Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 27.3

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

Summary: Demons also drive the frenzied public prophets.

Latin text · CSEL 2:40

hinc sunt et furentes, quos in publicum uidetis excurrere, uates et ipsi absque templo, sic insaniunt, sic bacchantur, sic rotantur: par et in illis instigatio daemonis, sed argumentum dispar furoris.

English · Claude translation

From them come also the raving people whom you see rushing out in public, prophets too, though without a temple; so they rave, so they revel like Bacchants, so they whirl about: in them too there is the same incitement of the demon, but a different occasion for their frenzy.

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Source
CSEL 2:40 · 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. 27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/27/3/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 27.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/27/3/).

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