[2154] Thus even Lauchert (1899), p. 105, admits that Bartholomew of England, the thirteenth century Latin encyclopedist, cites Physiologus for much which does not come from Physiologus.
[2155] Goldstaub (1899-1901), p. 341.
[2156] This and the preceding quotations in the paragraph are from Mâle (1913), pp. 48, 35, 49, 45.
[2157] Goldstaub (1899-1901), pp. 350-1. The same statement could be made with equal truth of Vincent of Beauvais and Bartholomew of England.
[2158] Hommel (1877), pp. xii, xv.
[2159] Duhem, II (1914), 314, seems to me to have overestimated the significance of Confessions, V, 5, and De Genesi ad litteram, I, 19, in saying, “L’assurance avec laquelle les Basile, les Grégoire de Nysse, les Ambroise, les Jean Chrysostome opposaient aux enseignements de la Physique profane les naïves assertions de leur science puérile contristait fort l’Évêque de Hippone.” There is nothing, I think, to indicate that Augustine had these men or men of their stamp in mind, and I doubt if his scientific attainments were superior to Basil’s.
[2160] De consensu Evangelistarum, I, 11; in Migne, PL 34, 1049-50.
[2161] Ibid., I, 9-10.
[2162] De civitate Dei, X, 9; PL vol. 41.
[2163] Ibid., VII, 34-35; and see Arnobius, Against the Heathen, V, 1, for Augustine’s probable source.