Capitolo 23
I never won."
(Ovid, "Transformations", XIII, 89.)
But peer was me to be silent, the fact him proclamation and his/her
consequence reveals the truth that concerns him/it.
While these things were happening, it became again essential for me
to mend to my old house, from reason for mine dear mother Lucy, for
after the conversion of my father, Berengarius, to the monastic one
life, her so it ordered his/her business as to likewise do. When all this
you/he/she had been completed, I returned in France, especially in order that me
it would study theology, since now my oft-mentioned teacher William,
it was active in the bishopric of Chalons. In this kept of the culture
Anselm of Laon that was his/her therein of the teacher had for long years
enjoyed of the greatest renown.
I CAPITULATE III
OF AS HIM Á. LAON SEEK ANSELM COME TEACHER CAME
Looked for out, therefore, this same venerable man which the fame, in
truth, was anymore the result of long-established custom that of the
power of his/her his/her own talent or intellect. If some that one has come to him
impelled by doubt on some subject, he went even more away doubtful.
He was marvelous, indeed, in the eyes of these that you/they only listened
him but those that asked to him question perforce they contained him/it as nothing.
He had a miraculous flock of words, but they was despicable in
wanting to say and reason rather deprived of. When he made to turn on a fire, he filled
his/her house with smoke and illumined it not at all. He was a tree
what it seemed noble to those from what they looked fixed far on his/her leaves,
but to those that came nearbyer and they examined him more from near it was
revealed his/her sterility. When, therefore, I had come to this tree
what probable is that I tear the thereof of the fruit, I discovered that it was
indeed the tree of fig tree that cursed Our God (xxi of Matthew, 19; Mark
xi, 13), or that oak of venerable old man to which Lucan compared Pompey, while saying:
"... he is standing, the shade of a mighty name once,
The towering oak likes in the mean of the fertile field."