To Turbantius — fragments in Against Julian · §4.7.38 · Julian of Eclanum

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Against Julian 4.7.38

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Demons instituted marriage.

They instituted the union of seed between the two sexes.

Marital intercourse for the purpose of conceiving children is the devil’s work.

Demons would catch married people in intercourse and, finding them engaged in their own work, would not allow them to conceive children who were to be freed by rebirth.

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Latin

Daemones instituisse connubium

seminalem sexus utriusque mixtionem

diabolicum opus esse causa generandi concubitum coniugum

quod

deprehendant daemones in concubitu coniugatos, et tamquam in sua operatione deprehensos, non sinant generare filios regeneratione liberandos