Letter 3048: ...simply put, the situation demands that the discomfort of being away from home should make you appreciate what you...

It is superfluous labor to recommend the conspicuous -- like holding a torch before someone standing in sunlight.

I am staying in Milan for the moment, summoned for the ceremonies of our lord Valentinian's inaugural consulship.

St. Ambrose excuses himself for not having gone to the consistory when summoned, on the ground that in matters of faith no one but bishops could rightly judge, and that he was not contumacious because he would not suffer wrong to be done to his own order. And he adds that Auxentius would perhaps choose as judges either Jews or unbelievers, that ...

If you were sending me a great quantity of Colophonian gold, or something more precious than gold, and you sent the...

Full of hope since you announced your forthcoming visit, I'm putting the spur to those already hurrying, and I ask...