Julian excerpts
When it comes to sowing children, the members created for this work serve precisely at the will’s…
When it comes to sowing children, the members created for this work serve precisely at the will’s direction. Unless impediments arise from weakness or excess, they obey the mind’s command.
This kind of movement belongs among the many things in our body that, through their own order and hidden arrangement, require the will’s consent, not its command.
Like hunger, thirst, and digestion, they require the will’s consent, not its command.
You feel ashamed — as you say — and are prevented by horror from speaking about such things, but compelled by necessity.
Latin
Cum ventum fuerit ut filii seminentur, ad voluntatis prorsus nutum membra in hoc opus creata famulari; et nisi eorum impedimenta, aut de infirmitate, aut de immoderatione proveniant, servire animi imperio
hoc genus motus in his habendum putasti, quae multa in nostro corpore ordine suo ac dispensatione secreta, voluntatis non imperium, sed consensum requirunt
ad voluntatis prorsus nutum ista
membra famulantur, atque imperio animi serviunt
sicut fames et sitis et digestio, non voluntatis imperium, sed consensum requirunt
verecundari te - dicis - et de rebus loqui talibus horrore prohiberi, sed necessitate compelli