[56] Carmina.
[57] Commonitorium.
[58] Propter acrimoniam et facundiam.
[59] “Omni Deum desideranti necessarias.”
[60] Tacitus, Agricola, c. 24.
[61] It is clear from his own confession that Britain (Brittaniae) was his native country (patria); but Britain then included Scotland.
[62] He became familiar with the Irish language, but it was, as he himself implies, at the expense of the vernacular, which in his case was the provincial Latin, a corrupt dialect.
[63] Legends of St. Patrick, by Aubrey de Vere.
[64] This is manifest from the Confession—Et iterum post paucos annos eram in Britannis cum parentibus meis.
[65] The Tripartite says that “Caelestinus, Abbot of Rome, read Orders over Patrick,” and the Scholiast on Fiacc’s Hymn, says that Germanus said, “Go to Caelestinus that he may confer Orders upon thee, for he is proper to confer them.”—Stoles’ Edition, vol. ii., 419.