agreed on the wrong things, but the friendships were true nonetheless. One sees no variation in Augustine’s thinking about friendship. Until, that is, the writing of the Confessions in his mid-forties. When revisiting the friendships of his youth, he reconsiders the nature and then the definition of those friendships. Cicero will never again be cited on the subject of friendship without addition or correction. This is a postconversion transformation of thought. Augustine’s letters had cited Cicero