Octavius 34.3

Summary: The Epicureans agree that the world will perish.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:48

et Epicureis de elementorum conflagratione et mundi ruina eadem ipsa sententia est...

And the Epicureans hold the very same opinion about the conflagration of the elements and the ruin of the world.

Source: CSEL 2:48 · 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: Eschatology

Minucius Felix, Oct. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/34/3/).

Plain text

Minucius Felix, Oct. 34.3 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/34/3/).