Octavius 11.9

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

Summary: The resurrection is a poets' fable that Christians have borrowed.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:16

omnia ista figmenta male sanae opinionis et inepta solacia a poetis fallacibus in dulcedinem carminis lusa a uobis nimium credulis in deum uestrum turpiter reformata sunt.

English · Claude translation

All these fictions of an unsound opinion, and foolish consolations, made up in play by lying poets for the sweetness of their verse, have been disgracefully refashioned by you, who are too credulous, to suit your God.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:16 · 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: Eschatology

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/11/9/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 11.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/11/9/).

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