vita

Pharnaces filius bellum ei intulit, qui, occisis a patre fratribus, vitae suae ipse timebat.

The reference, of course, is to the Vitae sanctorum whose number from the fourth century onward becomes legion.

And so, in the Vitae sanctorum, the joinder of suggestion and the will to believe literally worked marvels.

Mediaeval Chronicles and Vitae rarely afford a broad and variegated picture of the world.