Some Recent “Improvements” to the Text of Jerome’s Epitaphium sanctae Paulae (epist. 108)

• Authors: Adkin Neil
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The fi ne commentary which Andrew Cain has recently devoted to Jerome’s influential Epitaphium S. Paulae endeavours to improve Hilberg’s canonical text. The present note endeavours to show that many of Cain’s Verbesserungen are Schlimmbesserungen. The resultant discussion would appear to throw interesting light on Jerome’s compositional method in general.

Keywords

EN

Jerome; Paula; Textkritik; Verschlimmbesserungen

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Eirene. Studia Graeca et Latina
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 52
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 397–406

Contributors

author

Adkin Neil

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Classics, 204A Spring Lane, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, U.S.A.