Octavius 2.3 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: During the grape-harvest holidays the friends went to Ostia for sea bathing.

Latin text · CSEL 2:4

igitur post unum et alterum diem, cum iam et auiditatem desiderii frequens adsiduitatis usus implesset et quae per absentiam mutuam de nobis nesciebamus, relatione alterna comperissemus, placuit Ostiam petere, amoenissimam ciuitatem, quod esset corpori meo siccandis umoribus de marinis lauacris blanda et adposita curatio: sane et ad uindemiam feriae iudiciariam curam relaxauerant. nam id temporis post aestiuam diem in temperiem semet autumnitas dirigebat.

English · Claude translation

So after a day or two, when constant companionship had satisfied the eagerness of our longing, and by telling each other in turn we had learned what we did not know about each other through our separation, we decided to go to Ostia, a most delightful town, because sea bathing would be a pleasant and suitable treatment for my body in drying up its humours; and besides, the vintage holidays had released me from my cares in the courts. For at that time, after the summer days, autumn was turning toward milder weather.

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.

Cite this passage

Minucius Felix, Oct. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/2/3/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 2.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/2/3/).