Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.14.28
Sexual desire is interrupted by bodily weakness.
In married people it is exercised honorably; in those who abstain it is restrained by virtue.
The fourth thing—the excess of that pleasure—is committed by the sexually unrestrained. Since it arises from recklessness, not from nature, it is rightly condemned.
Latin
intercipi debilitate libidinem
Aut in coniugibus - inquis - cum honestate exercetur, aut in castis virtute frenatur
In coniugibus cum honestate exercetur
Quartum - inquis - a lascivientibus perpetratur, id est, illius voluptatis excessus, et quia de insolentia, non de natura contingit - inquis - iure damnatur
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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