I can’t remember if I’ve posted this here before, but don’t feel like checking and came across it again today. It comes from Kathleen Jamieson’s article ‘Jerome, Augustine and the Stesichoran Palinode’ (Rhetorica 5 [1987] 353-67). On the verbal war between Rufinus and Jerome, she writes:
Reading the apologiae of Rufinus and Jerome leaves one with the sense of having helplessly witnessed the bludgeoning of a child. (p. 359)