That the copyists might write correctly, he digested the works of half a dozen grammarians into a treatise on orthography.

Further, that the books of the monastery might wear "a wedding garment" (his own phrase), he designed a great variety of bindings, which were kept as patterns.
There, at the foot of Moscius, did these brethren and their founder live and work.

But on the top of the mountain was another retreat, known as Castellense, for those monks who--_divina gratia suffragante_--desired a severer discipline, and left the coenobitic house to become anchorites.

Did these virtuous brothers continue their literary labours?
One hopes so, and one is glad that Cassiodorus himself seems to have ended his life down in the valley by the Pellena.
A third class of monks finds mention, those in whom "_Frigidus obstiterit circum praecordia sanguis_," quotes the founder.

In other words, the hopelessly stupid.