gory's excellent exposition of the Book of Canticles, which
Ceillier proves to be genuine against Oudin, the apostate, and some
others. The six books on the first book of Kings are valuable work
but cannot be ascribed to St. Gregory the Great. The commentary on
the seven penitential psalms Ceillier thinks to be his work: but it
seems doubtful. Paterius, a notary, one of St. Gregory's auditors,
compiled, out of his writings and sermons, several comments on the
scriptures. Claudius, abbot of Classius, a disciple of our saint,
did the same. Alulphus, a monk at Tournay, in the eleventh and
twelfth centuries, made the like compilations from his writings. Dom
Dionysius of St. Marthe, a Maurist Benedictin monk, favored the world
with an accurate edition of the works of St. Gregory the Great,
published at Paris in four volumes folio, in 1705. This has been
reprinted at Verona and again at Ausburg, in 1758, with the addition
of the useful anonymous book, De formula Praelatorum.
20. L. 6, Ep. 35.
21. L. 7, Ep. 26.
22. Animae nostra pericula, l. 1, Ep. 14.
23. L. 1, Ep. 35, &c.
24. L. 1, Ep. 35.
25. L. 7, Ep. 5, l. 12, Ep. 30.
26. L. 4, Ep. 47.
27. Praef. in Dial.
28. L. 9, Ep. 22.
29. L. 2, Ep. 121.
30. L. 12, Ep. 24.
31. The Lombards came originally from Scandinavia, and settled first in
Pomerania, and afterwards with the Hunns in Pannonia, who had
remained there when they returned out of Italy under Attila. Narses,
the patrician, after having governed Italy sixteen years with great
glory, was recalled by the emperor Justin the Younger. But resenting
this treatment, he invited the Lombards into that country. Those
barbarians leaving Pannonia to the Hunns, entered Italy, easily made
themselves masters of Milan, under their king Alboinus, in 568; and
extending their dominions, often threatened Rome itself. In the reign
of Charles the Fat, the Hunns were expelled Pannonia by the Hongres,
another swarm from the same northern hive, akin to the Hunns, who
gave to that kingdom the name of Hungary. That the Lombards were so
called, not from their long swords, as some have pretended, but from
their long beards, see demonstrated from the express testimony of
Paul the Deacon, himself a Lombard of Constantine Porphyrogenetta,
by Jos. Assemani. Hist. Ital. scriptor. t. 1, c. 3, p. 33.
32. Paul Diac. de Gest Longobard. l. 4