Octavius 26.1

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

Summary: Octavius turns to the Roman auspices Caecilius praised.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:37

Iam enim uenio ad illa auspicia et auguria Romana, quae summo: labore collecta testatus es et paenitenter omissa. et obseruata feliciter.

English · Claude translation

"Now I come to those Roman auspices and auguries which you have collected with the greatest labour and declared to have been neglected to men's regret and observed with good fortune.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:37 · 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: "n" for "u".): nenio → uenio.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/1/).

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