To Florus 4.106
He now puts this before himself, beginning with my question: “So you say,” he writes, “that they are under the devil because they are born from the union of the two sexes?” Let us hear what explanation he gives. “I certainly say,” he replies, “that they are under the devil because of an offense. They are not free of the offense because they were born from that union which cannot perform even what is honorable without shameful lust. Ambrose, of most blessed memory, also said this” (Augustine, On Marriage and Concupiscence 2.5.15). What disastrous perversity in the man! What an unspeakable intention! What shameful falsehood!
Latin
Hoc ergo nunc sibi proposuit, et praemittit interrogationem meam. Dicis ergo, inquit, ideo illos esse sub diabolo, quia de sexus utriusque commixtione nascuntur? Ad quod qualem satisfactionem referat, audiamus. Dico, inquit, plane propter delictum illos esse sub diabolo; ideo autem expertes non esse delicti, quia de illa commixtione sunt nati, quae sine pudenda libidine non potest etiam quod honestum est operari. Dixit hoc etiam beatissimae memoriae Ambrosius [n159] . O calamitosam hominis pravitatem! O intentionem nefandam! O falsitatem erubescendam!