Octavius 26.3

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

Summary: Others obeyed the omens and were defeated anyway.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:37

nonne auguria seruauit et captus est? Mancinus religionem tenuit, et sub iugum missus est et deditus. pullos edaces habuit et Paulus, apud Cannas tamen cum maiore populi Romani parte prostratus est.

English · Claude translation

Did he not observe the auguries, and was captured? Mancinus kept religion, and was sent under the yoke and surrendered. Paulus too had greedy chickens, yet at Cannae he was laid low with the greater part of the Roman people.

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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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/3/).

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