Against Julian 5.16.61

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We know that its excess can be held within permitted limits by the mind’s power.

We testify that virgins and those practicing continence possess complete disdain for it.

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Latin

quia eum nostis - ut dicis - intra concessos fines animi potestate posse retineri

Sed universum contemptum eius - inquis - virginibus continentibusque inesse testamur

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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.

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Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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