Note 24

A characteristic masterpiece of a Scholastic eulogy is a Collatio in honor of Charles IV by Pope Clement VI (R. Salomon, M.G.H., Leges, IV, 8, pp. 143 ff.), where Charles is parallelized with Solomon under the headings: Comparatur, Collocatur, Approbatur, Sublimatur, each heading being subdivided as follows:

Comparatur. Solomon

1. in aliquibus profecit:
   1. in latriae magnitudine;
   2. in prudentiae certitudine;
   3. in iustitiae rectitudine;
   4. in clementiae 
   5. dulcedine.
2. In aliquibus excessit:
   1. in sapientiae limpitudine;
   2. in abundantiae plenitudine;
   3. in facundiae amplitudine;
   4. in quietae vitae pulchritudine.
3. in aliquibus defecit:
   1. in luxuriae turpitudine;
   2. in perseverantiae longitudine;
   3. in idolatriae multitudine;
   4. in rei bellicae fortitudine, etc., etc.

Ridewall’s mythographical treatise was edited by H. Liebeschütz, Fulgentius Metaforalis (Studien der Biblothek Warburg, IV, Leipzig and Berlin, 1926); For the scholastic systematization of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (naturalis, spiritualis, magica, moralis, and de re animata in rem inanimatam, de re inanimata in rem inanimatam, de re inanimata in rem animatam, de re animata in rem animatam), cf. F. Ghisalberti, “Mediaeval Biographies of Ovid,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, IX, 1946, pp. 10 ff., especially p. 42.