The life of Saint Severinus

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LETTER OF EUGIPPIUS TOPASCHASIUS

T the hol and venerable Deacon Paschasius Eugippius send his salutation in Christ. About two ears ago, in the consulfhimo Importunus, a letterii a nobie laman, directed i a Priest, Was offered me to read It containeo the hiemi Bassus a monk, hocio eri dwel in the monaster o themountain calle Titas, bove Ariminum, an laterdie in the district o Lucania a man ery eliknown to me an to many thers. Whenes learned that Some were making copies of this letter, I began toresseCt, and ais to declare to the clero, that the great miracles hicli the divine powe had Wrought through Salat Severinus ought notrio be hidden. en the author o the letter ne of this, heeageri requeste me to en him Some memoranda in regar to Sata Severinus, that he might rite ashori account of the aint' lite o the benefitii latergenerationS. In response to this osser, I prepare a

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ment an composition o the work. Cultivate in profane literatur alone, he wouldie lihelyn composeth biograph in a style difficultrior man to under- stand so that the remarhable evenis, hic had Oolon rematae hidden in silence an night might ait through the obscurit o his eloquence to hinebrighil torti ior us, uniratae as e re in polite

while thou biddest me transmit a memoi or notesupo the litem Salat Severinus. Unti these memoranda in admission to a book of thymonstruction, et them notissen in m dii thecritic. For he who seelis an architecto buit aliouSe caretuli prepare the neceSSar materials butis the architect delays, an he ut together in thelthenes o walis uniashione heaps tro the oughStoneS, Ought oneri spea o his orcas a bullding,

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LETTE T PASCHASIUS 17when no master a constructed an no properio dation has been laidi So , ho have illidissiculi prepare an mos miserabi put together the rectou materia lor in genius, ought I to ethought to have composed hato destre, hen alibera educatio has no fashione the work, nortiterar training lent it elevation and eleganc Θ Μywor has indeed the Sure ioundationi faith alone;

o the lessed ather Severinus. Since the truStybearer, th Son Deogratias best knows these, I have entruste to imo communicate them to the bywordii mouth. An I hope that Lma speedit beabie et again to cali him beare o the completionii thy ork that so this most aithiul servantis God, ricli in such great virtves, hile hecis carrie to thegior of the aints by his merit Vouchsale through Christ' grace may by thy en e immortalige to

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dosianus X, 12 Si vagum petatur mancipirmet.

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commanded me ais to minister uni these perilledioth. V The ans e silenced rimenius, nor id any

one beiorem alter presume to question the saintiponthis matter.

Vet his speech revealed a manii purest Latin stoch; anxit is understood that he firs departe into omedesert place of the ast ecause o his fervid destreior a more periecidite, and that thence, constrataed by divine revelation, he later came to the townsii Riverside Noricum, ear Upper annonia, hicli ere harassed by irequent incursion o the barbarians Soli himself was Won to hint, in obscure language alii Spearing o another, namin Some cities o the East,

and indicatin that he had passedi miracle through

Quo ipso non obscure indicabat, magno se ortu, et cuju indicium jactantiae SerUiret. V Marcus Hansita, Germania Sacra Augustae Vindelicorum, etc. 17 27 55), i, P. O. Matthew vi, 3. 'maltheW, XXV, 33.

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III. How throuo his prayer God came to the aido the inhabitant of the litile it Favianis, in had

The place ames in the ablative form Asturis, ComageniS, Favianis, etc., mar in tendencyti in provincia Latina developinio Romance dialectS.

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