To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §4.2.7 · Julian of Eclanum

Direct quotation

Against Julian 4.2.7

I will strike at the other side of his definition.

If sexual warmth, the servant of honorable marriage, is restrained from excessive outbursts both by the effort of believers and by the power of the gift, and is curbed rather than extinguished by grace, it is commendable in its kind and within its proper measure; only its excesses are blameworthy.

Latin source witness

Latin

Pulsas - ut dicis - alterum definitionis meae latus

Si calor genitalis coniugalis honestatis minister ab immoderatis procursibus tam studio fidelium, quam doni virtute retinetur, nec exstinguitur per gratiam, sed frenatur: probabilis est in genere suo et in modo suo, et solis accusatur excessibus