Abstract

No other document so clearly and dramatically illustrates the death throes of Roman paganism in its struggle against Christianity than do three letters addressed to the young Emperor Valentinian II in the year 384 AD. These letters are the third relatio (official report) by the City Prefect of Rome, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, and the reactions to its contents contained in two letters (epp. 17 and 18) of the Bishop of Milan, (Saint) Ambrose, addressed to that same Prince.

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