histories, poems are what i have written in latin.
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histories, poems
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the latin biblical texts in use before jerome's vulgate are usually referred to collectively as the , or "old latin bible"; where "old latin" means that they are older than the vulgate and written in latin, not that they are written in old latin. jerome himself uses the term "latin vulgate" for the "vetus latina" text, so intending to denote this version as the common latin rendering of the greek vulgate or common septuagint (which jerome otherwise terms the 'seventy interpreters'); and this remained the usual use of the term 'latin vulgate" in the west for centuries. on occasion jerome applies the term 'septuagint' ("septuaginta") to refer to the hexaplar septuagint, where he wishes to distinguish this from the "vulgata", or common septuagint. the earliest known use of the term "vulgata" to describe the 'new' latin translation was made by roger bacon in the 13th century. the translations in the vetus latina had accumulated piecemeal over a century or more; they were not translated by a single person or institution, nor uniformly edited. the individual books varied in quality of translation and style, and different manuscripts and quotations witness wide variations in readings. some books appear to have been translated several times; the book of psalms in particular having circulated for over a century in an earlier latin version (the cyprianic version), before this was superseded by the old latin version in the 4th century. jerome, in his preface to the vulgate gospels, commented that there were "as many [translations] as there are manuscripts"; subsequently repeating the witticism in his preface to the book of joshua. the base text for jerome's revision of the gospels was an old latin text similar to the codex veronensis; with the text of the gospel of john conforming more to that in the codex corbiensis.
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