Note 050 Such expressions as my book, my cloak, my shoes (Cassian. Institut. 1. iv. c. 13) were not less severely prohibited among the Western monks (Cod. Regul. part ii. p. 174 [tom. i. p. 178], 235, 288); and the Rule of Columbanus punished them with six lashes. The ironical author of the Ordres Monastiques, who laughs at the foolish nicety of modern convents, seems ignorant that the ancients were equally absurd.

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The History Of The Decline and Fall Of The Roman Empire—Volume 1— Chapter 37