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Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus), ca. 345-420, of Stridon,
Dalmatia, son of Christian parents, at Rome listened to
rhetoricians, legal advocates, and philosophers, and in 360 was
baptized by Pope Liberius. He travelled widely in Gaul and in Asia
Minor; and turned in the years 373-379 to hermetic life in Syria.
Ordained presbyter at Antioch in 379 he went to Constantinople, met
Gregory of Nazianzus and advanced greatly in scholarship. He was
called to Rome in 382 to help Pope Damasus, at whose suggestion he
began his revision of the Old Latin translation of the Bible (which
came to form the core of the Vulgate version). Meanwhile he taught
scripture and Hebrew and monastic living to Roman women. Wrongly
suspected of luxurious habits, he left Rome (now under Pope
Siricius) in 385, toured Palestine, visited Egypt, and then settled
in Bethlehem, presiding over a monastery and (with help)
translating the Old Testament from Hebrew. About 394 he met
Augustine. He died on 30 September 420.
Jerome's letters constitute one of the most notable collections
in Latin literature. They are an essential source for our knowledge
of Christian life in the fourth-fifth centuries; they also provide
insight into one of the most striking and complex personalities of
the time. Seven of the eighteen letters in this selection deal with
a primary interest of Jerome's: the morals and proper role of
women. The most famous letter here fervently extols virginity.
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pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: LEMPRIERE S Classical
Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors WITH A
CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE A NEW EDITION Revised with Additions, and a
Short Notice of DR. J. LEMPRIERE by F. A. WRIGHT, M. A. Late
Professor of Classics in the University of London London ROUTLEDGE
& KEGAN PAUL LTD Broadway House, 68-74 Garter Lane, E. G. First
published in 1788 First Routkdge edition 1879 Revised and rewritten
1949 Reprinted 1951 Printed in Great Britain by Western Printing
Services Ltd., Bristol PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION IN the
following pages it has been the wish of the author to give the,
most accurate and satisfactory account of all the proper names
which occur in reading the Classics, and by a judicious collection
of anecdotes and historical facts to draw a picture of ancient
times, not less instructive than entertaining. Such a work, it is
hoped, will not be deemed a useless acquisition in the hands of the
public; and while the student is initiated in the knowledge of
history and mythology, and familiarized with the ancient situation
and extent of kingdoms and cities that no longer exist, the man of
letters may, perhaps, find it not a contemptible companion, from
which he may receive information, and be made, a second time,
acquainted with many important particulars which time, or more
laborious occupations, may have erased from his memory. In the
prosecution of his plan, the author has been obliged to tread in
the steps of many learned men, whose studies have been directed,
and not without success, to facilitate the attainment of classical
knowledge, and of the ancient languages. Their compositions have
been to him a source ofinformation, and he trusts that their
labours have now found new elucidation in his own, and that, by a
due consideration of every subject, he has been enabled to imitate
their excellences, without copying their faults. Many compositions
of the same nature have issued from the press, but they are partial
and unsatis factory. The attempts to be concise, have rendered the
labours of one barren and uninstructive, while long and unconnected
quotations of passages from Greek and Latin writers, disfigure the
page of the other, and render the whole insipid and disgusting. It
cannot, therefore, be a discouraging employment now, to endeavour
to finish what others have left imperfect, and with the conciseness
of Stephens, to add the diffuse researches of Lloyd, Hoffman,
Collier, & c. After paying due attention to the ancient poets
and historians, from whom the most authentic information can be
received, the labours of more modern authors have been consulted,
and every composition distinguished for the clearness and
perspicuity of historical narration, or geographical descriptions,
has been carefully examined. Truly sensible of what he owes to
modern Latin and English writers and commentators, the author must
not forget to make a public acknowledgment of the assistance he has
likewise received from the labours of the French. In the Sidcles
Pay ens of I 1 Abbe* Sabatier de Castres he has found all the
information which judicious criticism, and a perfect knowledge of
heathen mythology, could procure. The com positions of 1 Abbc&
quot; Banier have also been useful; and in the Dictionnaire
Historique, of a literary society, printed at Caen, a treasure of
original anec dotes, and a candid selection andarrangement of
historical facts, have been discovered* It was the original design
of the author of this Dictionary to give a minute explanation of
all the names of which Pliny and other ancient geographers make
mention; but, upon a second consideration of the subject, he was vi
PREFACE convinced that it would have, increased his volume in bulk,
and not in value. The learned reader will be sensible of the
propriety of this remark, when he recollects that the names of many
places mentioned by Pliny and Pausanias occur nowhere else in
ancient authors; and that to find th
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