28. In his early youth (Confess. i. 23) St. Augustin
disliked and neglected the study of Greek; and he frankly
owns that he read the Platonists in a Latin version
(Confess. vii. 13). Some modern critics have thought that
his ignorance of Greek disqualified him from expounding the
Scriptures; and Cicero or Quintilian would have required the
knowledge of that language in a professor of rhetoric.