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What subject did St. Augustine teach in Carthage, Rome, and Milan?
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Saint Augustine, oil on wood panel by Justus of Ghent, c. 1475; in the Louvre Museum, Paris.
St. Augustine taught the subject of rhetoric in Carthage, Rome, and Milan.1
In Carthage, he returned to teach this subject after a brief stint in his hometown of Tagaste. Later, he moved to Rome in 383 to pursue his career, where he taught briefly before securing an appointment as the imperial professor of rhetoric in Milan.1