Saint Jerome and Domitius Afer

SAINT JEROME AND DOMITIUS AFER BY WILLIAM C. McDERMOTT Sanctus Hieronymus was a man of manifold intellectual interests.1 His comprehensive knowledge of pagan Latin literature subserved his Chris- tian mission.2 In his letters and polemical essays his indignatio saeva matched the classical satirists, especially the last and greatest, Iuvenal. In 394 he wrote a long letter (52) to the priest Nepotianus which purported to be on the duties of the clergy but was largely an attack on corruption of the religious.3 3 One section of the seventh chapter is written in a more sedate tone. He began Esto subiectus pontifici

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