Octavius 26.9

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

Summary: Poets and philosophers, including Socrates, knew of demons.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:38

eos spiritus daemonas esse poetae sciunt, philosophi disserunt, Socrates nouit, qui ad nutum et arbitrium adsidentis sibi daemonis uel declinabat negotia uel petebat.

English · Claude translation

The poets know that these spirits are demons, the philosophers discuss it, Socrates knew it, who at the nod and will of the demon attending him either declined or pursued affairs.

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Source

CSEL 2:38 · 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.

Extrabiblical texts

Plato, Apol. 31c–d (Plato (works)) · allusion, medium confidence

Notes

Translation notes

Socrates' "daimonion": cf. Plato, Apol. 31c–d.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/9/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 26.9 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/26/9/).

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