A misunderstood passage in St. Jerome (Epist.30,1)

• Autores: Neil Adkin
• Localización: Helmantica: Revista de filología clásica y hebrea, ISSN 0018-0114, Tomo 72, Nº 206, 2021, págs. 75-79
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The first sentence of Jerome’s first letter to Paula contains a passage which translators have hitherto misunderstood (Epist. 30, 1).

    The present note endeavours to clarify the problem by adducing a passage of Marius Victorinus’ commentary on Cicero’s De inventione (1, 34, 58-9). Comparison of these passages of Victorinus and Jerome illustrates some typical features of the latter’s compositional and self-imitatory technique