Octavius 1.4

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

Summary: Octavius shared the author's former errors and came to the truth before him.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:3–4

sic solus in amoribus conscius, ipse socius in erroribus: et cum discussa caligine de tenebrarum profundo in lucem sapientiae et ueritatis emergerem, non respuit comitem, sed quod est gloriosius, praecucurrit.

English · Claude translation

So he alone was my confidant in my loves, my companion in my errors; and when, the mist dispelled, I was emerging from the depths of darkness into the light of wisdom and truth, he did not reject me as a companion, but, what is more glorious, he ran on ahead.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:3–4 · 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.

Notes

Translation notes

The "errors" are the pagan life both men led before their conversion; Octavius became a Christian first.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/4/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.4 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/4/).

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