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enjoined to use Latin in ordinary conversation; hence they might be called Latinistæ. In the third year of his residence the student of the liberal arts was allowed to become a "sophister," and to take part in logical disputations.

108, 1.the clasps, "signacula," cp. Rev. v. 2.

108, 11.he who walketh without blemish, cp. Ps. xv. 2.

XVIII

110, 7.with singleness of eye, "oculo simplici," cp. Matt. vi. 22.

107, 7.the right hand, etc., cp. Matt. vi. 3.

110, 8.the lump is uncorrupted by leaven, cp. 1 Cor. v. 6; cp. Gal. v. 9.

110, 9.Nor is the garment woven of wool and linen, cp Deut. xxii. 11.

111, 9.now for excess of curiosity, "nunc de curiositate superflua," cp. i Tim. v. 13.

111, 14.the heart and reins, cp. Ps. vii. 9.

111, 19.the ultimate springs of which they cannot see, "quorum fontale non vident principium," cp. "virtutis et sapieatiæ fontale principium," used of the University of Paris by the Cistercians in 1322.

112, 9.the chief nursing mother, etc., "omnium artium nutrice præcipua."

112, 22.to the lovers of pelf "nummicolis."

113, 7.under the aspect of Mercury, cp. Roger Bacon, Op. Maj. p. 121. "Mercurius est significator scripturæ et scriptorum et profunditatis scientiarum."

XIX

114, 13.in—Hall at Oxford, the best MSS. read—N—; probably for Nomen, signifying that some name was to be filled in. Most modern editors print nostra.

115, 7.Five of the scholars, "quinque de scholaribus," nearly equivalent to "Fellows."