The schools of medieval England . at he wasever a schoolmaster or teacher at Mailduphstown or any-where else. Certainly his works are not of a scholastic but ofa theological and literary character. It would be beyond thescope of this book to follow Aldhelm through his Latin verseson the Praise of Virginity addressed to the lady who re-joiced in the name of Bugge or Bug : or his theological anim-adversions on the proper time of keeping Easter directed tothe Welsh prince Gerontius, whom Newman exploited ; or hisclever and witty riddles in Latin verse, which we may readwith admiration and pleasur
The schools of medieval England . at he wasever a schoolmaster or teacher at Mailduphstown or any-where else. Certainly his works are not of a scholastic but ofa theological and literary character. It would be beyond thescope of this book to follow Aldhelm through his Latin verseson the Praise of Virginity addressed to the lady who re-joiced in the name of Bugge or Bug : or his theological anim-adversions on the proper time of keeping Easter directed tothe Welsh prince Gerontius, whom Newman exploited ; or hisclever and witty riddles in Latin verse, which we may readwith admiration and pleasure even now. It may be notedthat there is no evidence whatever that he knew Greek—afact which is almost conclusive against his being a pupil ofHadrians—all the Greek words used by Aldhelm being takensecond-hand from the grammarians or the Latin fathers andecclesiastical Latin. On the other hand, he knows his Virgilby heart, and quotes or adapts or imitates him a thousandtimes. He also knew at first hand, Ovid, Horace, Juvenal,. THEODORE AND ALDHELM 43 Persius, Lucan, Claudian, Terence, and Seneca. He knew allthe Christian Latin poets, Ausonius, Sidonius Apollonaris,Prudentius, affecting especially those curious authors whoversified the Bible, Sedulius, Juvencus, Avitus, Arator, acquaintance with the Latin grammarians, Priscian, Don-atus, Servius, the Virgilian commentator, Sergius PompeiusTrogus, Phocas, was extensive, and he was intimate with Isidoreof Seville. Cicero, Sallust, and Pliny were perhaps known onlyat second-hand through Priscian. He was thoroughly athome in the late Latin authors in prose, Sulpicius Severus,Augustine, Orosius, Cassian, and St. Cyprian. Mr. Wildman in his History of Sherborne has claimedAldhelm as the founder of Sherborne School. Since Aldhelmwas,_as Bede tells us, the first bishop of that see, establishedwest of the forest of Selwood, by division of the Winchesterdiocese on Heddes death in 705, the claim must be pro-nounced prima faci
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