Octavius 28.11

Summary: Pagans commit acts no one should have to endure.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:42

pro nefas! id in se mali facinoris admittunt, quod nec aetas potest pati mollior nec cogi seruitus durior.

O horror! They allow in themselves such wicked deeds as neither a softer age can bear nor the harshest slavery be forced to endure.

Source: CSEL 2:42 · 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.
Topics: Ethics

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/11/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 28.11 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/28/11/).