The Gothes hauing sackt Rome, and ouer-running all Latium, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Campania, Cala∣bria, Salentinum, Apulia, or Aprutium; spoyling and wasting al as they went, like a gene∣rall deluge, their fury extended as far as Consentia (a Citty in Calabria called now Cosen∣za) and forty yeares after that Genserike with the Moores and Vandals brake out again, tooke Rome, filling all Campania with ruine, raized the citty of Nola. Of which Cittie at that time, Paulinus was Bishop (as Paulus Diaconus writeth) a most holy and (as Saint Gregory saith) an eloquent man, exceedingly read in humaine learning, and not altogether void of the spirit of prophecie, who hauing spent all hee had in redeeming Christian cap∣tiues, and seeing a widow bewayling her captiue sonne, and powring forth her pious la∣mentations mixt with teares, his pietie so vrged him that hee could not rest vntill hee had crossed ouer into Affricke with the widow, where her sonne was prisoner: And there by exchange of him-selfe for hir sonne, redeemed him, and gaue him free vnto his mother. Now his sanctity, growing admirable in the eies of the Barbarians, hee had the freedome of all his cittizens giuen him, and so was sent backe to his country. Thereof read at large in Gregories third booke of Dialogues. But I thinke Augustine speakes not of this later in∣vasion (for then was Paulinus departed this life) but of the first irruption of the Gothes (k) Whereby them-selues were good] Namely, their vertue which no man can depriue them off: and that onely is the good which makes the possessors good. For if riches bee good (as Tul∣ly saith in his Paradoxes) why do they not make them good that inioy them? (l) Mammon] Mammon (after Hierome) is a Syriake word: signifying that vnto them that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 doth vnto the Greekes, namely Ritches: Augustine elswere saith that Mammon in the Punike language is gaine, and that the Affrican and Hebrew tongues do accord in the significa∣tion of many wordes. Serm. de verb. Dom. & quaest. Euang.