Qui bibliothecas fecerint.
Devotion to the Sacred Library
Pamphilus, Jerome, and Gennadius are celebrated for their zeal in amassing and cataloguing sacred and ecclesiastical writings.
Among us, the martyr Pamphilus — whose life Eusebius of Caesarea wrote — strove to match Pisistratus in devotion to a sacred library. He had nearly thirty thousand volumes in his library. Jerome and Gennadius too, seeking out church writers across the whole world, pursued them in order, and gathered their works into a single index of one volume.
Read the original Latin
Apud nos Pamphilus martyr, cuius vitam Eusebius Caesariensis conscripsit, Pisistratum in sacrae bibliothecae studio adaequare contendit. hic enim in bibliotheca sua prope triginta milia voluminum habuit. Hieronymus quoque atque Gennadius, ecclesiasticos scriptores toto orbe quaerentes, ordine persecuti sunt, eorumque studia in uno voluminis indiculo comprehenderunt.
Didascalicon de Studio Legendi (On the Study of Reading) companion
Hugh said begin with small daily portions. Start tomorrow.
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