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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Does this definition of work or exercise sound familiar? I have it in Bartholomaeus Anglicus _De proprietatibus rerum_ VI, near the end of ch. 28: Unde quidam sapiens, interrogatus ad quid exercitatio laboris esset necessaria, respondit in hec verba: Honestus, inquit, labor humane vite est fida custodia, dormientis nature stimulus, sopiti caloris lima, superfluitatis consumptio, viciorum fuga, morborum mors, languorum medicina, lucrum temporis, iuventutis debitum, adolescentie disciplina, senectutis gaudium, salutis adiutorium, nutricis omnium malorum est emula, ocii inimica. Immediately afterwards, this is said to come from a sermon by Fulgentius 'contra otiosos' where he addresses Proverbs 31: 27. I have been through Fulgentius Ruspensis and Ps-Fulgentius on the Patrologia Latina database, and then as many of the Ps-F sermons as I could find in print. In case it is Fulgentius the Mythographer, I was able to search _Expositio Virgilianae_ and _Mythologiarum libri_ at www.intratext com (Descartes overwrote their copy of _Expositio sermonum antiquorum ad grammaticum Calcidium_ but it is available elsewhere). Not there. Curiously, Burton has very nearly the same text on exercise (not labor) in the _Anatomy of Melancholy_ and also ascribes it to Fulgentius via Gordonius _de conserv. vit. hom. lib. I, cap. 7_. The Oxford ed. refers to the _Lilium medicinae_ 1574, p. 856; this is on gallica.bnf.fr and that passage was there on p. 856 yesterday (today 'Le document ... n'est pas accessible'), with no further information but Fulgentius as an author. Following the Clavis patrum latinorum and the Clavis patristica pseudepigraphorum medii aevi, I checked the sermons available in Journal of Theological Studies 22 (1921) 1-5, Revue Benedictine 35 (1923) 236-45 and 56 (1945/46) 103-5, Revue des Etudes Augustin. 18 (1972) 116-23, and Philologia sacra (Freiburg 1993) 2: 568-82. However, A-B. Caillau's Collectio selecta SS. ecclesiae patrum (Paris 1842) was not available to me (not even on gallica) for one or more sermons on/beginning on 1: 21, nor was I able to discover what the CPPMA meant by _Flor. Cas._ 2: 163-64, but since this concerned a Monte Cassino MS I assume it is not likely to have what I am after. I also have been unable to trace another reference to a sermon by Fulgentius, this one on the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11), where Fulgentius catalogues the vices of bad wives and compares Christ to the good spouse and the synagogue to an evil, adulterous spouse.(in BA DPR VI.13). Suggestions would be very welcome. As always, my thanks in advance. -- Juris G. Lidaka Dept. of English West Virginia State University Institute, WV 25112-1000 USA ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html