Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 1.5

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

Summary: The author chooses to record the debate in which Octavius converted Caecilius.

Latin text · CSEL 2:4

itaque cum per uniuersam conuictus nostri et familiaritatis aetatem mea cogitatio uolueretur, in illo praecipue sermone eius mentis meae resedit intentio, quo Caecilium superstitiosis uanitatibus etiamnunc inhaerentem disputatione grauissima ad ueram religionem reformauit.

English · Claude translation

And so, while my thoughts were ranging over the whole span of our life together and our friendship, the attention of my mind settled above all on that conversation of his in which, by a most weighty argument, he brought back to the true religion Caecilius, who was still clinging to superstitious vanities.

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Source
CSEL 2:4 · 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

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: "m" for "in".): m illo praecipue → in illo praecipue.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/5/).

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