Direct quotation
Against Julian 4.9.55
His position is a bedbug: alive it causes trouble, and crushed it gives off a stench.
I am ashamed to crush him by defeating him.
As though defeated, he has fled to filthy places, and recoil from following and killing him.
Because I am forced to speak about the sexual organs, my modesty, like a temple keeper, has excluded from free expression the parts of my argument that would crush or destroy him.
Latin
Sententiam meam cimicem - dicis - qui ut molestiam vivus, sic fetorem praestat attritus
verecunderis
vincendo me atterere
tamquam victus ad loca
caenosa confugerim, exhorreas consequi atque perimere: quia videlicet partes disputationis tuae, quibus atterendus vel perimendus sum, quoniam de pudendis loqui cogeris, velut quidam aedituus pudor tuus a verborum
libertate submovit