Note 26 — Front matter
Reading edition
His latest biographer, the learned Father Marucchi, says 305, but St. Jerome does not say that he was "eighty years old" at death (in 384); he says, "nearly eighty." See Father Marucchi's Il Papa Damaso (1907) and Christian Epigraphy (English trans. 1912), M. Rade's Damasus, Bischof von Rom (1882) is a little more critical.