Julian quotation and reported premise
Against Julian 6.7.20
By the nature of things, people cannot be shown to hand on what they are believed to have lost.
Augustine reports that Julian argued at length for the wild olive’s goodness as God’s creation.
Latin
Per rerum naturam fieri non posse, ut illud homines probentur tradere, quo caruisse creduntur
Per rerum naturam fieri non posse, ut quo ipse caruit, tradat proli parens
About this text
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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