Fragments to Turbantius · §2.10.35 · Julian of Eclanum

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If I had been pressed by the judges’ authority, I would have had nothing to do and nowhere to turn, since…

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If I had been pressed by the judges’ authority, I would have had nothing to do and nowhere to turn, since I could find no answer to your arguments.

Opinions should be weighed, not counted.

A crowd of blind people is no help in discovering anything.

Heaven forbid that I should dare to think, let alone say, of these blind men, that set against you the helpless opinion of an ally and, as though panic-stricken, name my accomplices.

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Latin

Me, si sub potestate iudicum premerer

non habiturum fuisse quid facerem, quo confugerem; cum tuis argumentationibus unde occurrerem reperire non possem

non numerandas, sed ponderandas

esse sententias

ad aliquid inveniendum multitudinem nihil prodesse caecorum

Absit ut audeam caecos istos viros vel cogitare, vel dicere

me imbellem tibi opinionem consortis opponere, et velut consternatum metu, conscios nominare?

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