Octavius 1.3

Minucius Felix · Octavius · ca. 197–250 · Rome · Read in context

Summary: Octavius loved his friend so much that they seemed to share one mind.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:3

nec inmerito decedens uir eximius et sanctus inmensum sui desiderium nobis reliquit, utpote cum et ipse tanto nostri semper amore flagrauerit, ut et in ludicris et seriis pari mecum uoluntate concineret eadem uelle uel nolle: crederes unam mentem in duobus fuisse diuisam.

English · Claude translation

And not without reason did that excellent and holy man, at his departure, leave us an immense longing for himself, since he himself always burned with such love for us that in play and in earnest alike he was in tune with me with an equal will, wanting and not wanting the same things: you would have thought that one mind had been divided between two.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:3 · Karl Halm, ed., M. Minucii Felicis Octavius; Iulii Firmici Materni Liber de errore profanarum religionum, CSEL 2 (Vienna: Gerold, 1867), 1–56 · Latin text: K. Halm (CSEL 2, 1867), digitized by Open Greek and Latin, University of Leipzig (csel-dev), CC BY-SA 4.0
Text: As printed in CSEL 2. Manuscript variants and the editor's apparatus are not reproduced; no textual problem is noted in this passage.
Translation: Claude translation (claude-opus-5-5), 2026-09-27 · Translated by Claude from the Latin text of CSEL 2; made independently of existing English translations.
Compare: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 4 (1885) (an older public-domain English translation, whole volume at CCEL; checked against ours only after ours was made) · Divided there by chapter only.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/3/).

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