Sophia Scriptura

Octavius 37.5

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

Summary: Even Christian children and women endure torture with God-given courage.

Latin text · CSEL 2:52

uiros cum Mucio uel cum Aquilio aut Regulo comparo? pueri et mulierculae nostrae cruces et tormenta, feras et omnes suppliciorum terriculas inspirata patientia doloris inludunt.

English · Claude translation

Do I compare men with Mucius or with Aquilius or Regulus? Our boys and our weak women mock crosses and tortures, wild beasts and all the bugbears of punishment, with a patience in pain that is inspired.

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Source
CSEL 2:52 · 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
Martyrdom

Notes

Notes on the original text

  • Digital text corrected (OCR: words run together.): cumMucio → cum Mucio.

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 37.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/37/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 37.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/37/5/).

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