[22] Œconomicus, VII, 5, 6.
[23] Epistolæ, Lib. I, 16.
[24] Sit mihi verna satur, sit non doctissima conjux. Epigrammata, Lib. II, 90.
Martial's taste in this respect was the same as that of Heine, who said of the woman he loved: "She has never read a line of my writings and does not even know what a poet is," and the same as that of Rousseau, who declared that his last flame, Therèse Lavasseur, could not tell the time of day.
[25] Satire VI, 434-440.
[26] Joannis Stobæi Florilegium, Vol. IV, p. 212, Teubner's edition, 1857.
[27] The following is the epitaph as written by St. Jerome, "the Christian Cicero":
Scipio quam genuit, Pauli fudere parentes,
Gracchorum soboles, Agamemnonis inclyta proles,
Hoc jacet in tumulo, Paulam dixere priores,
Euxtochii genetrix, Romani prima senatus,
Pauperiem Christi et Bethlehemitica rura secuta est.
[28] In his preface to the Commentary on Sophonius.
[29] For an exhaustive account of the lives and achievements of St. Jerome and his noble friends, Paula and Eustochium, the reader is referred to L'Histoire de Sainte Paule, by F. Lagrange, Paris, 1870, and Saint Jerome, La Société Chrétienne à Rome et l'Émigration Romaine en Terre Sainte, by A. Thierry, Paris, 1867. Cf. also Woman's Work in Bible Study and Translation, by A. H. Johns in The Catholic World, New York, June, 1912.