His epistle is a miserable rhapsody on a noble subject.

Ambrose could act better than he could write.

His compositions are destitute of taste, or genius; without the spirit of Tertullian, the copious elegance of Lactantius the lively wit of Jerom, or the grave energy of Augustin.] [Footnote 97: According to the discipline of St.Basil, (Canon lvi.,) the voluntary homicide was four years a mourner; five a hearer; seven in a prostrate state; and four in a standing posture.

I have the original (Beveridge, Pandect.tom.ii.p.

47-151) and a translation (Chardon, Hist.