Schools of Gaul in the last century of the Western Empire

by T. J. Haarhoff

[1081] De artibus Donati, 4.

[1082] Cantor, Ueber die Gesch. der Mathematik, i. 450.

[1083] Alcuin, Ep. 103, De comparatione numerorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti; Migne, Pat. Lat. c. 476. An example of the strained way in which the comparison was worked out is the following: ‘Quatuor eunt elementa quibus mundi ornatus maxime constat. Quatuor sunt virtutes quibus minor mundus, id est, homo ornari debet.’

[1084] Cf., besides the case already quoted, ii. 135, ‘viguit in Grammaticae artis disciplinis rationalibus ac dialecticorum praedicamentorum argumentis exilibus et Aristotelicis definitionibus, nec non Rhetoricorum protelationibus’, and ii. 328. Aygulpus is instructed at Blesium in ‘Grammatica, Rhetorica, Dialectica omniumque scientiarum genere’.

[1085] Le Blant, Épigraphie chrétienne en Gaule, p. 73.

[1086] Le Blant, Nouveau Recueil, No. 331.

[1087] Aus. Epist. xxxi.

[1088] Ep. cxviii ad fin. (Migne, xxii. 966).

[1089] For a discussion of his date see Pauly-Wissowa, s.v.

[1090] They were prescribed by the statutes of all the leading mediaeval schools in England, and among their numerous editors were Brinsley (1612) and Hoole (1659). They dealt with Stoic morals, enmity and friendship, adversity and prosperity, avarice and adulation, &c., and were obviously unsuited to young children. Watson, English Grammar Schools to 1660, p. 122, quotes the following as a favourable specimen: