Octavius 18.3

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

Summary: God provides for each region, as rivers and seas supply what the land lacks.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:23

nec uniuersitati solummodo Deus, sed et partibus consulit. Britannia sole deficitur, sed circumfluentis maris tepore recreatur: Aegypti siccitatem temperat Nilus amnis, Euphrates Mesopotamiam pro imbribus pensat, Indus flumen et serere Orientem dicitur et rigare.

English · Claude translation

Nor does God care only for the whole, but also for the parts. Britain lacks sun, but is refreshed by the warmth of the sea that flows around it; the river Nile tempers the dryness of Egypt; the Euphrates makes up to Mesopotamia for rain; the river Indus is said both to sow and to water the East.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:23 · 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. 18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 18.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/3/).

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