Transliteration of Latin nonae.
[1] Not the second day, but the second reference point in the Roman calendrical system: in March, July, October, May the ides are on the fifteenth day, the nones the seventh; all besides have two less days for nones and ides.
[2] For the annonae see alpha 2595.
[3] Mid C5 AD. See generally OCD4 Nonnus (p.1020).
[4] In the clause ὁ καὶ τὸν παρθένον Θεολόγον παραφράσας δι’ ἐπῶν, the conjunction καί clearly acts as an ‘additive marker’ (see S.E. Rounge, Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis (Peabody, MA) 337–348; cf. LSJ, s.v., B.2.), that is, "he is the one who also paraphrased the chaste Theologian in epic verse," not just "he is the one who paraphrased ...." But if καί does mean ‘also’, it must hint at other works of Nonnus of Panopolis of which Eustathius of Thessalonica, who added this marginal gloss in Marcianus gr. 448 (coll. 1047), was aware and to which the first part of the Suda's marginal gloss may allude. Perhaps the epithet λογιώτατος, which Eustathius applies to Homer in a note on Book 5 of the Iliad (511.18–19, II, 1.13–14 van der Valk: καὶ δεικνύει οὕτως ὁ λογιώτατος Ὅμηρος, οἷα ὁ λόγος δύναται), and borrows from Herodotus (3.1) in his commentary on Dionysius Periegetes (GGM II, 258.36–38: Λέγει δὲ καὶ Ἡρόδοτος πρώτους ἀνθρώπων Αἰγυπτίους ἐξευρεῖν τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν, καὶ ὅτι τῶν Αἰγυπτίων οἱ Ἡλιουπολῖται λογιώτατοι), refers to the Dionysiaca, the huge and learned poem on Dionysus written by Nonnus.
[5] That is, the Gospel according to John. It refers to Nonnus' Paraphrase of St John's Gospel.