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On the Good of Widowhood
De bono viduitatis
A letter-treatise of 414 to the Roman widow Juliana, mother of the virgin Demetrias, completing his writings on marriage and virginity: consecrated widowhood is an intermediate good, and second marriages are not to be condemned. It discreetly warns against Pelagius's influence on that family.
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Not in the Retractationes because it is a letter; listed by Possidius. Critical text: J. Zycha, CSEL 41 (1900).
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Sources
- Posidio de Calama. Vita Augustini y Operum S. Augustini elenchus (Indiculum). Ed. A. Wilmart, «Operum S. Augustini Elenchus a Possidio eiusdem discipulo Calamensi episcopo digestus», en Miscellanea Agostiniana II. Roma: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1931, pp. 149–233; Vita ed. A. A. R. Bastiaensen, Vita di Cipriano, Vita di Ambrogio, Vita di Agostino. Milán: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla / Mondadori, 1975.
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