Year: 1985
Type: article
Abstract: EROME HIMSELF admits the haste with which he translated and extended Eusebius' Chronicle, and caustically predicts the fate his work will suffer at the hands of critics: "They will quibble about the dates, change the order, question the accuracy of events, sift each syllable, and, as often happens, will ascribe to the authors the negligence of copyists." 1 Among many who fulfilled this prophecy, the eighteenth-century historian Ie Nain de Tillemont questioned Jerome's attribution to the Arian emperor Valens of a recall of Nicene exiles. 2 Jerome apparently dated this recall to the spring of 378, when Valens was forced to leave Antioch to meet the Goths in Thrace (Chron.A.D. 378 [GCS 47.249]): Valens de Antiochia exire conpulsus sera paenitentia nostros de exiliis revocat.3
Author: Rochelle Snee
Language: English
Subfield: Classics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1741153639