[IULIANUS libro primo ad Urseium Ferocem. ] §46.3.36.prSi pater meus praegnate uxore relicta decesserit et ex causa hereditaria totum hoc, quod patri meo debitum fuisset, petissem, nihil me consumpsisse quidam existimant: si nemo natus sit, recte me egisse, quia in rerum natura uerum fuisset me solum heredem fuisse.
[JULIANUS in the first book on Urseius Ferox.] If my father died leaving his wife pregnant, and I, on the ground of inheritance, had claimed this whole amount which had been owed to my father, some think that I have consumed nothing: if no one was born, that I had acted rightly, because in the nature of things it would have been true that I was the sole heir.
IULIANUS notat: uerius est me eam partem perdidisse, pro qua heres fuissem, antequam certum fuisset neminem nasci, aut quartam partem, quia tres nasci potuerunt, aut sextam, quia quinque: nam et Aristoteles scripsit quinque nasci posse, quia uuluae mulierum totidem receptacula habere possunt: et esse mulierem Romae Alexandrinam ab Aegypto, quae quinque simul peperit et tum habebat incolumes, et hoc et in Aegypto adfirmatum est mihi.
Julian notes: it is nearer the truth that I lost that share for which I would have been heir before it was certain that no one would be born, or a fourth share because three could have been born, or a sixth share because five could: for Aristotle also wrote that five can be born, because the wombs of women can have just as many receptacles; and that there was an Alexandrian woman from Egypt in Rome, who gave birth to five at one time and then had them safe and sound, and this was also confirmed to me in Egypt.