65. For the distinction of the 'Caenobites' and the
'Hermits', especially in Egypt, see Jerom (tom. i. p. 45, ad
Rusticum [Ep. 125, tom. i. p. 932, ed. Vallars.]), the first
Dialogue of Sulpicius Severus, Rufinus (c. 22, in Vit.
Patrum, l. ii. p. 478), Palladius (c. 7, 69, in Vit. Patrum,
l. viii. p. 712, 758), and, above all, the eighteenth and
nineteenth Collations of Cassian. These writers, who compare
the common and solitary life, reveal the abuse and danger of
the latter.