[983] Hilar. Pict., Migne, ix. 502. [984] Aug. _Confess._ i. 16; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ lxxxiii. 685. [985] Non vitium nostrum est? Paulo et Salamone relicto quod Maro cantatur Phoenissae et Naso Corinnae, quod plausum accipiunt lyra Flacci aut scena Terenti? nos horum, nos causa sumus: nos turpiter istis nutrimenta damus flammis.—Migne, lxi. 970. [986] Nunc alia mentem vis agit, maior deus ... vacare vanis, otio aut negotio, et fabulosis litteris vetat....—_Ep._ xxxi. 29 ff. [987] Ibid. 37 ff. [988] See Ozanam, _op. cit._, i. 87 ff. [989] Pacatus, _Pan. on Theod._, § 42, A.D. 389. [990] Cf. vii. 13; vi. 3, 9; v. 13; ix. 10, 16, 20, &c. [991] _Pro Saltatoribus_, 18, Libanius, ed. Foerster. [992] Cf. Keil, _Gram. Lat._, _passim_. The authority, not the truth, of a dogma is the main point to the grammarian. [993] e.g. Macrobius’s _Saturnalia_ is an example of what a youth’s education should be. All kinds of subjects are treated, but Christianity is not once mentioned. Symmachus and Capella, both representative of culture in their day, are silent about Christianity. There was always the suspicion, even between two contending Christians, that the other might not have had the rhetorical or philosophical training necessary for argument. Cf. Jerome to Vigilantius: ‘Scilicet et gloriari cupis ... me non potuisse respondere eloquentiae tuae et acumen in te Chrysippi formidasse’ (Migne, xxii. 604). [994] _De Reditu_, i. 440. [995] Ibid. 443. [996] Ibid. 521. [997] _Ep._ lxi. 3; _Ep._ 1. 2. [998] _Ep._ lii. 9. Cf. _Ep._ lvii. 12 ‘qui sermone se dicit imitari apostolos, prius imitetur in vita’. [999] ‘Sancta rusticitas solum sibi prodest et, quantum aedificat ex vitae merito ecclesiam Christi, tantum nocet si destruentibus non resistat’, _Ep._ liii. 3. [1000] Rocafort, _De Paul. Pell. vita et carm._, p. 75. Cf. Ozanam, _Hist. of Civilization in Fifth Cent._, i. 233. [1001] Sedul. _Carm. Pasch._, Dedicatio, Migne, xix. 538. [1002] Socrates, _Hist. Eccles._ iii. 16; Migne, _Pat. Graeca_, lxvii. 418; Sozomen, v. 18; Migne, _Pat. Graeca_, lxvii. 1270. [1003] _De Gallorum oratorio ingenio_, 93. [1004] _Ep._ xxxi. 22 ff. [1005] ‘Cumque in primis partibus vincas alios, in penultimis te ipsum superas ... et cum Tulliana luceat (_sc._ genus eloquii) puritate, crebrum est in sententiis’, _Ep._ lviii, Migne xxii. 584. [1006] e.g. Jerome made his monks copy Cicero. [1007] Ozanam, _op. cit._, i. 27. Cf. his plea for using the pagan writings, _Ep._ lxx, Migne xxii. 665 ‘Quis enim ignorat et in Moyse et in Prophetarum voluminibus quaedam assumpta de Gentilium libris’. [1008] Cf. the fifth-century compilation ‘collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum’. [1009] _Kloster- u. Rhetorenschulen_, p. 54. [1010] _Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum_, vol. viii, p. 840. _Homiliae_, 20 ‘negociatores, qui cum litteras non noverint, requirunt sibi mercenarios litteratos’. [1011] Sid. _Ep._ iv. 25. [1012] _Ep._ vii. 9.