Latin Hymns, with English Notes (Volume 1); For Use in Schools and Colleges - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1874. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES. I. HILARIUS PICTAVIENSIS. Life.--Hilarius, or Hilary, was born at Pictavium, now Poictiers, in France. The date of his birth is not known. He was of heathen family, but was early converted, and became bishop of Poictiers in 353. He was one of the foremost men of his age, both in personal and literary influence. He was a zealous champion of the Athanasian view of the Trinity, and his Arian opponents prevailed on the Emperor Constantius to banish him to Phrygia, 356. He remained four years, and then returned to his see, and continued in active labor till his death in 368. While in the East, he observed the influence of the hymns sung in the Arian churches, and when he returned he introduced similar singing to the churches of the West. He has been called the father of Western hymnology. He made a collection of spiritual songs, with the title Liber Mysteriorum, mentioned by Jerome (Catal. vir. illustr., c. 100), but now lost. He is named with Ambrose by the Council of Toledo (iv., 13) as one who had composed songs for the Church in praise of God and to the honor of the apostles and martyrs. The Gloria in excelsh was ascribed to him by Alcuin and others, and he may have translated and introduced it. His biographer, Fortunatus, distinctly specifies as his the morning hymn with which our collection begins. His claim to others which are ascribed to him is less clear. Hymn I. This hymn is mentioned by Fortunatus, the biographer of Hilarius. In the Benedictine edition of the works of Hilarius, Veronae, 1730, fol. ii., p. 530, it is given as the hymn referred to in a letter to his daughter Abra, about the end of the year 358, in which he says, " Interim tibi hymnum matutinum et serotinum misi, ut K memor mei semper sis." It is in many old collections, and in Daniel'...

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