[946] _Euchar._, p. 395. Cf. p. 396 ‘Sic dum me concinnationis superfluae in rhetoricis et poeticis campis lepos agitaret, a vera sapientia mentitam secutus abscesseram, nihil cupiens nisi auris vanae laudationis adsurgere’. [947] Migne, x. 577. [948] Cf. Watson, _Hilary of Poitiers_, Intro. xxviii (Nicene and post-Nicene Fathers). [949] Cf. Constant. 11 ‘At nunc fructus operum tuorum, lupe rapax, audi ... Levius te putas, sceleste, Iudaeorum impietate peccasse?’ § 25 ‘O tu sceleste, qui ludibrium de Ecclesia facis’, &c. [950] Cf. e.g. § 12 _de Seleuciae Synodo_. [951] _Vita Hilarii_ (by Honoratus), Migne, _Pat. Lat._ l. 1231. [952] Ibid. ‘non doctrinam, non eloquentiam, sed nescio quid super homines consecutum’. [953] _Chronologia Lerinensis_, i. 33. [954] Hom. I. [955] Hom. XX. [956] Hom. XIII. [957] Hom. XIII. [958] Hom. XIV. [959] _de Idol._ x. [960] Matt. xii. 34-7; Mark xiii. 11. Cf. Glover, _The Jesus of History_, p. 83. [961] 1 Cor. i. 17. [962] Cf. Salvian, _De Gubern. Dei, praef._ 3 ‘rerum magis quam verborum amatores’. Cassian, _Instit., praef._ 3 ‘me quoque elinguem et pauperem sermone et scientia ... quamvis imperito digeram stilo’. _Vita Caesar._, _praef._ 2 ‘quod stylus noster videtur pompa verborum et cautela artis grammaticae destitutus’. [963] _Ep._ vii. 2. 1. [964] _Ep._ viii. 16. 3. [965] Cf. Sym. _Ep._ vii. 9 ‘ingeniorum varietas in familiaribus scriptis neglegentiam quandam debet imitari’. [966] _Institut. Divin._ i. 1. 10. [967] e.g. _Ep._ ii. 8; vii. 17. Cf. Le Blant, _Nouveau recueil_, No. 311 (fifth cent.) and 441. [968] Le Blant, _Inscrip. chrét. de la Gaule_, No. 215. Cf. No. 256. [969] ‘Sanctus Hilarius Gallico cothurno attollitur et quum Graeciae floribus adornetur longis interdum periodis involvitur, et lectione simplicium fratrum procul est’, Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxii. 585; _Ep._ 58. Cf. ibid. 395 ‘Nulla est in hoc libello adulatio ... nulla erit rhetorici pompa sermonis’; and ibid. 459 ‘Sint alii diserti ... mihi sufficit sic loqui ut intelligar’. [970] _De vita contempl._ xxiii. [971] _Ep._ 52. 8; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxii. 534. [972] _Dialog._ i. 27. [973] Appendix, Augustine, _Serm._ 10; Migne, xxxix. Cf. Aug. _in Psalm._ 36. _Serm._ 3. 6 ‘melius in barbarismo nostro vos intellegitis quam in nostra disertitudine vos diserti estis’. [974] Cf. Sid. _Ep._ iv. 16; v. 15; _Carm._ xi. [975] Ruric. i. 4. [976] ii. 18. [977] ii. 38. [978] Jerome, _Ep._ xxii (Migne, _Pat. Lat._ xxii. 416) ‘Si quando ... prophetas legere coepissem, sermo horrebat incultus’. [979] _Vita Martini_, i. [980] Ibid. [981] Cf. Ozanam, _Hist. of Civilization_, i. 88 ff. [982] _Ep._ 22, § 30 ‘Quae enim communicatio lucis ad tenebras? Quid facit cum psalterio Horatius? Cum Evangeliis Maro? Cum Apostolis Cicero?’ His struggles with his passionate love for pagan letters, and the story of the angel in his dream who told him he was a Ciceronian and not a Christian (Migne, xxii. 416) are well known.