[981] Cf. Ozanam, Hist. of Civilization, i. 88 ff.

[982] Ep. 22, § 30 ‘Quae enim communicatio lucis ad tenebras? Quid facit cum psalterio Horatius? Cum Evangeliis Maro? Cum Apostolis Cicero?’ His struggles with his passionate love for pagan letters, and the story of the angel in his dream who told him he was a Ciceronian and not a Christian (Migne, xxii. 416) are well known.

[983] Hilar. Pict., Migne, ix. 502.

[984] Aug. Confess. i. 16; Migne, Pat. Lat. lxxxiii. 685.

[985]

Non vitium nostrum est? Paulo et Salamone relicto

quod Maro cantatur Phoenissae et Naso Corinnae,

quod plausum accipiunt lyra Flacci aut scena Terenti?

nos horum, nos causa sumus: nos turpiter istis

nutrimenta damus flammis.—Migne, lxi. 970.