Chapter XXXII

. I.

[218] For the poem see Hauréau, _Mélanges poétiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin_, p. 64 (Paris, 1882).

[219] Hauréau, _o.c._ p. 56.

[220] _Ibid._ p. 82.

[221] _Ibid._ p. 144.

[222] Migne, _Pat. Lat._ 171, col. 1428. This volume of Migne also contains the poems criticized and (some of them) edited by Hauréau in the book already referred to.

[223] Hildebert, _Epis._ i. 1 (Migne 171, col. 141).

[224] Hildebert, _Ep._ i. 22 (Migne 171, col. 197).

[225] A technical illustration from Roman law.

[226] Hildeberti, _Ep._ ii. 12 (Migne 171, col. 172-177). Compare _Ep._ i. 17, consoling a friend on loss of place and dignities. Hildebert’s works are in vol. 171 of Migne’s _Pat. Lat._ A number of his poems are more carefully edited by Hauréau in _Notices et extraits des MSS., etc._, vol. 28, ii. p. 289 _sqq._; and some of them in vol. 29, ii. p. 231 _sqq._ of the same series. The matter is more conveniently given by Hauréau in his _Mélanges poétiques d’Hildebert de Lavardin_. On the man and his writings see De servillers, _Hildebert et son temps_ (Paris, 1876); Hebert Duperron, _De Venerabilis Hildeberti vita et scriptis_ (Bajocis, 1855); also vol. xi. of _Hist. lit. de la France_; and (best of all) Dieudonné, _Hildebert de Lavardin, sa vie, ses lettres, etc._ (Paris, 1898).

[227] It is well known that the great Latin prose, in spite of variances of stylistic intent and faculty among the individual writers, was an artistic, not to say artificial creation, formed under the influence of Greek models. Cicero is the supreme example of this, and he is also the greatest of all Latin prose writers. After his time some great writers (_e.g._ Tacitus, Quintilian) preserved a like tradition; others (_e.g._ Seneca) paid less attention to it. And likewise on through the patristic period, and the Middle Ages too, some men endeavoured to preserve a classic style, while others wrote more naturally.

[228] Even as it is necessary, in order to appreciate some of the methods of the Latin classical poetry, to realize that their immediate antecedents lay in Greek Alexandrian literature rather than in the older Greek Classics.

[229] See Taylor, _Classical Heritage_,