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6 St. Ambrose; in one whereof, touching the Emperor Valentinian, and his brother Gratian, thus he speaketh:—

In another, he prayeth thus unto God:

And yet he had said before of him:

And afterward also,

In a third, he prayeth thus, for his brother Satyrus:

although he had directly pronounced of him before, that

and excelled in many notable virtues.

Lastly, in one of his epistles, he comforteth Faustinas, for the death of his sister, after this manner:

Thus far St. Ambrose, unto whom we may adjoin Gregory Nazianzen also; who, in the funeral oration that he made upon his brother Cæsarius, having acknowledged that he had