[417] Voyage dans le Midi de la France, i. 340.

[418] Parent. iv. 17.

[419] Sid. Ep. iv. 3. 5.

[420] Carm. xxii, Intro.

[421] ‘Cuius collegio vir praefectus non modo musicos quosque, verum etiam geometras arithmeticos et astrologos disserendi arte supervenit, si quidem nullum hoc exactius compertum habere censuerim quid sidera zodiaci obliqua, quid planetarum vaga ... praevaleant’, Carm. xxii, Intro.

[422] Quintil. i. 4. 4 ‘nec si rationem siderum ignoret poetas intelligat’.

[423] Jullian, Rev. internat. de l’Enseignement, 1893, p. 43.

[424] Cf. Auson. Prof. xxvi ‘poeticus stylus’, and the productions of the Panegyrici Latini. The Grammatici Latini, on the other hand, amply illustrate the prosiness of the grammarian.

[425] Cf. Denk, Gallo-fränk. Unterrichts- u. Bildungswesen, p. 133.

[426] Confess. i. 17.