Letter 10037: I remain, despite everything, convinced that the way of life we have built — the culture, the friendship, the...

After I gave your assistant Gaudentius a letter reporting on my completed journey, an imperial agent brought me...

The pagans call death the supreme evil.

Marcella had asked Jerome to lend her a copy of a commentary by Rhetitius, bishop of Augustodunum (Autun), on the Song of Songs. He now refuses to do so on the ground that the work abounds with errors, of which the two following are samples: (1) Rhetitius identifies Tharshish with Tarsus, and (2) he supposes that Uphaz (in the phrase gold of Uph...

When I heard that you turned your troubles into an occasion for philosophy, I nearly praised the man who wronged you.

The quadragesima [a 2.