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judgment of his character might be different did we control all the 

 facts. The slight basis for our inferences renders them inconclusive. 

 Besides Letaldus' narrative of the wonders worked by St. Junian's 

 relics and Odilo's disciplinary visit to Nouaille, the annals of the 

 day furnish no hints regarding Constantine's last incumbenc}'. Their 

 silence may point to the calm which follows the storm. The gener- 

 ation of embittered adversaries, who made a shuttlecock of his 

 career, had passed away with Arnulf and Abbo. Let us hope that 

 the victim of their rivalries was allowed to exercise the duties of 

 his new charge in peace. But one more mention of him has 

 reached us, the note which records his death, in the year 1014, 

 after a decade or less of pastorate at Nouaille. And this note, 

 which registers the rather unfavorable opinion of his contemporaries 

 as to his general ability, shows that the poet of the school of Rheims 

 maintained to the end his reputation as a musician, i 



^ Anno MXIV. Obiit Constantinus, abbas S. Juniani Nobiliaci, cui 

 tenaporaneus extitit Letaiidus, Abbo et alii multi ; sed inter alios prae- 

 cipuus musicus et cantor. Huic Constantino successit Imo. Chronicle of 

 St. Maixent, in Recueil dcs historiens des Gatilcs etc., vol. x, p. 232. — The 

 text reads " Abba," which I change to " Abbo " for obvious reasons. 

 Letaldus Avas never abbot, though a Letaldus had been abbot of St. Mes- 

 niin in 930. 



Yale University. F. M. Warren. 



