Much more important is the _Chronicle_ of St. Jerome (331-420 A. D.), a translation from the Greek of Eusebius with important additions. The _Chronicle_ begins with the first year of Abraham (2016 B. C.). From this point to the Trojan War, Jerome merely translates Eusebius, from the Trojan War to 325 A. D. he translates Eusebius and adds much information concerning Roman history and literature, and from 325 to 378 A. D. the work is entirely his own. His information concerning the history of Roman literature is derived chiefly from Suetonius (_De Viris Illustribus_) and is of the utmost importance, though the dates given are sometimes wrong, which is not surprising when one remembers the carelessness in respect to dates exhibited by Suetonius in his extant _Lives of the Cæsars_. Jerome’s _Chronicle_ was continued in the fifth century by Prosper of Aquitania to the year 455 A. D., and further additions were made after that time. The _Chronicle_ is of great importance to the historian, but is itself merely the dry bones of history. The only real history that the last centuries of Roman literature produced, the only serious and original historical work after Tacitus, is that of Ammianus Marcellinus; for the summary of universal history (_Chronicorum Libri II_) written by the Aquitanian Sulpicius Severus in the early years of the fifth century, and the more pretentious but no more original history of the world (_Historiarum Adversus Paganos Libri VII_) by Orosius of Spain, compiled soon after 417 A. D., are even less important than the handbook of Eutropius.