Octavius 4.5

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

Summary: Caecilius suggests they sit on the breakwater to debate.

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Latin text · CSEL 2:6

modo in istis ad tutelam balnearum iactis et in altum procurrentibus petrarum obicibus residamus, ut et requiescere de itinere possimus et intentius disputare.

English · Claude translation

Only let us sit down on these barriers of rocks thrown out to protect the baths and running out into the deep, so that we can both rest from our walk and argue more attentively."

About this passage

Source: CSEL 2:6 · 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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Minucius Felix, Oct. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/4/5/).

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Minucius Felix, Oct. 4.5 (trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/fathers/minucius-octavius/4/5/).

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