[104] Guibert de Nogent refers to his school studies of Ovid and Virgil’s Eclogues; and Peter de Blois names Suetonius and Q. Curtius, “besides the other books which are commonly used in schools.” For a full and careful enumeration of the class-books used in the monastic schools, see Bahr: Geschichte der Römischen Literatur; and also Prof. Pauly’s Real Encyclopädie der Classischen Alterthumswissenschaft.
[105] Acta SS. Ben. Præf. in Secul. iii.
[106] It is reprinted by Mai, Scrip. Vet. t. iii. p. 251.
[107] Hilduin, abbot of St. Denis in 814, was the chief supporter of this opinion. The letter addressed to him by the Emperor Louis, and his reply, are prefixed to the Areopagitica in Surius. t. v.
[108] Deut. vi. 7.
[109] In the preface to the metrical version of the Bible, executed by command of Louis le Debonnaire, we find the following passage: “Præcepit namque uni de gente Saxonum qui apud suos non ignobilis vates habebatur ut Vetus ac Novum Testamentum in Germanicam Linguam poetice transferre studeret, quatenus non solum litteratis verum etiam illiteratis sacra divinorum præceptorum lectio panderetur.”
[110] Martene: Thesaurus Anec. i. 489.
[111] Vos lumina; vos mea vita ... vos novella plantatio. (Vita Sanctæ Cæsariæ.)
[112] Si qua enim soror, reliquis in templo cantantibus, sonoræ vocis modulatione non congrueret, a pia illa matre objurgata, vel etiam in facie manibus cæsa, toto reliquæ vitæ spatio clara fuit et delectabili voce. (Vita S. Adehildæ: ap. Surium.)
[113] The whole document is to be found in D’Achery’s “Spicilegium,” vol. ii.