Then he said, somewhat abruptly, "St Jerome I speak of, or rather I allude to him, and pass on at once to the study of St Augustinethe great prose writer, as Prudentius was the great poet, of the Middle Ages.

Then the 'terza rima' was undoubtedly borrowed from the fourth hymn of the 'Cathemerinon.'"... "You said, I think, that Prudentius was a contemporary of Claudian.