HILARIUS (}i. 1125), a Latin poet who is supposed to have been English. He was a pupil of Abelard to whom he addressed a copy of verses with its refrain in the vulgar tongue, "Tort avers vos li mestre." Later Hilarius made his way to Angers. His works consist chiefly of light verses of the goliardic type. Of his three miracle plays in rhymed Latin with an admixture of French, two, Suscitatio Lazari and Historia de Daniel repraesentanda, are of purely liturgical type. The third, Lucius super iconic Sancti Nicholai, is founded on a foolish legend and Petit de Julleville sees in it a satiric intention.
A rhymed Latin account of a dispute in which the nuns of Ronceray at Angers were concerned, contained in a cartulary of Ronceray, is also ascribed to the poet, who there calls himself Hilarius Canonicus. The poem is printed in the Bibliotheque de l'Ecole des Chartes (vol. xxxvii. 1876), and is dated by P. Marchegay from 1121. The Paris ms. con taining the genuine poems of Hilarius was edited in 1838 by Cham pollion Figeac. See notice in Hist. Litt. de la France (xii. 251-254), sup plemented (in xx. 627-63o), s.v. Jean Bodel, by Paulin Paris; also Wright, Biographia Britannica literaria, Anglo-Norman Period (1846) ; and Petit de Julleville, Les Mysteres (vol. i. 188o) .