Porgere praecipiat, fors et utrumque volet;
Quo melius doceat, melius sua fistula cantet,
Si doctrinalis pectoris antra riget.
If he bids bring forth cups of thy liquor, O Bacchus, or cups of the liquor of corn, and perhaps takes both; it is that he may teach the better, the better may sing his stave, if he moistens the recesses of his instructive breast.
[67] “Celebrabat omni die missarum solemnia multa.”
[68] Based on Isa. xxii. 22.
[70] The biographer here passes in a telling manner to the present tense.
[71] Again the use of Alcuin’s baptismal name at a critical point.
[72] This is one of the endless number of cases in which it is made quite clear that the original attraction to Rome was not the asserted bishopric of Peter, but the fact of the tombs of Peter and Paul. The cult of these two chiefs, princes of the Apostles, was the source of the reputation of Rome. See [Appendix D].