None of the righteous there will any longer bruise his body and bring it into subjection. No one will…

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None of the righteous there will any longer bruise his body and bring it into subjection. No one will humble his soul with a hard bed and bodily filth.

No one will expose his blessed disregard for shame to insults, his cheeks to slaps, or his back to lashes. Nor will he strive to forge strength out of weakness. Frugality will not struggle with poverty, nor greatness of soul with grief, nor patience with pain.

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neminem iam ibi iustorum lividum facere corpus suum, et servituti subicere; neminem humiliare animam suam stratis duris et paedore membrorum

Nemo conviciis felicem impudentiam, nemo maxillas palmis, nemo subiciet terga verberibus; nec conflare studebit de infirmitate virtutem; nec cum inopia frugalitas, nec cum moeroribus magnanimitas

Nec patientia cum dolore luctabitur

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Julian’s earlier work To Turbantius, in four books, survives only in the excerpts Augustine quotes in his six-book reply, Against Julian. The excerpts are grouped here by those six books. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.

Julian of Eclanum (c. 386–c. 455) was bishop of Eclanum in southern Italy until 418, when he was deposed and exiled for refusing to condemn Pelagius. The most learned Pelagian controversialist, he pursued Augustine across a decade of pamphlet war.

None of Julian's works survives directly; what remains is preserved in the long quotations of Augustine, who answered him book by book. Reconstructed from those hostile pages, Julian emerges as a formidable defender of free will, marriage, and the goodness of creation.

English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.

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