I came to Carthage. Everywhere a medley of shameful loves was clamoring around me. I wasn’t yet capable of loving, and yet I loved to love, and with more hidden desire I hated that I was less ...desirous. I was looking for what I could love, loving love, and I despised surety and a path free of danger. It was all because I was hungry from within, for more internal foods, for you—my God—though I hungered not with that hunger. No, I was without the desire for incorruptible nourishments. Yet I was not satisfied with them, rather more
This 10th century composite manuscript produced at the Abbey of St. Gall contains the pseudo-Augustinian sermons De consolatione mortuorum, together with Augustine's sermon 172 and excerpts from the ...Augustinian works De cura pro mortuis gerenda, De octo Dulcitii quaestionibus and De civitate dei.
