VI.39
After the death of Bishop Remigius of Bourges, Sulpicius was chosen by King Guntram to succeed him. Guntram condemned other candidates who tried to bribe him, comparing them to Simon the Sorcerer.
And so [Sulpicius] was admitted to the clergy and received the bishopric of the aforementioned Church. He is a man of a very noble birth, descended from one of the foremost senatorial families in Gauls. He is well learned in rhetoric and second to none in the art of [poetic] metre (artes metrici).
(trans. Thorpe 1974: 371, altered and summarised by J. Szafranowski)