[30] Vit. S. Mac., cap. 2.
[31] Vita S. Fulgen., cap. i. ap. Surium.
[32] St. Hier., Ep. 96 (aliter 127, ed. Migne), ad Principiam.
[33] Gladstone, Studies on Homer.
[34] The works of Virgil the grammarian have been edited by Cardinal Mai (Auctores classici, tom. v.), who considers that the Toulouse Academy cannot be assigned a later date than the end of the sixth century.
[35] Mabillon, Acta SS. Ben. Præf. Secul. iii. 39.
[36] These are the words of Trithemius, who says that from the very beginning of the order the sons of nobles were educated in the Benedictine monasteries, “non solum in Scripturis Divinis, sed etiam in secularibus litteris.”
[37] In allusion to the waxen tablets then used for writing.
[38] S. Ælred, Vit. S. Nin.
[39] A solis ortus cardine and Hostis Herodes, the latter of which stands in the Roman Breviary under a somewhat altered form. This Sedulius is to be distinguished from Sedulius the younger, who was also of Irish extraction, and was Bishop of Oreta in Spain, in the eighth century.