Letter 10058: The young man I am recommending to you is someone I have watched for three years, and my confidence in him is not...

A certain man — not only superior to shameful gain but one who distributed his own possessions to those in need —...

Ambrose, Bishop, to the most clement Emperor Theodosius.

One of Jerome's finest letters, written to console his old friend, Heliodorus, now Bp. of Altinum, for the loss of his nephew Nepotian who had died of fever a short time previously. Jerome tries to soothe his friend's grief (1) by contrasting pagan despair or resignation with Christian hope, (2) by an eulogy of the departed both as man and presb...

This letter survives only in fragmentary form, with the manuscript text too damaged to reconstruct reliably.

Epicurus, the shepherd of your flock, impiously declared that everything came into being by chance and would return...