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[67] At the opening of his _Expositio in regulam beati Augustini_, Migne 176, col. 881, Hugo explains that the precepts under which a monastic community lives are called the _regula_, and what we call a _regula_ is called a _canon_ by the Greeks; and those are called _canonici_ or _regulares_, who “juxta regularia praecepta sanctorum Patrum canonice atque apostolice vivunt.” Thus the “regular canons” of St. Augustine were monks who lived according to the rule ascribed to that saint. In the case of the Victorines the rule was drawn up chiefly by Abbot Gilduin. See Prolegomena to the works of _Hugo_, Migne 175, col. xxiv. _sqq._

[68] See the Prolegomena to the works of _Hugo de Saint-Victor_, by Hugonin, Migne 175, col. xl. _sqq._

[69] _Didascalicon_, vi. 3 (Migne 176, col. 799). Other contents of this work are given _post_,