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Octavius 15.2

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

Summary: Marcus explains his remarks and invites Octavius (Januarius) to reply.

Latin text · CSEL 2:19

Id quod criminaris, inquam, in commune, nisi fallor, conpendium protuli, ut examine scrupuloso nostram sententiam non eloquentiae tumore, sed rerum ipsarum soliditate libremus, nec auocanda, quod quereris, diutius intentio, cum toto silentio liceat responsionem Ianuari nostri iam gestientis audire.

English · Claude translation

"What you accuse me of," I said, "I put forward for our common benefit, unless I am mistaken, so that by a scrupulous examination we might weigh our verdict not by the swelling of eloquence but by the solidity of the facts themselves. Nor should our attention be diverted longer, as you complain, since in complete silence we may now hear the reply of our Januarius, who is eager to begin."

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Source
CSEL 2:19 · 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

Translation notes

  • Octavius's full name was Octavius Januarius.

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: words run together.): necauocanda → nec auocanda.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/15/2/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 15.2 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/15/2/).

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