CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS AUGUSTINE CONFESSIONS BOOKS V-IX EIXIIBSEDESBYSPEISERSWIEPDDE CAMBRIDGE GREEK AND LATIN CLASSICS GENERAL EDITORS P. E. EASTERLING Regius Professor Emeritus of Greek, University of Cambridge PHiLIP HARDIE Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge NEIL HOPKINSON Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge RicHARD HUNTER Regius Professor of Greek, University of Cambridge E. J. KeNNEY Kennedy Professor Emeritus of Latin, University of Cambridge S. P. OAKLEY Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge AUGUSTINE CONFESSIOINS BOOKS V—IX EDITED BY PETER WHITE University of Chicago EE CAMBRIDGE Qj UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS University Printing House, Cambridge cB2 8Bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, NY 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314-321, 3rd Floor, Plot g, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi - 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06—04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University's mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107009592 DOI: 10.1017/9780511841873 © Cambridge University Press 2019 This publication is in copyright. 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To the memory of Nancy Helmbold, who gave me her course and her text CONTENTS Preface List of Abbreviations and Short References Introduction 1 Confessions in the Life and Literary Career of Augustine 2 The Latinity of Confessions 9 Rhetoric and Style in Confessions 4 Book Divisions and Narrative Structure in Confessions 5 Books 5—9 of Confessions 6 This Text and Commentary AVGVSTINI CONFESSIONVM LIBRI V-IX Commentary Works Cited 1 Index of Latin Words 2 Index of Topics PREFACE This commentary is meant for students of classical or patristic literature who wish to read Saint Augustine's Confessions in Latin, but who find that that work presents elements with which they are unfamiliar. Classicists will come upon a number of grammatical usages and lexical items not registered in the reference works that they typically consult, they will be unprepared for the extent to which Augustine blends biblical Latin into his own prose, and they may know relatively little about early Christianity and the Late Antique world for which Augustine was helping to develop it. Students of patristic literature may not realize how faithful his Latin remains to the Ciceronian model, how consciously he relies on classi- cal techniques of rhetoric to structure his story, or how much his liter- ary imagination owes to the influence of Latin authors taught in Roman schools. I hope that this commentary will ease the way for both sets of readers at the same time, though at the possible cost of sometimes supply- ing one of them with information that the other may not need. Gillian Clark created a niche for the Confessions in this series with a commentary on books 1 to 4 in 1995. In carrying that initiative another step forward, I have been encouraged by the availability of several excel- lent resources, some quite new, that now facilitate the study of Augustine's text. In addition to the pioneering edition and commentary by James O’Donnell, the magnificent Corpus Augustinianum Gissense offers a search- able database of the entire corpus, and Brepols offers an online reposi- tory of evidence for ancient Latin translations of the Bible. The Thesaurus linguae Latinae, the only dictionary that covers Latin of the fourth and fifth centuries, is about two thirds complete. The first half of Harm Pinkster's Oxford Latin syntax, now the fullest description of Latin gram- mar through Augustine's lifetime, has appeared, and publication of the second half (on complex as opposed to simple sentences) is imminent. The Augustinus-Lexikon, a modern encyclopedia of all matters relating to Augustine, has reached the letter P. I have tried to make judicious use of all. My abettors in this project have been, in the first instance, the series editors Philip Hardie and Stephen Oakley, who accepted the proposal for a follow-up to the Clark commentary and then patiently nudged it into the shape it now has. I am grateful to both for their detailed criticisms and for allowing commentary on a somewhat larger scale than in my predeces- sor's volume. Other readers to whom I am grateful for counsel on parts or the whole of what I have written are Adam Becker, Andrew Feldherr, Robert Kaster, E. J. Kenney, Gabriel Lear, James O'Donnell, and Harm Pinkster. I am particularly indebted to Harm Pinkster, who not only made ix X PREFACE available the files comprising part two of his Syntax, but labored greatly to refine my annotations on Augustine’s Latin. For helpful interventions from the Press at the production stage, I am grateful to Sarah Starkey, my content manager, and Mary Morton, my copyeditor. 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