xi c.

3, with Godefory, p.

441,) and the Chronicle of Marcellinus.] [Footnote 31: The dissection of Rufinus, which Claudian performs with the savage coolness of an anatomist, (in Rufin.ii.

405-415,) is likewise specified by Zosimus and Jerom, (tom.i.p.

26.)] [Footnote 32: The Pagan Zosimus mentions their sanctuary and pilgrimage.
The sister of Rufinus, Sylvania, who passed her life at Jerusalem, is famous in monastic history.1.The studious virgin had diligently, and even repeatedly, perused the commentators on the Bible, Origen, Gregory, Basil, &c., to the amount of five millions of lines.2.At the age of threescore, she could boast, that she had never washed her hands, face, or any part of her whole body, except the tips of her fingers to receive the communion.