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. IV.

[446] Peter Damiani, _Opusc._ xi., _Dominus vobiscum_, cap. 19 (Migne 145, col. 246).

[447] Peter Damiani, _De contemptu saeculi_, cap. 25 (Migne 145, col. 278).

[448] Peter Damiani, _De perfectione monachi_, caps. 2, 3 (Migne 145, col. 294).

[449] _De perfectione monachi_, cap. 8 (Migne 145, col. 303).

[450] _De perf. mon._ cap. 13 (Migne 145, col. 307).

[451] _De ins. ord. eremitarum_, cap. 26 (Migne 145, col. 358). On the distraction from the _vita contemplativa_ involved in an abbot’s duties see Damiani’s verses, _De abbatum miseria_, _ante_,