[9] Bonnet, Le Latin de Gregoire de Tours, pp. 48-76.
[10] Speaking of Jupiter, Mercury, Minerva, Venus, a character in the Vitæ Patrum, XVII, 5, says, Nolite, o viri, nolite eos invocare, non sunt enim dii isti sed dæmones.
[11] Gloria Martyrum, Pref.
[12] Vitæ Patrum, II, Pref.
[15] They are substantially the conclusions of Bonnet in Le Latin de Gregoire de Tours, Paris, 1890.
[16] See p. [247]. In the Arndt and Brusch edition in the Monumenta Germaniæ Historica we have all these titles included. The commentary on the Psalms however is in a fragmentary condition, and the Lives of the Fathers appears as one of eight books of Miracles. The book on Church Services is there entitled Account of the Movements of the Stars as they ought to be observed in performing the Services. It is really a brief astronomical treatise the purpose of which was in the absence of clocks to guide the church services at night.
[17] The list as given by Manitius is as follows: Chronicles of Jerome, Victor, Sulpicius Severus; history of Orosius; church history of Eusebius-Rufinus; life of St. Martin by Sulpicius Severus; letters of Sidonius Apollinaris and Ferreolus; writings of Avitus; histories of Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus and Sulpicius Alexander (not elsewhere known); annals of Arles, Angers, Burgundy. Geschichte der Lateinischen Litteratur des Mittelalters, p. 220.