Direct quotation
Against Julian 2.10.35
If he were pressed by the judges’ authority, he would have nothing to do and nowhere to turn, since he could find no answer to my arguments.
Opinions should be weighed, not counted.
A crowd of blind people is no help in discovering anything.
He sets against me the helpless opinion of an ally and, as though panic-stricken, names his accomplices.
Latin
Me, si sub potestate iudicum premerer
non habiturum fuisse quid facerem, quo confugerem; cum tuis argumentationibus unde occurrerem reperire non possem
non numerandas, sed ponderandas
esse sententias
ad aliquid inveniendum multitudinem nihil prodesse caecorum
Absit ut audeam caecos istos viros vel cogitare, vel dicere
me imbellem tibi opinionem consortis opponere, et velut consternatum metu, conscios nominare?
About this text
Earlier four-book work to Turbantius, surviving as excerpts arranged by Augustine’s witness. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.
English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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