The Latin Rhetoricians 345 Rutilius Lupus, &c. 346 Curius Fortunatianus: his Catechism 346 Marius Victorinus on Cicero 348 Others 349 Martianus Capella 349 INTERCHAPTER II. 355 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOK III. MEDIÆVAL CRITICISM. CHAPTER I. BEFORE DANTE. Characteristics of mediæval literature 372 Its attitude to criticism 373 Importance of prosody 373 The early formal Rhetorics—Bede 374 Isidore 375 Alcuin(?) 375 Another track of inquiry 377 St Augustine a Professor of Rhetoric 377 His attitude to literature before and after his conversion 378 Analysis of the _Confessions_ from this point of view 378 A conclusion from this to the general patristic view of 380 literature Sidonius Apollinaris 383 His elaborate epithet-comparison 385 And minute criticisms of style and metre 386 A deliberate critique 388 Cassiodorus 389