To Florus 4.65
“But he,” you say, “was unwilling to name the desire of the flesh. He is silent because he is ashamed; and with a remarkable shamelessness of shame, if one may say so, he is ashamed to name what he is not ashamed to praise” (Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence 2.7.17). So you are displeased that we know, according to the apostle, that our less respectable parts must be covered with the decency they require (1 Corinthians 12:23). In this, our judgment follows the Creator’s: what he placed in a private part of the body, we likewise cover with a modest screen.
Latin
Sed iste, inquis, noluit nominare concupiscentiam carnis; tacet quia pudet, ac mira, si dici potest, pudoris impudentia nominare pudet, quod laudare non pudet [n99] . Displicet igitur tibi, quia novimus verecundiora nostra, secundum Apostolum, necessaria honestate velanda [n100] ; quia in hoc consilium sequitur Conditoris, ut quod ille in secreta corporis parte constituit, nos totidem verecundo operiamus obtectu.