Julian of Antioch

Unless you were well apprised how long ago my friendship with the excellent Macedonius was contracted, and for what...

Would you have me believe that you do not take the least concern in the affairs of Ulpian and Palladius , that you...

Gemellus is my relation and my friend and by his manners is no disgrace to his family.

We have made a mutual agreement, that I should write to you on behalf of my friends, and that if their requests are...

You have won a double victory — one in arms, the other in letters — and you have raised a trophy from the barbarians...

You have gained a double victory , one by your arms, the other by your eloquence.

1. The heroic deeds of your present splendour are small, and your grand attack against me, or rather against yourself, is paltry. When I think of you robed in purple, a crown on your dishonoured head, which, so long as true religion is absent, rather disgraces than graces your empire, I tremble.

However much I condemned that journey, fatiguing as it was , I no less, or rather more, condemned myself for...

I have discharged my obligations to Aristophanes , but you, in return, have given me such splendid tokens of a...

That Alexander was appointed to the government at first, I confess, gave me some concern, as the principal persons...

That you would deal gently with the cities I knew well, for such is your nature.

I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters.

Do not stop overwhelming me with such treatment — keep it up, and with things still greater.

As for the most villainous slave—how he will pay the penalty for both what he said and what he did—that is a matter...

To the Emperor Julian.

Jerome writes to Julian, a wealthy nobleman apparently of Dalmatia (§5), to console him for the loss of his wife and two daughters all of whom had recently died. He reminds Julian of the trials of Job and recommends him to imitate the patience of the patriarch. He also urges him to follow the example set by Pammachius and Paulinus, that is, to g...

The information which you give, brother, about the riotous doings of the false monks is serious and to no slight degree lamentable; for they are due to the war which the wicked Eutyches by the madness of deceivers is waging against the preaching of the Gospel and the Apostles, though it will end in his own destruction and that of his followers:...

How watchfully and how devotedly you guard the Catholic Faith, brother, the tenor of your letter shows, and my anxiety is greatly relieved by the information it contains; supplemented as it is by the most religious piety of our religious Emperor, which is clearly shown to be prepared by the Lord for the confirmation of the whole Church; so that,...