Word: numidian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...energies of his life to correcting and im proving the Latin texts of the Old and New Testaments in Rome and Bethlehem, later translated the Bible into its most enduring edition, the Latin Vulgate. He was an ex travagant polemicist, once characterized dark-skinned St. Augustine as "a little Numidian ant." After Alaric's sack of Rome in 404, Jerome laid aside his pen for refugee work...