Vergil in the Middle Ages

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' The grammatical peculiarities of the Cliristians had been commented on by their pagan adversaries from the earliest times. Ahnobius defends them iu his accustomed style. Adv. Tjent. , i. 59.
^ NoTKER Balbulds (9th centurj), one of the many monks of this name at the famous medieval monastery of IS. Gallen, speaking of Alcuin's Dia- logus de gravimadca, says, " Alcuinus talem grammaticam condidit ut IJonatus, Nicomachus, Dositheus et uoster Priscianus in eius compara- tione niliil esse videautu
...r. " Cp. Maitre, Les ecolcs episcopaies et moiiui- tiques de L'occident, etc. (Paris, 18G0), p. 220, 124 VERGIL IN THE MIDDLE AGES To attempt to follow tlio processes of these minds would bo at once a wasted endeavour and an outrage on common sense. Bat any one who has peneti'ated sufficiently into this Babel to form an idea of the nature and degree of the confusion there reigning, will feel no astonishment at seeing arise from its midst that enigmatical monstrosity, at once comic and tragic, the Vergil of Toulouse, ^ who, considered in respect of his sur- roundings and origin, gives the impression of little else than a grim joke.

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