[1058] _Inst._ i. 1. 30. He protests against a hurried introduction of reading or writing. [1059] ‘Qui autem ad huiusmodi provehitur gradum, iste erit doctrina et libris imbutus, sensuumque ac verborum scientia perornatus’, _De Eccl. Offic._ ii. 11. 2; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ lxxxiii. 791. [1060] ‘Lector cum ordinatur, faciat de illo verbum episcopus ad plebem, indicans eius fidem ac vitam atque ingenium. Post haec, spectante plebe, tradat ei codicem de quo lecturus est, dicens ad eum: Accipe, et esto verbi Dei relator, habiturus, si fideliter et utiliter impleveris officium, partem cum eis qui verbum Dei ministraverunt’, Migne, _op. cit._ lxxxiv. 201. [1061] _De Felice_, iv. 108. [1062] Boissieu, _Inscrip. de Lyon_, p. 584. [1063] _Instit._ i. 1. 27. [1064] _Ep._ cvii. 4. [1065] Denk, _op. cit._, quotes Mabillon, _An._ i. 352. [1066] _Life of Martin_, x. [1067] Ibid. [1068] _Regula ad Virgines_, Migne, lxvii. 1109. [1069] Bolland, _Acta Sanctorum, August._ 11, p. 657. [1070] These _acta_ were originally _acta proconsularia_, i.e. the official record of proceedings at the trials of Christian martyrs. Sometimes the Christians themselves would make notes on the trial, sometimes they would purchase from the clerks copies of the official report. Having obtained an account in either of these ways they usually embroidered the facts with mystic and visionary embellishments. For two examples of the original official protocols see Hardy, _Studies in Roman History_, p. 151. [1071] Cf. Watson, _Hilary of Poitiers_, Intro. xl. Origen is a case in point. [1072] Adopting the emendation of Salinas. [1073] _Vita Hilarii_, Migne, l. 1232. [1074] ‘Apposito notario, cogebat (_sc._ me Ausonius) loqui quae velociter edita velox consequeretur manus ...’, _Ep._ cxviii. [1075] _Ep._ cxviii. [1076] _Peristeph. Hymn._ ix. 21-4; Migne, lx. 434. [1077] _Ep._ v. 15. [1078] _Ep._ ix. 7. 1. [1079] Cassian, _Inst._ iv. 17; Caesarius, _ad Monachos_ 49, _ad Virgines_ 16. [1080] ‘De loquela per gestum digitorum et temporum ratione’. Cf. p. 59. [1081] _De artibus Donati_, 4. [1082] Cantor, _Ueber die Gesch. der Mathematik_, i. 450. [1083] Alcuin, _Ep._ 103, _De comparatione numerorum Veteris et Novi Testamenti_; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ c. 476. An example of the strained way in which the comparison was worked out is the following: ‘Quatuor eunt elementa quibus mundi ornatus maxime constat. Quatuor sunt virtutes quibus minor mundus, id est, homo ornari debet.’ [1084] Cf., besides the case already quoted, ii. 135, ‘viguit in Grammaticae artis disciplinis rationalibus ac dialecticorum praedicamentorum argumentis exilibus et Aristotelicis definitionibus, nec non Rhetoricorum protelationibus’, and ii. 328. Aygulpus is instructed at Blesium in ‘Grammatica, Rhetorica, Dialectica omniumque scientiarum genere’. [1085] Le Blant, _Épigraphie chrétienne en Gaule_, p. 73. [1086] Le Blant, _Nouveau Recueil_, No. 331. [1087] Aus. _Epist._ xxxi.