On
Continence.
[De Continentia.]
Translated by Rev. C. L. Cornish,
M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford.
ST.
Augustin
speaks of his work
On Continence
in
Ep.
231,
Ad Darium Comitem
. [See vol. 1. of this
edition, p. 584.—P.S.] Possidius,
Ind
. c. 10, mentions it,
and it is cited in the
Collectanea
of Bede or Florus, and by
Eugypius. Erasmus is therefore wrong in ascribing it to Hugo on the
ground of the style, which is not unlike that of the earlier
discourses. It is evidently a discourse, and probably for that
reason unnoticed in the
Retractations
. The Manichæan heresy
is impugned after the manner of his early works.—(
Abridged
from Benedictine ed.
vol. vi.)