Octavius 29.1

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

Summary: Christians are ashamed even to hear the crimes pagans invent against them.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:42

Haec et huiusmodi propudia nobis non licet nec audire, etiam pluribus turpe defendere est: ea enim de castis fingitis et pudicis, quae fieri non crederemus, nisi de uobis probaretis.

English · Claude translation

"These and similar shameful things we are not allowed even to hear; even to defend ourselves is disgraceful to many. For you invent about chaste and modest people things we would not believe could happen, unless you proved them about yourselves.

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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Minucius Felix, Oct. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/29/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 29.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/29/1/).

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