Et quia literis sacris simul et saecularibus, ut diximus, abundanter ambo erant instructi, congregata discipulorum caterva, scientiae salutaris quotidie flumina irrigandis eorum cordibus emanabant: ita ut etiam metricae artis, astronomiae et arithmeticae ecclesiasticae disciplinam inter sacrorum apicum volumina suis auditoribus contraderent.
And because both he and Hadrian, as we have said, were fully learned in profane as well as in holy literature, they gathered a company of scholars unto them, and streams of wholesome knowledge did daily flow forth to water their hearts: so that along with the volumes of the sacred writings, they did withal instruct their hearers in the sciences of metric, astronomy and algorism.
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