Retractations

Retractationes

Written 426 to 427, probably in Hippo Regius (now Annaba, Algeria).

A review, with corrections, of all the books he had written.

Treatise · first written in Latin · a major work

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How we know the date and place

Date written sure: Letter 224.2 (428) says two books are done (Retractations (it lists his books in the order he wrote them); Fitzgerald (ed.), Augustine through the Ages (1999))
Place written probable: Augustine was priest (391) and bishop (395 or 396 to 430) at Hippo and wrote there (Possidius, Life of Augustine; Brown, Augustine of Hippo, 2000)