Letter 10075: My duties are not yet finished, and the city's demands are not yet satisfied.

A long letter in which Jerome answers a number of questions put to him by two sojourners in Getica, Sunnias and Fretela. Diligent students of scripture, these men were at a loss to understand the frequent differences between Jerome's Latin psalter of 383 A.D. (the so-called Roman psalter) and the LXX, and accordingly sent him a long list of pass...

1. Recollecting your request and my promise, that as soon as time and opportunity should be given by Him to whom we pray, I would write you something on the subject of prayer to God, I feel it my duty now to discharge this debt, and in the love of Christ to minister to the satisfaction of your pious desire. I cannot express in words how greatly...

You know — whether by reputation or firsthand — how long I've championed your achievements.

I write to you from a Rome that is, in the literal sense, less Roman than the Rome I grew up in; the changes are...

I had already sent a letter with my own messenger when Maximus turned up asking for another.