Octavius 21.7

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

Summary: Saturn was a man called son of Heaven or Earth only because his parents were unknown.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:30

homo igitur utique qui fugit, homo utique qui latuit, et pater hominis et natus ex homine: Terrae enim uel Caeli filius, quod apud Italos esset ignotis parentibus proditus, ut in hodiernum inopinato uisos caelo missos, ignobiles et ignotos terrae filios nominamus.

English · Claude translation

A man, then, certainly, who fled; a man certainly who hid; both the father of a man and born of a man. For he was called son of Earth or of Heaven because among the Italians he appeared with unknown parents; as to this day we call those who appear unexpectedly 'sent from heaven', and those of low and unknown birth 'sons of the earth'.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:30 · 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. 21.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/7/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 21.7 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/21/7/).

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