[15]: Geschichte der christlich-lateinischen Literatur.
[16]: When one thinks of Sappho, Simonides, Theocritus, Meleager, Catullus, Ovid, and Horace, it cannot be denied that this is true of Greek and Roman lyric.
[17]: As in the Homeric time, when each sphere of Nature was held to be subject to and under the influence of its special deity. But it cannot be admitted that metaphor was freer and bolder in the hymns; on the contrary, it was very limited and monotonous.
[18]: In Cathemerinon.
[19]: Comp. fragrant gardens of Paradise, Hymn 3.
In Hamartigenia he says that the evil and ugly in Nature originates in the devil.
[20]: Ebert.
[21]: The Robinsonade of the hermit Bonosus upon a rocky island is interesting.
[22]: Comp. Biese, op. cit.
[23]: Comp. ad Paulinum, epist. 19, Monum. German. v. 2.