[184] Cf. Hertzen et Rossi Inscriptiones Urbis Romæ Latinæ, p. 1245, No. 9478, Berlin, 1882.
[185] "Non mihi si linguæ centum, oraque centum, ferrea vox ... omnia morborum percurrere nomina possim quæ Fabiola in tanta miserorum refregeria commutavit ut multi pauperum sani languentibus inviderent." Epistola ad Oceanum.
[186] Hæc inter timidam revocat clamore puellam Alpharides, veniens quæ saucia quæque ligavit.
—Ekkehardi Primi Waltharius, Berlin, 1873.
[187] That the Germans, at the time under discussion, regarded learning as having an effeminating effect on men is well illustrated by the following characteristic anecdote: "when Amasvintha, a very learned woman who was a daughter of the Ostrogoth King, Theodoric, selected three masters for the instruction of her son, the people became indignant. 'Theodoric,' they exclaimed, 'never sent the children of the Goths to school, learning making a woman of a man and rendering him timorous. The saber and the lance are sufficient for him.'" Procopius, De Bello Gothico, I, 2, Leipsic, 1905.
If we may judge by a letter from Pace to Dean Colet, the noted classical scholar and founder of St. Paul's school in London, such views found acceptance in England as late as the time of More and Erasmus. For we are told of a British parent who expressed his opinion on the education of men in these words: "I swear by God's body I'd rather that my son should hang than study letters. The study of letters should be left to rustics."
[188] This work was for a long time regarded as lost, but a manuscript copy was recently found in Copenhagen, and it has since been published by Teubner of Leipsic, under the title of Hildegard's Causæ et Curæ.
[189] Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, Band 18, p. 286, Berlin.
[190] S. Hildegardis Opera Omnia, Ed. Migne, p. 1122, Paris, 1882.
[191] "In the municipal and state institutions of this period the beautiful gardens, roomy halls and springs of water of the old cloistral hospital of the Middle Ages were not heard of, still less the comforts of their friendly interiors." A History of Nursing, Vol. I, p. 500, M. Adelaide Nutting and Lavinia L. Dock, New York, 1907.