[19] Chapter IV. C. 3. Compare, in the same volume of MGH, _Refulget omnis luce mundus aurea_ (137); in volume III, _O tu qui servas armis ista mœnia_ (703, late eighth century); in AH 51: 121, _Adnue, Christe, sæculorum Domine_; and, in Duemmler’s _Rhythmorum eccl. ævi carolini specimen_ (Berlin, 1881), _Audi me deus, peccatorem nimium_ (6), and _Agnus et leo, mitis et terribilis_ (12). These instances taken together seem to me to make against W. Meyer’s different reading (_Spanisches zur Geschichte der ältesten mittellateinischen Rythmik_, 111) of the poem below as a “rhythmic pentameter.” [20] Ascribed erroneously to St. Ambrose (_De arte metrica_, Keil VII. 255). For the poem of Boethius, _Heu quam præcipiti mersa profundo_, see above, Chapter IV. A. [21] MGH, _Poet. lat. Carol._ III. 158. So _Vestri tecta nitent luce serena_, III. 169, and others. [22] _Cathemerinon_ v and in the preface to Book I _Contra Symmachum_. The meter is – – – ⏑ ⏑ – – ⏑ ⏑ – ⏑ ⏑. Compare the first ode of Horace. So Paulus Albarus in an acrostic poem on St. Eulogius, _Almi nunc revehit festa polifera_ (MGH, _ibid._, III. 139). Boethius uses the measure with a shorter alternate line (III, _metrum_ viii); and it is otherwise varied, by a shorter line at the end of the stanza, in the eighth-century hymn _Sanctorum meritis inclyta gaudia_ (Britt, 159), and in the ninth-century hymn _Festum nunc celebre magnaque gaudia_ (MGH, _ibid._ II. 249). All these hymns are exceptionally correct in quantities; and the measure, unusual in hymns, may well have been composed metrically. [23] See Traube (in _Philolog. Untersuch. aus dem Mittelalter_, Munich 1891), who associates with it _O admirabile Veneris ydolum_. Cf. Abelard’s _O quanta qualia sunt illa sabbata_. AH. 48: 163. [24] The recollection that Poe wished thus to render the first ode of Horace might well give pause, were it not that Poe, though doubtless an ignoramus in Latin metric, was a poet and was interpreting Horace rhythmically. [25] Godescalc (822-870) is in MGH, _Poet. lat. Carol._ III. 724. [26] AH 50: 220. [27] _Ibid._ 221. [28] _Ibid._ 270, 169. [29] ARP 217. [30] Riming hexameters appear generally, though not always, throughout Ermini: in the Latin _Gesta Apollonii_ versifying the romance of Apollonius of Tyre (113); in Uffing’s _Carmen de sancto Liudgero_ (131); even in the accomplished Hrotsvitha. [31] Ermini xvi, xviii, 43, 74, 110, 111. In the following century, school exercise in prosopopœia is suggested by some of the verse of Baudry de Bourgeuil (1046-1130); e.g., the Ovidian XLII, XLIII, CLIX, CLX, pages 29, 39, 141, 145 in the edition of Phyllis Abrahams, Paris, 1926. [32] Above, Chapter III. B. [33] _Libellus de sancta Trinitate_, cited by Gaskoin, _Alcuin_, 127. [34] Above, Chapter III. A. [35] Book IV; see above, Chapter II. [36] “Erinnert an die Tätigkeit der italienischen Humanisten.” _Manitius_ I. 486.