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On Virtues and Vices (De virtutibus et vitiis)

De virtutibus et vitiis

Alcuin of York·c. 799–800·from the Latin

A full modern English translation of the work — 1 book, 37 chapters — translated sentence by sentence from the Latin, with scripture echoes traced and brief notes on the harder turns of phrase. Choose a section to begin reading.

37 chapters706 sentences163 scripture echoes
Devotional manualContemplatio — The Ascent
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De Virtutibus et Vitiis Liber ad Widonem Comitem

  1. 1.0Epistola Nuncupatoria
  2. 1.1Caput I. De sapientia
  3. 1.2Caput II. De fide
  4. 1.3Caput III. De charitate
  5. 1.4Caput IV. De spe
  6. 1.5Caput V. De lectionis studio
  7. 1.6Caput VI. De pace
  8. 1.7Caput VII. De misericordia
  9. 1.8Caput VIII. De indulgentia
  10. 1.9Caput IX. De patientia
  11. 1.10Caput X. De humilitate
  12. 1.11Caput XI. De compunctione cordis
  13. 1.12Caput XII. De confessione
  14. 1.13Caput XIII. De poenitentia
  15. 1.14Caput XIV. De non tardando converti ad Deum
  16. 1.15Caput XV. De timore Domini
  17. 1.16Caput XVI. De jejunio
  18. 1.17Caput XVII. De eleemosynis
  19. 1.18Caput XVIII. De castitate
  20. 1.19Caput XIX. De fraude cavenda
  21. 1.20Caput XX. De judicibus
  22. 1.21Caput XXI. De falsis testibus
  23. 1.22Caput XXII. De invidia
  24. 1.23Caput XXIII. De superbia
  25. 1.24Caput XXIV. De iracundia
  26. 1.25Caput XXV. De humana laude non quaerenda
  27. 1.26Caput XXVI. De perseverantia in bonis operibus
  28. 1.27Caput XXVII. De octo vitiis principalibus, et primo de superbia
  29. 1.28Caput XXVIII. De gula
  30. 1.29Caput XXIX. De fornicatione
  31. 1.30Caput XXX. De avaritia
  32. 1.31Caput XXXI. De ira
  33. 1.32Caput XXXII. De acedia
  34. 1.33Caput XXXIII. De tristitia
  35. 1.34Caput XXXIV. De cenodoxia, id est, vana gloria
  36. 1.35Caput XXXV. De virtutibus quatuor
  37. 1.36Caput XXXVI. Peroratio operis