threna

Updated: May 16, 2025

XXV. quaest. ulti. non observetis. It is called Strena as if from sine threna, i.e. without lamentation. Also Rabanus on the Afflictions of the Church: The blessed Jerome is beaten by an angel because he was reading the works of Cicero.

Arthur O. Norton - Readings in the History of Education: Mediaeval Universities