[254] _Chronicon_ (Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxvii. 687) ‘A.D. 358 Alcimus et Delphidius rhetores in Aquitania florentissime docent’, and in the same year ‘Minervius Burdigalensis rhetor Romae florentissime docet’. [255] _Ep._ 125. 6. [256] Ebert, _Gesch. des Mittelalters_, p. 365, ‘der offenbar mit vielem Erfolg die noch immer hervorragenden Schulen seiner Heimath besucht hatte’. [257] _Ep._ v. 5. 1 (Oxford Trans. by O. M. Dalton). [258] ‘Quae ille propositionibus aenigmata, sententiis schemata, versibus commata, digitis mechanemata fecit!’ _Ep._ i. 9. 1. [259] _Ep._ i. 11. 11. [260] _Ep._ ii. 1. 2. [261] _Ep._ iii. 3. 2 ‘nunc etiam Camenalibus modis imbuebatur’. [262] Cf. Fauriel, _Hist. de la Gaule_, i. 407: ‘Dans ce siècle (5ᵉ) comme aux précédents, les Gallo-Romains cultivèrent toutes les branches du savoir et du génie romains.’ [263] Mayor, _Latin Heptateuch_, p. liv. [264] Cf. Jerome, _Ep._ 83. [265] _Ep._ ii. 8. 2; ii. 10. 3; iii. 12. 5, &c. [266] _Ep._ iv. 8. 4. [267] _Ep._ ii. 10. 5. [268] _The Monks of the West_, v. 105. He quotes Mabillon, _Traité_, i. 13, 14. [269] Ibid., p. 108. Montalembert adds Arabic, but this would be an anachronism for our period. He quotes Bede, _Hist. Eccl._ iv. 2 (sixth cent., but true of our period also) ‘Litteris sacris simul et saecularibus abundanter ambo erant instructi ... ita ut etiam metricae artis astronomiae et arithmeticae ecclesiasticae disciplinam inter sacrorum apicum (_writings_) volumina suis auditoribus contraderent.’ [270] _Ep._ 120 and 121. [271] _Ep._ 107. [272] _Reg. ad Monachos_, Migne, _Pat. Lat._ lxvii. 1100, rule xiv. [273] e.g. Augustine on Pelagianism, and Pomerius on the nature of the soul. Kaufmann, _Rhetoren und Kloster-Schulen_, p. 56. [274] Migne, _Pat. Lat._ l. 773. [275] Cf. Salonius’s exposition of the Proverbs to Veranius, and the letters of Jerome. [276] Cf. _Life of Martin_, 1. [277] Cf. Sulpic. Sever. _Dial._ i. 23. [278] Cf. Meyer, _Die Legende des heiligen Albanus_, p. 5, on the hagiographical literature of the early Church: ‘Die glänzenden Gedanken und die glänzende Darstellung der Cecilialegende entspricht der feinen Kultur Roms im 5. Jahrhundert.’ [279] _C. I. L._ xii. 1921 (_grammati_ probably = γραμματεῖ). [280] _C. I. L._ xii. 2039. [281] Boissieu, _Inscrip. de Lyon_, p. 548. [282] _Ep._ v. 17. [283] Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxvii. 687. [284] ‘Sed dum cogito me hominem Gallum inter Aquitanos verba facturum, vereor ne offendat vestras nimium urbanas aures sermo rusticior’, _Dial._ i. 27. [285] _De Gub. Dei_, vii. 8 ‘Aquitanos ... medullam fere omnium Galliarum’. [286] _Ep._ ix. 44 (ed. Seeck). [287] _Prof._ xx. [288] _Ep._ xi (Iculisma). [289] _Prof._ x. [290] _Epigr._ x. [291] _Parent._ iii. [292] Cf. Jullian, _Rev. internat. de l’Enseignement_, pp. 24 ff. [293] Strabo, iv. 190. [294] Jung, _Roman. Landschaften_, p. 231. [295] Jullian, _Hist. de Bordeaux_, p. 42. [296] _Rev. internat. de l’Enseignement_, 1893, pp. 25 ff.