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Letter 44

9. [...] Cum tam multas uiolentissimas caedes et strages plerique ipsorum et episcopi et presbyteri et quilibet clerici congregatis turbis hominum furiosissimorum non catholicis sed non numquam etiam suis, ubi possunt, inferre non cessent. [...]

(ed. Goldbacher 1898: 116)

Letter 44

9. [...] For many of them, even bishops and priests and other clerics, gather crowds of highly enraged people and do not stop inflicting so much violent killing and destruction, not upon Catholics alone, but even at times upon their own people when they can. [...]

(trans. R. Teske, slightly altered)

Place of event:

Region

Latin North Africa

City

Hippo Regius

About the source:

Author: Augustine of Hippo
Title: Letters, Epistulae
Origin: Hippo Regius (Latin North Africa)
Denomination: Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian

The letters of Augustine of Hippo cover a wide range of topics: Holy Scripture, dogma and liturgy, philosophy, religious practice and everyday life. They range from full-scale theological treatises to small notes asking someone for a favour. The preserved corpus includes 308 letters, 252 written by Augustine, 49 that others sent to him and seven exchanged between third parties. 29 letters have been discovered only in the 20th century and edited in 1981 by Johannes Divjak; they are distinguished by the asterisk (*) after their number.

The preserved letters of Augustine extend over the period from his stay at Cassiciacum in 386 to his death in Hippo in 430.

Edition:

A. Goldbacher ed., S. Augustini Hipponiensis Episcopi Epistulae, Pars 2, Ep. 31-123, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 34/2, Prague-Vienna-Leipzig 1898.

Saint Augustine, Letters 1-99, trans. R. Teske, New York, 2001.

Categories:

Religious grouping (other than Catholic/Nicene/Chalcedonian) - Donatist

Described by a title - Presbyter/πρεσβύτερος

Relation with - Heretic/Schismatic

Conflict - Violence

Please quote this record referring to its author, database name, number, and, if possible, stable URL: S. Adamiak, Presbyters in the Late Antique West, ER713, http://www.presbytersproject.ihuw.pl/index.php?id=6&SourceID=713