Note 061 Cassian, from his own experience, describes the acedia, or listlessness of mind and body, to which a monk was exposed when he sighed to find himself alone. Saepiusque egreditur et ingreditur cellam, et Solem velut ad occasum tardius properantem crebrius intuetur (Institut. x. 2).

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