The Auctores octo morales was a collection of Latin textbooks, of an elementary standard, that was used for pedagogy in the Middle Ages in Europe. It was printed in many editions, from the end of the fifteenth century. At that time it became standardised as:Distichs of Cato Eclogue of Theodulus Facetus: Liber Faceti docens mores iuvenum De contemptu mundi Liber Floretus Matthew of Vendôme, Tobias Alan of Lille, Doctrinale altum parabolarum Aesop, version attributed to Gualterus Anglicus.