Octavius 7.2

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

Summary: Rites were begun to thank the gods or to turn away their anger.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:10

specta de libris memoriam: iam eos deprehendes initiasse ritus omnium religionum, uel ut remuneraretur diuina indulgentia, uel ut auerteretur imminens ira aut iam tumens et saeuiens placaretur.

English · Claude translation

Look at the record in the books: you will find at once that they initiated the rites of all religions either that divine favour might be repaid, or that wrath impending might be averted, or, when already swelling and raging, might be appeased.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:10 · 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. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/7/2/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 7.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/7/2/).

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