Abstract
IN the Anticlaudianus of Alain de Lille, Reason and Prudence ascend to the supernal regions in a chariot drawn by five horses. These horses represent allegorically the five senses. Each of the five horses is described by the author in a similar pattern; so rigorously is the principle of correspondence pursued that any marked deviation from it is sufficient to render the text suspect. Such a deviation is to be found in the account of the second horse transmitted in the editions of Migne and Wright.' As Alain terminates his characterization of each other horse, he takes care to designate the divinity that bestowed the horse upon Mother Nature. Thus he concludes his description of the first horse with these lines:
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