Julian quotation
Against Julian 6.18.56
Closing Aristotle’s wrestling school, let us return from it to the sacred Scriptures.
Sexual desire, then, is a sensation, and it is not an evil quality. Therefore, when sexual desire is diminished, sensation is diminished.
Latin
claudens - ut loqueris - Aristotelis palaestram, ut inde ad sacras Litteras revertaris
Sensus est igitur concupiscentia, et mala qualitas non est; ergo quando minuitur concupiscentia, sensus minuitur
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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.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)
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