Octavius 9.1

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

Summary: Caecilius says the Christian sect is spreading everywhere and must be destroyed.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:12–13

Ac iam, ut fecundius nequiora proueniunt, serpentibus in dies perditis moribus per uniuersum orbem sacraria ista taeterrima impiae coitionis adolescunt. eruenda prorsus haec et execranda consensio.

English · Claude translation

"And now, as the worse things grow more fruitfully, with corrupt morals creeping on daily, these most foul shrines of an impious assembly are growing up throughout the whole world. This confederacy must be utterly rooted out and cursed.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:12–13 · 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.
Topics: Persecution

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/9/1/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 9.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/9/1/).

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