Octavius 31.1

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

Summary: Demons invented the incest slander to make people shun Christians.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:44

Et de incesto conuiuio fabulam grandem aduersum nos daemonum coitio mentita est, ut gloriam pudicitiae deformis infamiae aspersione macularet, ut ante exploratam ueritatem homines a nobis terrore infandae opinionis auerteret.

English · Claude translation

"And about the incestuous banquet, the conspiracy of demons has told a great fable against us, to stain the glory of our chastity with the sprinkling of foul infamy, to turn men away from us by the terror of an unspeakable opinion before the truth was examined.

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:44 · 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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Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: "n" for "u".): conniuio → conuiuio.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/31/1/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 31.1 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/31/1/).

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