosmet ipsos plerique circumlatrent: 'although quite a few are barking all around at me myself', a reference to Sulpicius' critics, who claimed that he exaggerated Martin's abilities. circumlatrent (> circumlatro (1)) is subj. in concessive clause (AG 527).

sufficiet ut: 'it will be sufficient that'.

ex his: 'of these men', i.e., from among the critics.

dictum: (sc. esse) 'that it has been said' (indirect statement after fatebitur).

non refugimus . . . ut: 'I do not mind that'.

nos quoque: 'me too', another polite 1st person plural, referring to Sulpicius himself.

opusculum istud: 'the present work'. Opusculum is diminutive of opus, used here for modesty. iste = meus is late Latin. See Lönnergen, De Syntaxi Sulpicii Severi, p. 10.[4]

de cetero: 'for the rest, otherwise'.

ego mihi conscius sum me: 'I am conscious in myself that I', introducing indirect statement.

non quicumque legerit, sed quicumque crediderit: 'not he who has read, but he who has believed'. This is the subject of habebit above. legerit and crediderit are subjunctive in a relative clause of characteristic. 'Believed' is the emphatic final word in the work.