[PW] ? "Inter Faeces..." Quote (Quotation Query #640)

[S M Colowick]

In a book review found in JSTOR, the reviewer writes, "Unfortunately
for this 'quotation', nothing even close to it turns up from a
computer search of the materials at Villanova University..."

Review: [Untitled]
Reviewed Work(s): The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual
Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown
Review author[s]: Robert M. Grant
Church History, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Jun., 1994), pp. 256-259

smc

On 2/2/07, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> Someone has asked me for the source of the saying "Inter faeces et urinam
> nascimur."  I see that it is widely attributed to Augustine, but without a
> precise source.  I would welcome any help on this.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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