trahebat sanguinem.

(_Confessiones_, vi, 15.)

M. Bertrand translates:--

Quand on arracha de mes flancs, sous pretexte qu'elle empechait mon
mariage, celle avec qui j'avais coutume de dormir, depuis si longtemps,
la ou mon coeur etait attache au sien, il se dechira, et je trainais
mon sang avec ma blessure.

Canon Bigg's version is:--

My mistress was torn from my side as an obstacle to my marriage, and my
heart, which clung to her, was torn and wounded till it bled.

In this place, it will be observed that Dr. Bigg does not emphasize the
word _ubi_ which, as the reader will find on turning to page 185 of this
volume, M. Bertrand thinks so significant.

The remaining English versions of the writings of Saint Augustin and of the
other Latin authors quoted are my own, except the passages from _The City
of God_, including the verse translation of Persius, which are taken,
with some necessary alterations, from the Seventeenth century translation
ascribed to John Healey.

V. O'S.