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He died at the monastery of Bobio, which himself had founded, and 

 near that Trebia, more classically consecrated by the misfortunes of 

 Hannibal. About this time flourished Cumian also, the author of the 

 letter to Segienus, and of the treatise " de mensur^ poenitentiarum," 

 both before alluded to. Tirechan, likewise, whose Life of Saint 

 Patrick, so often mentioned by Usher,* has been before mentioned, 

 appears to have been their contemporary. 



The eighth century was adorned by Adamnan, whom Bede styles 

 " vir bonus et sapiens et scientia scripturarum nobilissime instruc- 

 tus ;"-f- and most zealously commends, as the medium of introducing 

 the Roman observance of Easter in Ireland, while he asserts that he 

 was also the author, or rather the compiler of a description of the 

 topography of the Holy Land, on the dictation of Arcuulf. J Next 

 succeeds Virgilius, already mentioned, and who from his love of soli- 

 tude was surnamed Solivagus. Soon after him Dicuil or Dicul, the 

 Irish geographer, wrote a treatise of the survey of the earth yet 

 extant in MS.§ And last of all, in chronological order, is the cele- 

 brated Alcuin, whom Hume mentions!! as having been subsequently 

 brought over by Charlemagne, to oppose his learning to the heresy of 

 Felix, Bishop of Urgil in Catalonia. In his latter days he assumed 

 the more classical appellation of Flaccus Albinus,** and is particularly 

 noticed in Ware's Writers, as of the commencement of the ninth cen- 

 tury. 



* Primord. pp. 829, 835, 848, 853, 887 and 899. 



t Eccl. Hist. lib. 5. c. 16. 



t " Scripsit idem vir de locis Sanctis, librum legentibus multum utilissimum, cujus auctor 

 est docendo et dictitando Galliarum episcopus Arcuulfus, qui locorum gratia sanctorum vene- 

 rat Hierosolymam." — Eccl. Hist lib. 5. c. 16. 



§ See Ware's Writers, O'Conor's Prolegomena. &c. 



II Hist. Engl. vol. I.e. 1. 

 ** See Lanigan's Eccl. Hist. vol. 3. p. 211. 



