[1150] _Ep._ 88 ‘Quid mihi prodest scire agellum dividere ... simus hoc titulo rusticiore contenti: O virum bonum’. [1151] Cf. the modern controversy about religious education, and the criticism that the dry facts are brought out in scriptural teaching rather than the spirit of the Bible. [1152] _Pro Instaur. Scholis_, 14. [1153] ‘Credo igitur, tali Caesar ... instinctu, tanto studium litterarum favore prosequitur, ut non minus ad providentiam numinis sui existimet pertinere bene dicendi quam recte faciendi disciplinas, et pro divina illa intelligentia mentis aeternae, sentiat litteras omnium fundamenta esse virtutum, utpote continentiae, modestiae, vigilantiae, patientiae magistras’, _Pro Instaur. Scholis_, 8. Cicero’s actual words in _de Orat._ iii. 15. 57 ‘illa doctrina ... et recte faciendi et bene dicendi magistra’. [1154] Cf. Horace, _Ars Poet._ 310 ff. [1155] _C. I. L._ xiii. 1. 1. 393. [1156] ‘Fabricatum Martius Campus militem suscipit, quem simulacrum mentitae dimicationis animavit nec pedem retorquet a classicis cui bucinarum clangor et ministeria belli inter pacis blandimenta crepuerunt. Usu enim virtus nutrita grandescit et de institutione nascitur periculorum tolerantia’, Ennodius, ‘Ambrosio et Beato’ (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccles. Lat._ vi. 405). [1157] _Confess._ i. 16. [1158] Ibid. i. 18. [1159] _Ep._ 88, § 20. [1160] _Ep._ ii. 2. 6. [1161] _Ep._ iii. 13. 1. [1162] _Op. cit._, p. 35. [1163] Liv. iii. 44. [1164] _Epigr._ viii. 3. [1165] _Trist._ ii. 369. [1166] _Protrep._ 33. [1167] _Parent._ vi. [1168] _De nuptiis Honor._ 232. [1169] Victor, rhetorician at Marseilles towards the end of the fifth century. _De perversis aetatis moribus ad Salmonem epistola_, Migne, lxi. 970. [1170] So he says, _Carm._ xxiv. 95. [1171] _Ep._ ii. 10. 5. [1172] _Ep._ ii. 2. 9 ‘frons triclinii matronalis’. _Carm._ xv. 144 ‘Hoc opus (of a work of embroidery) virgineae posuere manus’. [1173] Sidonius mentions the place set apart for the women in the library, _Ep._ ii. 9. 4. [1174] _Ep._ 127. [1175] _Mon. Germ. Hist._ vi. 2, p. 173, Canon 36. [1176] Ibid., p. 182. [1177] Aug. _de Mor. Eccles. Cath._ i. 70. [1178] e.g. in the second Preface to his translation of the Psalms, Migne, xxix. 118. [1179] Daniel, the twelve Minor Prophets, Isaiah, Psalms, Esther, Samuel and Kings, and to Eustochium alone (after Paula’s death) Joshua, Judges, and Ruth. [1180] Ozanam, _Hist. of Civilization in the Fifth Century_, i. 246. Cf. for Jerome’s connexion with Gaul, _Ep._ v. 2; _Ep._ 117, 120, 121. _Adv. Iovianum_, ii. 7 (acquaintance with Hilary). For Augustine, Holmes, _Christian Church in Gaul_, pp. 383 ff. For Ambrose, E. W. Watson, _Hilary of Poitiers,_ p. xi. [1181] Migne, xix. 542. [1182] ‘Ambrosio et Beato’ (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccl. Lat._ vi. 409). [1183] _De Ord._ i. 11; Migne. xxxii. 992. [1184] _Ars Amat._ ii. 281.