Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 23.3

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

Summary: Homer showed the gods fighting and wounded in the Trojan War.

Latin text · CSEL 2:33

hic enim praecipuus bello Troico deos uestros, etsi ludos facit, tamen in hominum rebus et actibus miscuit, hic eorum paria composuit, sauciauit Venerem, Martem uinxit, uulnerauit, fugauit.

English · Claude translation

For he above all, in the Trojan War, though he makes sport of them, mixed your gods into human affairs and actions; he matched them in pairs; he wounded Venus, bound, wounded, and put Mars to flight.

About this passage

Source
CSEL 2:33 · 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.
Extrabiblical texts
  • Homer, Il. 5 (Homer, Iliad) · allusion, high confidence

Notes

Translation notes

  • Homer, Il. 5.330–430, 5.855–863.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/3/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 23.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/23/3/).

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