Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 14.1

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

Summary: Caecilius finishes and taunts Octavius.

Latin text · CSEL 2:18

Sic Caecilius et renidens (nam indignationis eius tumorem effusae orationis impetus relaxauerat): Ecquid ad haec, ait, audet Octauius, homo Plautinae prosapiae, ut Christianorum praecipuus, ita postremus philosophorum?

English · Claude translation

So Caecilius spoke, and, smiling (for the flow of his outpoured speech had eased the swelling of his indignation), he said: "Does Octavius dare anything in reply to this, a man of the race of Plautus, as foremost of the Christians, so last of the philosophers?"

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Source
CSEL 2:18 · 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

  • "Of the race of Plautus" probably means a man of low birth, like the comic playwright Plautus, who was said to have worked a mill; the exact point is uncertain.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/14/1/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 14.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/14/1/).

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