There is a curious passage preserved by St. Augustin from that one of Cicero's works which he most admiredthe lost treatise on 'Glory'which seems to show that so far from being a materialist, he held the body to be a sort of purgatory for the soul.

"Johannes Damascenus" is added after St. Augustin in both.

By the advice of my landlord I kept myself very much concealed, and employed my interpreter and Augustin of Pavia, whom I had brought with me from Kaffa because he understood a little Persian, to purchase our provisions, in which employment they were exposed to much ill treatment, and were often in hazard of their lives.