Julian's treatise has never been translated into English as a work. HOLLIS on 'Julian of Eclanum' returns the Latin text in Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina 88 (Turnhout, 1977) and one modern translation, German: 'Julian von Aeclanum - Ad florum liber primus: Text, Ubersetzung und Kommentar' (Brill, 2022), which covers book 1 only (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Julian%20of%20Eclanum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The work does not survive independently: its text is preserved in the quotations of Augustine's Opus imperfectum contra Iulianum, and that refutation is translated as 'Unfinished Work in Answer to Julian' in The Works of Saint Augustine I/25 (trans. Roland J. Teske), whose contents the Princeton record lists (https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9942328853506421). A reader can therefore reach Julian's words in English only embedded in Augustine's running refutation, never as a continuous treatise of his own.
Ad Florum is the last and longest defence of Pelagian teaching, written after Julian's exile and answered book by book in Augustine's unfinished refutation. Without a translation of Julian's side, the Pelagian controversy is unavoidably read through the winner's voice, and the modern rehabilitation of Julian as a serious theologian cannot be checked by students who do not read Latin. No electronic text was verifiable: Corpus Corporum carries no Julian of Eclanum corpus and the CSEL/CCSL edition was not fetched.
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| Julian von Aeclanum - Ad florum liber primus: Text, Ubersetzung und Kommentar · 2022 |
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| Ascetic behavior in Greco-Roman antiquity : a sourcebook | "Ascetic behavior in Greco-Roman antiquity : a sourcebook." Mineapolis : Fortress Press, c1990. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990020827880203941 |