Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 123

St Jerome (AD 345–420) · De viris illustribus · PL 23, 598–720

123 Tiberianus PL 23, 711

Tiberianus, the Baetican, in answer to an insinuation that he shared the heresy of Priscillian, wrote an apology in pompous and mongrel language. But after the death of his friends, overcome by the tediousness of exile, he changed his mind, as it is written in Holy Scripture “the dog returned to his vomit,” and married a nun, a virgin dedicated to Christ.

Tiberianus, Baeticus, scripsit pro suspicione, qua cum Priscilliano accusabatur haereseos, apologeticum tumenti compositoque sermone; sed post suorum caedem, taedio victus exsilii, mutavit propositum, et juxta sanctam Scripturam, canis reversus ad vomitum suum , filiam, devotam Christo virginem, matrimonio copulavit.

Τιβεριανὸς, Βαιτικὸς, συνέγραψε περὶ τῆς ὑπονουμένης αἱρέσεως, εἰς ἣν ἅμα Πρισκιλλιανῷ κατηγορεῖτο, ἀπολογητικὸν ὑψηλῷ καὶ ἐπηρμένῳ λόγῳ. Ὅστις μετὰ τήν τῶν ἱδίων σφαγὴν ἡττηθεὶς, ἀνιαρῶς διάγων ἐν τῇ ἐξορίᾳ, ἐξέστη τῆς οἰκείας προθέσεως, καὶ κατὰ τὴν θείαν Γραφὴν, κύων εἰς τὸν ἴδιον ἔμετον ἀναζεύξας, θυγατέρα, καθιερωθεῖσαν θεῷ παρθένον, γαμηθῆναι κατηνάγκασεν.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).