[1088] _Ep._ cxviii _ad fin._ (Migne, xxii. 966). [1089] For a discussion of his date see Pauly-Wissowa, _s.v._ [1090] They were prescribed by the statutes of all the leading mediaeval schools in England, and among their numerous editors were Brinsley (1612) and Hoole (1659). They dealt with Stoic morals, enmity and friendship, adversity and prosperity, avarice and adulation, &c., and were obviously unsuited to young children. Watson, _English Grammar Schools to 1660_, p. 122, quotes the following as a favourable specimen: Cum te quis laudet, iudex tuus esse memento; plus aliis de te, quam tu tibi, credere noli. officium alterius multis narrare memento; atqui aliis cum tu benefeceris, ipse sileto. [1091] _Ep._ x. 3 ‘Eius scripta summam quandam litterarum Gallicarum eo saeculo continent’. He may be the same as the Agricius or Argicius of Ausonius, _Prof._ xvi. 6. [1092] e.g. in Cassian’s _Instituta divin. et secular. litterarum_ and Isidore of Seville’s _Etymologiae_. [1093] Migne, lxxi. 572. [1094] ‘Die Zeitgenossen sprechen von dem Kloster als einer _schola_; von den Mönchen als den _discipuli_; sie bezeichnen damit die religiös-sittliche Erziehung’, _op. cit._, p. 62. [1095] Migne, _Liber Instructionum_, l. 728. [1096] Cf. Migne, _l.c._, l. 775 ff. and 730 ff. [1097] Migne, l. 775 ff. [1098] ‘Properantes ad se de disciplinis saecularibus salutis opifex non refutat, sed ire ad illas quemquam de suo nitore non patitur. Iam si eum mundo subtraxeras, mundi in eo schemata non requiras: erubesco ecclesiastica profitentem ornamentis saecularibus expolire’, _Ep._ ix. 9. (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccles. Lat._ vi. 234.) [1099] _Ad Salonium Prolog._ Migne, l. 773. [1100] Le Blant, _Épigraphie chrétienne_, p. 70. [1101] Harnack says that it was introduced into the West under the cloak of church-doctrine and through the medium of Augustine, _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 568. [1102] _Cod. Theod._ ix. 16. 7 (A.D. 364); 16. 8 ‘cesset mathematicorum tractatus’. Learning and teaching the subject are forbidden on pain of death (370). As late as 409 we find such a law (16. 12). [1103] _Praef. Formulae._ [1104] _Ep._ xiv. l. 17. [1105] _Hist. of Civilization_, i. 402. [1106] Cf. ‘quin hoc idem senserint scriptoque prodiderint Arcippus ... et omnes Pythagorae posteri, quorum videlicet nominum ne dicam sententiarum multitudine, si eadem prodita velim, volumen efficerem’. He had evidently made a special study of the Pythagoreans. [1107] Fauriel, _Hist. de la Gaule_, i. 412. [1108] ‘Anima inditur corpori per numerum et immortalem eandemque incorporalem convenientiam’, _De Statu animae_, ii. 7. [1109] _Ep._ iv. 11. [1110] _Ep._ ix. 9. 13. [1111] Cf. _Ep._ iv. 1. 3 ‘inter Aristotelicas categorias’; and _Ep._ iv. 3. 6; ix. 9. 14; _Carm._ ii. 174. [1112] Cum pusillis et iocamur inter ipsa dogmata nam iubet rigor magister ne per omne terreas, ‘Ambrosio et Beato’, p. 406, _Corp. Scriptt. Eccl. Lat._ vi.