Direct quotation
Against Julian 3.21.47
He is like the drug seller who promised an animal that would eat itself.
Marriage is both a great good and a great evil.
Latin
sum pharmacopolae similis - ut dicis - qui promittebat bestiam, quae se ipsam comesset
nuptias et magnum bonum et magnum malum
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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