The letters of Loup are in MGH (_Epist._ VI, Pars Prior, ed. Duemmler, 1900). See also Levillain, _Étude sur les lettres de Loup de Ferrières_, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes 72 (1901): 445-509; 73 (1902): 69-118, 289-330, 537-586. [37] _Epist._ 62, to Altsig about 849: “Quintiliani institutionum oratoriarum libros xii.” Cf. _Epist._ 103, to Benedict III. [38] _Epist._ 1, to Einhard: “Tullii de rhetorica liber ... eiusdem auctoris de rhetorica tres libri in disputatione ac dialogo de oratore.” The latter is unmistakable. It is sufficient evidence even if the “Tullium de oratore” of _Epist._ 103 be regarded as uncertain. [39] The misapplication, very common later (see the index), seems to be intended by Walter of Speier. Præterea triplicis succincta veste coloris Omnibus excellens docuit nos musa Maronis. _Vita et Passio Sancti Christophori_ I. 104. For the “three styles” see ARP 56, 57-59, 228; and above, 56, 67. [40] In _Memorials of St. Edmund’s Abbey_, ed. T. Arnold (Rolls Series, 96), I. 22. See the references to Abbo in G. H. Gerould’s _Abbot Ælfric’s rhythmic prose_, Modern Philology 22 (May, 1925): 352-366; and, for the prose of Loup de Ferrières, W. Meyer, _De clausula in Lupi epistolis rhythmica_, Gött. gelehrt. Anzeig., 1893, page 22. [41] E.g., Summæ sanctitatis, scientiæ, pietatis et ordinis culmine sublimato domino.... Nunc ergo puerum istum, viscera mea, filium consobrinæ meæ, solam et maximam curam meam, commendo quibus estis plenissimi visceribus misericordiæ vestræ, ut vestram vitam et vos ‘primis miretur ab annis,’ mansuetudinem vigore decoratam, doctrinam operibus commendatam, austeritatem dulcedine temperatam, taciturnitatem modestam, locutionem utilem vel necessariam, victus et somni parcitatem, mediocritatem vestitus, ieiuniorum et orationum per dies et noctes instantiam, largitionem elemosinarum, susceptionem hospitum, solamen lugentium, peregrinis et egentibus, plebibus et clero, monachis et virginibus, viduis et orphanis, comitibus et regibus, servis et liberis, coniugibus et continentibus, mediocribus et maximis, Iudæis et gentilibus vos unum omnia perdiscat effectum. Quod si aliquid apud vos, ubi omnes proficiunt, doctrinæ morumque profectus, Deo largiente, ceperit, debitorem vobis de eo Christum facitis, qui eum talem educaveritis, ut non solum sibi, sed et aliis possit utilitati fieri. MGH, Legum sectio v, formulæ, 409 (Collectio Sangallensis Salomonis III tempore). For prose rhythm in medieval letters see below, Chapter VIII. C. [42] The poetic of Irish epic during this period is more difficult to determine. From the existing forms, which are later, we may divine that its conceptions were at once mythical and romantic, and that its incidental verse—its main course was in prose—had already an elaborate technic.