THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY EDITED BY T. E. PAGE, LITT.D. E. CAPPS, PH.D., LL.D. W. H. D. ROUSE, litt.d SELECT LETTERS OF JEROME ST. r S.JEROME IN THE DESERT Left hand panel, Pope Damasus and Eusebius, Bishop of Caesarea. Right handpanel, Paula and Eustoehium. The small kneeling figures represent the patron who commissioned the pictureandhisson. [ReproducedfromthepicturebyBotticini,bypermission ofthetrusteesoftheSationaJQallery."] JerfC) '-I'. SELECT LETTEKS OF JEROME ST. WITH AN Bl^LISH TRANSLATION BY Fi^XyWRIGHT, M.A. PROFESSOR OP CLASSICS DT LOSDOSXTNTVEBfiHY .\^. LONDON: WILLL\M HEINEMANN LTD ZVV YORK: G. P. PUTNAxM'S SONS Mciqxxxiu m 1933 PrintedinGreatBritain