Note 208 — Chapter VIII
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Thomas Aquinas, the Angel of the Schools, who had taught in Salerno, and was well acquainted with the leading universities of Europe, was wont to say "Quattuor sunt urbes cæteris præeminentes, Parisius in Scientiis, Salernum in Medicinis, Bononia in legibus, Aurelianis in actoribus—" there are four preëminent cities: Paris, in the sciences; Salerno, in medicine; Bologna, in law; Orleans, in actors. Op. 17. De Virtutibus et Vitiis, Cap. ult.
The mediæval poet, Galfrido, expressed the same idea in verse when he wrote:
"In morbis sanat medici virtute Salernum Ægros: in causis Bononia legibus armat Nudos: Parisius dispensat in artibus illos Panes, unde cibat robustos: Aurelianis Educat in cunis actorum lacte tenellos."