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Document Details : Title: Labor tam utilis Subtitle: Sallust in Augustine on the Vulgate Author(s): ADKIN, Neil Journal: Augustiniana Volume: 61 Issue: 1-2 Date: 2011 Pages: 49-53 DOI: 10.2143/AUG.61.1.3294601 Abstract : Though the famous correspondence between Augustine and Jerome has recently been the object of much scholarly attention, commentators have failed to identify the reminiscence of Sallust's Jugurtha (4,3: tam ... utili labori) which Augustine employs in epist. 71,6 in order to acclaim Jerome's 'Vulgate' text of the Gospels; the same phraseology is again echoed by Augustine in the same connection at epist. 82,35. Augustine's use of this Sallustian language would seem to have been suggested by Jerome's own allusion to the same passage of the Jugurtha in the preface to his LXX Job. |
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