PL 49, col. 128

De coenobiorum institutis (Joannes Cassianus), J. P. Migne

In English: The Twelve Books on the Institutes of the Cœnobia, and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Faults 3.4

invenimus. Verum cum hac abutentes indulgentia
negligentiores quique inducias somni longius protelarent:
quippe quos vel extra cellas progredi,
vel de suis stratis consurgere ante horam tertiam
nulla conventus ullius necessitas invitaret, et cum
operationis jactura, tempore quoque diei quo
nonnullis oportebat officiis inhaerere, soporis nimietate
torperent, in his praesertim diebus quibus a vespertinis
horis excubias usque ad aurorae viciniam
celebrantibus nascebatur onerosior lassitudo; quorumdam
illic fratrum ferventium spiritu, quibus hoc
negligentiae genus haud leviter displiceret, ad seniores

Text from the Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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