[251] Written from Rome; not preserved.
[252] Leo III.
[253] See [p. 281 note].
[255] There were two monasteries with this dedication. One of these, Iuvavense, was at Salzburg, and probably it is the one to which reference is made.
[257] It is probable that he was called Cuckoo from the refrain of some favourite song of his. The Teutonic name for the “bird of spring” was not a likely personal name, any more than cuckoo is with us.
[258] See also Epistle 186 in [Appendix A].
[259] Here, and in Ep. 108, to Arno, Alcuin combines two phrases from the Song of Solomon, v. 7 and 8: “The watchmen have wounded me,” “I am sick of love.” In the letter to Arno he appears to quote the actual words of a text in his possession: vulnerata karitate ego sum; in the present letter he writes caritatis calamo vulneratus sum. The Vulgate has vulneraverunt me—amore langueo. See [p. 275].
[260] Eginhart in his life of Karl (ch. 25) states that the king studied grammar under Peter of Pisa, an aged deacon.