Octavius 3.5 · Sophia Scriptura

Summary: On the way back they saw boys skipping shells on the water.

Latin text · CSEL 2:5

sed ubi eundi spatium satis iustum cum sermone consumpsimus, eandem emensi uiam rursus uersis uestigiis terebamus, et cum ad id loci uentum est, ubi subductae nauiculae substratis roboribus a terrena labe suspensae quiescebant, pueros uidimus certatim gestientes testarum in mare iaculationibus ludere.

English · Claude translation

But when we had spent a fair distance of walking in conversation, we turned around and trod the same way back again; and when we came to the place where small boats, drawn up and resting on timbers laid beneath them, were raised off the dirt of the ground, we saw boys eagerly competing at a game of throwing shells into the sea.

About this passage

Source

CSEL 2:5 · 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. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/3/5/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 3.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/3/5/).