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Octavius 4.3

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

Summary: Caecilius says Octavius's rebuke has stung him, since it indirectly called him ignorant.

Latin text · CSEL 2:6

et illam oculorum etiam in seriis hilaritatem requiro. tum ille: Iam dudum me Octaui nostri acriter angit et remordet oratio, qua in te inuectus obiurgauit neglegentiae, ut me dissimulanter grauius argueret inscientiae..

English · Claude translation

I miss too that cheerfulness of your eyes, even in serious matters." Then he said: "For some while now the speech of our Octavius has been sharply vexing and gnawing at me, in which he attacked you and rebuked you for negligence, so as indirectly to accuse me more seriously of ignorance.

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Source
CSEL 2:6 · 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.

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: misread letters.; OCR: words run together.): ocnloram → oculorum; meOctaui → me Octaui.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/4/3/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 4.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/4/3/).

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