Augustine’s Confessions, Book VIII

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The text used is James O’Donnell’s (by permission) and his commentary referred to throughout can be found here. I intentionally avoided using Peter White’s commentary to encourage students to use it in conjunction with or after my own. The commentary marked G-M (“Gibbs and Montgomery”) in my notes can be downloaded here:

And here are two old but still helpful dissertations on Augustine’s latinity to which I refer in the notes:

Concerning the latter I am still awaiting confirmation about copyright/public domain (1931 is not quite there!), and there is a Haiti-trust version, which, however, is only available for limited preview: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001639817

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