Romanae);^1073 Jerome, Orosius (Historia adversus Paganos),^1074 Aurelius Victor (De Caesaribus
historia), Jordanis (De breviatione chronicorum),^1075 Prosper (Chronicon),^1076 Bede and others. The
Historia is in sixteen books, of which the first ten are mere excerpts of Eutropius, with insertions
from other sources. The last six carry the history from Valens, where Eutropius ends, down to
Justinian. The plan of these latter books is the same as that of the former: some author is excerpted,
and in the excerpts are inserted extracts from other writers. The History is worthless to us, but in
the Middle Age it was extremely popular. To the sixteen books of Paul’s were added eight from
the Church History of Anastasius Bibliothecarius, and the whole called Historia Miscella, and to
it Landulph Sagax wrote an appendix, which brings the work down to 813.
Besides these histories several other briefer works in the same line have come down to us.
(3) Life of St. Gregory the Great,^1077 a compilation from Bede’s Church History of England,
and Gregory’s own works.
(4) A short History of the bishopric of Metz.^1078 It was written about 784, at the request of
Angilram, bishop of Metz. It is in good part only a list of names. In order to please Charlemagne,
Paul inserted irrelevantly a section upon that monarch’s ancestry.
II. Homilies.^1079 A collection made by request of Charlemagne, and which for ten centuries
was in use in the Roman Church. It is in three series. 1. Homilies upon festivals, two hundred and
two in number, all from the Fathers. 2. Homilies upon saints’ days, ninety-six in number. 3. Homilies,
five in number. Many of the second series and all of the last appear to be original.
III. Letters,^1080 four in number, two to Charlemagne, one each to Adalhard, abbot of Corbie,
in France, and to the abbot Theudemar.
IV. Poems, including epitaphs.^1081 From the first stanza of De Sancto Joanne Baptista, Guido
of Arezzo took the names of the musical notes.
§ 158. St. Paulinus of Aquileia.
I. Sanctus Paulinus, patriarcha Aquileiensis: Opera omnia, in Migne, Tom. XCIX. col. 9–684,
reprint of Madrisius’ ed., Venice, 1737, folio, 2d ed. 1782. His poems are given by Dümmler:
Poet. Lat. aevi Carolini I. (Berlin, 1880), pp. 123–148.
II. Vita Paulini, by Madrisius in Migne’s ed. col. 17–130. Cf. Du Pin, VI. 124. Ceillier, XII. 157–164.
Hist. litt. de la France, IV. 284–295; Bähr: Geschichte der römischen Literatur im Karolingischen
Zeitalter, Carlsruhe, 1840 (pp. 88, 356–359); Ebert, II., 89–91.
(^1073) Best edition by Hartel, Berlin, 1872. Eng. trans. in Bohn’s Class. Lib.
(^1074) Migne, XXXI. col. 663-1174.
(^1075) Muratori, Rer. Ital. script. I. 222-242.
(^1076) In Migne, LI. col. 535-608.
(^1077) Vita S. Gregorii Maqni, Migne, LXXV. col. 41-60.
(^1078) Gesta episcoporum Mettensium, Migne, XCV. col. 699-724.
(^1079) Homilarius, ibid. col. 1159-1584.
(^1080) Epistolae, ibid. 1583-1592.
(^1081) Carmina, ibid. col. 1591-1604. Ebert discusses these at length, l.c. pp. 48-56.