^{page 98 note 1} Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, vol. 184: Subsidia, tomus 14, 1958.

^{page 99 note 1} The fact that St. James of Nisibis was actually dead twelve years before the siege (A.D. 350) which was ended by his cursing the Persians from the wall, can be explained in a manner thoroughly in keeping with what we know of St. Ephrem: it was the saint's bones, not the living bishop, whom Ephrem invoked to bring a plague of gnats upon the enemy.

^{page 99 note 2} Roman numerals, in particular, are a source of error. And for Bickell's edition of Carmina Nisibena, the pagination quoted is sometimes that of the Syriac text, sometimes that of the Latin version, without indication: while for this reviewer, at least, a repeated reference (77, n. 5; 192, n. 3) to ‘p. 7, 16’ of this work, retains its secret.