"Indeed, perhaps you, gentlemen, have come for the same purpose!" he said smiling. "Everyone comes for that now. Once upon a time they came to see a pope! Certainly! There was a pope at Jenne once Alexander IV, You will see the inscription: 'Colores æstivos vitandi caussa. Now they come for a saint. He ought to be more than a pope, but I fear he is less.

Suetonius, speaking of Augustus, says: "Quoties adesset, nihil praeterea agebat, seu vitandi rumoris causa, quo patrem Caesarem vulgo reprehensum commemorabat, quod inter spectandum epistolis libellisque legendis aut rescribendis vacaret; seu studio spectandi et voluptate," etc. Vita Octavii, 45.

This law, saith Tilen, was propter charitatem et vitandi offendiculi necessitatem ad tempus sancita. So that these things were necessary before the canon was made. Necessaria fuerunt, saith Ames, antequam Apostoli quidquam de iis statuerant, non absolute, sed quatenus in iis charitas jubebat morem gerere infirmis, ut cajetanus notat. Sect. 1.