Octavius 35.2

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

Summary: Even Jupiter swears by the river of hell, fearing its punishment.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:50

et ideo apud eos etiam ipse rex Iuppiter per torrentes ripas et atram uoraginem iurat religiose: destinatam enim sibi cum suis cultoribus poenam praescius perhorrescit.

English · Claude translation

And so among them even King Jupiter himself swears religiously by the burning banks and the black abyss; for, knowing beforehand the punishment destined for himself with his worshippers, he shudders at it.

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Source

CSEL 2:50 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Virgil, Aen. 9.104–106 (Virgil) · allusion, high confidence

Topics

Eschatology

Notes

Translation notes

Cf. Virgil, Aen. 9.104–106.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/2/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 35.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/35/2/).

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