[268] The Monks of the West, v. 105. He quotes Mabillon, Traité, i. 13, 14.
[269] Ibid., p. 108. Montalembert adds Arabic, but this would be an anachronism for our period. He quotes Bede, Hist. Eccl. iv. 2 (sixth cent., but true of our period also) ‘Litteris sacris simul et saecularibus abundanter ambo erant instructi ... ita ut etiam metricae artis astronomiae et arithmeticae ecclesiasticae disciplinam inter sacrorum apicum (writings) volumina suis auditoribus contraderent.’
[270] Ep. 120 and 121.
[271] Ep. 107.
[272] Reg. ad Monachos, Migne, Pat. Lat. lxvii. 1100, rule xiv.
[273] e.g. Augustine on Pelagianism, and Pomerius on the nature of the soul. Kaufmann, Rhetoren und Kloster-Schulen, p. 56.
[274] Migne, Pat. Lat. l. 773.
[275] Cf. Salonius’s exposition of the Proverbs to Veranius, and the letters of Jerome.
[276] Cf. Life of Martin, 1.
[277] Cf. Sulpic. Sever. Dial. i. 23.