Jerome: Select Letters (Loeb 262)

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Summary: "Exceptional Eloquence...Exemplary Latin Prose"
Review: Rivalling the great Cicero in sheer eloquence and form, the select letters of St. Jerome are an enduring testimony to an age painted with religious verve and shakened by the piecemeal disentigration of the Roman Empire. These selections are but a mere fragment of Jerome's extant letters; the selections made provide us with important historical content, while at the same time manifesting the personality of the saint - his concern for people, rather than doctrine, is the focus of these letters.