Octavius 25.9 · Sophia Scriptura

Latin text · CSEL 2:36

isti scilicet aduersus ceteros, qui in gentibus colebantur, Romanorum imperium protulerunt: neque enim eos aduersum suos homines uel Mars Thracius uel Iuppiter Creticus uel Iuno nunc Argiua, nunc Samia, nunc Poena, uel Diana Taurica uel Mater Idaea uel Aegyptia illa non numina, sed portenta iuuerunt.

English · Claude translation

These, of course, extended the Roman empire against the others that were worshipped among the nations! For neither Thracian Mars, nor Cretan Jupiter, nor Juno, now of Argos, now of Samos, now of Carthage, nor Taurian Diana, nor the Idaean Mother, nor those Egyptian not divinities but monstrosities, helped them against their own people.

About this passage

Source

CSEL 2:36 · 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

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "u" for "iu".): portenta uuerunt → portenta iuuerunt.

Cite this passage

Minucius Felix, Oct. 25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/9/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 25.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/25/9/).