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The personal relations between Jerome and Ambrose have excited attention since Rufinus (cf. Apol. adv. Hier. 2,25-d1)). However, the first scholar to subject this relationship to a really meticulous scrutiny was Paredi2). He concluded that until 385 Jerome's references to Ambrose were favourable; thereafter they became predominantly hostile. Paredi accordingly posited a breach in the relations between the two men: he argued that it was due to Ambrose's failure to support Jerome at the time of the latter's expulsion from Rome in 385 (ib. 198). Paredi's thesis has met with general assent3). Recently however Nauroy has rejected Paredi's view of a sudden breach in 3854); he calls instead for an interpretation of Jerome's estimate of Ambrose that is more nuanc?. Nauroy accordingly attempts to differentiate between Jerome's attitude to the various