28. Jerom's devout ladies form a very considerable portion
of his works: the particular treatise which he styles the
Epitaph of Paula (tom. i. p. 169-192 [Ep. 108, tom. i. p.
684, ed. Vallars.]), is an elaborate and extravagant
panegyric. The exordium is ridiculously turgid:- "If all the
members of my body were changed into tongues, and if all my
limbs resounded with a human voice, yet should I be
incapable," etc.