Octavius 2.1

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

Summary: Octavius had come to Rome, leaving his wife and small children at home.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:4

Nam negotii et uisendi mei gratia Romam contenderat, relicta domo, coniuge, liberis, et quod est in liberis amabilius, adhuc annis innocentibus et adhuc dimidiata uerba temptantibus, loquellam ipso offensantis linguae fragmine dulciorem.

English · Claude translation

For he had hurried to Rome on business and to visit me, leaving his home, his wife, his children, and, what is most lovable in children, children still in their innocent years and still attempting half-formed words, a speech made sweeter by the very stumbling of the faltering tongue.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:4 · 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. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/2/1/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 2.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/2/1/).

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