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It is probable, but not certain, that he belonged to Clonmacnois. Dungal, like the two others named above, was an astronomer. He probably belonged to Bangor, and left his native land early in the ninth century. In 811 he wrote a remarkable work, Dungali Reclusi Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810 ad Carolum Magnum.
His maiden work, De Unica P. Rami Methodo, which he published under the pseudonym, Mildapettus 1580, was aimed at Digby's De Duplici Methodo. Bacon was undoubtedly acquainted with both these writers and took ideas from both. Digby represented the scholastic tendency, which Bacon vehemently opposed, yet without being able completely to break away from it.
Corque unum in duplici corpore et una anima so the elder, after the younger's death, described their relationship. Melville's scholarly bent showed itself early.
I would have my pupil to be such an one, "Quem duplici panno patentia velat, Mirabor, vitae via si conversa decebit, Personamque feret non inconcinnus utramque." These are my lessons, and he who puts them in practice shall reap more advantage than he who has had them read to him only, and so only knows them. If you see him, you hear him; if you hear him, you see him.
All colours, states, and things are fit For courtly Aristippus wit. Such a one would I frame my Disciple, quem duplici panno patientia velat, Mirabor, vita via si conversa decebit. Whom patience clothes with sutes of double kind, I muse, if he another way will find. He not unfitly may, Both parts and persons play.
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