Historiae Cantebrigiensis Academiae ab urbe condita, liber primus [-secundus]

With these learned men therefore being taken from Cambridge to Rome, nevertheless the Cambridge Academy persisted in the same glory of its name and fame through the whole time of the reign of Tenuantius, during whose reign Christ was born, a man (as P. Lentulus wrote to the senate and the people of Rome) of moderately tall stature, and spectacular, having a venerable face, whom those who gaze upon can easily both love and fear, with hair the color of an unripe hazelnut and flat as far as the ears, but from the ears curly, somewhat bluer and brighter, flowing from his shoulders, having a part in the middle according to the manner of the Nazarenes, having a most serene forehead, with a face without wrinkle and any spot, a copious and pubic beard, the same color as the hair, not long, but bifurcated in the middle; simple and mature in appearance, with gray, various, and clear eyes. There was absolutely no reproach in his nose and mouth, which a moderate redness made charming. Terrible in rebuke, bland and lovable in admonition, cheerful while maintaining gravity, who was never seen to laugh, but to weep so that gravity might be maintained, in the stature of his body he was tall and straight, having hands and arms delightful to see, in conversation grave, rare, and modest, so that it may be truly said that he was beautiful among the sons of men. He appeared in the times of Lentulus, that is of Tiberius, by the authority of Eutropius. "He appeared," says Lentulus, "in these times of ours, and still is, a man of great virtue, named Jesus Christ, who is called by the Gentiles the Prophet of truth, whom his disciples call the son of God, raising the dead and healing all languors." I have mentioned him here so willingly because Cambridge has suffered much for the sake of his religion, and because it glories much in that name, that it never departed from the Christian faith, that it perpetually defended and cultivated it, as we shall indicate as the history proceeds, in the opposition to the Pelagian heresy, both by words and example. But I return to the history. The fame of the gymnasium and the glory of the name also persisted through the whole time of King Guiderius, who [succeeded] his father Cymbelinus (whom Dion Nicaeus in his Roman History, book 60, calls Cynobellinus, but he himself in his bronze coin, which we have seen, calls himself Cunobellinus), and [of] Aruiragus who, reigning in the age of Nero, succeeded his brother Guiderius. But with King Marius, who was substituted in the kingdom after his father Aruiragus...

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