Letter 33
To the most reverend Theodora.
I was glad to receive all the books you sent me and your letters through the excellent Mygdonius. Since I have almost no leisure — as the gods know, I say this without pretense — I am writing just these few lines. Farewell, and may you always write me letters like these.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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I should be more diligent in writing to you but for my belief that my letters do not always, my friend, reach your own hands. I am afraid that through the naughtiness of those on whose service I depend, especially at a time like this when the whole world is in a state of confusion, a great many other people get hold of them. So I wait to be foun...
Theodora the wife of the learned Spaniard Lucinius (for whom see Letter LXXI.) had recently lost her husband, a bereavement which suggested the present letter. In it Jerome recounts the many virtues of Lucinius and especially his zeal in resisting the gnostic heresy of Marcus which during his life was prevalent in Spain. The date of the letter i...