[213] It may be helpful to remember that the abbey was originally outside the ancient Roman city, and its district was called Martinopolis. The ancient Gallican bishoprics were bishoprics of cities rather than of dioceses in our wide sense of the word. This may conceivably have a bearing on the curious question raised by Hadrian. [214] See my _Constitution of French Chapters_, Proceedings of St. Paul’s Ecclesiological Society, Vol. III, 1895. [215] Micah v. 5, 6. [216] James ii. 13. [217] We know from other sources that this “&c.” meant Most Serene Augustus, crowned by God, great peace-making Emperor, Governor of the Roman Empire, by the mercy of God King of the Franks and of the Lombards. [218] The emperor irresistibly reminds us of the Eton master and the boy who complained that his name was not that called for punishment:— Sive tu mavis Bōsănquet vocari Sive Bōsănquet, Te vapulabo. [219] That is, Theodulfus, the Bishop of Orleans. [220] Romans xiv. 4. [221] 1 Kings xx. 42. [222] This refers, no doubt, to the immunity of St. Martin’s from the intervention of the Archbishop. [223] _Eulogias._ Wattenbach and Dümmler gloss this _cibos_. From its original meaning of the consecrated wafer it came to mean the _pain benit_, then any present, and then a salutation. There is no clue to its special meaning here. [224] The character of the Latin verse may be gathered from the closing words of this hexameter, _est non laudabile cui nil_. [225] In another poem Theodulf begs Queen Luitgard to send him some oil of balsam, to enable him to compose and consecrate cream for chrism. We must suppose that Luitgard had some special connexion with ports to which balsams were brought. Balsameum regina mihi transmitte liquorem, Quo bene per populos chrismatis unguen eat. Inde seges crescet tibimet mercedis opimae Christicolum nomen cum dabit unguen idem. [226] See p. 33. [227] That is, a summary, epitome; not as yet a service-book. [228] Ps. lxx. 14. The Vulgate, which Alcuin quotes, has more point for his present purpose, _adiiciam super omnem laudem tuam_, “I will add Thy praise above all praise.” [229] Exod. xxiii. 8. Alcuin reads _corda sapientium_ where the Vulgate has _prudentes_. [230] The letter was written in Lent. Easter day in 800 was April 19. [231] These were Gisla, Charlemagne’s sister, and Rodtruda, his daughter; see also p. 253. [232] Adapted from chapters i and ii of Solomon’s Song. [233] Nomine pandecten proprio vocitare memento Hoc corpus sacrum, lector, in ore tuo. Quid nunc a multis constat bibliotheca dictum Nomine non proprio, ut lingua pelasga probat.