The third kind of quality is a passing state and an enduring quality of feeling. A passing state is placed…

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The third kind of quality is a passing state and an enduring quality of feeling. A passing state is placed among qualities because it is a starting point of qualities. To it are also assigned the experiences of mind or body that come and go in a moment. An enduring quality of feeling, however, arises from more powerful causes and clings to everyone in whom it occurs so firmly that it can be removed only with great efforts—or cannot be removed at all.

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Tertia species qualitatis est - inquis - affectio et affectionalis qualitas. Affectio autem in qualitate ob hoc ponitur - ais - quia principium qualitatum est; cui etiam reputantur ad momentum accedentes recedentesque aut animi aut corporis passiones. Affectionalis vero qualitas - inquis - omnibus quibus evenerit, ex maioribus orta causis ita inhaerescit, ut aut magnis molitionibus, aut nullis omnino separetur

affectionalem qualitatem ortam ex maioribus causis, atque ita inhaerescere, ut aut magnis molitionibus, aut nullis separetur

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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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Translated from Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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