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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 674 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CENTO (Gr. idvrpwv, See also:Lat. cento, patchwork)  , a See also:composition made up by See also:collecting passages from various See also:works . The See also:Byzantine Greeks manufactured several out of the poems of See also:Homer, among which may be mentioned the See also:life of See also:Christ by the famous empress Eudoxia, and a version of the Biblical See also:history of See also:Eden and the Fall . The See also:Romans of the later See also:empire and the monks of the See also:middle ages were fond of constructing poems out of the See also:verse of See also:Virgil . Such were the See also:Cento Nuptialis of See also:Ausonius, the See also:sketch of Biblical history which was compiled in the 4th See also:century by Proba Falconia, wife of a See also:Roman proconsul, and the See also:hymns in See also:honour of St See also:Quirinus taken from Virgil' and See also:Horace by See also:Metellus, a See also:monk of See also:Tegernsee, in the latter See also:half of the 12th century . Specimens may be found in the See also:work of Aldus See also:Manutius (See also:Venice, 1504; See also:Frankfort, 1541, I544) . In 1535 See also:Laelius Capitulus produced from Virgil an attack upon the dissolute lives of the monks; in 1536 there appeared at Venice a Petrarca Spirituale; and in 1634 See also:Alexander See also:Ross (a Scotsman, and one of the chaplains of See also:Charles I.) published a Virgilius Evangelizans, seu Historia Domini nostri Jesu Christi Virgilianis verbis et versibus descripta .

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