Lot Essay
The latin inscriptions can be translated as follows:
'The shade of a cave gave shelter to the grateful offspring of Egidius - A wild beast gave up her booty to a hunting dog to nurse him - A hind nourished him with her own udders - Even the grass provided a rich feast - Virtue cannot hide in a cave' and 'This is Arsenius, a model for all generations. When speaking, he proved very useful to the emperors, but, a lover of tranquility, he fled to the imperial court and proved more useful to everyone when he stayed silent'.
Saint Eustace was a Roman general who was converted while hunting. He is the patron saint of hunting.
Saint Arsenius spent ten years at the court of Constantinople, tutoring the emperors Arcadius and Honorius, before escaping to the Egyptian desert where he lived as an ascetic until he died at the age of 95.
'The shade of a cave gave shelter to the grateful offspring of Egidius - A wild beast gave up her booty to a hunting dog to nurse him - A hind nourished him with her own udders - Even the grass provided a rich feast - Virtue cannot hide in a cave' and 'This is Arsenius, a model for all generations. When speaking, he proved very useful to the emperors, but, a lover of tranquility, he fled to the imperial court and proved more useful to everyone when he stayed silent'.
Saint Eustace was a Roman general who was converted while hunting. He is the patron saint of hunting.
Saint Arsenius spent ten years at the court of Constantinople, tutoring the emperors Arcadius and Honorius, before escaping to the Egyptian desert where he lived as an ascetic until he died at the age of 95.