Octavius 28.9

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

Summary: Egyptian worship extends even to onions and bodily noises.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:42

idem Aegyptii cum plerisque uobis non magis Isidem quam ceparum acrimonias metuunt, nec Serapidem magis quam strepitus per pudenda corporis expressos contremescunt.

English · Claude translation

The same Egyptians, along with many of you, fear Isis no more than the sharpness of onions, and tremble at Serapis no more than at the noises expelled through the shameful parts of the body.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:42 · 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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Digital text corrected (OCR: "n" for "ii".): Aegyptn → Aegyptii.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/9/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/9/).

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