. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. Confessionsof S. Augustine.) Alypius was a native of Tagaste in , the city ofwhich S. Augustine was also a native. He was born 354, and was rather younger than Augustine. Hestudied grammar at Tagaste with Augustine, and the two youngmen became warmly attached to one another. When Au-gustine moved to Carthage and opened his school for rhe-toric, Alypius followed him. In the capital the games of thecircus interested, excited,
. The lives of the saints. With introd. and additional lives of English martyrs, Cornish, Scottish, and Welsh saints, and a full index to the entire work. Confessionsof S. Augustine.) Alypius was a native of Tagaste in , the city ofwhich S. Augustine was also a native. He was born 354, and was rather younger than Augustine. Hestudied grammar at Tagaste with Augustine, and the two youngmen became warmly attached to one another. When Au-gustine moved to Carthage and opened his school for rhe-toric, Alypius followed him. In the capital the games of thecircus interested, excited, engrossed Alypius, to the vexationof his friend and instructor. A difference arose between thefather of Alypius and Augustine, which led to the interrup-tion of the attendance of the former in the schooL Theirintimacy continued, though a coolness had begun to dashit, when a circumstance occurred which restored it to itsformer warmth. Alypius one day sauntered into the school,and sat down to listen to the declamation of his friend, who,just then had taken the games of the circus as his topic forvehement condemnation. Augustine was not at the moment. FROM THE OFFICE OF THE ASSUMPTION OF THE In the Vienna Missal. Aug., p. 144. ] [Aug. 15. *- -* August 1$.] 6*. Alypiles. 145 thinking of Al)-pius, but the latter took the words to heart,and resolved to shake oflf the powerful attraction exertedon him by the circus. He appealed to his father, and hewas again allowed to attend the lectiures of Augustine. Both young men were at this time attracted by the stemvirtue of the Manichceans to embrace their doctrine, soclear, cutting the knot of difl5culties which beset the orderof the world. Spirit on one side, matter on the other;here those who live to the spirit, there those who yieldthemselves servants to the world. The contest is everon, the camps are ever in deadly hostility; the goin world, life, is the battlefield on which the warfare is in-cessantly waged. Augustine never whol
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