[1334] Cf. _Confess._ v. 8 (14) ‘Apud Carthaginem foeda est et intemperans licentia scholasticorum: inrumpunt inpudenter et prope furiosa fronte perturbant ordinem, quem quisque discipulis ad proficiendum instituerit. Multai niuriosa faciunt mira hebetudine et punienda legibus....’ He complains that Carthage is much worse than Rome. The tradition of colonial rowdiness seems to have lasted to our own time. [1335] _C. I. L._ xiii. 1. 1. 2040. [1336] I owe this suggestion to the late Mr. H. J. Cunningham of Worcester College. [1337] ‘Paucae domus studiorum seriis cultibus antea celebratae, nunc ludibriis ignaviae torpentis exundant, vocali sonu, perflabili tinnitu fidium resultantes. Denique pro philosopho cantor, et in locum oratoris doctor artium ludicrarum accitur’, xiv. 6. 18. [1338] _Ep._ ii. 10; iv. 18; viii. 2. [1339] Quarum iamdudum nullus vigeat licet usus disciplinarum, vitiato scilicet aevo.—_Euchar._ 68. [1340] _Epist. posterior doctissimo viro Sapaudo_ (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccles. Lat._ x. 203). [1341] ‘Video enim os Romanum non modo neglegentiae sed pudori esse Romanis’, ibid. [1342] Cf. the criticisms of education in Juvenal and Seneca (_Ep. Mor._ xv. 3. 23; _Ep._ lxxvi. 4; _Ep._ cviii. 6). To rant about education has been a temptation in all ages. [1343] _Cambridge Mediaeval History_, i. 296. [1344] Ibid. 392. [1345] _De Reditu_, i. 21. [1346] Ibid. i. 29 ff. [1347] _Carmen de Providentia Dei_, 13; Migne, _Pat. Lat._ li. 618. [1348] Ibid. 27. [1349] Migne, li. 611, vs. 25. [1350] Ibid., vs. 37 ff. [1351] _Commonitorii_ ii. 165 (_Corp. Scriptt. Eccles. Lat._ xvi. 234). [1352] e.g. by Maximin towards the end of the third century, _Pan. Lat._ iii. 5. [1353] Ammianus, xxviii. 2, 10. [1354] Zosimus, vi. 2. [1355] Salvian, _De Gub._ v. 6, 24. [1356] _Ep._ vi. 4. 1, A.D. 472. [1357] _Ep._ vi. 6. 1, A.D. 472. Cf. _Ep._ vii. 10. 2, A.D. 474 ‘Si commeandi libertas pace revocetur’, and _Ep._ vii. 11. 1. [1358] _Ep._ vi. 10. 1, A.D. 473. [1359] _Ep._ ix. 3. 2. Cf. _Ep._ ix. 5. 1. [1360] _Ep._ vii. 1. [1361] ‘Nam idcirco tantum incommodis calamitatum circumecribendis potius quam sanandis pax quaedam videtur adludere, ut mentes fallaci securitate laxatas, instaurato gravius metu succiduus gemitus adficiat’, _Ep. ad Diversos_, xxxvii, ed. Peiper. [1362] _Hist. of Europe in the Fifth Century_, p. 27. [1363] _Ad Uxorem_, 7; Migne, li. 611. [1364] _De Prov. Dei_, Migne, li. 618. [1365] Ibid. [1366] Guizot, _Hist. of Civilization_ (trans. Hazlitt), i. 439. [1367] _De Reditu_, ii. 49.