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“The letters are sometimes rather official proclamations, but they are very often truly written ad hominem, writing to a specific person to a specific occasion. And you can see on display the pliancy of Augustine’s mind and his attentiveness to other people. You see his attentiveness to their specific situations, predicament, questions, whatever it is exactly that they’ve engaged him about. And just occasionally again, you see these leaps of joy or of playfulness, that that can be hard to come by elsewhere in the works.” Read more...
Catherine Conybeare, Classicist
