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The Church Fathers · 370–419
The Letters
Jerome · c. 347–420
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What it is
A hundred and fifty letters of scholarship, spiritual counsel, travel, and ferocious quarrel, including the dream in which he is accused of being a Ciceronian rather than a Christian.
Why it lasted
The most readable prose of the Latin fathers and a primary source for the ascetic movement among Roman aristocratic women.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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