Sillogizzo invidiosi veri.—Parad. x. 136.
[157] Pertz, Monumenta Germanica, tom. iv. 39.
[158] Chron. Clun. ap. Bib. Clun. 1645.
[159] It may be taken as tolerably well proved, however, that he was really an Irishman, and he is supposed to have been a monk of Clonard. Contemporary with him was another famous Irish historian, Tigernach, abbot of Clonmacnoise, who wrote his chronicle partly in Irish and partly in Latin, and is held to have been well acquainted with Greek. The Irish scholars highly distinguished themselves in this century. There was an Irish monastery at Erford, and another at Cologne, into which Helias, a monk of Monaghan, on returning from a visit to Rome, introduced the Roman chant (Lanigan, Ecc. Hist. c. xxiv.)
[160] Histoire Lit. tom. vii. 58, and tom. ix. 149. The same authority makes mention of other translations in French of the Four Gospels, the Epistles of St. Paul, the Psalms, and some books of the Old Testament, all made in the diocese of Metz in the twelfth century.
[161] Sicut rectus ordo exigit ut profunda Christianæ fidei credamus, priusquam ea præsumamus ratione discutere; ita negligentia mihi videtur si postquam confirmati sumus in fide, non studemus quod credimus intelligere. Opp. S. Anselm, de Fide Trinitatis et de Incarn. Prœf. et Cur Deus homo? c. i. et 2.
[162] Abelard is classed by John of Salisbury as belonging to the sect of the Nominalists. (De Nugis Curialium, 7, 12. Metalog. 2, 17.) His followers, however, disliked the name, and he is more commonly described as a Conceptualist.
[163] Jo. Saris. Ep. xxiv.
[164] A certain enemy of the poets in the days of Virgil.
[165] Except indeed we reckon St. Anselm as the first of the schoolmen. But though this would be, strictly speaking, correct, the formation of Scholastic Theology as a distinct science is not generally spoken of before the time of Peter Lombard.