Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 18.1

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

Summary: Every part of the body is both useful and beautiful, and each person is distinct.

Latin text · CSEL 2:23

Longum est ire per singula. nihil in homine membrorum est, quod non et necessitatis causa sit et decoris, et quod magis mirum est, eadem figura omnibus, sed quaedam unicuique liniamenta deflexa: sic et similes uniuersi uidemur et inter se singuli dissimiles inuenimur. quid nascendi ratio?

English · Claude translation

"It would be long to go through the details. There is no member in man that is not there both for necessity and for beauty; and, what is more wonderful, all have the same shape, yet each has certain features of his own: so we all seem alike, and yet individually we are found unlike one another. What of the manner of birth?

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Source
CSEL 2:23 · 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. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/1/).

Plain text
Minucius Felix, Oct. 18.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/18/1/).

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