[3] Donatus was Jerome’s teacher. His name grew into a proverb, insomuch that an elementary treatise of any sort might in the fourteenth century be called a “donat.” Priscian was a contemporary of Boethius. His grammar was epitomised by Rabanus Maurus in the ninth century.
[4] Other Latin poets who touched this subject are—Ovid, “Metam.,” xv., 402; Martial, “Epigrams,” v., 7; Claudian’s First Idyll, a poem of 110 hexameters, is entirely devoted to it.
[5] Clemens Romanus; Tertullian, “De Resurrectione Carnis,” c. 13. See Adolf Ebert, “Christlich-Laternische Literatur,” vol. i., p. 95.
[6] Siever’s “Der Heliand,” p. 18, and references: Guizot, “Histoire de la Civilisation en France,” 18e Leçon.
[7] For the Latin text, and the bibliography, there is an admirable little edition by Peiper, Lipsiæ, 1871.
[8] R. A. Lipsius, “Die Apokryphen Apostelgeschichten und Apostellegenden,” Braunschweig, 1883, p. 170.
[9] Bede’s “Ecclesiastical History,” iii., 18.
[10] It was destroyed by the Calvinists in 1562.
CHAPTER II.
THE MATERIALS.