Lives of S Ninian And S Kentigern Compiled in the Twelfth Century
Lives of S Ninian And S Kentigern Compiled in the Twelfth Century
Alexander Penrose Forbes
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I did not wish therefore to go to Eome, because higher gains and higher dignities were warranted me by my friends, who per- suaded me to this (though even these things had at that time an influence over my mind), but my chief and almost only ^ Book V. C. Viii. P. 74 ; Oxf. Translation. NOTES. — S. NINIAN. 261 reason was, that I heard that young men studied there more peacefully, and were kept quiet under a restraint of more regular discipline : so that they did not, at their pleasure, petulantl...y rush into the schools of one whose pupils they were not, nor were even admitted without his permission. " It is true that he afterwards found that, "to avoid paying their master's stipend, a number of youths plot together and remove to another — ^breakers of faith, who for love of money hold justice cheap. " ^ At Eome theological studies were pursued with assiduity. Valentinian^ thus wrote to Olybrius the prefect — " Quicumque ad urbem discendi cupiditate veniunt, primitus ad Magistrum census, provincialium judicum, a quibus copia est danda veniendi, ejusmodi litteras proferant.
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