Letter 5015: I owe you a letter and I am paying the debt with this one — though I am aware that a letter written primarily from...

People who lack confidence in themselves seek letters of recommendation from me.

That you love and miss both us and our city — well done.

You will perhaps accuse me of an excessively long silence.

Jerome writes that he is busy collating Aquila's Greek version of the Old Testament with the Hebrew, inquires after Marcella's mother, and forwards the two preceding letters (XXX., XXXI.). Written at Rome in 384 A.D. 1.

You can easily imagine how I received the news of the Sicilian affair gone wrong — you who know that the injustice...