Avitus are lost: we have yet his poem on the praisesof virginity, to his sister Fuscina, a nun, and some ot Recueil Hist. Among former Latin translations of St. enth, and thirtieth, or sometimes fortieth day after the decease of a Christian, with solemn prayers and sacrifices for the departed soul.
In his youth he was distinguished for hisextraordinary virtue, and his progress in his studies, especially of thecanon law, which he began in Italy, and pursued at Paris, and lastly atLiege. Pliny's famous letter to Trajan shows, that singing was then in use among the Christians In Bithynia; and it appears from Philo, that the Therapeuts did the same before that time. stituting a religious order for a constant supply of menand means whereby to carry on so charitable an undertaking. The ten last emperors, during twenty years, were rathershadows of power than sovereigns, and in the eighth year of thepontificate of Simplicius, Rome itself fell a prey to foreigners.
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