Poesis, 224. Grammatical famulans subit ingeniosa Poesis, 253. [20] Viribus apta suis pueris ut lectio detur, Auctores tenero fac ut ab ore legas. 599. The following titles, which are sometimes given allusively, are indicated in F. [21] For this medieval textbook see Hamilton (G. L.) in Modern Philol. VII (1909), 169-185. The work, which is of the middle of the ninth century, is assigned by Manitius (I. 570) to Godescalc, as the name suggests. It is called an eclogue because of the matching of pagan with Christian instances between Pseustis and Alethia, with final appeal to Phronesis. John of Salisbury alludes to it, _Metalogicus_, 859 C. [22] These items appear also in the later schoolbooks known as _Auctores_ (_Autores_, _Actores_) _octo_. The one used at Troyes in 1436 contained: a Cathonet, a Théodolet, a Facet (_Facetus_), _Carmen de contemptu mundi_, Matthew’s _Tobias_, Alain’s _Parabolæ_, an Ysopet, and a Fleuret (_Floretus_), and added Sulpicius of Veroli’s _De moribus puerorum_ (Carré, _L’enseignement secondaire à Troyes ..._ Paris, 1888, page 20). Cf. Paetow’s ed. of Henri d’Andeli, 16, 37, 53. The same contents, with some variations of order, appear in two sixteenth-century _Autores_ printed at Lyon. See also Haskins, 131. [23] For the three styles of ancient rhetoric, see ARP 56, 57-59, 228; for St. Augustine’s application, above, page 68; for the transfer to poetic, Geoffrey’s prose treatise II. 145 (F 312), John’s _Rota Virgili_ below, page 192, and Walter of Speier above, page 144. [24] Bernard Silvester is one more reminder of _dictamen_. [25] _Ars versificatoria_ II. 43 (F 166). [26] For instance, the pattern of the _Hora novissima_, below, page 199. [27] I am unable to follow always the classification in F. [28] _Dictamen_, however (for which see below, Chapter VIII), is in the background of all these manuals. The title is _Poetria magistri Johannis anglici de arte prosayca metrica et rithmica_. [29] Chapter I. [30] The numbers refer to the pages of Mari’s edition in Romanische Forschungen XIII. [31] Matthew begins with the same topics, but without the perverted ancient terms. [32] Reproduced in F. 87. Vergil exemplifies _genus tenue_ in the _Bucolics_, _medium_ in the _Georgics_, _grande_ in the _Æneid_. [33] For the ancient _narratio_ see the index to ARP. [34] See above, page 131. [35] _Trésor_ III, part I. ii and xxxvii; Chabaille 471 and 518. [36] See the section on Brunetto Latini, D. 4 of the preceding chapter. It is noticeable that he too is preoccupied with _dictamen_. For the elementary exercises _fabula_, _historia_, _argumentum_, see the tabular view of Quintilian in ARP 64, compare the section on Hermogenes in Chapter I above, and consult the index to this volume.