Octavius 19.6

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

Summary: Anaxagoras and Pythagoras held God to be an infinite mind or world-soul.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:26

Anaxagorae uero descriptio et motus infinitae mentis deus dicitur, et Pythagorae deus est animus per uniuersam rerum naturam commeans et intentus, ex quo etiam animalium omnium uita capiatur.

English · Claude translation

Of Anaxagoras, God is said to be the ordering and motion of an infinite mind; and Pythagoras's God is a soul passing through and extending over the whole nature of things, from which the life of all living creatures is also received.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:26 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "i" for "x".): Anaiagorae → Anaxagorae.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/6/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 19.6 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/19/6/).

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