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fcripture faith : Lingua fapientium fanitas eft *. And : 

 Multitudo fapientium fanitas eft orbis terrarum ?f% 



" V. The renowned city of Athens, the mother of 

 fo many heroes, we will again convert into a feminary 

 of every art and fcience, that valiant warriors, prudent 

 counfellors, able artifts, excellent philofophers and 

 divines, may there be formed for the fervice of all future 

 times. To this end, we will inftitute three colleges 

 there, and endow them with fufficient revenues. The 

 ftrft, which is to be dedicated to St. George, will ferve 

 as a fchool for children of titled and noble perfons, 

 who have proved their nobility ; where they will learn 

 the greek, latin, fclavonian, arabic, and, according to 

 the capacity of the fcholar, other languages, and the 

 art of policy, both in the affairs of war and peace. 

 The fecond college of St. Bafil fhall be devoted to the 

 inftruction of the greek monks, and the third, that of 

 St. Benedict, a fchool for the latin monks. In both 

 colleges none but perfons of great capacities fhall be 

 admitted, to be taught the hebrew, greek, latin, fcla- 

 vonian, and arabic languages, together wirh theology, 

 philofophy, and mathematics, that they may after- 

 wards be diftributed into the monafteries of their order, 

 for diffeminating the knowledge they have acquired in 

 their college at Athens. 



" VI. As this univerfity will be our greater!: and 

 deareft treafure on earth, fo it is but reafonable, that 

 we mould commit the infpeclion of it to a man who is 

 not only particularly acceptable to our perfon, from a 

 iimilar way of thinking, but likewife attached to tlie 



* Prov. xii. 



f Sapient, yi. 

 a R 3 catholic 



