Octavius 1.2

Summary: The less he can see Octavius, the more his friend lives in his heart.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:3

ita eius contemplatio quantum subtracta est oculis, tantum pectori meo ac paene intimis sensibus inplicata est.

so much as the sight of him has been withdrawn from my eyes, so much has it been woven into my heart and almost into my inmost feelings.

Source: CSEL 2:3 · 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.

Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/2/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 1.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/1/2/).